Habeas-corpus

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25-6909 Malik Allah-U-Akbar, fka Odraye G. Jones v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending IFP capital-punishment death-sentence due-process habeas-corpus racial-discrimination writ-enforcement 1. Where a sovereign fails to comply with a conditional writ of habeas corpus, does a district court's subsequent order of "unconditional release" ent…
25-6899 Tracey L. Brown v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending IFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause ex-parte-contact habeas-corpus jury-prejudice presumption-of-prejudice 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Panel err in a federal habeas case where, following an ex parte contact during trial between multiple jurors and a key prosec…
25-6894 Ricardo Esquivel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending IFP appellate-review article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus mootness-doctrine supervised-release-revocation Whether expiration of a short federal supervised-release revocation sentence during the pendency of a direct appeal categorically moots the appeal und…
25-6891 Juanito Marshall v. George A. Frederick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending IFP constitutional-error fair-presentation habeas-corpus harmless-error manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default 1. Whether a federal court violates the "party presentation principle " and exceeds its authority under United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1…
25-1007 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-24 Pending civil-rights-violations due-process excessive-force federal-tort-liability governmental-immunity habeas-corpus Can the Federal Government's get away with at tempted murder, modern-day lynching in a hospital and Human Rights violations again on an American Citiz…
25-1003 Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division v. Dexter Johnson Fifth Circuit 2026-02-23 Pending AEDPA collateral-review habeas-corpus new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity successive-habeas-petitions The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) prohibits successive habeas applications by state prisoners with only narrow except…
25-6855 Qingfei Zhang v. University of Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus individualized-inquiry mental-unsoundness-tolling sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit Court erred by replacing the required individualized inquiry for mental-unsoundness tolling with a categorical rule based on…
25A919 Jeremiah Banks v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Application exhaustion-of-remedies federal-habeas-petition good-cause habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay-of-proceedings Question not identified.
25-6835 Laurence Sessum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rejected-plea sixth-amendment strickland-test 1. Whether this Court's contemporaneous-evidence requirement from Lee v. United States, 582 U.S. 357 (2017), applies only to accepted-plea cases and i…
25-6832 Stanley Donald v. Carol Mici, Individually and as former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction, et al. Massachusetts 2026-02-17 Pending IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions procedural-due-process Did the inmate state an actionable claim under the Federal Constitution's 8th Amendment when prison officials deliberately exposed him to COVID-19 and…
25-6831 Samuel Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255-motion Petitioner sought relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on grounds of ineffective assistance arising from errors and omissions by counsel pertaining to both c…
25-6805 Antonio Prophet v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-conspiracy federal-question fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus procedural-default 1. When a federal criminal conspiracy initiated in the State court is then carried over into 2254 federal habeas corpus proceedings by a State Respond…
25-6804 Robin O'Neill v. Jon Murad, Interim Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections Second Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence proportionality-review 1. Does the mandatory life sentence of Vermont's aggravated murder statute, 13 V.S.A. 2311 (a)(3)(c), violate proportionality principles and due proce…
25A909 William Hudson v. Delaware Delaware 2026-02-12 Application criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review postconviction-relief pro-se-litigant state-court-review Question not identified.
25-6768 In Re Mark Anthony Morris 2026-02-10 Pending IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol…
25-6774 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest state-procedural-rule Where a state has created liberty interests that give death-sentenced prisoners with credible claims of innocence vehicles for proving their innocence…
25A902 Raymond Ghaloustian, aka Valnyk Matthewsi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Application appellate-review certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 Question not identified.
25-6759 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), a claim foreclosed by binding circuit precedent may nonetheless be "debatable among jurists of reason" w…
25A893 Thomas M. Adams v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-06 Application appellate-jurisdiction court-of-criminal-appeals final-order habeas-corpus military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application for an Extension of Time Within Which to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari."…
25-6728 Shannon Day v. Texas Texas 2026-02-05 Pending IFP constitutional-error court-records due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-interest 1) Did denying petitioner a full and fair hearing on his merits of newly discovered evidence, that was unavailable to him in Court Records, deprived h…
25-6725 Shawn D. Powell v. Fidencio Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP closing-argument habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel witness-credibility During closing argument at Petitioner Shawn Powell's trial, his trial counsel unreasonably conceded Powell's guilt of vandalism and violation of a pro…
25-6722 Joseph James Craver v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel merits-review state-proceeding unexhausted-claims 1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to have his unexhausted claims heard on the merits when Defendant was not afforded counsel in the initial …
25A871 Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. David Schroeder, Judge Ohio 2026-02-03 Denied double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-factfinding sixth-amendment suspension-clause Question not identified.
25A868 Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-6707 Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP capital-trial false-testimony federal-law habeas-corpus materiality-burden napue-standard Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a standard that places the burden on the petitioner to prove materiality from the State's knowing elicitation a…
25-6692 Ana Rosenda Mancio v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus strickland-standard 1. In applying Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 (1935) to a Habeas Corpus Claim based on the State's unreasonable application of "characterized mi…
25A862 Clark MacKendrick v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process Question not identified.
25A861 Giordano Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application certificate-of-appealability federal-procedure habeas-corpus institutional-constraints law-of-case pro-se Question not identified.
25-6687 Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-02-02 Pending IFP contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric…
25-6683 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending IFP due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard 1. Over thirteen years after Roderick LeShun Rankin was convicted of three murders and sentenced to death, the pastor of his deceased brother Rodney d…
25-6668 Matthew Evan Davis, Sr. v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP court-martial habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdictional-review military-justice suspensions-clause WHETHER, IN THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, THE CLAIMS OF JUDICIAL BIAS AND IMPROPER REFERRAL OF CHARGES ARE JURISDICTIONAL IN NATURE. WHETHER …
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading…
25-6660 Demetrius Franklin v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Petitioner Demetrius Franklin was convicted of first degree murder based on the testimony of a single identifying witness, Shanti Day. The prosecution…
25-6647 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review 1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably i…
25-6643 Lawrence Rhoden v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IS LEGALLY ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE: (1) IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DE…
25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe…
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Denied constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari I. WHETHER THIS COURT'S POWER TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN A STATE PRISONER IS CONFINED BY A COURT WITHOUT JURISDICTION A…
25A828 Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida Florida 2026-01-21 Application due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct serial-killer Question not identified.
25A824 Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Application circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 Question not identified.
25-862 Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas Texas 2026-01-20 Pending brady-violation capital-murder due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review 1. Where the Petitioner, the State, and the habeas court all agree that a conviction is unconstitutional and must be reversed, does it violate due pro…
25-6620 Raymond Edward Lumsden v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino-standard procedural-due-process 1. In dismissing Petitioner's U.S.C. § 2254 Application, and denying a certificate of appealability, has the district court and the Fifth Circuit Cour…
25-6630 In Re Anthony Tyrone Campbell, Sr. 2026-01-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus penal-code senate-bill-775 (1) In light of a newly post conviction law, as established under California Senate Hill Vo. 775, could petitioner lawfully remain convicted of an a…
25-6602 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2026-01-16 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Question not identified.
25-6611 James E. Frantz v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations constitutional-error habeas-corpus judicial-discretion substantive-claim 1) Did the District Court error by failing to recognizing substantive claims as cognizable under habeas corpus and failing to exercise its equitable a…
25-6596 Jamie Brian Ketcham v. Department of Defense Fourth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending IFP constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus indigent-standard military-detention sixth-amendment Petitioner was framed with false incriminating evidence back around 2014. A corrupted military court hearing was held without the petitioner being pre…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's right under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment is offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies…
25-6577 Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida Florida 2026-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre…
25-6581 Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence 1. What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective …
25-6559 Charles Kafeiti v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-delay procedural-rules 1. Whether a district court's 13-month, unexplained silence on liberty-related motions — followed by unsigned docket-entry denials that never addresse…
25-6557 David Calhoun v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re…
25-6556 Darrell Jones v. Stephen Reynolds, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debat…
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
25-816 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny, prosecutors have an obligation to disclose evidence favorable to the accused, either bec…
25-811 Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence?
25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard This case presents an important question regarding an individual's entitlement to a certificate of appealability. Regarding that entitlement, this Cou…
25-6502 Donald Wayne Barksdale v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP corporate-fraud due-process habeas-corpus human-rights legal-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Corporate State of Virginia is the free and well Trust Husband KOA medium de itlecdace with the CA NVerteccal Yexses ) few moved: JJ Ai S …
25-6510 Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas Texas 2026-01-07 Pending IFP due-process evidence-exclusion fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-appellate-court In a state postconviction habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner alleged that a material witness testified falsely at trial, does it violate…
25-6496 Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pinholster-exception 1) Does this court's decision in Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S.170; 131 S.CT. 1388 (2011), permit an exception whereby federal courts may consider ne…
25-6493 Paul Keith Barksdale v. Jeffrey Wehking, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25A779 Malik Allah-U-Akbar, fka Odraye G. Jones v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-05 Application capital-case due-process extraordinary-relief federal-courts habeas-corpus writ-compliance Question not identified.
25A775 Cosea Bell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-01-05 Application collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application Question not identified.
25A767 Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-02 Application brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
25-6465 Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error 1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a…
25A752 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-12-29 Application actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review Question not identified.
25-732 Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (4) capital-sentencing constitutional-rights expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether trial counsel provides constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase of a capital trial by presenting evidence th…
25-726 Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for "circumstances" that render state proceedings "ineffective" can ap…
25-717 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order.
25-6402 Anwar Mithavayani v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the lower courts provided sufficient and adequate process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due pro…
25-6396 Javier Rivera Franco v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Denied IFP conviction-validity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sentencing-error 1. Is Petitioner Franco illegally imprisoned under a invalid 75 year sentence in Indictment / Cause No. F05-45713-T and under a invalid conviction ?…
25-6388 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-counsel suppressed-evidence voluntary-manslaughter Should a certificate of appealability have issued, where the suppressed evidence, considered cumulatively, would have placed a burden on the Commonwea…
25-6377 Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Did the Sixth Circuits denial of a COA decide the important federal question related to sufficiency of the evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doub…
25-690 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived burden-shifting constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review Did the Ninth Circuit fail to apply the correct deferential standard of review, as set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), and also misapply this Court's prec…
25A689 Edward Allen Moore v. Gregory Hancock, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application certificate-of-appealability court-access eighth-circuit habeas-corpus prison-library pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
25-6335 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ashley Richardson, Director, Lucas County Adult Probation Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-review habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists state-court-record 1. Whether a district court must review evidence in the state-court record when the habeas petitioner alleges it demonstrates that the state court unr…
25A684 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Application capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A676 Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama Alabama 2025-12-09 Application capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25A670 Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default Question not identified.
25-664 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden…
25-6306 Mark Anthony Gooding v. Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus pleading-amendment statutory-limitation Whether a prisoner arrested and housed in Oakland County Jail, 1201 N. Telegraph Road, Rawlins, Michigan 48341 as a pretrial detainee on an unrelated …
25-6302 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Granted Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus identification-evidence ineffective-assistance procedural-default 1. Whether, under the circumstances presented hear, petitioner 's constitutional right to a fair trial due to insufficient identification evidence cla…
25A653 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-04 Application actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min…
25-6286 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit Is the Appellate Court able to violate 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(D) arguing that this statute is not mandatory but a simple guideline? It is incontrovert…
25-6283 Samuel Patrick Cain, Jr. v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied IFP constitutional-claim district-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review state-law 1. Whether District court erred in stating Petitioner's claim involves state law, not federal law and habeas relief is not available for violations of…
25A649 Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Application constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25A635 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Application equitable-tolling extraordinary-relief federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mental-health suicide-attempt Question not identified.
25-6252 Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE…
25-6236 Jesse Alan Walker v. William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County, Florida Florida 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pretrial-proceedings sixth-amendment Does the United Constitution of the Constitution of Florida permit the petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be decided based on the facts and retur…
25-6229 Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner WHETHER PETITIONER QUALIFIES FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING DUE TO INABILITY TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ON THE MERITS OF BEING ACTUALLY INNO…
25-6225 Alejandro Peña Salvador v. Washington Washington 2025-11-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance The faal JisnsqarJ fa dew &via&>ce of /rre£^Ci|^bl£cpnB' c' b^+^eeAOe^dMi amd hfc Mr Pe?Ks> rtaH4 o reDfesen^-Von a'fn'idcA.i Coothci or &4«c3-!/e > q…
25-6213 Samuel Galbraith v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP federal-review habeas-corpus parole-board procedural-adequacy state-remedy statutory-interpretation When a person has no cause of action and no right of action to appeal the affirmative decision of a parole board, does the simple ability to mail and …
25-6211 In Re Jordan Monroe 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires QUESTION (1) Where a Court Of Appeals fails or refuses to comply with BLACK LETTER LAW--28 U.S.C. §2253—which is a statute that was duly enacted by …
25A594 Keith Lashon Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Application appeal-waiver constitutional-exception criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-agreement Question not identified.
25-6190 Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa Iowa 2025-11-20 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing I. D& Aw 4 On4)Wlwl k invfrf ie^ $ pwhlons 4vd" hw 4o 4V^C SevWAC^5 ? 3, Do cnw\4U$ kw 4 6an^WW^h4 rtaW 4t> ex^cV pnmke^ AncWl^ ™udn^/ 5 ft w'HW ^re^…
25-6181 Graham Schiff v. Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct speech-protection I. First Amendment and Certificate of Appealability Standard Whether this Court should grant certiorari —or exercise its supervisory authority —to dir…
25-6179 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi…
25-6155 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Granted IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct stare-decisis 1. Should the unsettled issue in Heck v. Humphrey and Spencer v. Kenma^where this court has not definitively ruled that criminal defendants may use a …
25-591 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) and this Court's precedents establish that certificates of appealability ("COA") may be issued to habeas petitioners seeking ap…
25-6166 Gregory P. Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(…
25-6143 Rodney James Dilworth v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY.
25A578 Edgal Iribhogbe v. C. Lepe, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application case-or-controversy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-dismissal mootness pretrial-detention section-2241 Question not identified.
25A576 John Bejarano v. William Reubart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-procedure successive-petition Question not identified.
25-580 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending Amici (2) appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence 1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t…
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
25A567 Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pro-se substantial-showing Question not identified.
25-6120 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2025-11-14 Denied IFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel 1- a) Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses, constitute federally defined ineffective assistanc…
25-6084 Paul Gregory Perry v. Robert Van Gorder, Warden North Carolina 2025-11-12 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1) Whether "Carpenter 222. ters" hralding i ratzaac hive ta Renton S Whee Convictiansand. Sentence 5 xele 2) jae Phar-capppellate counsel. tua je Fle…
25-6073 Brett Alan James Talmadge v. Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine court-appointed-counsel habeas-corpus incarceration pro-se-pleading speedy-trial I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court for the District of Alaska's dismissal of Mr…
25-6076 Martin Ponce Ramirez v. Leo Quiroz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extradition-warrant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-coercion THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY DENIED PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (28 U.S.C. §2253). REGARDING ISSUES: …
25A534 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Question not identified.
25A533 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-07 Application capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-public-defender habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
25-558 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Michael Sockwell Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Pending Relisted (2) batson-challenge equitable-remedy federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-prisoner 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. §2254. 2. Whether a federal court may grant habeas relief to a guilty state prisoner upon identify…
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…
25-6043 In Re Alex Smith 2025-11-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus miranda-violations post-conviction supervisory-control 1. Was it a violation of a postconviction petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, for the dis…
25-554 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability where the petitioner alleged a violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Proc…
25A523 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application aedpa de-novo-review deferential-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court-review Question not identified.
25-6031 Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING IS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT A MAN IS NOT UNJUSTEY IMPISONED; AND IF FOR SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS AS IN…
25-6019 Juan Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure death-threats extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus plea-coercion sentence-reduction 1. Did both the United States District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal 3-judge panel fail to properly execercise its permissible authority to …
25-6013 Kimberly Lee Kessler v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-03 Rehearing IFP conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus kangaroo-court prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering OR. tteARb me EVER. 8§Ft V41THCUT habbas Corpus )(3^JUSST<6M 3 KANGAROO CSURT Ktspr JUR.y OUT OP TRtlAL <»ouRTROCi/n FbR ftNTiRlT TRiAL— JUR.y NevgR …
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court 1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta…
25A497 Arthur Torlucci v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 Question not identified.
25-5992 In Re Roger Larry McCluer 2025-10-30 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining 1. WHETHER OR NOT COUNSEL'S ADVICE TO PETITIONER, TO FOREGO A TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER, WHEN THE STATE THREATENED TO RE-VISIT THE "CAPITAL MURDER" …
25-525 Damion Anthony Delapena v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining 1. Does federal habeas petitioner make a "substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right" under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) where his trial at…
25-516 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") prevents federal courts from granting habeas petitions for constitutional violations regar…
25A475 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-10-24 Presumed Complete certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court Question not identified.
25-5951 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts 1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator …
25-5945 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-10-23 Denied IFP court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-void Whether the August 21,2025 proceeding of Respondent District court clerk Brian D. Karth and Respondent United States refusing to enter the default of …
25-5930 William Maxwell v. Albert Thomas, III, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP administrative-remedies exhaustion-doctrine first-step-act habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing-credits I. The question for this Court is whether disputes regarding the calculation of an inmate's earned First Step Act time credits, enabling the inmate to…
25-5937 Timothy Simms v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-review habeas-corpus judicial-prerogative legislative-limitation separation-of-powers I. Whether the Habeas Corpus provisions of the AEDPA, constitute a legislative usurpation of the Judicial prerogative to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus…
25A458 Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Presumed Complete exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25A450 Melvin Clark v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete appealability-threshold certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
25-5894 Kenneth Lavigne v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard time-barred Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Sixth Amendment and this Court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), Hill v. Lockhart, …
25-5859 Wisconsin, ex rel. Paul M. Nigl v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Wisconsin 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief wisconsin-statutes 1. Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals unfairly blocked Petitioner access to his only remaining avenue for postconviction relief?
25-5855 In Re Caleb McGillvary 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3rd-circuit conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus 1. Should the writ of mandamus issue to require Circuit Judge Michael A. Chagares to recuse himself from the instant habeas corpus proceedings, when e…
25-5849 Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. The handwritten or heavily corrupted te…
25-5843 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure Question not identified.
25A407 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice Question not identified.
25-426 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent In connection with petitioner's capital sentencing proceeding, trial counsel failed to investigate and present voluminous, powerful mitigation evidenc…
25-420 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights? Does a peti…
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 …
25-5809 Anthony Lee Van Durmen v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-impediment WHERE PETITIONER'S APPEAL OF RIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER (20) YEARS DUE TO THE STATE'S CREATED IMPEDIMENT WHICH PROHIBITED HIM FROM FILING, RESULTING I…
25A394 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence Question not identified.
25A386 Trendell Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defects structural-error venue-challenge warrant-forgery Question not identified.
25-5779 Teddy Roosevelt Sibley v. Robert Jackson, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25A368 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard Question not identified.
25-5767 Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error 1) Did the United States District Court error in ruling that Mr. Draft 's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely? 2) Did the United States …
25-5765 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment (l)(a) Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by denying a COA on the merits instead of deciding the "threshold inquiry" of whether a Petitioner has raised …
25-5760 Darval Ledet v. Keith Cooley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right district-court habeas-corpus miller-el reasonable-jurists slack-standard Whether Ledet made a substantial showing of denial of a constitutional right under Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327 (2003), such that reasonab…
25-5753 Eddie Scott v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-statute federal-rule-60b habeas-corpus mandate-rule section-1983 younger-doctrine I. The question presented is whether a Judge can keep a case closed even after the plaintiff overcame the Younger Doctrine by being acquitted after a …
25-5756 In Re Jody M. Johnson 2025-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony habeas-corpus 1) Should Writ's D.S. Supreme Court grant Writ of Habeas Corpus petition, where the U.S Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner'…
25-5744 Anthony Balducci v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether a hearing in which a defendant seeks to withdraw a guilty plea, made at his first opportunity and before sentencing, at which he asserts in…
25-5718 In Re Christopher J. Bradford 2025-09-25 Denied IFP aedpa cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default second-successive-petition 1. Whether the United States Court pf Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its decision to dismiss the Petitioner 's 'application for leave to …
25-5719 In Re Flenoid Greer 2025-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-violation exceptional-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-prisoner Where a State Prisoner is unconstitutionally detained and the State's post-conviction rules foreclose relief, and no other adequate relief is availabl…
25A333 Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus pro-bono supreme-court-rule Question not identified.
25A331 Jacob Matthew Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied brady-claim certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-right habeas-corpus pro-se In this case, the district court denied applicant's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 application—and denied a certificate of appealability (COA)—for one reason and on…
25-5706 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure false-testimony fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in refusing to certify the Napue claim, when it failed to reach punishment-phase harm and when it conflated the question …
25-5705 Jua Smith v. Delta Barometre, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied IFP appellate-counsel counsel-disclosure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default writ-authorization a. Whether petitioner is entitled to have his habeas corpus petition disregarded if habeas counsel was not acting on behalf of the petitioner; and fai…
25-5703 In Re Steven Ray Wycoff 2025-09-23 Denied IFP aedpa-restrictions conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether upon.a court of appeals' denial of leave to file a second federal habeas application AEDPA's § 2244(b) (3) (E) prohibits any party from see…
25-5699 In Re Mark Woods 2025-09-22 Denied IFP constitutional-law federal-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation suspension-clause 1. Did the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the suspension clause of the United States Constitution Art.I, section 9,cl…
25-5689 Kenneth Eugene Gage v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied IFP conviction-status criminal-detention due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-remedy 1. Where throughout Our Nation ALL criminal defendants are routinely released, liberty restored, should the felony trial judge, in exercise of his or…
25-5690 Adam Jay Stone v. Patwin Horn, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus legal-diligence statute-of-limitations In a federal habeas corpus case, an appellant who has missed the one-year filing deadline due to extraordinary circumstances beyond their control may …
25-5674 Byron Neal v. Warden, FCI Terminal Island Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question detention-legality habeas-corpus savings-clause second-successive-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") erred in construing Neal's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus und…
25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo…
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.
25-5664 In Re Amy Bishop Anderson 2025-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error habeas-corpus new-evidence procedural-default specific-intent steroid-psychosis 1. ) Statement of the Case and exhaustion of claims pursuant to 28USC section 2254(b)(1)(A) as delineated in S.Ct. Rule 20.4(a). Where, in my petition…
25-5661 In Re Ronald Freeman 2025-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus liberty-interest strict-scrutiny Tens of millions of persons have been deprived of their liberty for violating marijuana criminal and civil laws that proscribed marijuana. All detaine…
25-318 Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether the District Court should …
25-5645 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-09-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation custody-challenge district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-judgment Whether the 12/26/24 judgment of Respondent United States District Court, Central District of California and Appellee United States is void? Whether…
25-5630 Geneva Kristina Hudson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 1. Must a petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in advising whether to plead guilty demonstrate a predisposition to pleading guilty as…
25-289 Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response Waived 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment Courts in every federal district apply Rule 56 to 2255 motions; the application, however, is uneven. In the Second Circuit, the summary-judgment rules…
25-5623 Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction D'.cL M-.rvllv Coiv^ of Ajpp-cals trr il a^ f'dfu^S'f or CxxA'f coAx- cf Appt atab'll' ly? Ji) iy d lk< lUd-cJ SUk-s DisUcd too*-/ for DiUricJ ' of ^…
25A282 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack due-diligence habeas-corpus innocence-claim successive-petition Question not identified.
25A281 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete collateral-review due-diligence federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2255 successive-petition Question not identified.
25-5610 Greg Gogin v. Michael Meisner, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process habeas-corpus presentence-investigation sentencing-accuracy statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Whether a defendant's sworn testimony while on the witness stand and under oath should be given credence as to the facts of his case and can defendant…
25-5604 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Granted IFP civil-prisoner-litigation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-immunity section-1983 stare-decisis 1. Is the deprivation of due process rights, in underlying state criminal litigation, exempt from the civil prisoner litigation clause 28 U.S.C. § 191…
25A274 John Benton Ragland v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Question not identified.
25-5585 Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b). Whether a new judgment, resulting from re…
25-5575 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi…
25-5574 In Re Paul Patrick Jolivette 2025-09-08 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-defect magistrate-judge-authority L Did the united states fnagistrate ju^e dennis M. Cota abuse and usurp his authority and. jurisdiction wen he denied Petitioner' Motion to Disqualif…
25-260 Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter First Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate have been disrupted so significantly that they ca…
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Question not identified.
25-5548 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP AEDPA due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect state-prisoner Whether the Federal Courts have misapplied habeas restrictions introduced by the AEDPA to State prisoners under FRCP rule 60(b)(4) Motion Based on Fun…
25A254 Michael Broomer v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete antiterrorism-act federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness Question not identified.
25-5531 In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy 2025-09-03 Denied IFP habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari 1. Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation® as observed in Missouri v. Jenkins, 495 U.S. 33, 46 n. 14 (1…
25-5524 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Kemsey Bowles, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 dna-evidence habeas-corpus legal-research pro-se procedural-time-bar Should pre se, incaccecated Habeas Corpus petitioners be Procedural ly time-bacced when The multi- yeac COVID-19 Pandemic created "Extenocdinary Cireu…
25A230 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction Question not identified.
25-5486 Bruce Anderson v. Kenneth Lizotte, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance second-petition Whether Petitioner Bruce Anderson's new federal habeas petition, in which he claims to have received ineffective assistance from the court-appointed d…
25-5484 Corey Blaine Coggins v. Eric Cox, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance joint-defense-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did Coggins ' Public Defender 's (Weber) entering into a joint defense agreement with Coggins ' co-defendant 's (Tabor) lawyer without Coggins ' …
25A224 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review Question not identified.
25-5466 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-26 Rehearing Response WaivedIFP criminal-rule-29 due-process habeas-corpus jackson-virginia negative-defense sufficiency-of-evidence (l)(a) Whether a Petitioner who claims that "the trial court erred in denying Petitioner's Criminal Rule-29 Motion for Acquittal for Insufficiency of …
25-5457 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-08-25 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Wtetter 3 Con-Fl ict W* _a.ncl.. (n&.aza lez $. j- -5- $tak Court© / Ccla awl. ke-re ipply £ sfak ^loceduM I W to cwnte 3A U^cedeat kittd § 22S3 (cXz)…
25-5452 In Re Andrew James Johnston 2025-08-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-privilege filing-restrictions habeas-corpus merits-determination section-2255 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including issuance of a writ of habeas corpus from this Court, to protect the privilege of habeas corpu…
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes , 433 U.S.72 (1977) Id. At 81 states appellant court 's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and ba…
25-219 Jay Warren Arnold v. Texas Texas 2025-08-22 Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is the statute under which the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus, Texas Code of Criminal Pr…
25-5428 Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct 1) How does a defendant obtain the evidence that proves his innocence when the prosecutor knowingly presents false evidence and refuses to turn over t…
25-5422 Lamont Johnson v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied IFP federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-bar second-successive-application state-action Whether a second in time habeas application which raises a claim that the petitioner was prevented by state action from raising in a prior application…
25-5418 In Re Kai Uwe Thier 2025-08-20 Denied IFP consular-relations deportation habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaty vienna-convention WHETHER PETITIONER, A GERMAN CITIZEN AND AN ILLEGAL ALIEN, SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY SINCE 2002, IS ENTITLED…
25-5414 Anthony Tyrone Campbell, Sr. v. Andre Gonzales, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-errors due-process habeas-corpus liberty-rights ninth-circuit 1. With having consideration for the meaningful importance involved, notwithstanding Rule 10 of this Court, could this Supreme Court of the United Sta…
25-5403 In Re Michael Jay Harris 2025-08-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Question No. 1 Should Mr. Harris be permitted to raise his claims of prosecutorial misconduct based on newly obtained and never before presented evid…
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar (1) Was the novel state procedural ground for denying the false evidence claims in the initial habeas application inadequate? (2) Was the state proce…
25-5386 Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default (1) Petitioner properly presented thirteen claims of constitutional violations and sub-issues to each state court including the Michigan Supreme Cou…
25-5379 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-17 Denied Amici (2)IFP discrimination-standard habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss section-1983-challenge statistical-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard of proof ("virtually 100 percent") imposed by the Court of Appeals for statistical evidence of discrimination and arbitrariness c…
25A187 Simon Hessler v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the circumstances present in this case present an extraordinary circumstances sufficient to extend the…
25-5376 Wesley Swick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending IFP criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release I. Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. Rico v. United States, No. 24-1056, presents the same question.
25-5367 Clevern A. Granger v. Andrea Tack, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-5349 Paul Bruce v. Steve Upton, Warden Georgia 2025-08-13 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure petition-dismissal supreme-court-clerk 1) FT peed to no how He Hrbens Corpus Judy e, Caw dismiss we Habecs Petilion without letting the "Peditdiqnr peeseat any evidence oF Speck on his bela…
25A178 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus post-judgment-motions pro-se-litigation section-2255 Question not identified.
25-5332 Francisco Melgar Cabrera v. Christian Lepe, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act detention-review extradition-treaty federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation WHETHER: EXTRADITION TREATY VIOLATIONS ARE COGNIZABLE UNDER 28 USC §2241(c)(3) RATHER THAN UNDER §2255(a); A PERSON HELD IN CUSTODY IN VIOLATION OF A…
25-5324 Kenneth Alfred Linville, Jr. v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief A. Did the state and federal courts decide that newly discovered evidence was not newly discovered evidence on the checks? B. Did the state and feder…
25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who…
25A172 Jonathan Seay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied amendment-timing circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limits section-2255 Question not identified.
25-154 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Did this Court's Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651 (1977), decision limit the permissibility of interlocutory appeals by defendants in criminal cas…
25-5310 Maurice Bernard Moore v. Daniel L. Hebert, former District Judge, Saline County of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy habeas-corpus rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity 1. Why the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruling conflicts with the Third Circuit on the Matter of Rooker-Feldman Provision not overrulin…
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25-148 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-guarantees due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Did this Court's Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651 (1977), decision limit the permissibility of interlocutory appeals by defendants in criminal cas…
25A156 Thomas Bartholomew Simpson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right evidentiary-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Question not identified.
25-5286 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa circuit-court-mandate clearly-established-law exceptional-circumstance habeas-corpus supreme-court-review May a subsequent decision of this Court calling into question the correctness and integrity of a circuit court's judgment qualify as an exceptional ci…
25-5284 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix subject-matter-jurisdiction vi-amendment i. WHETHER PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS CLAIM CAN BE DENIED UNDER 28 U.S.C. 2241 (a)(c)(3) FOR "LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION" BY THE DISTRICT COURT…
25A150 Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Question not identified.
25A143 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance no-contest-plea plea-bargain prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
25-5262 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied IFP aedpa competency-to-be-executed ford-claim habeas-corpus mental-functioning second-or-successive-petition Does a competency to be executed claim based upon common law "idiocy" that presents a petitioner's current mental functioning and supported by recent …
25-5248 In Re Quay Phipps 2025-07-31 Denied IFP article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including habeas corpus, due to the government's lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Article I, S…
25-5235 Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law 1. Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred when they concluded that the State of Rhode Island supreme court's retroactive application of a ne…
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.
25-109 Hong Thu Nguyen v. Chris McBee, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arson certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insurance-fraud Hong Thu Nguyen was charged with arson at two of her places of business. Over objection, the state presented financial evidence that after other busin…
25A117 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit Question not identified.
25A112 Brian Leslie Finkel v. Arizona Arizona 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete due-process extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief sentence-correction Question not identified.
25A101 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5183 Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas Texas 2025-07-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation dna-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence IS DNA DIFFERENT FOR BRADY CLAIMS? The State prosecutors suppressed DNA evidence of a third-party contributor which their own expert had labeled ''im…
25A98 Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification Question not identified.
25-5174 James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation WHTHER THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE ISSUED AND/OR GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (C0A) FROM THE DISTRICT COURT'S DETERMINATION THAT THE …
25-5172 William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court 1. Were the Petitioner 's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when petitioner 's Rule 60(B) motion was denied yet, the Northern District court o…
25A79 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner Question not identified.
25-5153 Steven Catlin v. Edward J. Silva, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied IFP death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence voir-dire 1. Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's habeas claims alleging defense counsel's failure to investigate, develop and present available…
25A78 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure en-banc federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Question not identified.
25-5145 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied IFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel This is a death penalty case from Alabama in which the following occurred: (1) the defense attorney was being paid in substantial part by the defenda…
25A68 Jacquel O'Neal v. Texas Texas 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus jury-instruction sexual-assault-of-child sixth-amendment texas-penal-code Question not identified.
25A66 Gregory Montgomery v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25-5137 Joel Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether Mr. Salcedo was deprived of his right to a speedy trial in violation of his Sixth Amendment Guarantee by the United States Constitution.
25-5131 Lucio Roy Atkinson v. Texas Texas 2025-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights drug-testing due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus pro-se-litigation 1. Can the State of Texas "dry lab" test results in order to obtain a conviction under TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 481.104(a)(2) and § 481.114(a)(c) ?…
25-5125 Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied IFP constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that the Petitioner was not prejudiced by his defense counsel's failure to rec…
25-5120 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error 1) Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
25-52 Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti…
25A58 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
25-5103 In Re Matthew Phillips 2025-07-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner I. Whether or not the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by denying leave for Phillips to file a sec…
25-5101 In Re Matthew Phillips 2025-07-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentence-execution state-prisoner I. Whether or not the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by denying leave for Phillips to file a s…
25-5097 Michael Bell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP brady-violation due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief successive-petition Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Giglio in his initial § 2254 motion, should a second-in-time mot…
25-5096 Christopher John Spreitz v. Arizona Arizona 2025-07-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit 1. Whether in conducting independent sentencing review to cure a constitutional error in a capital case, a court must consider all of the evidence in …
25-5095 Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant…
25A52 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete capital-murder dna-evidence due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
25-5088 Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-innocence statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism This Petition seeks an order granting a certificate of appealability or. in the alternative, plenary review of the following questions: 1) Whether re…
25-5085 Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-07-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction 1. Questia (9) /ReseuTeD - wien, on Nor THE SUPREME CounT OF RD Can Procedyfa lly Barked By ICTUAL TANCE Clzagse, ON TNR Z D625, 0) Spal PezeTEosser's…
25-5079 Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Should a writ of habeas corpus issue when a bailiff reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial by directing it to continue deliberating until it rea…
25-5065 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence REffiritenfs WflV'F tefilioN&tJfJ COMl^V^LAMof^CoiJ^ifoMoF^ Utifeb CeuRfUftS ToRiSblClioiU Mteiu REfrfion/EA SEEK^AiJEublCATfBfJo^TffS Mer/1s QFUM Pe…
25A30 Humberto Andres Maldonado v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Question not identified.
25-5042 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health Question not identified.
25-5045 Raymond Dean Ordoukhanian v. Leah Wommack Chaney, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-immunity 1. Whether the importance to the public of this issue, does the word " cannot " still retain its meaning, when it is on record, the "altering" of "f…
25-5046 Pierre Haobsh v. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus procedural-violation On the Court? h&i/n pufoLfair o (ObioHn^j ^l/iroi/tgki Frau J on Fko (Lourp ar^FalsoL^r^oiAWnf diAo- to Conecuh,^ej/icJ&jAc-c^anJ pJE>orn/ fp pAufy j^…
25-5053 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-review habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation transfer-order The question presented is whether a circuit court errs in finding that a transfer order is not appealable, dismisses a petitioner's appeal of the dist…
25A28 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-protocol habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-5033 Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-07 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes habeas-corpus prisoner-rights Question not identified.
25-10 Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals this Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even criminal context.
25A4 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-7529 Matthew Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation fr) NMKkew CofVcr W<ed bu Ae-Udriue EoUCS(5a' -> ' UXs McxW^ 'Cuo CmW U\ecyA\^ Sei-z^A as\d< seoccUeA oi\ V^ccejub-ex 31^ 2X>ZO <xac)< ^\aou\cL "tVvS…
24-7513 Tracy A. Roberson v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-review fourth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-construction stone-v-powell This case presents an important nationwide issue concerning whether the Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("ARDPA ") over-ruled Stone v. Pow…
24-1316 Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations 1. Was the Ninth Circuit too demanding under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) in assessing the district court's disposition of the habeas petition? (a) Whether re…
24-7502 In Re Aaron Franklin Johnson, Jr. 2025-06-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review power-of-attorney statutory-interpretation The Question Presented is if Mr. Johnson is entitled to a habeas relief and extraordinary writ due to the State of Maryland pattern of abuse and negle…
24-7516 Darrell Allen Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-26 Denied IFP counsel-denial fraud-on-court habeas-corpus procedural-bars sixth-amendment state-ground 1. Whether Oklahoma's application of its successive postconviction procedural bars (22 O.S. §§ 1086,1080.1) constitutes an adequate and independent st…
24A1277 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Presumed Complete capital-case clearly-established-law confrontation-clause extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Question not identified.
24A1268 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
24-7473 Obel Cruz-Garcia v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-06-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment circuit-precedent external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberations religious-text 1. When a jury foreman in a capital murder trial brings a religious text to the jury room during punishment phase deliberations and reads passages con…
24-7456 Daniel Jones v. Danielle Tope Second Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-act WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN ADJUDICATING CLAIMS IN HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONS TO DETERMINE A VIOLATION OF THGE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN T…
24-7454 William Demont White, Jr. v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
24-7440 In Re Cedric Jones, Sr. 2025-06-17 Denied IFP circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-authority mandamus 1. Whether a federal Appellate Court has jurisdiction to rule on the merits of the dismissed habeas corpus petition for a writ of appeal/apply to the …
24-1288 Monika Kapoor v. Vincent F. DeMarco, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied convention-against-torture extradition habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause 1. Whether Congress has stripped the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over CAT claims by individuals facing extradition. 2. Whether application …
24-7446 Telly Royster v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the failure to consider trial counsel's mental health issues in evaluating the effectiveness of counsel constitutes a violation of the Sixth A…
24-7449 Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating the ultimate merits of a habeas petition at the COA stage, often on prejudice grounds, violate…
24-7436 Hans Thomas Reiser v. California California 2025-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-review death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-errors state-remedies Th the $plii between floe Federal Cherts and the Cali forma Supreme Coort over whether pef^/i <rb/or ftate remedies whtf rhtf T5 # Fal lore to dtit…
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar The Petitioner, Mr. Phillip White, was wrongfully convicted in the State of Georgia for a crime he did not commit. His wrongful conviction was marred …
24-7424 Wilberto Arellano v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-tolling WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING BASED ON HIS CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE.
24-7418 In Re Zannie J. Lotharp 2025-06-13 Denied IFP commitment-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge writ-of-certiorari 1. Can the Supreme Court grant a writ of habeas corpus,—- —iof^comm±tment? 2. Does it extend to a prisoner? 3. Is this a case where the writ should…
24-7401 Alvaro Quezada v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim state-court-review Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a COA here so clearly misapply Glossip's mandate regarding Napue and Buck's modest standard for granting a C…
24-7389 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas 2025-06-10 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct The investigation and presentation of a motion for new trial after a jury convicts a Defendant is a critical stage of the appellate process. The quest…
24-7387 Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Amici (2)IFP capital-litigation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-bono-counsel 1. Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it mandates that capital litigants have counsel during their state…
24-7383 In Re Robert Timothy Blake 2025-06-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Were the constitutional rights of Robert Timothy Blake violated when his Trial Attorney failed to notice/ dispute/or Challenge the validity of the Sea…
24-7368 In Re Anthony Floyd Wainwright 2025-06-06 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a capital defendant who has no other available forum to raise his compelling du…
24A1201 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan post-conviction state-proceedings Question not identified.
24-7360 Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing Question (1) In light of Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314,119 S.Ct. 1307, 143 L. Ed. 2d 424 (1999) and Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct. 1…
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-03 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination 1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia…
24A1173 Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-leave state-court supreme-court Question not identified.
24-7338 Justin Panus v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-findings substantive-claims 1. Whether Petitioner was entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the grounds that the lower court failed to conduct an "Unreasonable Determinat…
24-7331 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Article IV standing requirement. Respondent failed to establish federal question jurisdiction, which made the controversy non-justiciable. Article III…
24-7314 Missouri, ex rel. Jeffrey Weinhaus v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus state-law summary-denial Where State law entitles a prisoner to habeas corpus review of a Constitutional claim upon a showing of cause and prejudice, does the summary denial o…
24-7295 Riley Dyson Biro v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar state-court-rule 1. Did the Court of Appeals err by denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253 in a case seeking to appeal a district court's order de…
24-1211 Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability based on a single judge's assessment of the likelihood t…
24A1157 Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-28 Presumed Complete due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings Question not identified.
24A1150 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
24A1144 Robert S. Pierce v. Demetric Godfrey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court-discretion habeas-corpus rule-60(b) section-2254 Question not identified.
24-7283 James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default If reasonable jurists from {-this Court 'Jackson v. Indiana '- -the Fifth Circuit 'Benham v. Edwards '- -Texas Federal Courts 'Reynolds v Neill, Hitt …
24-7281 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation First Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-prevention custody-definition fraud-on-court habeas-corpus second-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether subjects of abuse prevention orders "in custody" under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2254, are pursuant to Jones v. Cunningham, 371 US 236, 83 S. Ct. 373,…
24-7262 Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim When the last state court to review a petitioner's claim issues a reasoned merits decision—but only on a single component of a multiple-component clai…
24-7240 Luis Fernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus judicial-review residual-clause section-2255 In United State s v. Davi s, 588 U.S. 445 (2019 ), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause " definition of the term "crime o…
24-7236 Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-replacement habeas-corpus rule-60(b) substantial-likelihood time-limitation "Were we to adopt the district court's logic, Rule 60(b) would never be available to petitioners with conflicted counsel, so long as the conflict last…
24-7224 Devon Delehoy v. South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus kidnapping procedural-default 1. Is a person who gets into a car voluntary, held against their will? 2. Is a person who exits a car and returns without concern, held against their…
24-7225 Chad Cutler v. Anthony Wills Seventh Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-conflict prison-reform section-2254 1. WHETHER the limited number of cases at courthouses is fully preserved by litigants and issues encompassing situations of cases involving imminent i…
24-7234 In Re David Diehl 2025-05-16 Denied IFP district-court-jurisdiction federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-successive-claims 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. …
24-7212 Dequarn Markeyth Bell v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
24-7207 In Re Willie C. Simpson 2025-05-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights filing-fee habeas-corpus state-custody supremacy-clause suspension-clause Question not identified.
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
24-7199 Alcenios Martinez, aka Aucensio Lopez v. Texas Texas 2025-05-14 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel-appointment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-review trial-procedure 1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel for the initial review of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim…
24-7190 Danny Lee Jones v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-05-13 Dismissed IFP cumulative-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a court reviewing an ineffective assistance-of-counsel claim to consider the cumulative prejudice stemming from t…
24-7191 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-analysis Question not identified.
24-7194 Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing 1. This Honorable Court has declared that Counsel renders ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence ina capita…
24-7195 Jacob Bellinsky v. Colorado Colorado 2025-05-13 Denied IFP constitutional-liberties due-process habeas-corpus parent-child-relationships rule-60b void-judgments This petition addresses: (1) the refusal to grant mandatory relief from void judgments under C.R.C.P. Rule 60(b)(3) and its federal counterpart 60(b)(…
24-7196 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan Colorado 2025-05-13 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus rule-60b suspension-clause void-judgments This petition addresses: (1) the refusal to grant mandatory relief from void judgments under C.R.C.P. Rule 60(b)(3) and its federal counterpart 60(b)(…
24-7174 In Re Babubhai Patel 2025-05-12 Denied IFP 2255-application appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-fraud miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit committed judicial fraud upon the court when the Appellate Court denied Patel's Second or Successive 2255 Application on Jun…
24-7170 In Re Jerome Curry 2025-05-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review Question not identified.
24-1153 Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its "prejudice inquiry", the unrebutted, non…
24-7163 Jose Nieves Briones v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-diligence habeas-corpus supreme-court-jurisdiction time-bar QUESTION No. 1: DOES THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO REVIEW THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY A COURT OF APPEALS …
24-1148 Dominic Michael Mason v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sentencing WHETHER DOMINIC MASON IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND RESENTENCING WHERE HIS FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CON…
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1. Does the narrow, equitable authorities announced by this Court in Marchietti v. Rye Silos S.E. prints to establish "cause" for purposes of executin…
24-7140 David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo Second Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied IFP court-access habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mail-delivery procedural-relief title-28 1. What relief is possible for mail that isn't properly delivered? 2. Can a habeas be used for denial to access the courts? 3. How general is Title …
24-7136 DeWayne Lee Waldrup v. Texas Texas 2025-05-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel self-representation trial-procedure Question not identified.
24-7118 Enrique Diaz v. Ricky Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2025-05-02 Denied IFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement WHETHER THE THIRD DISTRICT'S DECISION DISALLOWING DIAZ'S USE OF THE GREAT WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO PRESENT VALID AND UNBARRED CLAIMS VIOLATES DIAZ'S R…
24A1058 Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-05-01 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights emergency-staffing habeas-corpus legal-access prison-conditions pro-se Question not identified.
24-1122 Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent Under Missouri v. Seibert, 542 US 600 (2004), a mid-stream Miranda warning may not be effective. This was a plurality opinion and the Circuits are spl…
24-7088 Sam Autry Fletcher v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation 1. Does Title 28 U.S.C. §2254(e)(l) or any other provision of the AEDBA, or any clearly established U.S. Supreme Court authority give frderal district…
24A1038 Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds Question not identified.
24-7084 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied IFP aedpa-deadline attorney-negligence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit invert the certificate of appealability standard by basing its denial on disagreements with other reasonable jurists? 2. …
24-7083 Raul Otero Cazares v. Jason Johnson, Director, Division of Adult Parole Operations, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-precedent criminal-procedure de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Petitioner Raul Otero Cazares was convicted of the rape of his long-time domestic partner ("Doe") in a trial where they told very different stories re…
24-7080 Rolondo Stewart v. Keith Cooley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus state-custody supreme-court Does United States Constitution Violations occur at 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by Person in State Custody and excuse to deny…
24A1035 Huy Trong Tran v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-25 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conditions-of-confinement educational-access habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
24-7073 I. M. v. Illinois Illinois 2025-04-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confinement constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-code probable-cause The Illinois mental health and developmental disability code should be held unconstitutional as to violate habeas corpus doctrine and individual Const…
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability?
24-7065 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error state-court Whether a state court's denial of a hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, when such a hearing is required by state statute, can amoun…
24-7058 Todd Cannady v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights violated when the Ninth Circuit denied his Certificate of Appealability petition for a procedu…
24-7049 Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit step outside the bounds of § 2254(d) by considering reasons not found in the CCA's reasoned opinion to determine the reasonablen…
24-7037 Marlon Edgardo Siguenza v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-traumatic-stress-disorder In this noncapital habeas case, Marlon Siguenza alleges that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective for failing to investigate and presen…
24-7039 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Is A-V UviifeA S%Ws of /\mex\GQ 4-Vie -V^e. U.O i'WA Si-afes ^eAeve\ 'QsAti of ho&e\\eA& 'ficoe&Aj&s ule, 40 CeXO CA>? , SheuV^ 4-Vie Un; (W,f ha/e O…
24-7040 Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Does Jones v Hendrix , 599 U.S. 465 (2023), a recent Supreme Court holding which only addresses "[] a prisoner asserting an intervening change in…
24-7030 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Texas Texas 2025-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-law trial-counsel Whether a criminal defendant has a right to effective habeas counsel to assert a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where, by operation …
24-1089 Feanyichi E. Uvukansi v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof due-process habeas-corpus materiality-standard perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct The state courts found that the trial prosecutor knowingly presented and failed to correct perjured testimony that the only eyewitness to identify p…
24-7017 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Texas Texas 2025-04-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus Question No. 1: Can a State allow a Judgment & Sentence of Conviction stand when under the probative facts and Jury Charged instructed the jury to con…
24-7010 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability ( COA) complies with…
24-7003 Hale R. Harris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment 1) DOES THE FINDING THAT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONVEY A PLEA ALLOW THE TRIAL COURT TO DO NOTHING TO CORRECT OR REMEDY THE CONSTITUTIO…
24-7000 Avery B. Crawford v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus self-representation Whether the Fifth Circuit failed or abandoned it's Constitutional duty to review Mr. Crawford's Certificate of Appea ;ability (COA) process, because h…
24-6989 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation post-conviction-relief strickland-standard williams-v-taylor In Williams v. Taylor , 529 U.S. 420, 432 (2000), the Court ruled that the provisions that limit the admissibility of evidence in federal habeas under…
24-6982 In Re Lawrence J. Gerrans 2025-04-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Is Petitioner being detained and imprisoned in violation of the 1. Constitution, Statutory laws or Federal Rule(s) of Criminal Procedure? Is Petition…
24-6980 Redo Rolling v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6956 Jimmy Dale Stone v. David Louthan, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit 1) Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Due Process Clause by denying Jimmy Dale Stone's petition for a COA and fin…
24-6954 John Stephen Routt v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-petition (1) Did the Court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability by merging Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2254 (d)(1) and (2) with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (c)…
24-6950 Daontae T. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment (1) DOES TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE, PROCURE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE (SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE), OTHER INFORMATION FROM THE LOCATION CRIME SCE…
24-6949 Kendrick Christmas v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied IFP district-attorney equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se supervisory-writ warden WHETHER KENDRICK CHRISTMAS'S FEDERAL WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING DURING THE TIME HE FILED FOR SUPERVISORY WRITS IN THE LOUI…
24-6947 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2025-04-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6941 Michael Wayne Reynolds v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa clear-and-convincing evidentiary-hearing factual-deference habeas-corpus state-court-review When a state court refuses to conduct an evidentiary hearing, at which a petitioner would have an opportunity to test and rebut testimonial and other …
24-6928 In Re Stanley Howard Solvey 2025-04-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights discretionary-review exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice state-court-exhaustion (1) Whether Petitioner is situated in a position, whereupon, "circumstances exist that render such process (State Court Exhaustion) ineffective to p…
24-6920 Bobby B. Kirkendoll v. Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus interstate-agreement-detainers-act non-party-state temporary-custody WHETHER THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT DETAINERS ACT (IAD) 18 U.S.C. App § 2 PROVIDES AN EXCEPTION CLAUSE UNDER V(g) PROVIDING DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS FOR …
24-6926 Elijah Bankston, aka Tommy Lee v. Florida Florida 2025-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-separation manifest-injustice This Court's original jurisdiction to issue the Writ of Certiorari to complete exercising of its authority and jurisdiction is therefore properly invo…
24-6914 Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) is applicable to a case in which the state court rejected the petitioner's claim o…
24-6910 In Re Edward Greeman 2025-04-01 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus speedy-trial warrantless-arrest Whether the arrest was warrantless and if the arresting officers had jurisdiction to execute an arrest.[Point 1. of my §2254 habeas petition.] A Sixth…
24-6899 In Re Samuel Rivera 2025-03-31 Denied IFP constitutional-protection double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus supreme-law writ-of-mandamus The Petitioner's clear constitutional legal right under the declaration of the United States Constitution and Florida constitution allows the court's …
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…
24-6888 Russell Wayne Driver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24-6884 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arguable-claims court-rulings criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction legal-representation Under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), whether the Magistrate, the District Court Judge, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction t…
24-1032 Kay Ellison v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-test strickland-standard Is the loss of the opportunity to present an affirmative case due to Constitutionally-deficient representation during trial the loss of a "proceeding"…
24-1034 Ulysses Charles Sneed v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's application for a COA as to his constitutional habeas claims where (i) a circuit judge found that…
24A938 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Presumed Complete 28-U.S.C.-section-2244 AEDPA-statute-of-limitations federal-finality habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc state-court-judgment 1. This case presents an important question about whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment "nunc pro tunc" prevents that judgment from res…
24-6876 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that the state …
24-6868 In Re James Eric Mansfield 2025-03-27 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act evidentiary-law federal-court habeas-corpus state-sovereignty tenth-amendment 1. Whether a federal court violates the Tenth Amendment by commandeering state evidentiary law and adding a heightened provision for the admissibility…
24-6853 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a COA where a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right was demonstrated because reasonable jur…
24-6843 Albert J. Townsend v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process I. WHETHER PETITIONER SUFFICIENTLY DEMONSTRATED THE SUBSTANTIAL DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABI…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-6837 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un…
24-6834 Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Tami J. Schult Seventh Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default DlA -Hie PeUiooer^ WiW <xDeta<»<r Cotn\ey*) $We & claim in h»s CowJ^'^ s'Votf'V ft«A fWn ■ S^WenV sUnj +U- fts ft finder +Lf jfe VJftS +o He?? Fel-l …
24-6828 Eric W. Strong v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-defendant no-merit-appeal I. On a no-merit appeal conducted pursuant to Anders v. Cal., does due process and equal protections require an indigent defendant be provided his att…
24-6816 Joshua Gary Anderson v. Fernando Garza, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement constitutional-suspension due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus writ-of-habeas Whether a Federal court's refusal to permit a prisoner from challenging their conditions of confinement via a writ of habeas violates the Fifth Amendm…
24-6805 Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (1932), overturned by United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57 (1984), and United States v. Powell, self-restr…
24A892 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus stay-of-execution successive-petition Question not identified.
24-6787 Ralph Reed v. Delaware Delaware 2025-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-rule-61 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief Whether the Superior Court denial of Reed's recently-filed motion for postconviction relief, made pursuant to Delaware Superior Court Criminal Rule 61…
24-6798 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an…
24-6780 Earl Felton Crago, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state court defendant, when a state court of conviction lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter, can appeal a conviction to a higher s…
24-6776 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus mental-incapacity procedural-timeliness Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate whether an evidentiary hearing should have been granted to …
24-6742 Keeba Harris v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus state-remedies 1. Is there a violation of Act 3, § 2, ¶ 13 and the Byprovement of the Federal Constitution by Convict and Sentence A defendant PETITIONER FOR AN WRIT…
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner "fairly presents " her federal claim, thus exhausting that claim, when the petitioner raises the substance of a fede…
24-6726 Jason Krumback v. Amber Pirraglia, Acting Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus innocence-claim procedural-default sentencing-review witness-testimony 1. Can a person be a witness after sentencing? 2. Can testimony be withheld after it has been given? 3. Is a probation condition evidence? 4. Is a …
24A858 Tiante Dion Scott v. Jason Schultz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction Question not identified.
24-6721 In Re Eddie Scott 2025-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-writ state-proceedings younger-doctrine Whether the chief judge can keep a case closed even after the plaintiff overcame the younger doctrine by being acquitted after a state trial on 8/1/20…
24-6716 Deepak Deshpande v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 (1) . Wat is the peeper mamer of ensuring flat the remedy offered in the name of section 2255 las bean adequate and effective to test the legality of …
24-6712 David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bivens-action document-production habeas-corpus judicial-review title-5 1. What can a habeas corpus be used for? 2. Can a Bivens Cause of action be used to get Documents? 3. Can a habeas be used for a Title 5 United States…
24-959 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) ake-standard due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-expert sentencing-mitigation supreme-court-precedent In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), this Court clearly established that the State must provide indigent criminal defendants whose mental condition…
24-6699 Reginald Lee Clark v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel state-action 1. Does Equitable Tolling or the Accrual Rule apply to the application of 28 USC §2244(d), upon discovery of previously concealed material information…
24-939 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines The "reasonable jurists" test was created only as a threshold to discourage frivolous habeas appeals. It was never intended as a sky-reaching wall o…
24-6683 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability clisby-rule constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the determination of the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability follows their own Circuit Prec…
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 …
24-6679 Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability Under agency principles, petitioners are held responsible for the mistakes of their lawyers, including the late filing of a federal petition. How do t…
24-6677 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statute-of-limitations ultra-vires void-ab-initio Whether a jurisdictional challenge to an Oklahoma state criminal conviction can be raised at any time in a proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 notwithst…
24-6675 Pierre Cornelius Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-court Federal Courts must defer to state court factual findings unless an evidentiary hearing has been made after a hearing on the merits of a factual issue…
24-6674 Kevin Millette v. United States First Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing-modification Whether a sentencing judge may impose a condition of supervised release that substantially restricts a defendant's access to his own children without …
24-6663 Darrell Turner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur (1) DOES A DEFENDANT MEET THE "SUBSTANTIAL DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT" STANDARD UNDER 28 USCS § 2253(c), WHEN HE PRESENTS THE 'VACATUR' OF HIS P…
24-6643 Mark Douglas Huber v. Randy Valley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
24-6635 Jory Leedy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus plea-voluntariness speedy-trial-clause 1) Does the Sixth Circuit's holding in Ramos v. Rogers, 170 F.3d 560 (6th Cir.1999) making a plea unasailable "so long as the judge follows the proper…
24-6624 Frederick Stampone v. Brittian Amann, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-negligence 1. IS my wife Marta Jo life more important then JURISDICTION? (A) PETITIONER STAMPONE SAYS N.O. (B) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF NEWARK, N.J SAYS …
24-6620 In Re Bobby R. Reed 2025-02-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari 1. Why am I Petitioning The U.S. Supreme Court? 2. Why I didn't exhaust state court remedies? 3. Why I didn't file in The U.S.District Court? 4. Wh…
24-6611 Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Georgia 2025-02-21 Denied IFP brady-material due-process exculpatory-statement habeas-corpus state-law-enforcement witness-statement The state habeas court held that an oral exculpatory statement, made by a complaining witness to a state law enforcement officer, cannot constitute Br…
24-6590 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-process void-indictment 1. Whether a South Carolina Supreme Court's Order Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitu…
24-6579 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance habeas-corpus judicial-review state-proceeding 1. Does a brief written by the prosecution in a State habeas proceeding, and then rubber-stamped by State judges, qualify as a judgment entitled to de…
24A785 Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea penalty-phase sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-872 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Granted Amici (11)Relisted (3) atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence 1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence. 2.…
24-6561 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review exceptional-circumstances exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner 1. Whether there is a Violation of Act 2121, c.13 and the 5th Amendment of the Federal Constitution by why Convict had Sentence defendant on a FRU bon…
24-6551 William J. Wise v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit panetti-standard section-2255 successive-petition The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fundamentally erred by dismissing the appeal of…
24-6550 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-12 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard I Did the third Circuit err in misapplication of Strickland and Slack when Brown had made a substantial showing of undisputed factual evidence apparen…
24A776 Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete gang-expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24A775 Micah Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-row federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
24A774 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete conviction-challenge death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standard-of-review Question not identified.
24-6541 Bartholomew Granger v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-writ criminal-procedure federal-constitutional-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-law-ground 1. Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, section 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequ…
24-6538 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel w…
24-6536 Craig Bassett v. Florida Florida 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1. Did Justice Gorsuch's dissenting opinion in Cunningham v. Florida establish a new precedent that requires retroactive application, or is it a remin…
24-6519 Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus post-conviction texas-procedure Has the Jawenslecs of this Nahon w rope zah the di Gad surrem agin TAL PEOPLE the arpa REOPLE 6 Whe Unred Syorte ok Amerson?
24-6515 Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-finality merits-review procedural-grounds rule-60b 1. Can a petitioner use the 60(b) Rule to gain Relief of Judgment from a legal error that precluded a merits review, when habeas relief was denied by …
24-6522 Samuel Carl Neyhart v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel martinez-review ninth-circuit procedural-default 1) Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error, and/or so far depart from the Supreme Court of the United States processes and precedents, by failin…
24-6523 Timothy W. Wright, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2025-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24A770 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard Whether a certificate of appealability ("COA") required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) may be denied following a division among state appellate judges on the …
24A768 Reginald Lee Clark v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
24-6504 Danmond Jonathan Slack v. Gregory Sampson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion in dismissing petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 petitions as untimely prior to ruling on the merits …
24-6496 In Re Maestro M. Faison, aka Maestro Matthew Faison 2025-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-rule eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus supreme-court-retroactivity 3) . The United States Appeals Court, Eleventh Circuit, has created a Questions " resolving clause [?]: 4) . The United States Appeals Court Eleventh…
24-6492 Rufus Young v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus-petition probable-cause Does a district court abuse its discretion when it denies a habeas petitioner an evidentiary hearing where the state record remains undeveloped, where…
24-6488 Jordy Ezequiel Ochoa, aka Jordy Ezequil Ochoa-Cordova v. Robert Luna, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus jury-trial mistrial probation-violation Is it a violation of clearly established federal law under the Double Jeopardy clause to allow a court to declare a mistrial based on a hung jury, hol…
24-6486 Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies (i) to habeas filings made after a prisoner has exhausted appellate review of his first petition, (ii) to all second-in-t…
24-6480 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus jurisdictional-bar post-conviction-relief 1. Does 28 U.S.C. Section 2244(b)(1) apply to claims brought in second or successive motions for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. Section 2255? …
24-828 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2025-02-04 Denied Response Waived congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution preempted the State of Missouri from the prosecution of a criminal defendant for the ki…
24-826 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Relisted (8) aedpa cause-and-prejudice federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether a federal court must apply the deferential review provisions of AEDPA to the state court's adjudication of an ineffective assistance of counse…
24A757 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability custodial-status federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24-816 Phillip Joshua Yellin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability credibility-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit In Miller-El1, this Court held of the relatively low level of showing necessary from a habeas Petitioner like Phillip J. Yellin to be entitled to a …
24-6438 Iran Dwayne Ketchup v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-injustice rule-60 section-2255 Did Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 60 allow the lower courts (1) to re-open the 28 P.S.C. S 2255 proceedings, pursuant to Gonzalez v. Crosby ,…
24-6422 In Re Terry Lee Jackson, Sr. 2025-01-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts confrontation-clause constitutional-rights federal-defender habeas-corpus writ-of-certiorari Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right of access to the courts where the federal defender refused to file or assist in the filing of a Petitio…
24-6420 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel traumatic-brain-injury waiver-of-counsel 1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) require a certificate of appealability for review of an order prematurely granting summary judgment against the peti…
24-6406 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied IFP brady-claim competency-claim disclosure-violation federal-statute habeas-corpus second-petition 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) bars a second-in-time federal habeas petition raising a Brady claim based on evidence that the State failed to disclose…
24-797 Scott Speer, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. v. Jeffrey Weller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived aedpa-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-review state-court-adjudication 1. Whether the state courts adjudicated the merits of the claim for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when the state courts expressly cited to this Cour…
24-6375 In Re John E. Drummond 2025-01-23 Denied IFP article-iii constitutional-violation habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-habeas-corpus If, after carefully weighing all the reasons for accepting a state court's judgment, an Article III habeas court is convinced that a prisoner's custod…
24-6370 Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication 1. Is the Fifth Circuit's refusal to apply this Court's definition of an adjudication "on the merits" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) debatable am…
24-6378 Von Clark Davis v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-waiver rule-28j supreme-court-precedent I. a. When a party brings to the attention of the court of appeals, via a notice filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(j), a new d…
24-6360 Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit Whether The District Court's Pro-Forma And Blanket Denial of A COA Order Adopting The Magistrate's Report and Recommendation (R & R) Manifestly Erred …
24A718 Kai D. Ingram v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole-revocation preliminary-hearing Question not identified.
24-6346 Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court Question No. I Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues prese…
24A708 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-760 Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2025-01-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari 1. Did the United States Supreme Court err by- denying RYAN 's 2023AP769CR 1/16/2024 Writ Of Certiorari (USSC Filing Number 23-898) on 3/25/2024? …
24-6329 George Ivory v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations rule-15 While pursuing habeas relief on an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel theory, George Ivory learned that the Government materially misrepresented the st…
24-6322 Todd Erling Becker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit apply the correct certificate of appealability standard in denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims? 2. Is Petitioner…
24-6307 In Re Bryan Lee Gregory 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction DOES THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM OWE MR.GREGORY AND THE UNITED STATES CONST A DUTY UNDER ARTICLE 1 SECTION III E/TOO HAD REVIEW AND REACH T…
24A694 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation sixth-circuit Question not identified.
24A680 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard First, does a Circuit Court retain jurisdiction to consider the merits of an appeal from an order granting federal habeas relief if a state court vaca…
24-6279 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure exculpatory-evidence first-degree-murder habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Where there was suppressed exculpatory evidence, in the form of a proffer letter demonstrating that a key prosecution witness who provided significant…
24-6272 In Re Benjamin Shipley 2025-01-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S., 144 S. Ct. 1840, 219 L. Ed. 2d 451 (2024), retroactively opens the affirmative …
24-720 Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-strike 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in ignoring a Motion to Strike the affidavit of attorney Steven Brill when that affidavit was submitted contrary to fe…
24A658 Martin Akerman v. Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing the habeas petition despite evidence satisfying the custody requirement under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1)? Is clos…
24-704 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review competency-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default The "conviction of an accused person while he is legally incompetent violates due process," Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375, 378 (1966), and thus a fed…
24-6225 Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process of Law by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when Mischler never re…
24-6228 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandate-recall 1. Should a court of appeals recall its mandate to revisit the merits of its prior decision where a petitioner's recall motion demonstrates a credible…
24A659 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension Question not identified.
24A704 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-01-01 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24A642 William White, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus prison-mail pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
24-6212 Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Raul Morales, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty extraneous-evidence habeas-corpus jury-misconduct religious-bias 1) In a death penalty case, does post-trial evidence showing that the jury foreperson told the panel on the fourth day of sentencing deliberations tha…
24A634 Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Georgia 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete aggravated-assault alford-plea constitutional-challenge first-offender habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
24A630 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari constitutional-claims death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24-686 Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee…
24-6207 Daniel Cohen v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health-expert state-court-review I. Whether this Court should resolve the question left open in Brumfield v. Cain, 576 U.S. 305, 312 (2015): Where a state court refused funds for a me…
24-6194 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied IFP capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Either Donald Deardorff or Millard Peacock committed capital murder by killing Ted Turner while robbing, burgling, and kidnapping him—the other was gu…
24-6195 Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review Where Petitioner presented substantial new evidence that not only shows he is innocent of murder, but further reveals the identity of the actual kille…
24A625 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete certiorari death-row federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
24A618 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-prisoner Question not identified.
24A615 Keeba Scott Harris v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge native-american sepric-reservation tribal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation 1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s…
24-6182 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied IFP capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review 1) There is a circuit split among the courts of appeal in the procedures a court applies when reviewing applications for a certificate of appealabilit…
24-6180 Carl Hubbard v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court gateway-claim habeas-corpus judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. DID THE MAJORITY BELOW ERROR IN NOT APPLYING THIS COURT'S DECISION IN SCHULP V. DELO, TO HOLD THAT PETITIONER COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE, THAT PRESENT…
24A603 Christopher Thomas v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied armed-robbery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24A598 Robert E. Carter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied emergency-relief habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se stay-of-proceedings supreme-court Question not identified.
24-6163 Lonnie Eugene Lillard, et al. v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP detention-conditions federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2241 statutory-interpretation Under Jones v. Hendrix, 599 U.S. 465 (2023), may federal prisoners challenge the manner, location, or conditions of detention through a habeas corpus …
24A583 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Question not identified.
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…
24-6148 Ronald Lee Neels v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether an opening statement, counsel's failure to object to it, and the magnitude of the prosecutorial misconduct in the opening statement of a defen…
24-6147 Mohamed Osman Mohamud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sting-operation Petitioner, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, was convicted of Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a(a)(2)(A), arising from a governme…
24-6145 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Sr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-standard procedural-default sentencing-error The question presented is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the standard governing the grant of a certificate of appealability for…
24-6134 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard Petitioner Joshua Villalobos was convicted largely on the unchallenged testimony of a medical examiner, Dr. Alex Zhang, who concluded that the victim …
24-6144 Michael Roy Fuller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal habeas-corpus malice self-defense vehicle-shooting 1. When does self-defense become malice? 2. When one is in a car and afraid for his life, how is it malice to shoot into the dashboard as a last reso…
24-6132 In Re David Charles Thatcher 2024-12-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit successive-petition 1. Whether Mr. Thatcher's actual innocence and the constitutional violations taking place at his trial require the vacatur of his petition. 2. Whethe…
24A575 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus second-petition statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A571 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition state-court-judgment Question not identified.
24-6125 Nathan Rivera v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court habeas-corpus inadmissible-testimony ineffective-assistance murder-trial trial-counsel Whether the district court erred in denying the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, where Petitioner's trial counsel provided ineffective assistance…
24A565 William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6091 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop 1). Why has The United State Court of Appeal For the Tenth Circuit entered a decision so far departed from the accepted and usual courts of judicial p…
24-6093 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel 1. Does South Dakota 's position, in its statutory required appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings (SDCL § 21-27-4) there…
24-6094 Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-6099 Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied IFP adequate-state-grounds coleman-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule timeliness-bar In re Robbins, 18 Cal. 4th 770 (1998), and In re Gallego, 18 Cal. 4th 825 (1998) "explained many aspects of the timeliness rules applicable to petitio…
24A538 Anthony Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24A530 DeWayne Lee Waldrup v. Texas Texas 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time filing-deadline habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supreme-court Question not identified.
24-584 Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) aedpa due-diligence factual-predicate federal-review habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations A person in state custody has one year to file a habeas petition. Usually, that one year runs from "the date on which the judgment became final by the…
24A513 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-sentence eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24-6027 In Re Pierre Haobsh 2024-11-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Question not identified.
24-6032 Robert Gene Rega v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-findings witness-cooperation Does the decision below, which misstates and fails to afford any presumption of correctness to a state court's factual findings in a habeas case, warr…
24-6018 Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay habeas-corpus judicial-integrity property-return rule-33-motion rule-41(g) Whether public perception of the integrity and appearance of impartiality in the judiciary is deteriorated when, over an objection, the same judge who…
24-6022 Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel 1. Whether a state court that applies a sufficiency of the evidence standard to determine a habeas petitioner was not prejudiced by his trial counsel'…
24A496 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation First Circuit 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-timeliness section-2254 Question not identified.
24A491 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel waiver Question not identified.
24-554 Conghua Yan v. Cynthia Favila Terry, et al. Texas 2024-11-18 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-privilege due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding restraining-order writ-of-right This petition addresses the "privilege " and "suspension " provision under Article I: the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspen…
24A488 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-petition section-2254 Question not identified.
24-5979 Robert Seth Denton v. Chris Brun, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied IFP exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus petition-review procedural-error sixth-circuit state-remedies Did the Sixth Circuit Error in Denying Permission to Appeal? Did the District Court Error in dismissing Petitioner's § 2254 Petition for failure to e…
24-5974 James Cobb Hutto, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-11-14 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction competency-right constitutional-claim habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court psychological-assessment James Cobb Hutto III has long exhibited cognitive difficulties, likely the product of his difficult childhood and former experience as a Mixed Martial…
24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation 1. Does the two-factor equitable tolling test supplied by this Court in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649 (2010) apply to all federal equitable to…
24A479 Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-5949 Anastacio G. Ramirez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-court-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court-review 1. In applying Cullen v. Pinholster 131 S. Ct. 1388 (2011) to a habeas corpus claim based on whether or not the section 2254 (d)(l)condition to asc^p…
24-5941 Santos Cuevas v. Josh Highberger, Acting Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2024-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-history habeas-corpus jury-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines This case involves two sentencing guidelines rules. One rule, directs trial courts , to count a defendant's convictions at the time of sentencing in …
24-5935 Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest 1. Whether the arrest was warrantless and if the arresting officers had jurisdiction to execute an arrest. [Point 1. of my §2254 habeas petition.] A S…
24A459 Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Brian D. Phillips, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court time-extension Question not identified.
24-5936 Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler Fifth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60b6 FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED : DOES THE DISTRICT COURT AND FIFTH CIRCUIT'S RULING CONFLICT WITH Casey v. Lewis , 518 U.S. 343 n.3 (1996), /.WHEN HOLDING…
24A460 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A455 Eric W. Strong v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-resources post-conviction-review prisoner-access section-2254 Question not identified.
24A454 Jason Krumback v. Teresa Bittinger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied civil-liberties constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review suspension-clause Question not identified.
24-517 Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) appellate-review circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-claim Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's application, over dissent, to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of …
24-514 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus-relief military-detention whistleblower-protection Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) acted appropriately in bifurcating the petitioner's tim…
24A451 Emilio Santiago v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete federal-appeal habeas-corpus prisoner-rights section-2255 supreme-court-procedure time-extension Question not identified.
24-5894 Robert S. Pierce v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rule-10c supreme-court-precedent This case presents an Important Nationwide issue concerning whether State and Federal Courts can operate by void judgement and no authority in to main…
24-5907 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-discretion preclusion-principles procedural-defect rule-60b Plaintiff, was represented by an attorney, Staci Childs. Staci Childs had the responsibility according to the United States District & Bankruptcy Cour…
24-5898 Herman Felton, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus pro-se-petition 1. Why was I denied an Evidentiary Hearing? 2. What's the reason for refusing to hear my case? 3. Why did the Courts agree with the Constitutional vio…
24-5906 John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-11-04 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-fact-finding jury-misconduct CAPITAL CASE After receiving the trial court's instructions not to discuss the case with anyone, one of the jurors who sentenced Mr. Esposito to deat…
24-5887 Christian Romero v. United States District of Columbia 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus local-court-rule sovereign-immunity writ-of-certiorari The Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause under the 14th Amendment "incorporates" rights from Romero's first 8 Amendment rights, while Se…
24-500 Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar Whether the actual innocence/miscarriage of justice exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by …
24A429 Earl Francis Hart v. Charles Daniels, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete actual-innocence criminal-conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus savings-clause section-2241 Question not identified.
24-5874 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling Does this Court's decision in Jennings v. Stephens, 574 U.S. 271 (2015), allow Petitioner to raise procedural defenses on remand?
24-5881 Deshon Aaron Atkins v. David Holbrook, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three dispositive-order exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-jurisdiction Pro se Petitioner Deshon Atkins filed his federal habeas petition months early and without first seeking state habeas review. Atkins withheld consent …
24-5859 Hugo Rangel-Botello v. Texas Texas 2024-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus I.) 0' (/- "tl\L l Dipnc-f £ev>~-t kU6c^<f C.&u^Jy Ctt>u5£ //-$ d-iSClrpioin />, ftflfiome.^ fo-hCjl. /'4. full Cl^c/. fo.Hr- dui'cJjih. h "fh0M fiS d…
24-5865 Reginald Donell Rice v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief fl\To Ikrik l\Oe_Vr^ci£l^ Cii* ^ (I&a^V yA) '2A\)Llk±l^ \Afe.'Aro$ V^W Ld^ c-VW U vW lAr^tcP- tooA $or IH'TW SV-A*. tootle \LioUcel Vk Ao-c Wsi. ri^Y"…
24A416 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2024-10-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance missouri-supreme-court Question not identified.
24A411 Donald Sherman v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5835 Jaylin Godbolt v. California California 2024-10-28 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-grounds Question not identified.
24-5826 In Re Daniel Laurel 2024-10-25 Denied IFP article-iii-jurisdiction constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standing 1) Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence? 2) Can a District court proceed with a "case " ag…
24-5817 Lassissi Afolabi v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix Third Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation successive-petition WHETHER § 2244(b)(1), (b)(2)'S BAR, WHICH EXPLICITLY REFERENCES ONLY §& 2254, ALSO APPLIES TO A CLAIM RY A FEDERAL PRISONER WHO BRINGS A SUCCESSIVE C…
24-5801 In Re Frank Edwin Pate 2024-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure search-warrant Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence's to such right?1) Can a Person break Federal law, w…
24-5799 Maria Navarro Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-law habeas-corpus state-statute WHETHER THE ADHERENCE TO AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE LAW IS NOT MANDATE BY A FEDERAL LAW UNDER AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE STATUTE OF CONVICTION THAT "…
24-5806 Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Gentner F. Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP deportation habeas-corpus immigration-consequences in-custody-requirement ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky 1. Whether Petitioner Satisfies the in-custody requirements of 2254 Petition when he continued to suffer consequences of deportation as a result of th…
24-5800 Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim dna-evidence gateway-innocence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt scientific-testimony In Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), this Court recognized and endorsed a miscarriage of justice exception to the general principle that defaulted …
24A379 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A380 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied employment-discrimination frivolous-appeal habeas-corpus intellectual-property pro-se-litigation summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-5791 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2024-10-21 Denied Amici (2)IFP brady-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether, as the State concedes, the State's suppression of favorable evidence and presentation of false argument at the penalty phase of a death pe…
24-5780 Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment protections against multiple punishments for the same offense violated by several convictions and sentences for posse…
24-5782 Harvey Miguel Robinson v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-circuit-split habeas-corpus jury-instructions legislative-interpretation sentencing-law state-court-review (1) Whether, under Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), a court may, in the course of instructing the jury that a life sentence means life …
24-5788 Nico Allen-Antonio Cogdill v. Texas Texas 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-due-process trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
24-5770 Barbara Marie Frantz v. Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-question habeas-corpus medical-neglect prisoner-conditions Question not identified.
24A355 James Cobb Hutto v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction successive-petition supreme-court-review Question not identified.
24A350 Eric Shawn Ray v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
24-5756 Jonathan Leigh Sosnowicz v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice factual-development habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-prisoner Between 1948 and 2022, this Court applied the same standard for excusing a state prisoner's procedural default of a claim for relief as it applied to …
24-5753 Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas Texas 2024-10-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts a…
24-421 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit The Due Process Clause requires exclusion of police-initiated eyewitness identification testimony in exceedingly rare cases. Exclusion of such evidenc…
24-5746 In Re Trey Tarell Bradley 2024-10-11 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus self-representation state-court-procedure Can a State summarily deny a defendant's right to self-representation and subsequently bar a constitutional challenge to such because of the defendant…
24A347 Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas Texas 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete atkins-v-virginia capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Question not identified.
24-5730 In Re Carlos Martinez 2024-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law Whether the indeterminacy of the wide-ranging inquiry required by the determinative clause in subdivision (A) of California Penal Code Section 170.14,…
24-5721 Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus serial-killer-confession Strengthening Chambers v. Mississippi, this Court in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006), held that even where the government's forensic evi…
24-5709 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus material-facts procedural-relief rule-60b section-2255 If the § 2255 pleadings raised issues of fact, should those have been resolved by an evidentiary hearing? II. Was the lack of an evidentiary hearing …
24A327 James Franklin Snyder v. Al Ramirez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
24-5695 Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether Reasonable Doubt Find Defandgue Coonsacg Refzetiweness Foe. Cocinte To Argue Pentres Spe Mars Did Not Consrinue Theoms As Befined By Eloms. O…
24A326 James Franklin Snyder v. Glenn Armstrong, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appealability certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
24A320 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction procedural-rules Question not identified.
24A319 Hugo Rangel-Botello v. Texas Texas 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete counsel-performance criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A314 Robert Darrel Batson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review Question not identified.
24-5692 Jamie Patrick Hahn v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure false-evidence habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Will zhrs Court review the validity of the indick ment which iS @ double Jd &¢pardy Violakion by the Tiled date of return? As well as the court's l…
24-5676 Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits even though he filed his federal habeas petitio…
24-5673 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Within THE LOW? COVATS OUTRIGHT DENY HABEAS PETITIONERS RiGNT To SHOW ACTVAL INNOCENCE IN THE DISTRICT COVAT 64 FAILING TO ADJVDICA% THE SCHLUP V, DEL…
24-5662 In Re Noel Brown 2024-09-30 Denied IFP brady-violation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus 1. Does the discovery of evidence 'withheld at trial intentionally, by the prosecution, not allowing arresting officer to testify in a trial proceedin…
24-5657 In Re Charles Kafeiti 2024-09-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-detention Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence's to such relief? 2) Can a Person break the law, when…
24-5651 Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default In his petition for writ of habeas corpus before the district court, Petitioner Michael McLaughlin raised the claim that his trial counsel ineffective…
24-5644 Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson Ninth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence 1. Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to someone who is legally or statutory innocent, in where an indiv…
24-5642 Nawaz Ahmed v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss voluntary-dismissal Is Court of Appeals lack Appellate Jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case 21-3542 by CO A on some claim because district court Orders (Ecf. 156,194) l…
24-5641 In Re Nawaz Ahmed 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus lack-of-finality voluntary-dismissal writ-of-prohibition Is Writ of Prohibition available to prohibit the. Court of Appeals lacking Appellate Jurisdiction to exceed its jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case…
24-5630 Ernie Sacoman v. David Cole, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP correctional-facility criminal-procedure good-time-credits habeas-corpus parole-modification sentencing-discretion (1.) CAN A COURT OF CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CHANGE PETITIONER'S PAROLE FROM 3/-2/-10 (D) 1ST DEGREE FELONY AND WHO HAS SERVED THE SENTENCE OF IMPRISONME…
24-5619 Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion Whether The DENIAL of a Pro Se Application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") with the United States Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, In R…
24-5613 In Re Lyndon C. Davis 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance i) Whether on the Sixth Amendment, the Prosecutor deprived Petitioner's "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" testimony of evidence denied him due proce…
24-5609 In Re Babubhai Patel 2024-09-23 Denied IFP 2255-motion circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Mr. Patel's properly filed 2255 Motion to Vacate in Light of Newly Discovered Evidence…
24-5587 Clayton Cornelius Reynolds v. Texas Texas 2024-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief state-court-review 1) Did the Court of Appeals error, lou Albuns eco hosel tole an A Sees eak€ chen there wAS an bbuious Tresecuel Arcealable icsue. 2.) Teal founels tu…
24A283 Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-09-20 Presumed Complete brady-evidence capital-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
24-5592 Deshawn Andrew Boylan v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-findings sixth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously reversed the District Courts grant of habeas relief based on trial counsels ineffective assistance in failing to…
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment A federal court must review a habeas petition de novo if the state court's adjudication on the merits was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable app…
24-5583 Carlos Sanchez v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP §2254-petition circuit-split conflict-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus speedy-trial 1) Whether the law permits conflict counsel to file for continuance which in effect denied Petitioner his right to speedy trial 2) Whether the Eleven…
24-5570 In Re Joseph R. Dickey 2024-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 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. …
24-5568 Steven Gantt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-dismissal certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction rule-60b section-2255 1.) Whether attorney's decision to dismiss §2255 motion without prisoner's consent would provide valid grounds for Rule 60(b) relief? 2.) Whether the…
24-5566 Curtis Hunter v. Lieutenant Morris, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus Where defendant only administers tests, X-Ray, MRI which revealed the only solution is a Total Knee Replacement, and failed to perform the surgery, th…
24A271 Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24-5553 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p…
24-5551 Samuel Arnold v. Georgia Georgia 2024-09-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-error Question not identified.
24-5546 Mario M. Contreras v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-strikes medical-testimony sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction Petitioner, a Native American, was wrongfully convicted by an all-white jury after jury pool. Counsel failed the government struck all Native American…
24-5532 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion Nearly all federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. In many of those pleas, the defendant signs an agreement promising not to file a future 28 U.S…
24A258 Robert A. Hamberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Question not identified.
24A247 Sam Autry Fletcher v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights habeas-corpus prisoner-litigation pro-se section-2254 technological-evidence Question not identified.
24-5494 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 In Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), this Court held that when an individual who pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) offense later challenges th…
24-5476 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate procedural-bar sentence-correction Did the district court err in dismissing Wright's amended § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence based on a constructive amendment cl…
24A241 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus Does a South Carolina Supreme Court's Decision Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio…
24A242 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2024-09-06 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact Question not identified.
24-255 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Amici (5) deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar…
24-5471 In Re Keith Girvan 2024-09-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure eyewitness-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition state-court-findings 1) Do 3rd Circuit Local Appellate Rules 24(c) and Miscellaneous 107, and newly promulgated Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e) apply to Habeas Co…
24-5469 Carl Mott v. Paul Schreiber, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus 1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
24-5459 In Re Raul Chavez 2024-09-04 Denied IFP article-iii-jurisdiction constitutional-violations double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus speedy-trial Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence to the privilege guarantee?1) Can a District court pr…
24-5445 Soren Richard Olsen, II v. Washington Washington 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-discretion Question not identified.
24-5444 Delano Medina v. Jennifer Murphy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied IFP detention-challenge habeas-corpus judicial-remedy parole-eligibility section-1983 sentence-miscalculation In 1973, this Court announced an exception to the broad language of § 1983 when it held that a prisoner must bring a suit for equitable relief that ch…
24-247 Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mens-rea vehicular-homicide Does this Court's clearly established precedent require an explanation and understanding of the elements of each charge to which a defendant pleads gu…
24-5438 Michael Bowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 22…
24-5430 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether – pursuant to this Court's holding in Hemphill v. New York, 595 U.S. 140 (2022) – the Petitioner's constitutional right of confrontation was v…
24A223 In Re Lorenzo Cole 2024-08-30 Denied constitutional-violations federal-court habeas-corpus page-limitations pro-se-petition word-limits Question not identified.
24-5410 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation Whether the decision in Jones v Hendrix, 143 S. Ct. 1857 (2023) can be applied retroactively "rescinding habeas Corpus review of Statutory Interpretat…
24A217 Tyron Felder v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-appeal habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se Question not identified.
24-5398 William Michael Talley v. Texas Texas 2024-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review UMV«6^v {AtAoitl , fekrkext" eu% o ask -VWs (Lec^-Vtb r^uieM) -H^e- de,di^io^ ©k fVk /e^ped-'&d l\ e 'AeitcLS Cou^k" Of Cv'T'wkect A^pecxk c)^wicc\ e>…
24A211 Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver Whether a state waives a procedural-default defense when, in its answer to a state habeas petition in district court, it raises the defense to some cl…
24-5379 Stephen T. Mitchell v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus hearsay-exclusion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability to the habeas petitioner because …
24-5371 In Re Eric Martin Matthews 2024-08-22 Denied IFP aedpa-constitutionality appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Is the Anti-Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) still Constitutional after this Courts ruling in Jones v. Hendrixs? II. If subject matter jurisdic…
24-5364 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied IFP attorney-abandonment fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-motion maples-v-thomas rule-60b-motion 1. Within his Rule 4(a) motion to reopen the appeal, Petitioner argued for the Court to construe his untimely pro se notice of appeal as a motion to …
24A190 Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Question not identified.
24-5344 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied IFP circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors 1. Whether this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 (1984), requires reviewing courts to consider the cumulative effect of cou…
24-5331 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine federal-claims habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-courts WHETHER PRINCIPLES OF COMITY REQUIRE FREQUENT BUT UNAVAILING FAIR PRESENTATIONS OF FEDERAL CLAIMS TO STATE COURTS TO EXCUSE EXHAUSTION, EVEN IF THE ST…
24-5323 Muhidin Salad Omar v. John C. Gardner Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights criminal-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice Question not identified.
24-5305 In Re Babubhai Patel 2024-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion district-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus second-in-time-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Mr. Patel's properly filed Second-in-Time 2255 Motion in which relied upon U.S. Suprem…
24-5311 Kurnicus Hayes v. Arnold Patrick Fifth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-custody 1. Whether Mr. Hayes ' 2254 petition satisfies the 2 prong requirement established in Slack v. McDaniel for COA to issue on a petition that has been …
24-5308 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard 1. Whether a federal circuit court is patently wrong in denying a Certificate of Appealability in a capital case where a state habeas petitioner ident…
24-5303 Eric Krieg v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-ambiguity sentencing-review strickland-standard 1) Could so-called "jurors of reason" disagree with the district court's conclusion that precedent is made "ambiguous" when a derivative case is "rem…
24-5302 Victor Hugo Rodriguez Hernandez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fingerprint-evidence habeas-corpus misidentification Devriawlerez V. Petriclf B. Gm/lmvj J\ ttowM General No-21 ^iUfi2 Qoes<ia,s re-jodiy Case No 2| -456 pe&n-fcd m refateJn afth<? Court Gf Appeals of N…
24-5260 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2024-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24A162 Reuben McDowell v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-notice stone-v-powell third-circuit Question not identified.
24A158 James A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-09 Denied habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-bar time-extension Question not identified.
24A153 Arthur Lopez v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review california-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-review supreme-court Question not identified.
24A142 Terry Royal, Warden, et al. v. William Witter Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete aedpa federal-review habeas-corpus magwood-exception second-successive-petition state-court-judgment 1. This case raises important questions of federal law involving application of the bar against second or successive federal petitions under 28 U.S.C.…
24A139 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus medical-extension pro-se-petition sixth-circuit time-limitation Question not identified.
24-5263 Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federa…
24-5252 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default Does the ACTUAL INNOCENCE OF SENTENCE EXCEPTION to the PROCEDURAL CCR rule EXTEND to the FLORIDA RESENTENCING CONTEXT? Is the FORT INNOCENCE CONSTITU…
24A134 Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 Question not identified.
24A131 Rodney L. Lass v. Jason Wells, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5238 Robert Castle v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus houston-v-lack post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule statute-of-limitations For purposes of establishing consistency in determinations of "properly filed" as required by 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), should Federal Courts apply the p…
24-5233 Jose Carlos Belmont v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-gateway newly-discovered-evidence standing state-vacatur successive-writ takings Question #1; May State prisoners, burdened, with first-time innocence showings , proffer as new facts, State vacatur orders for the innocence gateway…
24-5219 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation 1) Whether the DisTReT COusTs dewial For sLaelh of Sues diCNow awd dew er sene of debewdauits Timely fled 2255 (1G) mation OTe SUa spoule Rechoradlarz…
24-5216 Ricky Mendoza v. William Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim that the state trial court deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to…
24-5205 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error supreme-court Question not identified.
24A118 Ty-Ron Steven Anderson v. Chris King, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-property pro-se Question not identified.
24-5196 Nicholas Salfi v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-duty effective-assistance habeas-corpus Lafler-v-Cooper martinez-exception plea-negotiations prejudice procedural-default sixth-circuit Whether the duty of defense counsel to provide effective assistance during plea negotiations extends to delivering counteroffers to the prosecution. …
24-5190 Matthew Aaron Safrit v. Mike Slagle, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review state-courts statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-105 Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d…
24A115 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction right-to-counsel Question not identified.
24-5183 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup 1. What constitutes as 'new' evidence, and whether the state prisoner made a proper showing of actual innocence under Schlup? 2. Whether the Virgini…
24-5180 Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE ARKANSAS COURTS APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD FOR RESOLVING PETITIONER WHITESIDE'S CLAIMS OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN SENTENCI…
24-5168 Edward Nicholas Reeder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability court-order final-order habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure motion-disposition motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-withdrawal trial-counsel voluntary-dismissal 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to object and request that the lower court to address the disposition of Reeder's motion to withdraw plea…
24-5179 Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court A Louisiana Executive Pardon of a felony sentence erases the criminal history and restores civil rights and liberties to a party. An Executive Commuta…
24-5182 Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure mandamus petition standing supreme-court Question not identified.
24-5163 Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard (1) Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and inst…
24-83 Martin Akerman v. National Guard Bureau District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) due-process enemy-combatant habeas-corpus military-detention userra whistleblower whistleblower-protection 1. Does the detention of a tenured civilian federal employee under the elusive jurisdiction of the National Guard of Nevada, with false charges and …
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely? 2. Whether the Co…
24-5142 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex…
24-5127 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with t…
24-5125 Corvin J. Young v. Spartanburg County Detention Facility, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-custody habeas-corpus medical-treatment pretrial-detention prison-conditions prisoner-rights \\ci\ PnftL cm" CrnzEH'lNmmeS iN fo\M UeiuS VmeDfcKL^] Vla A ldHGl 5n^cA cP'nmg Vi&ArriNG -rAe cermiASES v'ixe fees'" ftiatM And atceea NG -rAe mA3NT…
24A77 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete career-offender collateral-review ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix sentencing-enhancement Question not identified.
24-5122 Aaron Scurlock v. Chance Jones Seventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cover-up due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation procedural-defects transcript-falsification Wke-4-kdf the 7^ Clrculi ke\s ^a^c-tfooed so A tu*e-from He accepted and d } an a e-pan t\sua op judicial proceed; ajs ky ike. fJctiherA ■£)\strict of…
24-5104 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied IFP appeals-court district-court due-process federal-appeals federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard statute-of-limitations Whether the prohibition on a federal district court's ability to dismiss a federal habeas corpus petition—or a claim or claims in a federal habeas cor…
24-5102 Alexi Hinojosa Matos v. Texas Texas 2024-07-18 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel writ-application Due to the gross nature of trial counsel's errors, and the miscarriage of justice due to prosecutor's misconduct, should the Court of Criminal Appeals…
24-5093 David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Question not identified.
24-5083 Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations trial-by-jury Whether prosecutors and Petitioner's pretrial sheriff's department Custodians violation of a Scheduled trial by jury, which in all likelihood may have…
24A42 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete clearly-established-law constitutional-claim federal-statute habeas-corpus state-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A41 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Question not identified.
24-5077 Gary Davis v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provision supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-41 Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Amici (1) bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment Petitioner, Michael Cohen, was eligible for release from federal prison to home confinement for health reasons. But Respondents conditioned his rele…
24-5067 Stephen Mark Picart v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-claim due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hypothetical-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-record state-court-review tactical-choices IN REPLYING TO HAMPTON V. RICHTER, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), TO A HABEAS CORPUS CLAIM BASED ON THE STATE'S UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL ST…
24-35 Sean Eamonn Waite v. Texas Texas 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining procedural-due-process Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claim without requiring the trial court to r…
24-5068 Frankie Wayne Pope v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court transcripts trial-fraud ^ Wn SMVXA^ <A.<\ T-We^aX fOM/XcboW \W^ OF- TAVtoiL tbU>JT7/fa^tZJBi'FA D^PdA^tUGk Wxs xMMoc£*it rn^OA uiWc? *STAre OT ?Ml+xov^ xrT? ^'Lol*/ M0C\( C…
24-5057 Isaiah L. Dunbar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus postconviction A< sMi fodcctiuidsc^ UkdfntC\/QjO jLtP/cP COi)di\) i/Jj cJ?Aim5 ~(Jnd ftCOCLduc/d^y h/ucrad i% ilpcof?uJ?y Pt'did* idc d dlhd / 4IK-IC OCf 5 rn Pffld/…
24-5053 Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution Oregon 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817 and Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, when prison officials impeded…
24-5052 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-07-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief 1. Did the Third District Court of Appeal Violate Section (9) in the Constitution of the State of Florida Due Process-No person shall be deprived of l…
24A26 William Hudson v. James T. Vaughn, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24-5039 In Re James A. Wolfe 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure petition standing Did -Hu. €_rrts<- / ^ Qnanbnj 8 L-fe j 14- 3 o 3 Q Am_a j n I'oU^cr CVriUJ ai- Soc | G/v^)<^/^// cch 6^ 000 '2-l U < S' • D .c. m.D, Pq 2o2</ Ooc 42 …
24-5037 William J. Kemp v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process griffin-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Does a prosecutor's violations of Federal Due Process, as were identified here by the trial court, or invalid jury instructions warrant habeas reli…
24A12 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus postconviction section-2254 Question not identified.
24-19 James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights confinement damages due-process habeas-corpus preiser-v-rodriguez release-date state-prisoner wilkinson-v-dotson Whether, consistent with Preiser and its progeny, a state prisoner who alleges that he was unlawfully confined beyond his proper release date may sue …
24-5 Luis Gutierrez v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254(i) castro-v-united-states constitutional-ineffectiveness constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-law second-in-time second-petition unexhausted-claims Whether a subsequent habeas petition, containing only claims which were unexhausted when the initial petition was filed, may be considered, consistent…
24-5001 Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review Question not identified.
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-1358 George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw Sixth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived clearly-established-federal-law federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-28-usc-2254 ineffective-assistance plurality-opinion plurality-opinions state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court-holding unreasonable-application 1. Does a rule announced in a four-Justice plurality opinion constitute a holding of this Court, and therefore "clearly established Federal law" under…
23-7833 Walter Payton v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-law waiver 1. Miscarriage of Justice occured when Kansas Supreme Court refused to follow their on Statutory Law as well as The Unted States Constitutional? 2. …
23-7825 Eduardo Margarito Soto, aka Edwardo Margarito Soto v. Texas Texas 2024-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prejudice record-development oft. *4He VliqhesP Couftd iie\/ietOed) <4V)6 eoU(2e *>eco£el auc( - {AAedt 4o w \z.e ^ppl < c fHj&hAS esArdbUsherf bif a p>QepD/ode(LiTOe oP ^be es/id…
23A1165 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete circuit-court death-sentence federal-review first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
23A1164 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
23-7802 Festus O. Ohan v. Axos Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-banking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investment property-rights sentencing standing Question not identified.
23-7810 Odell Calvin, aka Julius Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2024-06-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus standing state-conviction takings witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-1345 Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) 28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test Under the federal habeas statute, a prisoner "always gets one chance to bring a federal habeas challenge to his conviction," Banister v. Davis, 590 U.…
23A1147 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus jury-prediction Question not identified.
23-7782 Jake Paul Heiney v. Heidi E. Washington Sixth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause cross-examination-limitations expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence 1. To convict, the statute required the medical provider to be engaging in "sexual contact " which was "medically recognized as unethical or unaccepta…
23A1140 Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus state-postconviction wilson-v-sellers Question not identified.
23A1137 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23-7772 Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY? 730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,…
23A1127 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit Question not identified.
23-7766 Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness Whether the Ninth Circuit applied this Court's precedents in Bradshaw v. State and Barclay v. Marchand to exclude a defendant's custodial interrogatio…
23-7753 William Lee Boyer v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-assistance legal-notice notice one-year-deadline prisoner-rights 1. ARE THE AVERAGE AMERICANS WHO BECOME CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS EDUCATED IN CRIMINAL LAW? 2. WHY ARE CONVICTED FELONS SUDDENLY REQUIRED TO LEARN THE COMP…
23-7743 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Territory of the Virgin Islands, et al. Virgin Islands 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process government-delay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing Question not identified.
23-7742 Clifton William Batts v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure direct-review due-process finality habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-1313 Natin Paul v. The Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation Texas 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-contempt due-process due-process,criminal-contempt,sixth-amendment,stan habeas-corpus judicial-ethics sixth-amendment A Texas court permitted a financially interested civil party's lawyer to prosecute his opposing party, petitioner Natin Paul, for criminal contempt. T…
23-7736 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination Petitioner was tried in Ohio in 1991 for an aggravated murder committed during a carjacking allegedly perpetrated by two men. The State's entire case …
23A1117 Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus mandamus section-2254 sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
23A1118 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete aedpa capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference Whether, where a habeas petitioner challenges state court factual findings "based entirely on the state record," a federal court reviews those finding…
23-7726 Jason Robles v. Jeffery Artrip, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-law death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing (1) Whether should prevail, the Constitution of the United States of America, Coupled with the Constitution of, or Arbitration's and Effective Death R…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti…
23-7701 Robin Jones v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review petition supreme-court 1. The methods of on et GLAS apd. cee nck erolvcked Yoyo Skche Court BS geview, dhaul&' o Fedecrs counk obderss TneSeckwe Assishonct & "Taiok Counsel …
23-7697 Zachary Kelsey v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death closing-argument criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-pathologist forensic-pathology habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment 1. Whether Zachary Kelsey was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel waived Kelsey's closing argument at trial. 2. Whethe…
23-7681 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas Texas 2024-06-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief suppressed-evidence ACCORNML Te THE Stare & TEAS in Ex Sante Tovaa, M6) 4¥I28 YBN 1 that tHE _Pundnse to SE Senvzo G4 A Pode cenvienon wear & daseas Cons 14 \wete ane hes…
23A1106 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 Question not identified.
23-1290 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response Waived 598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or…
23-1288 Nicholas Newman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with anothe…
23-7674 Eric Wright v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals' refusal to grant Mr. Wright habeas corpus relief in respect to his claim of unlawful racial discrimination in the selection …
23-7658 In Re Robert Gene Rega 2024-06-07 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Ciricuit's failure to issue a dispositive order disposing of Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corp…
23A1093 Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se Question not identified.
23-7665 Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention Question not identified.
23-7666 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing factual-determination factual-record federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-proceedings unreasonable-determination Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief only by showing that the state court's denial of his claim was "based …
23A1087 Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
23A1088 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-7652 In Re Anthony Brown 2024-06-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-preliminary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-59(e) sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations I.WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE DID NOT ERR BY GRANTING TH…
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. §…
23-7647 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-review-proceeding post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel successive-petitions 1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appoint ment of counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings? 2. Can a State assert a procedu…
23-7642 John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Is McCarthy V United States, 394 U.S. 459(1969); Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2(1866); Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, 442 U.S. 1 (1979); Oregon…
23-7641 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied IFP counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e…
23-7635 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Nathan Hoffman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction postconviction-proceedings standing state-court WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S SUA SPONTE STAY OF HABEAS CORPUS PETITION PENDING RESOLUTION OF POSTCONVICTION PROCEEDING IN STATE COURT IS APPEALABLE AFTE…
23-7614 Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim 1. When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly r…
23-7612 Wade Lay v. Christie Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-delay federal-review federalism habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner Question not identified.
23-7609 Donald Washington, Sr. v. California California 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal 1. Did the Defendant have the Right to Appeal his Conviction 48 years Ago as a Right? 2. Was Petitioner Denied Effective Assistance of Counsel by his…
23-7607 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2024-05-31 Denied IFP civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings parental-rights pro-se-rights unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided an important federal question regarding domestic relations exception in a way that conflicts with r…
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…
23-1255 Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant L Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate o…
23-7601 Khari Devon Coley v. Correctional Officer Wayne L. Garland, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights custody-challenge due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-process prison-litigation-reform-act prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-review standing Aa/as- d'he. Pe^f•+/o^ <sr,5 prison 9.rt'e\jqyiC'C ^foced?Ur MaVqUzb(<>-h* prisoner ufon hl^ir^sf^r -fe custody °*- yorK'S o PPVc^ (b^^J prisoner or …
23-7590 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus miller-el-standard plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion (1) Where two judges on the lower court panel found that "no reasonable jurist could conclude that the district court abused its discretion" in denyin…
23A1064 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied capital-trial due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Mills' Motion for Relief from Judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60,…
23-1249 Timothy Patrick Guilfoy v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury-misconduct right-to-confront testimonial-evidence After a first trial resulted in a hung jury, Petitioner was retried and ultimately convicted of sexual assault. Suspecting foul play during trial, def…
23A1056 George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied aedpa clearly-established-law habeas-corpus plurality-opinion sixth-circuit state-court-review Question not identified.
23-7563 Sanford Benjamin Gloster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-doctrine brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process giglio-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-default Does the admission of false evidence in substitute for the true and correct evidence, which itself was not originally stated to, by sworn deposition, …
23-7557 Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, in the intensive ca…
23A1053 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-courts habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-conviction writ-petition Question not identified.
23A1054 Rory Cook v. Mark Williams, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
23-7550 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Denied IFP child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction Before we Court is of matter inveluirae Lnabused Children kra€icked rata aster Care by hearsay , Causiry, ierepairable. hacen, The motter SueCered exp…
23-7545 Bobby Tatum v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-victim-testimony civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel video-evidence 1) Whether it's Proper For the District court to Tawed and Cove ANd CaiWote-to Growed Pex Alors 40 Goppgrts Me Chem & GAC Facroul Lonocences and déry …
23-7543 Jeryme Morgan v. DeAnna Brookhart Seventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation precedent-setting prior-crimes-evidence standing statutory-construction The text in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section is severely degraded and largely illegible due to handwriting and OCR errors. The visible portions app…
23-7533 Chadwick Wright v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-collateral-proceedings state-law Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution mandate the appointment of counsel by indigent prisoners in state collateral proceedin…
23-7530 Deandre Lenier Neal-Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus meaningful-review merits-denial procedural-denial reasonable-jurists standing Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a C…
23-7524 Antoinne Lee Washington, aka Antionne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standing DID THE PANEL OF THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERR BY DECIDING THE MERIT OF AN APPEAL NOT PROPERLY BEFORE THE COURT TO JUSTIFY THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APP…
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Question not identified.
23A1028 Kalamice Keson Piggee v. Gena Jones, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health Question not identified.
23-7500 Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute Whether and to what extent Virginia's "not guilty by reason of insanity" (NGRI) statutes, I. Va. Code § 19.2-182.2, et seq., are facially unconstituti…
23A1017 James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete federal-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prisoner-rights section-1983 wrongful-detention Question not identified.
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel 1A He appeal of the duial fa 28 e224 Pebtion t>/ Raeary ee lo "MMer-El v Cockrell 37 VS 322" the US PRES Guei * 9 "case Govern He vance of aX Ca Oe Go…
23-7482 In Re Alfred Lane-Bey 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law standing Question not identified.
23-7465 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit Does a federal habeas court's failure to review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) the last reasoned state court decision adjudicating a federal claim's merits…
23-7458 In Re Michael David Hower 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes? Di…
23-7452 In Re Ramsey Randall 2024-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-appeals first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing 1) Did the US Appeals court Abuse their discretion in its delay and subsequent denial of mandamus relief to the Kendall "< 2) Does the Novelty doctri…
23-7448 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-05-10 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of h…
23-7447 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Maryland 2024-05-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing writ-of-error Did the lower Court abuse its discretion by denying Petitioner's Petition for writ of actual innocence without looking back at the trial, or assessing…
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit utterly failed or abandoned its duty to engage in the GOA process with respect to four remaining COA issues: Issues One, Two…
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…
23-7433 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-7429 Todd Giffen v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit error by affirming the district courts ruling dismissing Petitioners habeas corpus fo…
23A999 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judge-sentencing Question not identified.
23-7426 Saye Henry Gofan, Jr. v. Cameron C. Gustafson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issue court-of-appeals district-court due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure standing Question not identified.
23-7412 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review Does Georgia's failure of the clauses not allow any a Criminal Defendants waulty 6 leg to be Specifically Advised Of, tein —pduilege KG ASL con gulucy…
23-7420 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2024-05-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel truth-seeking-process 1. Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses constitute federally defined ineffective assistance of c…
23-7424 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions 1. Should this Court resolve a split among the courts of appeals and decide whether an unreasoned blanket denial of a certificate of appealability tha…
23-7410 Andrew Franklin Woodburn v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication medication-defense paxil temporary-insanity Is Andrew Woodburn entitled to a remand for an evidentiary hearing and ultimately a new trial where he did not receive the effective assistance of cou…
23-1196 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Tom Lawson, Chief, Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied apprendi certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus jones judicial-enhancement jury-trial ninth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability (COA) from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by his showing that reaso…
23-7381 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Arizona Office of the Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights clemency constitutional-claims constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection executive-clemency habeas-corpus special-action special-action-relief D/d "the f\faom Soperic^\po\ate {hp-Hoacr Nth Ammirrmt Ktolttf b fte federal CardHstiund of due Prmss uJherfhe Court denied fdfdiortfS Spatial-Aches/…
23-7378 Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause 1) If the Congressional command of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 24(a)(5) requires that certain submissions MUST BE INCLUDED with a motion, is a…
23-7375 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-denial civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pleading-standards post-conviction-relief Whether Ctd:fount shmlJ I? &Ntj mwmm $ I/O, pkfsoA/ets po^f camuic Yon KeJteY
23-7351 Rolandas Milinavicuus v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations 1. Does A Habeas Corpus Petitioner Under The Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Suffer Unreasonable Application Of Ruling Contrary To The Facts Present…
23A978 Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rhines-stay voir-dire wiggins-claim Question not identified.
23-7361 Sean A. Gray v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus military-habeas military-justice suspension-clause tenth-circuit This Court, in Burns u. Wilson, 1 stated that a federal civilian court may not consider a military habeas petitioner 's claim "when a military decisio…
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…
23-7301 Reginald Burrell v. Sharon Langham, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraudulent-judgments habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supervisory-power Whether thi U.S.Cou.rT of appeals for thi Eleventh Circuit Entered. a decision, or proposed to inter a decision in Conflict coith other U.S. Courts of…
23-7306 Ronnie Y. Conrad v. Rob St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the presumption of prejudice applies to conflict-of-counsel claims when the defense attorney is being prosecuted by the same agency prosecutin…
23-7308 Marvin Holmes v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-law habeas-corpus 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process by not issuing a Certificate of Appealability? 2. Did the Distric…
23-7294 Robert Cota, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment habeas-corpus shackles shackling Did the Ninth Circuit violate the constitutional guarantee of Due Process and 28 U.S.C. §2255(b) when denying Appellant an evidentiary hearing, despit…
23A953 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete actual-innocence administrative-error filing-deadline habeas-corpus pro-se time-bar Question not identified.
23A945 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims death-sentence habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23A943 Brian E. Conway v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-04-22 Denied extraordinary-writ forum-selection habeas-corpus state-law successive-petition writ-of-relief Question not identified.
23-7279 Charles K. Wallace v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP authentication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-filings fraud habeas-corpus jury-trial standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. IS THE U.S.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNDER A DUTY TO ENFORCE ACCURATE FEDERAL COURT FILINGS THEREIN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS TO COMPLY WITH 18 U.S.C. …
23-7276 Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE…
23-7270 Mark Johnson v. New York New York 2024-04-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus legal-representation sexual-assault standing victim-rights Question not identified.
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
23-7249 Robert Gandy v. Glenn Hegar, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Texas 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-practice-and-remedies-code civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations thompson-v-clark tim-cole-act wrongful-conviction In Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. (2022), Cert No. 20-659, this Court held that a petitioner need not prove actual innocence after his conviction has bee…
23A934 Damien Ford v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus indigent-status procedural-error successive-petition supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-7238 Richard Lee Devito v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court duty-to-investigate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el miller-el-standard panel-rehearing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-law strickland strickland-ineffective-assistance Did the Circuit Court, initially composed of one judge, err by exceeding the "threshold inquiry" as prescribed by this Court in Miller-El? Did the Ci…
23-7227 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity…
23A914 William Ted Holliday v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied circuit-court federal-appellate habeas-corpus mandate-recall post-conviction prisoner-rights Question not identified.
23-7206 David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa equitable-powers habeas habeas-corpus initial-petition sixth-circuit successive-petition unexhausted-claim unripe-claim For over three decades, the Court has applied the abuse of the writ doctrine to determine if a second-in-time habeas petition is an initial or success…
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…
23-7204 Sean L. Hagins v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless of the passage of time? Did the lower …
23-7207 Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement 0. 4he \ri &{ Cowri CammiM&c/ ernoTT clet^jfirg 4^ie. doferrs^. reaue*& -fe 'OSinW^( ne^ass^^ even Ahe^ um% Som© iq <Jrta4 'C&cmxl rg £>U4^Yve:wl, ^ir…
23-1106 Martin Akerman v. United States Armed Forces 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-state civilian-oversight due-process federal-employment habeas-corpus military-authority military-detention userra Given the historical foundations of the writ of habeas corpus, did the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces err by dismissing, for lack…
23-7169 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa-statute-of-limitations california-penal-code-section-198.5 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing-testimony schlup-actual-innocence-exception state-procedural-default unreasonable-determination-of-fact unreasonable-determination-of-law 1. WHAT CONSTITUTES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO OVERCOME THE PRESUMPTION CREATED BY THE CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE SECTION 198.5, WHERE THE STATE COURT'S DECISI…
23-7195 In Re Dechaun Toliver 2024-04-10 Denied IFP constitutional-custody constitutional-rights custody district-court district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus successive-petition successive-petitions writ-of-habeas-corpus 1. Is it mandatory for a District Court to entertain a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a petitioner is claiming to be in custody in violation of the Consti…
23-7192 In Re Lionel Davis 2024-04-10 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 28-usc-2254 due-process federal-appellate-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the proper standard of review in denying his motion for authorization to file a successive …
23-7189 A. R. P. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied IFP baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation 1. Did Florida 's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constituti…
23-7183 In Re Joshua George Nowland 2024-04-10 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason Question not identified.
23-7166 Charles Edward Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable …
23-7170 Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas 1. DiDTtne united states District courtmagistrataw +he southern Dis+ric+in on d for Ml AMI - DADE county>-Florida Error in denying the Petitioners £3 …
23-7175 Philip Ayala v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records When a capital case entirely depends on the testimony of one eyewitness, where there was no physical or forensic evidence to connect the Petitioner to…
23-7180 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2024-04-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-package state-law-ground WHETHER TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL'S IS APPLYING SEC. 4 [TCCP ART.11.07] —AS ADEQUATE & INDEPENDENT STATE LAW GROUND IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT HOLD…
23A902 Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan Michigan 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete final-judgment habeas-corpus leave-to-appeal michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-default supreme-court-review Question not identified.
23-7154 Robert M. Greene v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-04-05 Denied IFP article-i-section-9 constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus speedy-trial state-suspension suspension trial-rights WHETHER Florida's suspension OF THE PRIVILEGE OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS VIOLATES ARTICLE 1, SECTION 9 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION? WHETHER F…
23-7148 Arnold Ancrum v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process federal-magistrate-act habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (1) WHETHER PETITIONER'S 6th AND 14th AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED UNDER THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATE ACT OF 1979. WHEN A REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION FROM T…
23-7141 Keith Martin Molineaux v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brady-material certificate-of-appealability confession-fabrication false-confession habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell Under Miller-El v. Cockrell 537 U.S. 322 (2003), should the Petitioner's novel claim that his confession was fabricated be encouraged to proceed furth…
23-7134 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Can reviewing judge rely on information not provided to the issuing judge for determining whether substantial basis exists showing do the McCleskey su…
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority 1. Jurisdiction Over Habeas Corpus Decisions from the Federal Circuit: Does jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions originating within the administr…
23-7128 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied IFP accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief Whether, when both the state trial court and the federal district court agree that a habeas petitioner has pleaded a claim that, if true, would warran…
23-7116 Ricky L. Reese v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-error statute-of-limitations Does a person is convict of a crime lose his right to public relief from the court if he didn't receive a copy of his sentence becoming final to the c…
23A868 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23A864 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete capital-case death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase post-conviction Question not identified.
23-7085 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1. Where a state habeas court, in a non-alternative holding, considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required …
23-7068 Jabari J. Johnson v. Jill Brady, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-counsel post-conviction right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
23-7067 In Re Timothy Stratton 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing 1. CAN A MAN BE CHARGED TO FIND GUILTY WHERE ALL OF THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF A CRIME ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE JURY'S CHARGE? 2. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE…
23-7066 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 give a federal court of appeals jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's motion under Rule …
23A861 Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-25 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing Question not identified.
23-7064 Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 1. Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective for purposes of § 2255 only when a Petitioner (1) Makes A Claim of Actual Innocence and (2…
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claims that: A) The district court violated Petitioner's D…
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether it only ta deaial ef any stales lerisonex's constitutional cight to the weit of veo fheS £2 PNS te aot...peceait equitable, telling fe — wh th…
23-1048 Michael Kellywood v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response Waived counseling-records due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the denial of Mr. Kellywood's writ of habeas corpus regarding ineffective representation of trial counsel when failing to sufficiently researc…
23-1044 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2024-03-21 Denied abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review Whether, in light of these circumstances, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal s' summary determination that Juan Balderas's subsequent petition failed …
23-7036 Brent J. Daigle v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy standing unlawful-imprisonment Can a United Skies thstrict tud<je den ^ the ci^Wh of a private citizen to ini/oKe the aid of the courts 4V\e United Skies if held in unlawful i«vipr…
23-7039 Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally defaulted? 2. Whether the…
23A852 Melvin Bonnell v. Chris McBee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete circuit-review death-penalty habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct ripeness-doctrine youngblood-claim Question not identified.
23-7033 Donte Taylor v. California California 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing 1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied? 2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual?
23-7031 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-waiver procedural-fairness standing (1). WAS JUDGE STEVEN BOUGH BIAS FOR RAJSIMG A AFFIREMTIVE DEFENSE FOR THE DEFENSE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DIS NOT RAISE THIS DEFENSE OR IT DID NOT APPLY.…
23-7025 Stevie Wyre v. Texas Texas 2024-03-19 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court >), \be p>wjo4a\ c^uesViOk , u^oeVoe^ %xe 3tote>' defied &ppe\\ftd VixS ~T)ue ^V\2.oc£SS > Vv5bao iV p^£Sso\ed ^s\g ao, rftxsYeftdi'o^ 4e^Vi*Y)0O{j …
23-1036 Robert John Dodd v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Dodd was indicted on nine counts for the sexual abuse of a child fifteen years prior. Each count of the indictment was an identical carbon copy, inclu…
23-7015 Colby Jerome Hale-El v. Gene R. Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment ballot-disqualification candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus notice-of-removal standing Question not identified.
23-7013 Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP boumediene-precedent boumediene-v-bush civil-rights detention-challenge due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interests probable-cause writ-of-certiorari 1. Is the panel decision in conflict with Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723, 779-80, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), in suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus wh…
23-7012 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure morris-defendant post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers standing treaty-rights $ \A)ktf^er DldcJbntd. 1 s (lmj(cUav\ Prmdure h (lA^^dc ($) k)hej&r 0t6.&h?r*&- wakfei ij^cn/>h \qm> )k e ri'gfd fa dm. pwdt&s z(kuo purwuuA iv HU {i…
23-6997 In Re Russell Rope 2024-03-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct standing Whether a Writ for Habeas Corpus Will be Issued • Was Petitioner's right to fair trial violated due to misconduct or obstruction? • Did Petitioner r…
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.…
23-6987 Michael Todd Hilton v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Introduction; Mr. Hilton was indicted for murder and other offenses stemming from an automobile accident which occurred while he was under the influen…
23-1004 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court 1. Whether a federal claim is "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) so long as the state court resolves the claim on su…
23-6955 Donald Kissner v. Michigan Michigan 2024-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-breakdown constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense WAS MR. KISSNERS STATE AND FEDERAL COMSTZTUTIONAL BLGHTS 70 EFF ECTLVE Con STANCE OF APPOINTED APPELLATE yy El. WHERE THE WAS A BREAKDOWN COMMUNEICATL…
23-6944 In Re Bob Eugene West 2024-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-relief habeas-corpus jury-unanimity oregon post-conviction-relief ramos-ruling ramos-v-louisiana state-inmate Under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, can an Oregon State Inmate file a federal habeas corpus asking the United States Supreme C…
23-6942 Paulino Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi…
23-6940 Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus preiser-doctrine preiser-v-rodriguez section-1983 time-credits unconstitutional-legislation Preiser v. Rodriguez , 411 U.S. 475, 487-88 (1973) held that claims seeking the restoration of time credits were not cognizable in a § 1983 action, m…
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and excul…
23-6933 Huy Trong Tran v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling standing HOW ARE PETITIONERS' CLAIM OUTSIDE "THE CORE OF HABEAS CORPUS", WHEN IT CHALLENGES THE INVALIDITY OF CONFINEMENT OR PARTICULARS AFFECTING DURATION WHI…
23-6929 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure pre-filing-injunction standing suspension-clause Whether the district court's pre-filing injunction violates the suspension clause of the United States Constitution since it the Petitioner from lit…
23-6924 Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error QUESTION No. 1: Does &U£.ederal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v.…
23-6917 Saladin Thompson v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process habeas-corpus meaningful-access state-agent Did the actions/omissions of State agents deny petitioner of meaningful access to the habeas courts, in violation of the 1st and 14th U.S. Constitutio…
23-6915 Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice In Bousiew v. United u.s. WA ty%> i)$ Sxt iuom , mo ued £dJea8(i<WX4his murt held -Hw "Actual Innocence^ Is more -Bw a mere legal insufficiency., 11- …
23-6912 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Rehearing Relisted (10)IFP aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards Does this Court's rule requiring that a verdict be based only on the evidence presented in the courtroom at trial satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)'s "cl…
23-974 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations Whether the Court should apply the rule in Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147 (2007)—that a final judgment in a criminal case means the sentence—and hold…
23-979 Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived faretta-colloquy fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing-procedure structural-error 1. When a state trial court fails to conduct a Faretta colloquy before sentencing a defendant without counsel—a fundamentally unfair structural error …
23-6894 Tyler A. Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel professional-norms state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err when it reviewed the merits of Gonzales's claim de novo, did not analyze the particular reasons the Wisconsin court pro…
23-6889 Richard Wayne Barton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bureau-of-prisons certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice record-on-appeal Whether the Bureau of Prisons' failure and refusal to tender to Barton his Record on Appeal, provided by the Fifth Circuit to enable Barton to prepare…
23-6868 David Wayne Nelson v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct Did the U.S. court of appeals err when it denied a Certificate of Appealability and/or remand to the district court to allow the petitioner (Nelson) t…
23-6864 In Re Solomon Roberts 2024-02-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance parole-revocation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
23-6859 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification 1. Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal I,…
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Question not identified.
23-6856 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment 1. IF I WERE DONALD TRUMP WOULD THIS COURT GRANT REVIEW OF THIS CASE TO DECIDE WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DENIED A COA IN THIS CASE GIVEN THAT…
23-6853 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a Co…
23-6848 Stewart Smith v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel partial-pcra-jurist pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct WAS PETITIONER'S GUILTY VERDICT OBTAINED AND SUSTAINED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, BIAS,…
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court 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…
23-934 Areli Escobar v. Texas Texas 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (4) capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence 1. Whether due process of law requires reversal, where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the State no longer seeks to defend it. 2…
23-6826 Clifford D. Jackson v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP 60b6-motion attachments district-court-discretion dixon-v-baker habeas-corpus motion-recharacterization procedural-rules rhine-v-weber rhines-stay second-or-successive-petition slack-v-mcdaniels 1) WAS THE LOWER COURTS WRONG FOR NOT EXCEPTING THE ATTACHMENTS THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE ORIGINAL HABEAS CORPUS PETITION TO STATE CLAIMS IN MORE DET…
23-6810 Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion 1. Did the federalcourt's ruling on Mosley's Ineffective equal protectionAssistance of Counsel claim deny Mosley where the court had before itan evid…
23-6807 Floyd William Damren v. Florida Florida 2024-02-22 Denied IFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-rule habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence 1. Does Florida's rule 3.851(d)(2)(A), which establishes a one year timeline (from the time that the evidence became discoverable) violate petitioner'…
23-898 Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof counsel criminal-procedure defendant due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-harm sixth-amendment Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court err by Denying-without-response (App.23) RYAN's 2023AP769 [5/12/2023 Petition For Review] and issuing no response (App…
23-6784 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-split constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus rigid-approach statute-of-limitations totality-of-circumstances QUESTION 1: Equitable Tolling: Whether the Holland Court's direction to review with flexibility the circumstances warranting equitable tolling is cons…
23-6764 Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default WHEN PETITIONER ALLEGED THAT HE WAS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING BASED ON THE PRISON MAILROOM'S MISHANDLING OF PRISONER MAIL,INCLUD- A SCANDAL INVO…
23-6778 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2024-02-16 Denied IFP breach-of-contract contract-breach court-of-appeals district-court expedited-relief expedited-review habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-delay release-pending than the district. £Lfiurtr or Court: o-P Appeals- refuse to rate Pettit)oner£ rt&faffh&for expedi ted re/ieuJ and fur 'relza<^ pend/ncj cidp Lidlic…
23-6775 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1. "Did the United States District Court and Court of Appeals properly apply clearly established constitutional law, [Hemphill v. New York, 142 S.Ct. …
23A756 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenges death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23-6755 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review Robert Ybarra, Jr., is on death row in Nevada. He is intellectually disabled. During a state court hearing on his claim under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 …
23-6743 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to "effective representation" require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto…
23-6738 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether, under Strickland v. Washington , a death row inmate is precluded from establishing prejudice from his trial counsel's deficient performance d…
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b 1. In determining whether a hearing related to equitable tolling is warranted, do the unsworn representations of an attorney —while that attorney is o…
23-6741 Gerardo Ortiz v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confront witness-testimony The prosecutor wrongly informed the complaining witness, Monica Doe, that she had a right to refuse to testify. At trial, she exercised that purported…
23-6727 Daniel J. Erb v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct In reference to Petitioner's Guilty Plea and Prosecutorial misconduct, the decisions of the lower courts are contrary to, or involv[ing] an unreasonab…
23-6721 Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address any or all of the above claims and, if so, whether t…
23-6719 In Re Anthony Michael DelaRosa 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-procedure Whether such civil court can exercise, and should the omitted jurisdiction in violation of the Petitioner, by this Rule 11(a) violation of the United …
23-6713 Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st…
23-6710 Martin Akerman v. Sherri Doiron District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-authority habeas-corpus jurisdiction military-custody military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus procedural-standards 1. Does the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the petition…
23-6709 Martin Akerman v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard, appointed under 44 U.S.C. § 3520, with standing under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1) and (c)(2), and det…
23A743 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-02-09 Presumed Complete access-to-courts covid-19 habeas-corpus law-library prison-conditions pro-se Question not identified.
23A737 Byron Ray Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete aedpa alternative-perpetrator child-sexual-abuse habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6703 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appeals capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus rhines-stay 1. Is a COA required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for stay of the habeas proceedings made under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005…
23-6693 In Re John Waldon 2024-02-07 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-violation discretionary-denial due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review remedy standing Question not identified.
23-6684 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court 1. Did the U.S. district Court contravene the requirement of Act 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) and jdt? 2. When a State Prisoner failed to use available State …
23-6655 Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure Question not identified.
23-6664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
23A721 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete due-process habeas-corpus law-library prison-access pro-se writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing WHETHER PETITIONER HAS STANDING TO FILE A HABEAS AND MANDAMUS PETITION WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS WHEN THE QUESTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AFFECTS HIM AS…
23-6661 Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias. 2. Whether the Un…
23-6650 Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent Does Lockhart v. Fretwell, 506 U.S. 364, 113 S. Ct. 838, 122 L. Ed. 2d 180 (1993), prevent federal habeas corpus relief regardless of substantive prej…
23-6644 Matthew Lane Durham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief trial-review In Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), this Court held that there is no free-standing claim of actual innocence under the Constitution available …
23A709 David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Interim Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete abuse-of-writ aedpa banister-doctrine habeas-corpus sixth-circuit successive-petition Question not identified.
23A705 Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Question not identified.
23A707 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
23-6626 Michael Gibson v. Mariejosee King, Acting Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law dna-evidence due-process federal-law frye-hearing habeas-corpus lcn-dna scientific-evidence A writ of certiorari is requested to review the Summary Order of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the decision of the United States Distr…
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…
23A700 Cyrus Sanai v. Alex Villanueva Ninth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-disentitlement district-court due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default sua-sponte Did the District Court err and violate Vang v. Nevada, 329 F. 3d 1069 (9th Cir. 2003) and Day v. McDonough, 547 US 198, 209-11 (2006) when it sua spon…
23-6610 Wendell C. Helfrick v. Russell L. Rabb, III, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney of Culpeper County Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied IFP cases-and-controversies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing state-court-review 1. Tha. State. state deprives_an_incl lividual from. wtilizing He. right of Due. Process, does this not violate,established guarantees, that are_prote…
23-6598 Shuaib A. Haji Mohamed v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-claim constitutional-rights discretionary-review federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-review HAS A STATE PRISONER SEEKING FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS MADE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING THAT HIS PETITION SHOULD HAVE PROCEEDED FUR '-' . THER WHERE THE PROCEDU…
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23-6587 Pedro Andres Bravo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 appellate-review federal-habeas-review final-judgment gonzalez-v-thaler habeas-corpus state-court-finality state-court-jurisdiction Whether the Court's holding in Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134 (2012), that a judgment becomes final (pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)) when the…
23-6585 Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability II. Shoul…
23-6578 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2024-01-25 Denied IFP civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-post-conviction due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure precedential-effect statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6572 Mark E. Sells v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-precedent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-law judicial-review statutory-law Question #1: Did the Federal District Court and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, violate Article I, Article 4, Article VI, of the United …
23-6566 In Re Brandon Trammel 2024-01-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 9th-circuit abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criteria federal-habeas federal-writ habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing successive-petition 1.) Did Petitioner, Brandon Robert Trammel meet the criteria to request to file a second or successive federal writ of habeas corpus? 2.) Did the 9th…
23-6564 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-rule habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan state-procedural-framework tennessee 1. Did the decision in Martinez v Ryan 132 SCT 1309 require claims to be raised beyond the initial collateral proceeding for exhaustions purposes in T…
23A689 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction federal-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60(b) statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-805 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t…
23-6545 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit completely flout this Court's precedent as set forth in Buck v. Davis . 580 U.S. 100 …
23-6541 In Re Ronald Freeman 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense 1. Whether being in federal "detention, " "custody " is a substantial denial of Ronald Freeman 's constitutional right of liberty, without "sufficient…
23-6539 In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction 1.) Should this Court use the power to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his Compelling claims…
23-6524 Lynn Richard Norton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington (1) Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.E…
23-6546 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat…
23-6529 In Re Raymond Ramirez 2024-01-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence scientific-evidence successive-petition Whether the court of appeals clearly abused its discretion and deprived the Petitioner of his constitutional rights to Due Process under the 14TH Amen…
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition? Whether exculpatory scientific evidence, that was exclude…
23A673 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction Question not identified.
23A660 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 Question not identified.
23-6504 Tormu E. Prall v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-error denial-of-counsel due-process habeas-corpus inequitable judicial-review lower-federal-courts rule-60(b) rule-60b 1. Is it a grievous wrong when the lower federal courts demonstrably misread and reshape a habeas corpus claim? 2. Is it time for the U.S. Supreme Co…
23-6512 Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law Question not identified.
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Governing the Statutory Requirements that a Federal Court as Ms. copy Section 2r^S^£^jli9.^AC. properly exhaust in the highest Court of his State. Jal…
23-6501 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa brady-claim brady-rule federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation Are Brady claims "second or successive" under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) when the suppressed evidence comes to light only after the dismissal of an initia…
23-6487 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marbury-v-madison martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez state-procedural-rules Do the Shinn v. Ramirez, 142 S. Ct. 1718, 596 U.S. 1. (2022), and Martinez v. Ryan, line of cases require the State to provide a post-conviction petit…
23-6497 Alex Marquez v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-confession miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Alex Marquez made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to an inadequate Miranda warning …
23-6470 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional (1) US 38 U.S.C. Section 2255 Whether petitioner has subjected to any substantial or procedural defects that ended his life, thereby violating section…
23-6469 Eric Kimble v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction rehabilitation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. This case presents the same questions as Thornell v. Jones, Supreme Court Case No. 22-982 (cert. granted, Dec. 13, 2023): Whether the Ninth Circuit…
23-6453 James David Welton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review Whether the court should grant the writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted with a 10 year max…
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review 1. Are a district court's findings that a habeas corpus petitioner's attorney abandoned him "from the beginning" and "for the entirety of [his] state …
23-6439 Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity by …
23-6438 Jean Jocelyn Merilien v. Andrew McFarlane, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-disclosure Question not identified.
23A626 Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus petition-review supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-6423 Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did GeaGrouw? Pricate risen New) Caste Cocectianal Fact itnet Won, wo Lb Olan Violole Peta ver Doe CCocass bY {a isePvinG Ged 6d OFFiar O. Predericii…
23-6420 Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias Petitioner Orlando Burgos was deprived of his Confrontation Clause right to cross-examine his accuser—the key prosecution witness—that he received a b…
23-705 Stephen Robert Deck v. California Ninth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration Whether California's sex offender registration mandates under Calif. Penal Code section 290 place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's l…
23A593 Martin Akerman v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete due-process federal-service habeas-corpus military-suspension national-guard statutory-protection Should a civilian alleging to have been unlawfully and secretly tried, by a member of the national guard called into federal service under 10 U.S. Cod…
23A595 Clifford D. Jackson v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim habeas-corpus rule-60b section-2254 Question not identified.
23-6381 Roy Jackson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-12-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence extraordinary-circumstances guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing (1). IS GUILTY PLEA CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM BASED ON INADEQUATE AND DEFECTIVE BOYKIN COLLOQUY RECORD (2). IS GUILTY PLEA CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM INTE…
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
23-6364 Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-12-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6354 Devonte Easterling, aka Devontae Easterling v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jV 1 fK<_uJ) f ■nf c l 2. Oer
23A586 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari civil-procedure death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixty-b Question not identified.
23A588 Justin Willis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges strickland-standard Question not identified.
23A583 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-challenge death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-6346 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-petition sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6341 Tramaine Edward Martin v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct 1. Does habeas corpus stand to correct the abuse of process involved in deliberate deception of a court by presentation of known false evidence? 2. D…
23-682 Alabama v. Marcus Bernard Williams Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) AEDPA-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits merits-review procedural-grounds state-court-adjudication While Melanie Rowell and her two toddlers slept, Marcus Williams broke into her house, crept up the stairs, climbed into Melanie's bed, strangled her …
23A572 Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-6308 Ariel Garcia-Pelico v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-12-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedures judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen procedural-fairness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. x tOeutb L\Wc Tb (Rented. or. nIot ^\al Onset's Actu^s f&L 'Betbuo Thl DA v. 0& n!i<- ? 2. X wool5 U\ce 1o f4/^ kftterH6t o/i Mot CouzJSaA Actions…
23-663 Gary Lynn McDuff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-integrity judicial-procedure record-keeping structural-error violation-of-constitution I am respectfully petitioning for a writ of certiorari directed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals below (Case No.21-40073), in which I am the pro …
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1. Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on "an unreasonable determination" of the facts. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2). 2. Whether the Geo…
23-6302 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-procedure preliminary-review prisoner-rights Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by the lower courts when a prisoner petitioner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Sec…
23-6293 Shallon Hawkins v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Did the United States District Court error, by denying my Claims for procedural defaultier tl rue thon, under Nociner, Glenn furstamental Fcnesy Vewly…
23-6281 Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, in acknowledging that Mr. …
23A563 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se rule-59e rule-60b Question not identified.
23A558 Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S. Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), imposes a duty on trial courts to make defendants aware of "the da…
23-6276 Danny Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa bitemark-evidence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-rights forensic-science habeas-corpus judicial-resources newly-ripened-claims second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition Is a habeas petition "second or successive" when the factual predicate giving rise to the petitioner's claim occurs long after the petitioner filed hi…
23-652 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Berman Justus, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations Whether a habeas petitioner can show that a mental illness constitutes an "extraordinary circumstance" that warrant s reopening a final judgment under…
23-6241 Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the Proposed Recusal - Adv. Ookten cack; ercscad 6 Cen mre inn Giece. of erence hel of Uahtdn S0kFii ne. prSena face ar Ment tabPon Ceqwire ne…
23-6258 Sherman L. Fields v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty liberty-restraint remedy standing state-prisoner Question not identified.
23-6265 Timothy Dean Stone v. Texas Texas 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review schlup-standard state-procedural-ground state-procedural-grounds texas-criminal-procedure texas-law writ-application Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals', holding that Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 11.07 section 4 (a) (2) precluded consideration…
23-6255 David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of "direct …
23-635 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure 1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never …
23-636 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-confession false-confessions habeas-corpus police-coercion police-misconduct undercover-operation wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Should this Court summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit for failing to address petitioner's preserved claim that his conviction was premised on a confes…
23-6230 Danille Morris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-confidentiality attorney-client-privilege guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-relief plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment tollett-interpretation tollett-v-henderson When a defendant pleads guilty, does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the defendant from collaterally attacking the sentence becaus…
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…
23A539 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete administrative-suspension constitutional-rights detention-without-charge due-process habeas-corpus military-administrative-procedure Question not identified.
23-6224 Terry Daum v. Joseph Corey, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-statute gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-probability sawyer-v-whitley He * i/-e pr& (oa b r it h y Lj //. f/)c,r-Lj hand 1 evidence"0<ZS re a. <S on a es fa hi is fed in for#. d, " dear and under cj°35 fan dar dt Confihc…
23-6226 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process ex-post-facto-law federal-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus state-court-misconduct state-law trial-errors WHEW WILL A SEAL'S "SUGGEST RMFIVE LAW" FEDERAL COURT??, BE APPLIED IN A - does the HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION & CONSTRUCTION RULES OF FEDERALISM STA…
23-6227 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability under Title 28 U.S.C., Section 2253(c)(2) when the court …
23-623 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights detention detention-challenge due-process federal-law habeas-corpus military-jurisdiction nevada-supreme-court 1. Jurisdictional Question: Whether the Nevada Supreme Court made an error in naming the Nevada National Guard as the sole respondent in a habeas corp…
23-629 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Since a Certificate of Appealability must be granted when reasonable jurists could disagree on the resolution of a constitutional claim or conclude th…
23-6203 Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Petitioner ask this Honorable Court to resolve the Circuit split, whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establish…
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…
23A522 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6195 Lonzell J. Threats v. Barbara von Blanckensee, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 civil-procedure deference deference-standard habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-review military-court military-courts mixed-questions questions-of-law Must a court reviewing a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus petition challenging a military-court conviction extend absolute deference to the military cou…
23-604 Leon Phillip Jacob v. Texas Texas 2023-12-06 Denied habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor Whether the Texas courts' prejudice analysis defies this Court's precedents in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984); Williams v. Taylor, 529 …
23-609 Frander Salguero v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-duty false-evidence habeas habeas-corpus mandamus prejudice-test prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error 1. Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when…
23-6183 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing Question not identified.
23A514 David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se Question not identified.
23A508 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b Question not identified.
23-6153 Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus Isaiah S. Harris Sr.'s case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Where Harris highlights …
23-6156 David Joseph Meister v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability complete-defense constitutional-rights false-confession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense substantial-showing-of-denial Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
23-6147 Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut…
23A496 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision Question not identified.
23A491 Lamar Larue White v. California California 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-proceeding supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6139 Milton Dwayne Gobert v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied IFP client-instructions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel per-se-rule sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington substitution-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Does this Court's clearly established precedent under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny permit lower courts to hold th…
23-569 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2023-11-28 Denied Relisted (11) affirmative-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard gateway-innocence habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review reasonable-doubt schlup-standard schlup-v-delo In the twenty-five years since Rodney Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, a "considerable body of evidence" has accumulated that he i…
23-6112 Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT FAILED OR REFUSED TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ON ONE OR MO…
23-6124 Moses Estrada v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County, et al. California 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction juvenile-court legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A477 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Question not identified.
23A472 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia Question not identified.
23-6107 Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations I WHETHER EXCEPTIONS TO THE AEDPA ONE YEAR TIME LIMITATIONS RENDERED THE DISTRICT COURT'S 2015 DISMISSAL FOR UNTIMELINESS OF CUA'S HABEAS PETITION AND…
23-6108 Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-procedure Whether or not State violates an accused persons Due Process Rights when Texas High Court denies his State 11.07 Habeas Corpus, Without Written Order,…
23-6110 Eulandas J. Flowers v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus miller-claim miller-v-alabama postconviction-proceedings procedural-default state-court-ruling state-postconviction In state postconviction proceedings, Mr. Flowers challenged his life-without-parole sentence as violating Miller v. Arizona, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), thre…
23-6089 Christopher Lenard Blockson v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-6094 Dena Inez Minton v. Miranda Richardson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus legal-documents prisoner-rights procedural-due-process standing Question not identified.
23-6099 Carlos Noe Gallegos v. Texas Texas 2023-11-22 Denied IFP circuit-split citizenship-denaturalization denaturalization guilty-plea habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel naturalized-citizenship padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky prejudice-standard 1. Should the Court resolve the circuit split regarding whether Padilla applies to denaturalization consequences flowing from a guilty plea? 2. Did t…
23-6101 Kevin E. Chace v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards-of-review trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO CERTIORARI REVIEW BASED ON MULTIPLE ERRORS OF TRIAL COUNSEL THAT OCCURRED WHILE LITIGATING PETTIONER'S CASE
23-555 Louis A. Wilson v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-22 Denied 18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute "extraordinary and compelling reasons" authorizing a district court…
23-6070 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core.
23-6071 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Question not identified.
23-6073 William Shirley, IV v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief 1.) Have petitioner 's Fifth(5th) and Fourteenth(l4th) Constitutional Amendment Rights been violated? 2.) Has the State of Oklahoma violated the M.C.…
23A453 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-court-adjudication Question not identified.
23-6067 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata IF LEGAL CLAIMS PRESERVED BY A STATE COURT DURING DIRECT REVIEW, SHARE THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS AS THE RIGHT TO AN APPEAL FROM A FINAL JUDG…
23-6037 Stephanie N. Torres v. Molly Hill, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attempted-murder habeas-corpus state-court-record sufficiency-of-evidence When the state court record rebuts the state court's factual findings with clear and convincing evidence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(1) may a fede…
23-6047 Ralph Reed v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure state-court state-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
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…
23-6020 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. District Attorney of Berks County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-mistake rule-60(b)(1) rule-60b statute-of-limitations successive-petition third-circuit In Kemp v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1856, 213 L. Ed. 2d 90 (2022), this Honorable Court held that a "mistake," pursuant to Rule 60(b) (1), included a…
23-6022 Kevin Liu v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-counsel constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel state-law state-procedural-bar Kevin Liu appeals from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming the dismissal of his extra record federal constitutional claim on habeas …
23-6023 David Sattazahn v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-violation due-process giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-bagley witness-bias witness-inducement Because there is a split in the Circuits on the issue, should this Court instruct the lower courts to uniformly apply the law that, under United State…
23-6026 Phillip Rehwald v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus parole revocation standing Question not identified.
23A437 William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete extension-request federal-court habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-rules Question not identified.
23-6001 Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Question not identified.
23-6007 Daniel A. Rocha v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance procedural-rules time-limitations Does Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353 (1963), and its progeny, require a state court to advise an indigent defendant of the procedural rules and ti…
23-6008 Matthew Johnson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment district-court-discretion docket-control due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations 1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d), which provides in part that a "1-year period of limitations shall apply" to applications filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 22…
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO…
23-5994 James Jordan McClain v. Tammy Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation equitable-tolling first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder self-defense voluntary-manslaughter 1. In assessing whether extraordinary circumstances stood in a petitioner's path for equitable-tolling purposes, do those circumstances need to make e…
23A424 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition Question not identified.
23-5986 Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga Seventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing Question not identified.
23-5990 Kirk A. Simmons v. Thomas Scarantino Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241 aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure entrapment-defense federal-criminal-procedure government-fraud government-misconduct habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review 1. Does fraud, perpetrated by the federal government during a federal criminal proceeding so as to obstruct a defendant from mounting an entrapment de…
23-488 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. Patricia V. Bradley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied 28-usc-2241 constitutional-conditions federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-claims jurisdiction prisoner-rights release unconstitutional-conditions Whether federal courts have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 over a petition for habeas corpus alleging that a prisoner's unconstitutional conditio…
23-5970 Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal Procedural default bars a state inmate from obtaining federal habeas based on an issue not presented to the state courts. Schlup v. Delo recognized a …
23-5972 Barney A. Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-statement notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appellant procedural-default 1. Since the U.S, District Court has Subsequently Confirmed that, the Not/ce . oF Appeal in question was, im fact, timely Filed, Should the Court of A…
23A410 Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-5964 William Glenn Rogers v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase prejudice-standard prejudice-test strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is application of a prejudice standard that requires a habeas petitioner to "eliminate or completely discredit" the prosecution's trial evidence in…
23-5958 David J. Rudometkin v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP councilman-abstention court-martial due-process habeas-corpus military-courts military-discharge military-jurisdiction servicemember-status statutory-discharge Whether the Councilman abstention applies to former servicemembers who were statutorily discharged prior to court-martial charges and proceedings
23-5944 Kaylin Eric Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal judicial-review ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
23-5945 Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus relief, where he raised a claim of actual innocence, and numerous claims of ineffectiveness of trial cou…
23-5930 Brent Douglas Cole v. R. D. Keyes, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-privileges due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-ad-prosequendum 1) The USCA 7th Cir. issued an order of non-involvement for the U.S. Attorney from Wisconsin, and held my objection to be a motion, DENIED IT INSTEAD …
23-5937 In Re John Lenard Taylor 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review standing standing-doctrine supremacy-clause 1) Does Article VI's Supremacy Clause assure the 'privelege of habeas corpus shall not be suspended" or abrogated by any judicial machination? 2) Doe…
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Question not identified.
23-5915 Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-5923 Walter Roosevelt-Taft Downing v. Michigan Michigan 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-form court-forms due-process habeas habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners judicial-review legal-proceeding standing Question not identified.
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. §…
23A389 Guillermo Borboa aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
23-5901 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance new-trial Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Writ of Habeas Corpus for New Trial. Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Motion for New Trial.
23-5882 Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County Illinois 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court Whether The State Trial Court's October 29, 1990 Order Was Issued Without Authority And Is Void For Want Of Jurisdiction?
23-5895 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court Question not identified.
23-5886 Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review automatic-reversal constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment state-practice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unconstitutional-state-practice Whether prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is shown by an attorney's failure to preserve a claim that would result in an a…
23-5871 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP appeals criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-sanction pro-se pro-se-prisoner vexatious-litigator 1) IN A 18 USC 1258 HABEAS CORPUS (APPEALING A CRIMINAL CONVICTION) CAN JUDGes AND MAGISTRATES OF A U.S. DIST. COURT COLLECTIVELY CRAFT ORDERS TO IMPO…
23-5861 Joseph Pierre v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether the Courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this court when they denied -wit…
23-5864 Alfred Starling v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute constitutional-violations equitable-tolling gateway-claim habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the lower courts erred in holding that reasonable jurists would not debate whether Petitioner's First Federal Habeas Corpus petition was un…
23-5845 In Re Kennedy Wright 2023-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court Question not identified.
23-5850 In Re Lawrence Smith 2023-10-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing One whether officials violate the Eighth Amendment when they deliberately indifference to a serious medical need of an incarcerated person?
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation 1) Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory …
23-5808 Rodney Jennings v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability doyle-rule doyle-v-ohio habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency strickland-test strickland-v-washington Did the court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claim under Jackson v. Virginia, Doyle v. Ohio, …
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability? 2. Shoul…
23-5811 Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination WHETHER, TO NEW YORK C.P.L 440.10(2)(C) STATUTES BEING AMENDED PURSUANT RULE 60(b)(5)(6) RECONSIDERATION IS WARRANTED AS TO THE LOWER COURT ERROR IN D…
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements (1). Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relie…
23-5819 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law due-process forum-shopping habeas-corpus judicial-fairness lockyer-v-andrade ninth-circuit-review panetti-v-quarterman prosecutorial-misconduct When the prosecutor got an adverse evidentiary ruling, he dismissed and refiled the same day in a different courthouse, ensuring that a different judg…
23-5829 Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an i…
23-5789 Jean Max Darbouze v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure csaas-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony free-speech habeas-corpus translation-accuracy witness-credibility 1. During trial, it was elicited on cross-examination, that the victim told the investigator she never had sexual contact with Petitioner, and that h…
23-5802 Erie Adams, aka Michael Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5768 Frank Nathan Escalante v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-rights standing 1. Was Petitioner's due Process Violated at any time through Judicial Proceedings? 2. Was Petitioner's Trial "fundamentally unfair"? 3. Has Petition…
23-5772 Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling DID THE UNEITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN SUSTAINGING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS' H…
23-5780 Denis Chavez v. Florida Florida 2023-10-12 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co…
23-5746 James H. Hayes v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing standing ^ sJfege 4ML ife dMifolCnifeL ^ Kii/^ Q^iarl: desird -(or £ caml<^ CDdcEMfm Uu^5fecteirt(i<Mtdmid 4 Ma.itej© . n ' \ - ' u^S u^f6fsi(2). nttdt & sabst…
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
23-5749 Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D…
23-5750 Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court 1. Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective assistance of trial and direct appeal counsel issues were defaulted because …
23-5761 Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle …
23-5736 In Re Travis J. Guttu 2023-10-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-innocence 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
23-5744 In Re Jimmy Wheeler 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collusion constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fraud habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Question not identified.
23A309 Aaron Mohanlal v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied AEDPA habeas-corpus local-rules page-limits pro-se-prisoner section-2254 Question not identified.
23-5728 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge standing state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district Court can deny a Motion To Vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255 that argued that the Court did not have subject matter jurisdiction to hol…
23-5716 Jimmy Zavala v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10(e) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition motion-to-correct procedural-rules rule-10e successive-appeal 1. When should the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) be recharacterized as a successive appeal? 2. Do the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedur…
23-5723 James Daryl West v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied IFP circuit-opinion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal due-process factual-assertion habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Sp2uivcollv| uji'U Kgoy-cls Ixntr/ Morri 5^ VJa^clW\ Tek-Uow poses 4Xjl girsW) \o Ul5 Ccu^f ot bukj^Ujtr ^ £kw\4ji\ Crcuvf GcurV ok Aff-^Ls cUadUd 4-…
23-5712 Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Relisted (3)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal Question not identified.
23-5694 Orlando Peay v. Michael Burgess, Warden Michigan 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge malfeasance obstruction-of-justice res-judicata DID homicide detectives violate Circuit Court Judge Zilkowsky's order "immediate discharge from confinement in this case"? DID the second arrest mome…
23-5701 Dennis L. Walls, Sr. v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit in denying Petitioner a COA (Appendix A) substantially deviate from this Court's established procedures in Miller-El v. Cockr…
23-5679 Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
23-5689 Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's…
23-346 Torriano Walpool v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review trial-court-findings In Texas law, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals considers the trial court the "eyes and ears" of the Court in making findings to aid the Court in de…
23A288 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder-of-cases sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Question not identified.
23-5669 Steven Grimm v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 1. Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for comp…
23-5673 Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 GVR Relisted (3)IFP 8-usc-1226 discretionary-determination due-process habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review mixed-question-of-law-and-fact statutory-interpretation (1) Whether an agency's determination that undisputed or established facts demonstrate an immigration detainee is a "danger to the community" is a dis…
23-5677 Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel when his counsel failed to impeach a critical gove…
23-323 Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (10) abandonment aedpa gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus indigent-representation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b) second-or-successive-petition Whether a Rule 60(b) motion claiming that habeas counsel's abandonment prevented the consideration of a petitioner's claims should always be recharact…
23A272 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-5660 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver After misadvisin g Petitioner Taberon Honie to waive his right to capital sentencing by a jury, Mr. Honie's counsel later erroneously told him that it…
23-321 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit Erred When Both Found That Mr. Davis Was Not Entitled to the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability f…
23-5652 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter…
23-5639 Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5637 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions Question #1: Did the fifth Circuit err by denying a COA for failure to properly consider the F.R.C.P.60(b)(6)under the framework in which successive p…
23-5617 Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP abandoned-clients attorney-abandonment capital-punishment civil-procedure court-procedure dilatory-removal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-delay stay-of-execution The question presented is whether a District Court can deny a stay of execution when it has been dilatory in removing attorneys who abandoned their cl…
23-5608 George Butler v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-09-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel intervening-decision sentencing-error (1) The Conviction and/or Sentence was in violation of the United States Constitution, Mississippi Constitution, and Laws of Mississippi. (2) The Con…
23-5611 David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2023-09-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts 1. In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evid…
23A250 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-18 Presumed Complete AEDPA death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Strickland-standard Question not identified.
23-5593 Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida Florida 2023-09-15 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co…
23-5585 Scott David Creech v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations stone-v-powell CAN A LEGITIMATE 60(B)(6) MOTION BE CONSIDERED A 60(B)(3) CLAIM, IF THAT CLAIM DOES NOT ASSERT RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT IN THE EVENT OF "FRAUD . . . MIS…
23-5577 Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires judges to disclose and disqualify at all stages of a criminal proceeding, including collateral appellate pro…
23-5568 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-delay constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit speedy-appeal standing I.) WHETHER THE 6th CIRCUIT 'S ORDER SO FAR DEPARTED FROM HOUSTON V. LACK AND EVITTS V. LUCY, REQUIRING THIS COURT 'S SUPERVISORY POWERS TO PROTECT TH…
23-248 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2023-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (9) batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C…
23-5573 Lashun Tracy Tinnen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent performance-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-test In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5571 Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY TRIAL DUE TO HIS CONVICTION BASED ON A HUNG JURY. PETITIONER WAS DENIED …
23-5561 In Re Reginald L. Shumpert 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review suspension-clause Question not identified.
23-5553 Randy Haight v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-retardation statutory-interpretation 1. Where a state trial court resolves disputed issues of material fact without an evidentiary hearing and ignores relevant expert opinion, is the stat…
23-5563 Christopher John Derting v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict due-process federal-review habeas-corpus keeney-v-tamayo-reyes post-conviction-review strickland strickland-claim townsend-v-sain vicks-v-bunnell Can the District Court ignore the views of this Court stated in Lovell v. Duffey pertaining to 2254 (d) (2) claims, which should focus on what State C…
23-234 Nicholas Crystal v. Calvin Johnson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-deficiency ninth-circuit post-conviction Did the Ninth Circuit, in a post-conviction appeal by a sentenced Nevada State prisoner, commit reversible error in its pro forma, non-reasoned blanke…
23A233 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus penalty-phase Question not identified.
23A236 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-relief texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Question not identified.
23A229 Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner Question not identified.
23-5542 Stephen James Hood v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation In Virginia, anyone who was convicted of a felony has the right to demonstrate their innocence with new evidence through a petition for a writ of actu…
23-5538 Noel Brown v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2023-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-doctrine dismissal due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief reversal structural-error warden writ-of-certiorari Whether the substantial holding in case on point Weaver V. Massachusetts U.S. 137 S. CT 809 (2017). WHEREBY, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified sane of …
23-5535 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation I. Whether The Circuit Courts Have Decided An Important Question Of Federal Law That Should Be Definitively Settled By This Court? II. Whether 28 U.S…
23-5528 Lahme Perkins v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-facts notice post-conviction-relief procedural-default third-circuit-court After Petitioner filed his application and memorandum of law pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254, and without ordering a response from the State, the District…
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Question not identified.
23-5523 Cedrick L. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing state-constitution d> f- Jflo&idk 1 UJh-^-4'k eft A £_i &C.U1K I Coo'R.T ' _ju<dcje. Ju'R\SD \€±~Ctot4 _£> V_s 4 \aJK<£. nj i4p ^.onvA'd. 4o \oty #(-f(j? OATF K/WP- Ah.€…
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction 1. Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultane…
23-5500 Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action Question not identified.
23-5497 Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent in Miller-El v Cockerell, 537 US 322, (US 2003),…
23-5498 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5488 Dywane Tousant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Has Made a Substantial Showing of the …
23-5479 Lee Edward Peyton v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-inquiry habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review pro-se-petition standing summary-denial Question not identified.
23-5474 Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine Given that petitioner is from Palestine, His English has always been poor, his second language is Spanish his history with mental health in years lead…
23-5472 Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED…
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the…
23A182 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 Question not identified.
23-5447 Antonio Chimney v. Texas Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence common-law constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence great-writ habeas-corpus laches writ-of-right 1. May Laches be used to deny an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus that is based on Actual and Factual Innocence? 2. May the Common Law Doctrine …
23-5443 Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st…
23-5431 Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus prison-law-library strickland-standard strickland-test The Court of Appeals opinion substantially departs from law and practice by finding that the Defendant's actions, which the court deemed "negligent", …
23-5420 Bruce Wanzo, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit 1. Whether appointment of counsel on counsel in detracting from the intended issues raised in the Certificate of Appealability(misconstrued by the Nin…
23-5421 Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review strickland-v-washington I. Where a state court and federal court deny a habeas claim on contradictory grounds, do their conflicting rulings suggest that "reasonable jurists w…
23-5424 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment I. Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20) despite abundant legal support for…
23A163 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
23A160 Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo Ninth Circuit 2023-08-22 Presumed Complete attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 1. This case raises important questions of federal law involving (1) principles of equitable tolling, and (2) application of this Court's jurisprudenc…
23-5410 Sedrick D. Russell v. J. Denmark Fifth Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing Must a pro se petitioner alleging a complete denial of counsel specifically cite Cronic to exhaust his claim in the state court? If a detained crimin…
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Did either / both my appellate and trial counsel perform beneath the standard demanded by the US Constitution? Was this appeal moot?
23-5398 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment amendment constitutional-rights district-court-review due-process federal-procedure federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-15 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief 1. Whether 6. Cet feate ok Aero. okility Shaisutd (Sou to Rextiews | shothor the United States District Court Fac the Ulestetn District of | Nacth Coc…
23-5388 Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application DOES McHAM V. STATE /404 S.C. 465/746 S.E.2d 41(2013), REQUIRE THAT PETITIONER BE ALLOWED TO FILE A SUBSEQUENT PCR APPLICATION?
23-5385 Adam Knoll v. Florida Florida 2023-08-18 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error sexual-offense standing 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co…
23-162 Christian Winchel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review I. Supreme Court Rule 10(a)—Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings u…
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court For the Northern District of Oklahoma erred in denying Petitioner Ashton a Certificate of Appealability when …
23-147 Leander Mann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied aedpa-statute circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus habeas-petition statute-of-limitations 1. Whether equitable tolling stops the clock on the AEDPA statute of limitations during periods of extraordinary circumstances, as the Second and Elev…
23-5372 Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Question not identified.
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER A COA?
23A132 Jerry S. Wilson v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete actual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default reasonable-doubt 1. This case presents an important and recurring question concerning the legal standard for showing actual innocence sufficiently to overcome procedur…
23-5334 Mario Iglesias-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence grand-jury-transcripts habeas-corpus jackson-standard reasonable-doubt rule-6e sufficiency-of-evidence 1. The Court has held that the due process clause requires the government to prove each element of a criminal offense beyond a reasonable doubt. In re…
23-5331 Al Douglas Wordly v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
23-5326 Latonia Smith v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus legal-detention speech-conduct standing Whether AOL A(C2I0B) targets conduct lone of SPeecin.and.Conduck Can sir distinciand.Confircking opinyvons among tthe lowes Coutts ond signifreanty ta…
23-5313 Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when the Court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability on Grounds that Dispositive Pr…
23-5312 In Re Brian D. Smith 2023-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal plea-bargaining right-to-appeal Is Smith's plea of guilty invalid because he was not informed of the true nature of his crime and was misled and misinformed by his court-appointed pu…
23-5309 Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.…
23-5299 Keith Mas Sims, Jr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP exhaustion-of-state-remedies fair-presentation federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default speedy-trial To be eligible for federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must have exhausted the remedies available to him in state court. Id…
23-5297 Tidiane Kone v. James Milburn, Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-remedies Question not identified.
23-5294 Micky Don Wade v. Texas Texas 2023-08-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. May a state court evaluate a Cronic claim under the more burdensome standard of Strickland? (Please see Memorandum Opinion below, Appendix Exhibit …
23-5287 In Re William G. Haake 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP doctrine-of-speciality dual-criminality due-process extradition extradition-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction perjury prosecutorial-misconduct treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations WHETHER THE UNITED STATES TREATY 22 (1971) DEPRIVED FLORIDA OF JURISDICTION WHEN THEY KNOWINGLY USED PERJURED INFORMATION TO COMPEL SPAIN THROUGH TREA…
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review 1. WHETHER DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE OF FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS PREMATURELY FILED IN ORDER TO EXAUST ALL AVAILABLE STATE REMEDIES COM7$ AS A FIRST …
23-5281 Morris Scott Holmes v. Tommy Bowen, Warden Georgia 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct I. D&U.BLS. IT£/SPAf\-DY 1 f*g4i4i an.i4r U/£LS faiLiud *rUfl4 du.il4u v of WaLiCd. flluftlCr fcdiLnil Dfde ^ t\\n.ct^£ of i/udicfmeAi + 'i'lLoHXX ^f…
23-5280 Robert A. Griffin v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60-motion 1) WHETHER MR. GRIFFIN IS ENTITLED TO A COA BECAUSE JURISTS OF REASON WOULD FIND THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MR. GRIFFIN'S FEDERAL RULE 60(b)(6) MO…
23-5278 Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application 1. Whether the District Gourts' denial:of/appealability of COA was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law? 2. Whether the Di…
23-107 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Federal courts "shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court …
23-5258 Octavius McLendon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 grants convicted federal inmates the right, in lieu of common law habeas corpus, to "move the court which imposed the sentence"…
23-5248 Nikolas Gacho v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment 1) Should the 7Th Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a certificate of appe&libility to petitioner Nikolas Gacho where his ineffective assistance of …
23-5244 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-punishment competency-to-be-executed death-penalty delusional-beliefs habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness panetti-standard state-court-review When a panel has determined that 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) has been satisfied and an appeal and concordant stay are necessary, does an en banc court have a…
23-5243 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-31 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ford-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mental-competency panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness 1. Whether a report from a qualified neuropsychiatrist that a condemned prisoner is incompetent for execution that is not contradicted by any qualifie…
23A93 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-31 Denied death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness panetti-competency Question not identified.
23-5231 In Re Maria Navarro-Martin 2023-07-28 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing statutory-provisions unconstitutional-penalty Question not identified.
23-5222 Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-07-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition? 2. Whether the Trial C…
23-82 Joshua Isaiah Joyner v. Texas Texas 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claims without requiring the trial court to …
23-72 Anthony Santucci v. Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response Waived article-iii-review civil-rights constitutional-determination due-process habeas habeas-corpus military military-tribunals standing stare-decisis I. Whether this Court's plurality decision in Burnes v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953) (Article III habeas review not appropriate where Article I militar…
23-5219 Jerry Wilson, aka Steve Vic Parker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation 1. Is a United States Citizen Wrongfully Imprisoned "LIFE INDANGER" ? 2. What is Permission Granted by a United States Distrist Judge? 3. Can (1) On…
23-5212 DeAndra Stephenson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence notice-requirement standing sua-sponte-dismissal Question not identified.
23-5186 Kinley MacDonald v. Jeanne Lambrew, et al. Maine 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-removal civil-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling family-law federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction transcript-accuracy 1) Can a trial court open and remove children in a protective custody case based solely on hearsay circumstances prohibited by State Statute in secret…
23-5193 Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Weaver v. Massachusetts , __ U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 198 L. Ed. 2d 420 (2017), the actual -prejudi ce …
23-5201 Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions On November 6, 2009, nineteen-year-old Andrew Valenzuela—along with David Padilla and Jessica Garcia—got in a car with a 32-year-old serial killer who…
23-5195 Cynthia Kaye Wood v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mens-rea specific-intent voluntary-plea In Texas, the ens rea for attempted capital murder is a specific intent to kill. The defendant did not know this. Thus, she pled guilty although she h…
23A74 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and ANDREW S. OLDHAM, District Judge.* MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge: Philip Roy Galanti…
23A63 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-24 Denied brady-violation due-process-clause habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence Whether the prosecution violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by withholding material…
23-5158 Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-5157 In Re Tracy Whitaker 2023-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-authority Mr. Whitaker alleges the County of Dealware, Pennsylvania, District Attorney's Office violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to the Un…
23-5146 Santos Rosales Martinez v. Iowa Iowa 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rule habeas-corpus iowa-constitution iowa-courts judicial-discretion new-rule-of-law schlup-test schlup-v-delo schmidt-v-state 1. Whether the Iowa Courts have failed to properly adjudicate the Petitioner's actual innocence claims as currently explained in Schlup v. Delo 513 U…
23-5133 Gary Watkins v. Willis Chapman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-illness relation-back statute-of-limitations THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY HELD THAT PETITIONER'S SUPPLEMENTAL HABEAS PETITION RAISING NUMEROUS CLAIMS THROUGH COUNSEL WAS UNTIMELY FILED BECAUSE …
23-5128 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion? 2. Did the United…
23-5127 Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure (1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P…
23-5125 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23A38 Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete AEDPA-statute-of-limitations attorney-abandonment capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion Whether a Rule 60(b) motion alleging abandonment by counsel can, at least in some instances, attack a defect in the integrity of the habeas proceeding…
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.
23-5109 Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility I. Carl Lindsey was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death based on the critical testimony of Kathy Kerr, the lone witness to testify t…
23-5098 Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-5092 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process false-arrest favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure standing 1. Does the substantial holding in case on point Heck v. Humphrey, and Amaker v. Weiner , because the suit may be reinstituted should plaintiff's con…
23-5097 Allen Auten v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing 1. Has the California Supreme* Court (CSCC) prejudicially abused its dis cretion by repudiating United States Supreme Court (USSC) controlling author…
23-5071 Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation Would a jurist of reason find the District Court Clerk made a procedural error by failing to issue and mail the November 15th, 2021 termination order …
23A29 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice Question not identified.
23A24 Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-conviction Question not identified.
23-5068 Lavount Peterson v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied IFP equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute new-jersey-directive non-final-order post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-rulings statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the habeas statute of limitations remains tolled after a state post conviction relief ("PCR") court dismisses a timely and properly filed P…
23-31 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)—under which a state prisoner is ineligible for federal habeas relief even …
23-5067 Donivan Diaz v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts actual-injury civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-litigation prison-officials Whether prison officials interference with petitioner's ability to litigate his habeas cases by denying him access to his legal materials rise to the …
23-5051 Andrew Valles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-law due-process federal-review first-amendment habeas-corpus separation-of-powers standing state-court-adjudication 1. Daes the resont of 28 u.s.c.31ais (bl4) - a safety-valve created by congress - succomb entirely to and find defeat in 8191slg) -a seeming deterent …
23-5047 Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings 1. Whether Court op Appeals A&useo rrs discretion cuhtre ^senior . Circuit judees uuwo mle mem Be Us ofthe originally assigned diuision hearing a cas…
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler 1. Does a court contravene Johnson u. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the …
23-5039 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment 1. Whether, for purposes of measuring claims arising from capital sentencings, evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potential…
23-5037 Patrick L. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Relisted (3)IFP due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure Do Texas procedures for postconviction habeas corpus violate the Sixth Amendment and deny indigent prisoners equal protection and due process of law b…
23-5032 L. Brian Whitfield v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pro-se standing state-prisoner Question not identified.
23-5 Breon Powell v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability court-closure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus 1. Did Circuit Court of Appeals err and thereby abuse its discretion and commit error in denying due process to Appellant Powell when it denied a Cert…
23-5025 Kelly Sundberg v. California California 2023-07-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
23-5026 Isaiah L. Dunbar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the denial by the 11TH Circuit Court of Appeals of PETitioner's LOA ReSulted iN A FEdERAl dUE pROCESS ViOlAtiON in the timeliness of his 2254 …
23A5 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-07-03 Presumed Complete access-to-courts criminal-conviction filing-restrictions habeas-corpus mandamus prisoner-rights Question not identified.
23-5009 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 A. Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete "as to all causes of action," as required by Collins v. Miller, 252 U.S. …
23-5010 Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-5008 Michael Bien v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court covid-19-tolling district-court extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus hearing new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a United States District Court's ruling to deny a §2254 Certificate of Appealability should be vacated by the Circuit Court when Rule 60(b) ne…
22-7895 Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certiorari-appeal civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing l,, Whevs +V\e CooH cxtsc A-Yolo A c&oitset Kt\e**a AHc dltso-cX dew\«tf\cledi -W\e.vj re&jSedl Vvw\ -\V\oA 01^4 * ckcA +We Caor-V loCLve a_ cAlA^ *V…
22-7897 In Re Frank Walls 2023-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane 1. Was Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) necessarily "made retroactive," for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 …
22-7901 Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when a defendant is forced to accept representation by lawyers who se supervisor have a longstanding social and fam…
22-7907 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-7889 Tyree Lawson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel rule-60b stone-v-powell 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. …
22-7862 Lazaro Veliz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-7859 Timothy Sumpter v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis state-post-conviction strickland strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Under clearly established law, in most ineffective assistance of trial counsel cases, prejudice is shown by demonstrating "a reasonable probability th…
22-1234 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Did the Fourth Circuit defy this Court's remand instruction and circumvent 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court authority by findi…
22-7844 Frank James v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-delay state-created-right state-created-rights Whether a state prisoner's claim of delay in the commencement of a civil commitment proceedings implicates the constitutional right to due process, su…
22-7850 In Re James C. Winding 2023-06-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court Question not identified.
22-7801 Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Question not identified.
22-7808 Elroy Pedro Gomez v. William Joe Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP California-Supreme-Court criminal-procedure Due-process Equal-protection Habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain Sentencing-enhancements Sixth-Amendment 1. In the fi rst pl ace, was Peti tioner deni ed hi s Sixth Amendment right to the effecti ve assi stance of counsel when hi s court-appoi nted trial …
22-7809 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance…
22-1216 Dwayne Ferguson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a…
22-7799 Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant SHOULD A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ISSUE TO DEBATE THE MATTER OF COUNSEL BEING APPOINTED TO AID A PRO SE DEFENDANT SUFFERING FROM RETARDATION AND M…
22-7768 Nidal Ayyad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7778 Kenneth Ueding v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-remedy speedy-trial state-convictions In the first Issues questions of discussion for this court to consider is: Did Mr. Ueding hold the right to challenge his state convictions in a habea…
22-7744 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion, violationg Bartunek's due process rights, by failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability for consti…
22-7729 William J. Sears v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 Did the Court of Appeals err when it denied my Motion for Certificate of Appealability? Did the District Court err when it denied my § 2255 petition …
22-7701 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7706 Johnny Taylor v. Jeff Tanner, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-05 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP complete-denial-of-counsel critical-stage evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit 1. If an attorney's deficiency is grave enough, criminal defendants do not need to demonstrate prejudice to prove ineffective assistance of counsel. I…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Did Reprise His Grounds from His Motion…
22-7700 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-06-04 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus juror-disqualification jury-selection procedural-claim state-concealment statutory-disqualification statutory-violation voir-dire An individual who was not qualified to serve under Missouri law sentenced Michael Tisius to death. This juror was, and is still, illiterate. His parti…
22-7693 Jandin Munoz v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
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?
22-7671 Eduardo Catarino Palacios v. Texas Texas 2023-05-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation chain-of-custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure Eduardo CatarLno Palacios was convicted of Murder t in Texas State Court largely based on False Testimony evidence and sentenced to 50 years. Petition…
22-7674 John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-1153 Hector Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-grounds right-to-hearing statutory-rights a) Does a district court deny a federal prisoner the constitutional or statutory "right to be heard" by completely misreading or ignoring the "files a…
22-7654 Juan L. Caballero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence The Unitd Stat Court ofAppeal forthe Fith Cicut and the United States District Court for the Westem Dustrict of Texas haoentered a decision in conflic…
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?"
22-7656 In Re Brad Edmonds 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the United States court of Appeals previously addressed GPS tracking warrant and in conflict with a lower court of appeals and Supreme court? …
22-7628 Robert Earl Gorham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a state court adjudication of the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is "c…
22-1142 Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia Georgia 2023-05-24 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct After Petitioner Jamil Al-Amin filed a federal habeas action challenging his Georgia conviction, the FBI for the first time produced: (1) a BOLO ("be …
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…
22-7609 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…
22-7589 Troy G. Saxton v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brown-v-ohio certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy drug-possession habeas habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists spatial-units Whether a habeas petitioner satisfies his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) for the issuance of a certificate of appealability when he demonstrates t…
22-7593 In Re Edwin W. Rubis 2023-05-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody habeas-corpus liberty marijuana-prohibition 1. Whether Rules 14 (g) and (h) are not applicable to a petition for writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court of the United States that has original…
22-1124 Christian Gilbert Tony Nadal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coram-nobis declaratory-judgment due-process federal-question fraud habeas-corpus machine-gun-regulation machine-guns second-amendment silencers 1. Are catalogues given to Petitioner ie: Global Sales Limited and Shotgun News fraudulently advertising for sale illegal machinegun and silencer kits…
22-7579 Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida Florida 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Where the initial review collateral proceeding is the first designated proceeding for a prisoner to raise a claim of infective assistance of counsel a…
22-7555 Tyrell Rakeem Mobley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus manifest-injustice standing Question not identified.
22-7562 Joseph Tetak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue deference-standard federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-precedent stare-decisis state-supreme-court subjective-objective-analysis Does the doctrine of stare decisis prevail on a state supreme court's determination of a constitutional issue in the same manner as this Court's deter…
22-7573 Donald Lee Kissner v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus standing tee dxstaxs Tabuse xts x>xsc .ee7X&A 7»B s-xtbp Puix Po(bAx> ape tZOtPX.ti TO fcCffXl) A/VP PEAiyZBIB Relief - AS EPTXMELy.DXP JZT/V C-tfA/JGZA/G2>…
22-7546 Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (5)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome (1) Does a conviction, based on a causation theory presented to a jury as scientific fact and used to establish that a homicide occurred, violate due …
22-7551 John Foster Norris v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
22-1113 Merril Leroy Jessop v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing I. Whether the Texas courts' refusal to conduct an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's substantial constitutional claim of ineffective assistance of c…
22-7522 William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review I. Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US All (…
22-7505 Charles Alfred Armajo, Jr. v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review I. Did the panel of the Tenth Circuit err by improperly deciding the merit of an appeal before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
22-7515 Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Constitutionalits with theUnited State Constitutional of statute into question;? 2D Thete Conflicted into Puestion?ln Sovereisnty, Common LAw. Bill o…
22-7521 John Earnest Skrdla v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals state-court-appeals strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in contrary to Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687(1984) when it determined Petitioner…
22-7491 Orlando Ocasio v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence trial-strategy As in Mr.Ocasio's case where there was no introduction of any defense whatsoever and the Monroe County Court, Western District Court, and the Second C…
22-7462 Ronnie Bowman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
22-7447 In Re Antonio D. McCaster 2023-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations timeliness writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's "Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr." erred in his decision mak…
22-7454 In Re Reginald Swinton 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Is the Circuit Court's order in deciding sua sponte to issue its Mandate denying relief without first having afforded petitioner prior notification an…
22-7443 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and …
22-1064 Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Texas Texas 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence stale-information Whether the Texas courts' misapplication of this Court's precedent concerning "stale" search warrants requires a remand for reconsideration of petitio…
22-7415 Ricky Pendleton v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mt. Olive Correctional Center West Virginia 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice pro-se res-judicata Whether the State courts's doctrine of res judicata was applied adequately after it summarily denies Pendleton's pro se filings of the successive habe…
22-7416 In Re Ronald Pack 2023-05-01 Denied IFP 2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa-tolling article-i-section-9 circuit-court great-writ habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-limitations statutory-tolling writ-of-certiorari 1) Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(d)(1)(B) effectively suspend the great writ…
22-7429 Melecio Santana Delacruz, aka Ricardo Vergara v. Texas Texas 2023-05-01 Denied IFP credibility-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury record-evidence sixth-amendment Understariding that the Texas Gourt of Criminal Appeals is the ultimate fact finder in Texas habeas corpus cases, and the weight placed upon Trial C…
22-7433 Carlos Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granting a CoA on the basis that the Petitioner was not able to argue his case without appointed counsel.
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied IFP affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Pro se litigants filing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims 1. are routinely dismissed as "insufficient " "where it is merely concl…
22-7399 John Robert Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel recusal trial-court Whether a habeas applicant is denied a fair trial in a fair tribunal in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when he files …
22-7402 Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court 1. Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United St…
22-7408 Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction The Wisconsin Supreme Court Should Not Have EX PARTE discriminatively continued with the 2018-ongoing DENIALS OF the UNHEARD PETITIONS FILED FOR JUDIC…
22-7410 Reynaldo Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2253 antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus This case present an important nationwide issue concerning what constitues an expeditious remedy and/or a prompt hearing under 28 U.S.C. §2254. The …
22-7371 Ryan William Buchheim v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop In the context of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and a subsequent Application for Certificate of Appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 Petitione…
22-7372 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction The miscarriage-of-justice gateway excuses a habeas petitioner from complying with certain procedural hurdles like AEDPA's statute of limitations if, …
22-7381 Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process selective-prosecution standing Whether Petitioner was a victim of Selective Prosecution. Whether Petitioner was erroneously denied a Certificate of Appealability.
22-7382 Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas Texas 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona 1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the e…
22-7363 David Vahlkamp v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling gross-negligence habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-attorney postconviction-relief reasonable-diligence sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his postconviction attorney's gross negligence. 2. Whether the Eleventh Circui…
22-7364 Matthew Caleb Ross v. Texas Texas 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance texas-court I. PETITIONER QUESTIONS THE LEGALITY OF THE COURT OF OKLAHOMA APPEALS OFFICER'S DISMISSAL OF A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO ENJOIN COMMUNITY SUPERVISION N…
22-7351 Leonard Scaggs v. A. Ciolli, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence habeas-corpus jury-instructions rosemond-decision savings-clause section-2241 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-rosemond Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Rosemond was available to petitioner in a motion filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 under the "savin…
22-7357 Irina Collier v. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President of Stanford University, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-7358 In Re Ronnie Dante Thomas 2023-04-24 Denied IFP collateral-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-adjudication procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment IS The U.S. Court of Appeals for The Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") Application of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)'s Procedural Bar To a Collateral Challenge …
22-7349 Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly exceeded its authority by failing to consider Mr. Goodin's Motion to Supplement in support of his claim that tria…
22-7346 John G. Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent lisenba-v-california manslaughter trial-fairness Whether the inaccurate jury instruction on Manslaughter by Act so infused the trial with unfairness as to deny the Petitioner's right to Due Process o…
22-7344 Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal In this federal habeas case, petitioner Oscar Salai s challenge s his California convictions on three counts of attempted murder, all premised on one …
22-7339 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-Amendment appellate-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process georgia-courts habeas-corpus ocga-5-6-35 post-conviction-remedies In Dougherty v. State, 315 Ga 188, 880 SE2d 523 (2023), the Supreme Court of Georgia admitted they have erroneously referred pro se litigants to pursu…
22-7334 In Re Quincetta Y. Cargill 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance institutional-conditions intellectual-disability legal-appeal medical-treatment mental-health procedural-challenges rules-of-court standing 1. Where petitioner has zero resources and zero assets to be liquidated showing zero probability of risk of flight, why not release her so she could f…
22-7331 Maria Navarro-Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution perjury standing oH-e^et djJ <\ r^f 1 (<&*\ ft 0~£~ ^ai>ea/> C^v^js d)eemeci ctoe&pkcf t kjjl . ^ \~f ^W-^ csf Gnur ( i -ftv~ WcuU cf- proS^ca Uc/m Ipv^S^atcofLGvi e…
22-7330 Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial…
22-7327 John Edward Holmes v. Texas Texas 2023-04-20 Denied IFP court-of-criminal-appeals due-process fair-consideration habeas-corpus statutory-provisions texas texas-law writ-application Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas deprive petitioner of his due process right to a fair consideration of his initial application for a writ o…
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…
22-7322 Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by denying a certificate of appealability?
22-7321 Schuyler Scarborough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus retroactivity right-to-counsel state-criminal-procedure akMtr+k*' ifoh- of tthfitkA a Ade.i^c{>f>or^rh^ fft^ te ^ dwltd fh<o ostiehuu*. of Ceufi^l -for bus d&tlASt. ./. uiht-fbitr-0ie~^fah- e-f OkUah&Ma. t…
22-7301 Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain 1. On findings of fact, does a federal court (applying the pre-AEDPA statute) presume a finding's correctness whenever the state-court record supports…
22-7300 James D. Sullivan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-abandonment counsel-misconduct federal-bench habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice plea-withdrawal pro-se pro-se-representation standing 1. Will this Court remand with a certificate of appealability in a case where a district court perverted the habeas corpus process by ignoring specifi…
22-7283 Ronald O. LaTray v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-courts stone-v-powell What constitutes a full and fair opportunity to litigate a United States Constitutional Fourth Amendment violation complaint invoking the exclusionary…
22-7295 Saleem D. Williams v. Annettia Toby, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit ex-post-facto full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-denial standing 1. Can the Eleventh Circuit docket a case without proper jurisdiction, under its own authority, and adopt that to stay and? 2. Does Full Court extend…
22-7298 In Re Gabriel Desmond Yankey, Jr. 2023-04-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-district judicial-recusal legal-standing petitioner-rights procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
22-7299 In Re Howard Griffith 2023-04-14 Denied IFP circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pro-se-petition service-of-documents sex-offender-registry standing Why should Petitioner not have to serve his documents which are filed in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, with regar…
22-7280 Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing 1. Whether Petitioner's allegations of violation, abridgment and denial of his constitutional rights by the named defendants' ignoring and violating t…
22-7278 Christopher J. Ward-Malone v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pro-se standing summary-affirmance Question not identified.
22-7274 Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene Question not identified.
22-7270 Lamont McKoy v. Todd Ishee, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process federal-court-deference federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-findings Section 2254(e)(1) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ('"AEDPA") requires federal courts to presume that state court factual…
22-7266 Levar Lee Spence v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-04-13 Denied IFP appeal-rights appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus self-representation statutory-authorization statutory-interpretation I. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision provide the necessary warrant of authority to Subsume the Constitutional Writ of Habeas Corpus ad sobti…
22-997 Andrew Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-04-13 Denied criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the TCCA, by considering only the trial testimony that supported the convictions rather than how the testimony of petitioner's medical experts…
22-993 In Re Krishna Maharaj 2023-04-12 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review WHETHER, GIVEN THE CHAOS IN THE LOWER COURTS ON THE EXISTENCE OR SCOPE OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT NOT TO BE IMPRISONED WHEN FACTUALLY INNOCEN…
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues I. Whether Mr. Wahl Was Denied His Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Violation Of The Guarantees Of The Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments? II. …
22-7252 Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it denied the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing despite the petitioner's showing that his…
22-7244 Jose Ramon Cruz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment state-court-decision state-court-deference strickland strickland-standard When a State court's summary denial assumed the truth of the facts plead in a State habeas writ application and a Federal habeas court, pursuant to 28…
22-982 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Danny Lee Jones Ninth Circuit 2023-04-10 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (9) capital-case capital-punishment credibility-findings district-court district-court-deference habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review strickland strickland-standard Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the dis…
22-7238 Yousry Amin Rizk v. Edward Sandler, et al. Florida 2023-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-7234 Gerald Wayne LeBeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus procedural-ruling standing QUESTION ONE: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN DENYING LEBEAU'S EQUITABLE TOLLING? QUESTION TWO: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN D…
22-7230 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal Question not identified.
22-967 David Banks v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sealing sealing-order Did the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violate the Petitioner's rights under the First Amendment when it sealed almost the entire transcript a…
22-7221 Carlotta Susann Kutschenreuter v. Lagreta McClain, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction-procedures Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure (ARCrimP) 32.2(d) states "any claim that counsel was ineffective must be raised as soon as practicable, either at t…
22-7195 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to riase a claim of ineffective assista…
22-7212 In Re Solomon Roberts 2023-04-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-discretion pluralist-rule standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
22-7211 Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations 1. Fa Mute Coot (ele o208R, eye Rdbowe 4 Ceedbeak of Aypeslabld,, 0a violebos Lf Rl lens etch dhol che PP PCESS ag hts, AS tleded J VE 1k Auucuewt, 4)…
22-7188 Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson vs. Virginia, sufficiency of evidence standard, abrogated Thompson v. City of Louisvil…
22-7177 Michael Lee Gordon v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions standing Question not identified.
22-7176 In Re Thomas J. M. Goodin 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus mandamus-petition pro-se-litigant standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appeal…
22-7169 Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence? Should this court grant habeas litigants the abi…
22-7163 In Re Marcus Marko Bachmayer 2023-03-30 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process familial-rights family-law federal-common-law habeas-corpus standing state-applicability Whether a child's familial relationships are protected. Whether the Bill of Rights is applicable to the States. Whether the district court engaged i…
22-7158 Reginald Langston Luster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-testify stand-your-ground trial-counsel I. Whether Petitioner Luster Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether the State Court Erred in Denying Luster's Claim Tha…
22-953 Pablo Calderon v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated …
22-7139 Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden First Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER OR NOT MR. RICHARDSON'S SPECIAL PLEA TO THE LOWER COURTS LACK OF FACTUAL DEDICATE THUS DECISION PURSUANT TO WARS UNOPPOSED FED P. CH /, P 12(b…
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure I. The Court of Appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is Contrary to a decision of this court because it sidestepped the COA Proces…
22-7127 William Michael Meyer v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality state-court-adjudication term-of-years-sentences In 2015, Mr. Meyer was sentenced to a total of 230 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 23 counts of possession of child pornography. This wa…
22-7119 Vincent Alonzo Corson v. Texas Texas 2023-03-27 Denied IFP carrier-standard cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process habeas-corpus mccleskey-abuse-of-writ preclusive-effect retroactivity state-court-proceedings 1. If a State Post-Conviction proceeding is conducted in a manner that does not afford an Applicant a full & fair hearing —Due Process —leaving the Co…
22-7113 Atdom Mikels Patsalis v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggregate-length-of-sentences cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality term-of-years-sentences 1. When a state court expressly refuses to consider a petitioner's constitutional claim, has that court nevertheless adjudicated that claim "on the me…
22-7111 Tony Khong v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-vs-maryland de-novo-review evidence-suppression giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-vs-whitley materiality ninth-circuit united-states-vs-bagley Did the Ninth Circuit's de novo disposition of Petitioner's Brady claim in the habeas corpus context, which focused exclusively on Bagley's earlier ru…
22-7107 In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. 2023-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor When this case was before this Court in No. 21-7556 and this Court denying certiorari review on May 31, 2022. The Movant city of St. Louis ' removal t…
22-7105 Jimmy Allen Roberts v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-access prison-library statute-of-limitations Mr. Roberts urges that the instant case will terminate a continuous flow of meritorious, but improvidently drafted, and untimely filed habeas petition…
22-7076 Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted since Servando-Pineda 's title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations du…
22-7081 Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing 1. Does petitioner have the right to have his patrons heaped and his allegations disputed by Respondents? 2. Should there Bank on £ then Writ -#e7t/ …
22-7068 Joshua Anderson v. Mark Bolster Fourth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus military-courts standard-of-review writ-suspension Does the indistinct standard of review promulgated in Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953); with the confusion and diverse approaches taken in the low…
22-7074 Christopher White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th…
22-7064 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus inmate-rights judicial-review legal-controversy petition-clause pretrial-writ reindictment statutory-provisions WHEN PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY WRIT IS FILED ON DOUBLE JEOPARDY CAUSE THERETO, THE STATE HIGHEST COURT BEFORE TRIAL HAD EITHER JURISDICTION FOR THE S…
22-7054 Jamar L. Travillion v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-review forfeiture habeas-corpus procedural-standard right-to-counsel waiver I. Could reasonable jurists disagree with the District Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim that the State Courts' determination that he forfeited…
22-7048 Scott P. Roeder v. Dan Schnurr, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-economy postconviction-review standing suspension-clause unborn-rights 1. Whether United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62 (1971), should be overruled in favor of equality with the unborn? 2. Whether a habeas corpus petition…
22-7041 Deandre Markee King v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity The vast majority of federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. And in many of those pleas, the defendant promises not to file a future 28 U.S.C. § …
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…
22-7033 DeAndre Forrest v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Forrest's Sixth Amendment was violated when his counsel conceeded his guilt during trial? 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Er…
22-7036 Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make …
22-7031 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzales-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar procedural-rulings rule-60 statute-of-limitations Point 1 Should a Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) and 60(d)(3) mixed motion initially be reviewed de novo, without requiring a certificate of Appealability Point 2…
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…
22-7021 Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling QUESTION No. 1 Wnether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the dis…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-7017 In Re Ronald Williams-El 2023-03-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law jurisdictional-challenge legal-remedy property-rights sovereign-immunity standing Should this Court's power to vote writ of Habeas Corpus be a warrant American sovereign man who has no other available means to raise his concerns of …
22-7008 Heath R. Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-sexual-abuse forensic-interview forensic-interviews habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on his claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Ame…
22-7003 Justin Melton v. Jared Perry, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights contempt due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction petition-for-writ Question not identified.
22-7005 Lino Alberto Chavez v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference anders-review anders-v-california federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-appeals post-conviction-relief smith-v-robbins state-court-procedure state-court-procedures 1. When a state court decision holds that "no Anders-type review is required" in an instance in which all parties concede that Anders applies, and no …
22-866 John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside…
22-875 Michael Meyers v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-rationale strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When faced with a Sixth Amendment claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, a court must determine whether counsel's performance "fell below an obj…
22-6994 In Re Devon Banks-Bey 2023-03-10 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law sovereign-citizen subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-860 Chene Devonne Manley v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing-determination Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an applicant to a certificate of appealability regarding a state prison…
22-6960 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida Florida 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency Question not identified.
22-6951 Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers In this capital habeas case, the Eighth Circuit decided important questions of federal law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cou…
22-6959 Thurston Rickey-Lee Davis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment anders-brief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1). In an appeal of a 2254, at the "C.O.A." stage, When the U.S. District Court: accepts the affirmative defense of ' Statute of Limitation violat ion…
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Neither the Overruled court nor the State Supreme Court of Appeals lacks a Post of Docket to the court by not Providing a Full Litigation Without Judi…
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Can a Clerk of a federal appellate court refuse to file a pleading by a State habeas petitioner seeking a Panel Rehearing from the denial of an applic…
22-6933 John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation SHOUD THE=SIXTH CIRCUTT BE to COVERUP JWDGE CRENSHALLS VIOLATIONS OP SICTH CRCUIT $ SUPREME COURT STANDINPRECIDENTS OF EXLEPTIONS TO THE YOUNFER & MID…
22-6929 Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration Whether a sex offender registry statute, when applied to predators convicted of rape without any sexual motivation to the offense, bears a reasonable …
22-841 Christopher H. West v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sandin-v-conner sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. In denying petitioner's habeas certificate of appealability, where the 3d Circuit's review of the record entirely overlooked that the facts in tria…
22-834 Harshad Shah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 580 U.S. 206 (2017), this Court again condemned the use of racial animus in the sexual assault trial of a Mexican man, …
22-6913 In Re Robert B. Read, Jr. 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus rules-of-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Did the United States Constitution allow the trial court implied subject-matter jurisdiction to try Petitioner for the indicted Felony One Offense?…
22-6912 Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitution…
22-6909 Curtis Lynn Fauber v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP curative-instructions donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility At Curtis Fauber's trial, the prosecution relied on the testimony of two accomplices to secure his conviction and death sentence. Sensing that his key…
22-6906 Joseph Johnson v. Casey Campbell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel due-process habeas-corpus judicial-prejudice legal-standard lower-court-error petition-review standing summary-judgment 1. Did the lower court err in granting Correctional Defendants' motion to dismiss? 2. Did the lower court err in granting Defendant Wexford's motion …
22-6904 Robert Roderick Stubblefield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-merits petition-review standing writ-of-certiorari Should a C 0 A have; b e e n issued and should' relief have been given after revieu) of the merits of all three claims that raised to the District c…
22-6900 Tony Deng v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search coercion confession-voluntariness deception-tactics due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-interrogation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy right-to-counsel will-overborne-standard 1. Whether the "will overborne" standard or analysis, which requires the finding of Violence, or threats of Violence, dumbfounding a person's will, sh…
22-6896 Kim Lynn Mason v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2023-03-01 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus judicial-relief jurisdiction state-prisoner void-judgment Whether due process demands that corrective judicial process in the nature of state writ of habeas corpus be available to expunge a void judgment for …
22-6880 Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice.
22-6882 David Byron Russ v. Florida Florida 2023-02-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency 1. Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency?
22-6886 Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-standard brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-error federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois postconviction-discovery schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations The Antiterrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) codified at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A), contains a one-year statute of limitations fo…
22-6892 In Re Willie Thomas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure 1. whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own…
22-6878 Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief IX. Could Whe Stole Violate A Defendants Subshant! Ve And Procedural Right To Due Recess So Earegiously That Lt Would Bar A Future Federal, Rosecution…
22-6866 Antonio Rosello v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-6863 Christopher Lynn Gonzales v. Susan Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Washington Correctional Facility Ninth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254-d-1 due-process forcible-compulsion habeas-corpus in-re-winship jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt state-court-review supreme-court-law unreasonable-factual-determinations Could reasonable jurists debate whether, under the Due Process Clause standards set out in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and In re Winship…
22-6851 David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction (1) Under these circumstances, does a court of appeals violate the fundamental principles of party presentation and Petitioner's due process rights? …
22-6821 James Mammone v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP change-of-venue fair-trial habeas-corpus prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity rideau-v-louisiana sixth-amendment In determining whether to presume prejudice under Rideau and Skilling, are courts permitted to consider (1) the defendant's role in creating the pretr…
22-6806 Torrey Dewayne Walker v. Micha Neal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court-conflict civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-appellate-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction DOES THIS COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO GRANT CERTIORARI WHEN THERE'S A CONFLICT BETWEEN DECISIONS OF STATE AND OR FEDERAL COURTS OF DIFFERENT GROUPS, CO…
22-6798 Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression 1. Whether, to establish "suppression" under Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the parallel "cause" to excuse procedural default of a Brad…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
22-6794 Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing WHY IS MR. OBEGS BEEN DENIES RELIEF ENENMIOUGH THE CONVICTIONS FOR KIESARRIN® BE NOT HAVE HE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO SO?PORE 17 ¢ FIND ATERSON GOUTY BEF…
22-6792 Gary D. Swierski v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order-to-show-cause reasonably-debatable second-amendment standing (1) When the Northern District Court issued an "ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE" in this Petitioner's (S.A.P.') Second Amendment Petition, is that indicative that…
22-6788 In Re Kent Williams 2023-02-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Should this court order the Minth cirout court of Appeals to discontinue its practice of serding its litigants to a third Party (zdao Dept.of orrectio…
22-6786 Cleveland Leroy Coaxum, Jr. v. Jeffrey Snoddy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-misconduct 1. DMdthe courts make an error on Ruling Petitioner's Habeas Corpus, as un-timely filed petition despite it being filed on time in the lower courts? …
22-6781 Samuel Adkins v. Texas Texas 2023-02-14 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial Did the state court err when it held that Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the Effective assistance of counsel was not violated where Petitioner …
22-6772 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Marion Bowman's convictions and death sentence rest on the compromised testimony of three witnesses who identified Bowman as the murderer. Two—James T…
22-6767 Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing - Whether the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion finding Petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal in the Dist…
22-6763 Cecil Wallace Williamson, Jr. v. Mike Heinricy, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-case civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-confession habeas-corpus organized-crime prosecutorial-misconduct racketeering witness-tampering /r U GaPiTaL CaSL J. f fh*. 5+ah, ofXaoSc^ all outlet J~aSp<sr CoonTif bij fr Acktd-earhne^ multiple (^eruern mvirfhaA 'e^'/feS ~to P id via.f> me gr…
22-6759 In Re Charles Jordan 2023-02-10 Denied IFP brady-material civil-rights constitutional-errors counsel-silence default-rule due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials 1. How can a petitioner lose appeal of rights on certain claims due to officials mishandling Court Order? 2. Why should the State enjoy the privilege…
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.
22-6739 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity 1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal – whic…
22-6738 Melvin G. Simms v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-report magistrate-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court Judge Violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution By Granting the Respondent'…
22-6735 Echo Dixon v. New York New York 2023-02-09 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-exercise habeas-corpus misnomer Whether the People of the State of New York, while investigating child abuse and neglect and crime, interfered with Petitioner 's first and fourteent…
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…
22-6727 Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation The first question presented is one who 's being illegally detained pursuant to October 15, 2012 resentencing which authorize custody on new judgment …
22-6726 Terrence Lowell Hyman v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder-trial constitutional-violation criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process falsified-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel under this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington when she intenti…
22-6724 In Re Christopher Cobb 2023-02-07 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review., 142 S.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should
22-738 Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences; and Whether the…
22-6714 Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court CAN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SANCTION THE DISTRICT COURT'S RECHARACTERIZATION OF A PETITIONER'S CLAIM AFTER SUCH CLAIM HAS BEEN LIBERALLY CO…
22-6713 Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center Missouri 2023-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence In light of the foregoing facts, this petition presents the following questions: 1. Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cogni…
22-6707 Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims damages due-process habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Question not identified.
22-6696 Rudy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2023-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Question 1: Xnlroducbi Q A *.Ike. lex.es Couri of Crlm'tr\a.l disbarrad Prasad^cr,- Ralph Padly s undisclosed Iona! m 'l scon duck RalidP in 4bai Ka…
22-6694 Abdiraham Haji-Hassan v. Maine Maine 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-suspect-theory due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining postconviction postconviction-review presumption professional-assistance reasonable-professional-assistance strickland-standard Whether the state postconviction court misapplied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), by applying its "strong presumption of reasonable pro…
22-6691 Hugues-Denver Akassy v. Michael Kirkpatrick, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-charges criminal-indictment due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-procedure rape-case standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a court with lack of subject matter jurisdiction permit trumped-up criminal charges and indigent defendant to stand trial on charges not made in i…
22-6690 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1), F-R.A.P. 22(b) and this Court's decisions in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S.…
22-6688 Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP 2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing? Unde…
22-6674 Antonio Collins v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center Fourth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-process civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-denial standing 1. Can a determining judgment be ruled upon when a lower court's judge has to "read" a petition, "before ruling" a denial; for the petition to be furt…
22-6669 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition procedural-deficiency standing takings va-code-19.2-271 Question not identified.
22-6673 Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AFTER THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO MAKE AN INQUIRY INTO A TITLE 18 U…
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno 2023-02-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-716 Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use…
22-709 DeAngelo Montez Moody v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus precedent precedential-interpretation state-court-review state-courts strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), a state prisoner petitioning for federal habeas relief ordinarily must demons…
22-6667 Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
22-6663 Steven Janakievski v. Phillip Griffin, Executive Director, Rochester Psychiatric Center Second Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences constitutional-rights custody-discharge due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition insanity-acquittee mental-health mootness standing unconditional-discharge Is Petitioner Steven 's Federal Habeas Petition moot, now that he has been "Unconditionally Discharged" from the custody of the Office of Mental Healt…
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-6652 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation miranda-rights state-criminal-procedure 1. There is COURT RECORD that in bebveenxt the dime of 2001 (WEST & WEISS ecest year, please See to West v. State of Florida, 876 So. 2d G14 (Fla. AFH…
22-6629 Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-deference federal-constitutional-claim habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision state-court-review state-law-evidentiary-rule strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (""AEDPA") provides that habeas relief "shall not be granted with respect to any claim that …
22-6633 Edward R. Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-25 Denied IFP amendment-14 amendment-opportunity civil-procedure claim-denial constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion post-conviction postconviction-motion standing (1) Does A Trial Judge Abuse its discretion when it fails to properly rule on A property filed Postconviction motion in which A motion gets denied as …
22-6622 Marvin Eduardo Luna Gomez v. Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus prison-disciplinary-proceedings standing wolfe-v-mcdonnell Question not identified.
22-694 Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility fo…
22-686 Crosley Alexander Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived admissibility AEDPA brady-v-maryland brady-violation comity constitutional-exhaustion federal-appellate-review federalism habeas-corpus prosecutorial-disclosure state-court-deference state-court-factfinding Principles of federalism and comity embodied in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), 28 U.S.C. § 2254, require deference to stat…
22-6613 Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington Whether the state appel late court in this case misappl ied thi s Court's holding in Harrington v. Richter , 562 U .S. 86 (2011).
22-6612 Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase Question not identified.
22-6619 Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
22-6621 Jason Sewell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure denial-of-petition due-process habeas-corpus non-frivolous-claims petition-denial texas-law 1) Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability on four claims following the denial of his petition, where each issue presented non-frivo…
22-6604 In Re Daniel Sheehan 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation The Third Circuit has reduced the 2241 Gateway to qualify via 2255(e) to an impassable size through abuses of discretion in the creation of Dicta, tha…
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights when it ignored this Courts precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, B…
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Is Medstar Washington Center Hospital and their attorney going to say that petitioner is not about having ovarian cancer and the respondent mis-diagno…
22-6593 Steven C. Heiser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability certiorari-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus limitations-defense party-presentation statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Mr. Heiser humbly asks this Honorable Court to invoke its judicial discretion and consider the following questions: 1. THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS…
22-6592 James Stacey Harber v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing 1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial? 2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. …
22-664 Stephen Edward May v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-consequences federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unconditional-release In United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), which addressed the standard for vacating a judgment for lack of subject-matter ju…
22-6572 Christian Dior Womack v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing The notion of miscarriage of justice prohibits a court from disregarding the fact that its opinion rest solely on criminal offenses that a defendant n…
22-6571 Marcus Wayne Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender sentencing-guidelines sentencing-report standing 1. Was Public Defender Robert Brodsky ineffective by assisting defendant to enter a plea without using improperly calculated Sentencing Guidelines pol…
22-6570 Richard Galvan Montiel v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where a capitally sentenced habeas corpus petitioner relies on uncontradicted Strickland mitigating evidence and United States District Court findings…
22-658 Victor Gates v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion and commit an error of law in not issuing a Certificate of Appeal…
22-6545 Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation THE DISTRICT COURT WAS WITHOUT JURISDICTION TO IMPOSE A "TERM OF YEARS" SENTENCE WHEN THE STATUTE CONTAINED ONLY TWO SENTENCING OPTIONS, DEATH, OR LIF…
22-6542 Warren Douglas Vann v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-claim procedural-deadline statute-of-limitations Whether, for purposes of a certificate of appealability, it is debatable that reasonable jurists would find that equitable tolling applies to the Peti…
22-6532 Alfred E. Caraffa, aka Alfred Erik Caraffa v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules habeas-corpus state-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction 1) A writ corpus (ANKJC^^^u.'^or^CiUcA <d?.\<vy£ck ^ "{"cd -H/i<2L 'Ou.c ^CiCtSS Uo*.Ki a.»*H Ccju^I Le&<> O5? 4^ rZH"^ 4 /^AitrslC^ A\C.N]\ Ci-^r 4W_…
22-6528 Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure 1. Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and 2.) Does th…
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers 1. Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err when it interpreted your holding in Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S.Ct. 1188 (2018) to mean that "in assessing the rea…
22-6507 In Re Michael Kenny Carter 2023-01-10 Denied IFP a.e.d.p.a. aedpa civil-rights congressional-authority due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim procedural-barrier writ-suspension 1) Is the A.E.D.P.A. second or successive provision unconstitutionally suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as applied to incarcerated individuals…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. IS THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING ITS PROCEDURAL BAR RULES IN MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTIT…
22-6498 Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency counsel-appointment discretionary-review due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus indigent-counsel sixth-amendment state-government 1. Whether due process extends to the State government opting to assign an indigent petitioner appointed counsel on discretionary Review and if due pr…
22-6476 Robert Fratta v. Texas Texas 2023-01-06 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard selective-disclosure state-procedural-ground texas-code-criminal-procedure Whether § 5(a)(1) is an adequate and independent state procedural ground to bar review of a Brady claim where the petitioner discovers new exculpatory…
22-6471 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether Mr. PARKS improperly WAS DENIED A REVIEW IN EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE of COUNSEL AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT 24p District Court UNDER. J 28 U.…
22-6463 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction brady-violation certificate-of-appealability district-court-jurisdiction due-process eighth-circuit-court exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel title-28-usc-2253 title-28-usc-2255 Did the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to deny or address the claims raised on Johnson's Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253 in his request for a…
22-6453 Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing reneged on the plea bargain. Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced. Whether a restitution h…
22-607 Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh Sixth Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue…
22-600 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-standard brady-claim brady-rule exculpatory-evidence gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus napue-claim napue-rule panetti-v-quarterman Is the stringent second-and-successive gatekeeping standard under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b), which some circuits have applied to after-acquired Brady/Napue …
22-6425 Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability?
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…
22-6417 Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling Surgte bo cfe£ CQ mode 0/0^QOTLt&zhe ^wve //ujruiW suclnC.C ncujr'n S kmc ? 3. wUe-Hoer- 4^e AisfricV ccu^rV oWsei) Ai'scn^en iVuiV^r> Hr. o^pomVtw…
22-6408 Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority Is the state of Michigan in the Absence of Statutory Authority. See 18 U.S.C. 9 3584 (a) Petitioner was Already subject to the state sentences. Petiti…
22-6406 William James Truesdale v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied IFP appellate-filing-fee certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit filing-fee habeas-corpus pro-se-petition standing Whether petitioner Truesdale owes the District Court Clerk the docketing and filing fee in order to obtain a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") from…
22-587 Maurice Andrews v. District Attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice-standard sixth-amendment structural-error trial-counsel Whether, in the context of habeas proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, the failure of trial counsel to object to a jury instruction which does not cont…
22-581 Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable Ninth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession 1. Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c), like Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3)(B), allows admission of an out-of-court statement against penal intere…
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner "fairly present " federal nature of his claim on direct appeal where he cites to a lone Florida Supreme Court case that cites to, …
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Gakuba's one—and only—§2254 habeas petition was not "frivolous" rendering the USCA-7's sanction against Gakuba of "$500" and bar from any future feder…
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Question not identified.
22-6370 Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT VIOLATED PRECEDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCED IN MILLER-EL V. COCKRELL 537 U.S. 3…
22-6369 In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey 2022-12-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing Should this court use its power to grant A writ of habeas Corpus to A Moorish American Sovereign Man who has No Available Forum to raise his compellin…
22-6362 Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination 1. Did the Court of Criminal APPeals of Texas and the US. Direraet Court Northeen Distact of Texas San AnGelo Division, eRe bi decidrna the merits of …
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen…
22-6360 Tyrell Hart v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process false-confessions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial • Tie lower federal and state courts unreasonably applied tiis Court's ioldings finding tiat Hart was sot da?ted affective assistance of counsel regar…
22-6357 Clifton Raye v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Petitioner's rights under 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when trial counsel was ineffective? Did the State and Federal …
22-6349 Daniel Nepomuceno v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights credibility-determination due-process federal-habeas guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-post-conviction-proceedings Could reasonable jurists debate whether a state court's dispositive credibility determination regarding federal constitutional rights, based on a writ…
22-6355 Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing 1) whether the Ninth Circwit's 10-7.22, ORDER,granting Respondent's motion To Revoke In Forma Pauperi's under 28 U.S.C.8 1915(g),Three strikes provisi…
22-6356 Tyler Nees v. Oregon Oregon 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court Question not identified.
22-569 In Re Christopher Dunn 2022-12-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) actual-innocence clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process freestanding-actual-innocence habeas-corpus lincoln-v-cassady missouri post-conviction-relief 1. Is it cruel and unusual punishment and a substantive due process violation for an innocent man to remain in prison? 2. Is the claim of freestandin…
22-6332 In Re James Vandivere 2022-12-19 Denied IFP adam-walsh-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se-petition 1. Is Petitioner entitled to immediate Requested Relief when the originating party offers no claim(s) of De facto injury, presents no "Case " or "Co…
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Has the State Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas adjudication to dismiss petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus contrary to or involve an unreasonable app…
22-6320 Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. Maryland 2022-12-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition ko (c^V '+U*L lo<*J £v' Courts & rr& r >/o dfc/ oo^- noe.ei'-t* ie burcJe, 7 oy: e£-fc,bhsh '"^ -ffae nesponcU^)-$ cLt-uh£r*\L£ fnd((^-C&ren {&- /-? …
22-6298 Antoinne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action equitable-tolling failure-to-state-a-claim habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings heck-doctrine legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations 1. May a legal malpractice cause of action be dismissed for a failure to state a claim, in pursuant to the "Heck Doctrine" (Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.…
22-6296 Martin A. Lewis v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-claim civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-rule-civil-procedure-60 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rose-v-lundy rule-60 strickland-v-washington united-states-v-castro (1) Whether Petitioner Lewis habeas petition should be re-opened where Petitioner was denied Due Process of Law contrary to United States v. Castro, 5…
22-540 Paul Anthony Riojas v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court-standards civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review military-court-review military-justice service-member standard-of-review In Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953), this Court addressed the scope of review the civil courts must apply when considering a service member's habe…
22-536 Eliezer Alberto Jimenez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice unconstitutional-conditions waiver-of-rights This case presents a recurring constitutional question of exceptional importance. The Court has said in a variety of contexts that "the government may…
22-6278 Daniel Patrick Degoto v. William S. Bohrer, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-12-12 Granted Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-challenge legal-representation lower-court-decision prison-conditions standing supreme-court Question not identified.
22-6277 Paul E. Pavulak v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-bar rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) section-2255 successive-petition 1. When a petitioner challenges a procedural bar in his 2255 which based on a fraud on the court, may a District Court Judge dismiss this motion as a …
22-6262 Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by Summarily Affirmance of Petitioner Patel's 2241 Writ of Hab…
22-6263 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-standards standing takings Question not identified.
22-6268 David Miller, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and deny Miller his due process rights under the Fifth a…
22-6274 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights content-provider criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process free-speech habeas-corpus internet-immunity internet-service-provider-liability section-230 standing What is the correct way for the Government to correct its prosecution and answer as in etc. Are the Government and courts acting within their Questi…
22-6276 Lester S. Barney v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se-representation self-representation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether, because the state court unreasonably determined that Lester S. Barney ("Barney") did not clearly and unequivocally assert his right to pro…
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas 2022-12-08 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 183rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus when Petitioner's trial and ap…
22-6242 William Burke v. Jerry Jefferson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act cumulative-errors due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-trial-rights right-to-jury-trial strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and all previous courts, fail to adhere to the 'required' standard of review set forth in Strickland v. Wash…
22-6237 Orlando Dean Hobbs v. Clinton Bryant Sixth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearm-rights habeas-corpus restoration-of-rights statutory-interpretation Was the Habeas Corpus in this case Effectively Suspended in this case? when the officers of the courts knew the petitioner's civil rights were restore…
22-6234 Rex Gainey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-law covid-19 covid-19-impact district-court-discretion habeas-corpus prison-law-library pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Should district courts adopt an approach that allows for the holistic consideration of all the circumstances accompanying a petitioner's late filing w…
22-6229 In Re Steven B. Turner 2022-12-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus remedy remedy-unavailable state-prisoner supreme-court-holding (1) Whether application of 28 U.S.G. 2244(b)(1) and (2) in this case violates U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 9, cl. 2, where the adjudication of a federal …
22-6226 James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion petitioner habeas corpus petition on "Presumption Of Correctness" an mandate…
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review 1. Whether a habeas petitioner "fairly presents" the "substance" of his federal claim in state court by identifying the relevant facts and the relevan…
22-6219 Bruce Wood v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability coa conflict-with-court-precedent due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60 rule-60-motion 1. When Petitioner's exculpatory evidence infers an innocent man is imprisoned, did the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court endorse a Fundamental…
22-6206 Albert Holland, Jr. v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judgments judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing whether when the Lower courts jurisdiction LAcKed the scotus will Notice the deFect. 2. whether is required COA to APPEAL A deNiAL OF A District Cour…
22-6207 Anika George v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
22-6204 Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance Question not identified.
22-6203 Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error I. HABEAS 28 USC § 2254; CERT. OF APPEAL. 28 USC §2253; F.R. CIV. P. RULE 60(B)(6) Per Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 US 524, 125 S. Ct. 2641 (2005), Gakub…
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…
22-6183 James Bauhaus v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP brady-v-md brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial false-conviction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review Does congress illegally nullify the Due Process amendment and the Fair Trial Guarantee of the Supreme Law of this Land by forcing innocent convictees …
22-6184 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling WHETHER THE DECISIONS OF THE COURTS BELOW OUGHT TO BE SUMMARILY REVERSED AND THE CASE REMANDED TO THE COURT OF APPEALS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REMAND THE…
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order for petitioner's B2254 petition final in that it actually adjudicated petitioner's (capital) jury Claim, vi Amendment V…
22-6186 Michael Andrew Jace v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-deadlines civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus look-through-presumption post-conviction-relief rule-60b time-limits 1. Is Rule 60(b) available as a means of providing relief to an individual who missed the appellate deadlines in Rule 4(a)(1) and Rule 4(a)(5)? 2. Ca…
22-6199 In Re Cornell White 2022-12-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition 1. Can a federal district or appeals court deny habeas corpus relief without factual finding on the record, that a states asserted procedural default …
22-6200 In Re Terry Lopez 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus innocent-owner-doctrine standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings Whether the abuse of direction and mistake of Law perpetuated by The Fifth Circuit Runs afoul of the Supreme court honing in Timbs v. Indiana, Februar…
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
22-6177 Sanders McDaniel Carter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-vs-maryland certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus rule-60 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard tha…
22-6179 Brandon J. Office v. Marcus Myers Fifth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP charging-document constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence motion-to-correct sentencing 1. Was the Petitioner entitled to Habeas Corpus Relief, where the Petitioner properly raised a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence ? 2. Was the Pet…
22-6182 Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion liberty-interest procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation 1.) An important Question in the Administration of Justice, which has the potential to effect a large number of american citizens, is: "Does the U.S. …
22-507 Tyson Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonabl-jurists-debate reasonable-jurists Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claim (i.…
22-6156 Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel Whether the California courts' unreasonable refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, combin…
22-6129 Artak Ovsepian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United…
22-6153 Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review 1. What is the correct mechanism and procedure which would allow a petitioner to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court pursuant to Miller …
22-6136 Juan Martin Figueroa v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation compulsory-process due-process ethical-standards fair-trial habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the Prosecutor Deprived Figueroa of Due Process, Compulsory Process, and a Fair Trial by Intentionally Misleading Defense Counsel?
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS CERTIORARI JURISDICTION IN ORDER TO REVIEW A CLAIM THAT FLORIDA COURTS OF APPEALS DO NOT PROVIDE FOR EVIDENTIAR…
22-485 Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v…
22-487 Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation under the "prevailing norms" of the American Bar Ass…
22-6116 Edmund Lowell Fields v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure complainant-access constitutional-provisions due-process great-writ habeas-corpus judicial-malfeasance judicial-misconduct judicial-review standing statutory-provisions SHOULD THE COMPLAINANT BE DENIED ACCESS TO THE GREAT WRIT BECAUSE OF JUDICIAL MALFEASANCE?
22-6119 Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-abandonment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision 1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in its application of the constitutional standard for the denial of a motion for reconsideration based on the pe…
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing What inhibits a Court of Appeals' discretion to invoke the waiver doctrine? Whether a court of appeals should apply the waiver doctrine to a litigant…
22-6089 Heeralall Puran v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus math-mistake time-limitation untimely-petition Whether Petitioner Puran Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether Equitable Tolling Should Apply to Permit an Untimely Ha…
22-6091 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment More than four decades ago, this Court held that it is crucial that the jury be allowed to hear evidence of a defendant's positive adjustment to priso…
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment? QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court …
22-6055 Murray Hooper v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-15 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Once the state has admitted that material exculpatory evidence exists, does it have a duty to provide a defendant access to that evidence?
22-6061 Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct In a habeas case involving a first degree murder conviction, whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effe…
22-457 Peter Whyte v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-claim federal-constitution federal-law habeas-corpus material-facts plain-statement state-pleading-standard state-procedural-rule 1. Whether a state court's dis missal of a habeas petitioner's claim under the U.S. Con stitution for failure to plead sufficient "material facts" und…
22-6045 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus prisoner-rights I. CONSIDERING A PRISONER'S RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM WRONGFUL RESTRAINTS UPON THEIR LIBERTY, DOES 28 U.S.C. § 2254 PROVIDE WHILE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS…
22-6029 Aaron Scurlock v. Tiffanie Clark Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process falsification habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct trial-transcript By granting the evidence - supported motion for inordinate delay [Appt-D, Dist Doc. 126], the Northern District of Illinois found that the state attor…
22-6025 Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation (1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist…
22-431 Gigi Jordan v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) clearly-established federal-law habeas-corpus public-trial-clause sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application The question presented is whether a federal habeas petitioner seeking relief on the basis of a violation of the Public Trial Clause can demonstrate an…
22-6001 Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Whether, after enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(3) as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a State can forfeit the affir…
22-6005 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process foreign-influence habeas-corpus law-enforcement-abuse official-misconduct political-persecution standing 1. Whether the public officials and the private professionals can help the Chinese communists persecute against a US citizen who is a China democracy …
22-5973 Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. Can Ineffectiveness Or Incompetence Of counsel on Direct review Result In a sixth Amendment violation OF THE ARIZONA And United States Constitution…
22-5957 Calvin Kelsick Wilson v. Tampa Police Department Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus prisoner-claim section-1983 standing statute-of-limitations (s).Th&. tovWfy1l<?&37&* petitioner SeeX to YtfUMh) led to kt$ prosecuti'cm * (n. Petitioner did exhausted his Steste- jtertedieS a£ eefyuYed in hJi…
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5940 Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO DENY SOLIS' MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE?
22-5923 Michael L. Berry v. Illinois Illinois 2022-10-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus identification standing mUeH&Z Thb THfgd VtskcTAffislkle CouIFlikoNoL r&iOhi crnM/NG hcioal mmoobnoe cmssci on /mb rmnm BJidaJce dF /X. 6B0FbB5jj LoFtus ; A le/tch/p BxpbFF …
22-5930 Davon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni…
22-5911 Clark Wesley Betts, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review merits merits-review procedural-order statutory-interpretation Is a certificate of appealability needed to appeal an order unrelated to the merits of a habeas proceeding if that order is part of an order on the me…
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error 1.) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS; TO INCLUDE HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, HIS RIGHT TO DU…
22-5904 Matthew S. Becker v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standards threshold-determination WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD CLARIFY AND RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE STANDARDS TO BE UTILIZED WHEN DECIDING THE THRESHOLD DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO…
22-5910 In Re Mark Lewis 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority - and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance - can render a judgmen…
22-5888 Manolo Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus probable-cause Whether Petitioner was denied his U.S. Constitutional rights to due process based on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal decision conflicting with we…
22-5890 Ronald William Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 Whether the boilerplate waiver of Petitioner's appellate and post-conviction rights contained within his plea agreement bars his claim under 28 U.S.C.…
22-5887 Joseph Michael DeGraw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-construction section-2254 section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Courts should, sua sponte, construe a state prisoner's pro se filed pleadings, in 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 proceedings, citing the w…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 In 1994, this Court held that an individual convicted of a crime may not bring a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim unless "the conviction or sentence has been re…
22-5872 In Re Benjamin Cole 2022-10-20 Denied IFP competency death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness original-jurisdiction Whether the State of Oklahoma may execute Benjamin Cole while he is incompetent to be executed, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments t…
22-5873 Nicholas Levi Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-materials one-year-time-limit prison-lockdown Did the district error in holding that defendant violated AEDPA's one-year time limit for filing §2255 motion, even though prison was locked-down with…
22-5871 Timothy Steel v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied IFP anders-v-california constitutional-error direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari 1. IS THE PETITIONER ENTITLED TO BE PROVIDED THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF SUCCESSOR COUNSEL IN ACCORD WITH DUE PROCESS OF LAW, THEREBY OVERCOMING THE O…
22-5850 Justin Michael Fenney v. Tracy Beltz, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied IFP 2253-statute 28-usc-2253 appellate-relief certificate-of-appealability conviction factual-support federal-court-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § about the denial of relief where there remains no factual support for…
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination I, UketW OKlakomo, Court ef tf'un'aai Appeals t)e./uaj of ft ttesc-e-alaivt of An En ftelM U1c-K.a4a.1i Sm^n'-s Subject-Matter TvtrUA\^\on Lieu rn In …
22-5862 Gregory Ramos v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-circuit sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's determination that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel consistent with the Sixth A…
22-358 Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply "double deference" to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner …
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure n/mWA' s We \\me\h foe Orcieto^9\ oV^ ok\ Z% VjSiC, ZZ5^ viaVof Kcv\D |2JpiS Cor^^S f lf3v>^ c\eo^vhi-a^ WsSicyvKs^ "Yo YncvWkSONi AJiqW^ oW ©2 STOPS'…
22-5834 Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error 1) WHETHER MR. TORRES WAS ENTITLED TO RELIEF OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING, ON HIS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHERE TH…
22-5802 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler /QUESTION # ONE: The sixth circuit is in direct conflict with marfcinez V RYAN 566 U.S.413 and TREVINO V THALER 569 U.S.l. Is a petioner Precluded -f…
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a st…
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5822 Eric S. Ray v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-extradition jurisdiction uniform-criminal-extradition-act 1. Petitioner ask this Court for consideration on the narrow issue of jurisdiction relevant to two major points in this case. The initial proceedings…
22-5824 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings Question not identified.
22-5801 Steven Nelson Murray v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver procedural-default sixth-amendment When a criminal defendant must make a personal decision whether to waive a fundamental constitutional right, does an attorney provide deficient perfor…
22-5785 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas 2022-10-07 Denied IFP attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent 1) IN LIGHT OF THE SHINN v. MARTINEZ RAMIREZ RULING, ARE STATE COURTS NOW REQUIRED TO ACCEPT AND RULE ON THE MERITS OF CLAIMS PRESENTED IN WRITS OF H…
22-5794 Glen Jones Ward v. Alberto Ramirez, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing timeliness Question not identified.
22-5780 James F. Snyder v. Washington Washington 2022-10-06 Denied IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing Question not identified.
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…
22-5762 Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona Arizona 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T?
22-5720 Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco…
22-5734 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from …
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Did the appellate court err in assessing the legal significance of the sworn Affidavits tending to exonerate the petitioner, and deny the petitioner h…
22-5742 Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti Second Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits 1) Petitioner respectfully request that this Honorable Court revisit it's holding in Martinez v Court of Appeal of California Fourth Appellate Dist. 5…
22-315 Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting…
22-5725 Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-5727 Antonio Garrett v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction section-2254 WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING GARRETT A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON HIS 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2254 HABEAS CLAIM OF IN…
22-5712 Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation 1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appeal to the Petitioner [Edmond Morgan]? 2. Should …
22-5718 Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden Georgia 2022-09-29 Granted IFP conflict-free-assistance-of-counsel cumulative-error due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Question One: Prior iu February iu, 2020, Georgia [Supreme Court] Iiau repeatedly held iliai although the combined effects of trial counsel's errors …
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl…
22-5703 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 824 U.S. 473 (2008) standard for a court of appeals to decline to issue a certificate o…
22-5705 Lateef Alagbada v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order criminal-defendant criminal-procedure extradition final-judgment-rule habeas-corpus international-law pretrial-order repatriation Whether a pretrial order denying a motion for repatriation of an incarcerated criminal defendant falls within the exception to the final judgment rule…
22-5699 In Re Thomas George Craaybeek 2022-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing takings WAS THE OPINION STRUCK COST OF APPEALS SUCH THAT EXTRA CIRCUIT SPLIT BY SUPREME COURT VIOLATED MCCULLENT TO COLLAR HE EASE PREDLINE SET EM BOM THAT SV…
22-5700 Eric E. Johnson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-protections X IktHd cffafe? toujjr&f debuaL optetjfkc C^u^fHidioml fyklHt df[e apt tffipcal? ik dittzd 7 viol&hok, krd'-Hte /7/rd/ hiM^udupertkofi diet C^iptdHttd…
22-5675 Larry Gapen v. Ohio Ohio 2022-09-23 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-evidence federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus juror-misconduct lex-talionis state-procedural-rules When state courts prevent a capital defendant from obtaining the formal process necessary to substantiate severe constitutional violations in his tria…
22-5651 In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El 2022-09-22 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment Question not identified.
22-5666 Arturo Cano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing 1. Whether being pro se versus being represented by counsel at the state initial collateral proceeding is a determinative factor for obtaining withdra…
22-5635 Vladimir Vladimirovic Brik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process federal-procedure gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance material-evidence second-petition successive-petition Are second-in-time petitions raising newly discovered material Brady violations "second or seccessive" within the meaning of §2255(h)'s gatekeeping pr…
22-5642 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari 1. Is A Person In Custody For The Purpose Of Either 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 If The Individual Is Still Under A Direct Consequence From Th…
22-5643 Derek Lee Casey, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-09-21 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing trial-counsel Question not identified.
22-5616 In Re Deonte Jenkins 2022-09-20 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim political-hostage sovereign-rights treaty-rights Whether this Court under its power to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus can aid an American Sovereign man, if he has no available forum to raise his claim…
22-5627 Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas Texas 2022-09-20 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent Can ft Lauiyen haue. his Client PieaCuibty -ho OS'years on ft Statutory maximum OP Zo years* ovftt'R TEXAS Lal/. Can ft Court Re Fuse ho Homor ft u …
22-5629 Saul Williams v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing supreme-court HOI SOUTH CAROLLNA SUPREME: COUQT COMMITTED ERROR WHEN IT DIMISS PETITOWEC REQUEST TO FILE A WRIT OF HABOAS- COXPALS FoR ENMoOn DS TO THE FAET THAT AO…
22-5608 Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts Question not identified.
22-5609 Herve Wilmore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review case-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-delegation procedural-issue Whether the Exception to the Law of the Case Doctrine Permits a defendant to relitigate an issue that was erroneously decided by the U.S. Court of App…
22-5596 Roberta Ronique Bell v. Warden, FCI Dublin Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2241-relief actual-innocence co-conspirator due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-due-process separate-proceedings WHETHER THE DENIAL OF AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING IN SUPPORT OF § 2241 RELIEF CAN BE BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RECORD DEVELOPED BY AN ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATOR…
22-5587 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability ("COA") from a specifically chosen circuit judge? …
22-5565 Fedner Pierre-Louis v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability debatable-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE RULING OF THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IS CONTRARY TO CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW WHERE THE COURT FAILED TO GRANT A…
22-5581 Alfonso Ponton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 castro-v-united-states castro-warning district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's recharacterization of a prior pro se pleading as a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition without the warnings required by…
22-239 Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition When a court of appeals authorizes adjudication of a claim in a second or successive habeas petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), is the distr…
22-5557 David Laurence Hodges v. William Bolin, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
22-5542 Johnny A. Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP capital-cases certificate-of-appealability cumulative-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington wiggins-claim Wiggins-v-Smith 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained summary denials of certificates of appealability in capital cases conflicts with 28 U.…
22-5548 In Re David Moore 2022-09-12 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-court-jurisdiction successive-petition successive-petitions unconstitutional-conviction 1. Did Congress intend to preclude as successive under the AEDPA a state prisoner habeas claim that he is held unconstitutionally upon conviction and …
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…
22-5555 Denni Valdez v. Eckert Stewart, Warden Second Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process en-banc-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rehearing-en-banc 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process by not issuing a Certificate of Appealability or granting a hearin…
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In Persuasive Authority Leading Case on Point Hamilton V. Alabama 368 U,S.52,(1961). The Supreme Court of the United States Reversed. In an opinion by…
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 1. Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitione…
22-5523 Lawrence Gaines v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions no-adverse-inference strategic-decision trial-counsel I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT REVERSED THE WELL REASONED DECISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT WHICH HELD THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE …
22-5524 Deandre Johnson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus petition-for-writ standing unlawful-detention Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision denying petitioner's writ of mandamus is in direct conflict with decisions of this Court and other circuits rega…
22-5533 Dario Pinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY CONSIDER THE APPROPRIATE FACTORS PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) BEFORE DENYING MR. PINSON'S MOTION F…
22-5537 Joseph William Rendon v. Iowa Iowa 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was provided effective Assistance of Counsel
22-5519 Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial conviction and habeas corpus proceedings raises Kareem Stansbury's pressing issues of national importance; Whether, and to what extent the criminal ju…
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…
22-5516 Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused…
22-5502 In Re Artis Carroll 2022-09-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment legal-representation mental-health right-to-counsel "Conflict foumse a sy 2.0 gyer Me: dole ntlan mi? 6 ons ANd cnnainsy he, d 2yonsl . w4 * sass We: Aefeose Counse! js_ achye ying 4o hove He defendant …
22-5503 Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons…
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
22-5506 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS' DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS TO A FAIR ' TRIAL DURING HIS 2009 CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE JUDICIAL'DISTRICT OF…
22-5478 Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings Did the Ninth Circuit depart from the fourth, accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding when it ruled that clear and convincing evidence (in th…
22-5483 In Re Frank Michael Monte 2022-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration sentencing 1. Constitutionality of Petitioner's incarceration.
22-5495 Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did thh Fifth Circuit erred in adapting to the district court finding that petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently and…
22-5467 Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk ERR in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its face and then file it into the ap…
22-5473 Nuzzio Begaren v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-informant disclosure-requirements due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Orange County District Attorney's Unlawful Scheme to Secretly Use and Failure to Disclose a Criminal Informant Violated Brady ?
22-5475 Merlin Williams v. Burl Cain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
22-5476 John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers 1. Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when it concluded that Petitioner suffered no prejudice…
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's "unreasonable determination of the facts" clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5450 Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Question not identified.
22-5439 In Re Tyvon Montrey Spencer El-Bey 2022-08-24 Denied IFP brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge political-sovereignty racial-discrimination standing Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus for Tyven Mendvey Spencer-e/-Bey, an American Sovereign on that has compelling claim?
22-5443 Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation Reason For Question #1 There exist a ConFliat Among United States Circuit Counts On Whether the Immenent Danger oF 28 U.S.C. 3 1915(g) aPPly to at the…
22-5432 Terence Valentine v. Florida Florida 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-development habeas-corpus jury-trial jury-verdict state-courts Whether, when deciding if it should allow a defendant an opportunity to present evidence of actual innocence, a state court must, in conformance with …
22-5434 Zane D. Crowder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence child-protection forensic-interview gateway-standard habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence mcquiggin-v-perkins new-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations Whether the new evidence relied upon by the Petitioner – which admi ttedl y is impeachment evidence – meets the gateway actual innocence standard set …
22-5411 Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
22-5412 Clifton Lee Tribble v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection habeas-corpus judicial-review police-procedure standing witness-testimony Question not identified.
22-5420 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-circuit civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure writ-of-error 1. Whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals made an error of Law when is failed to protect the 14th Amendment. 2. Whether the 4th Circuit contradicte…
22-5397 Trenton J. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-safeguards unlawful-detention Whether reasonable suspicion existed to the level required to detain Petitioner for a 'dog sniff'
22-5398 In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson 2022-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-sanctions habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant standing state-corrective-process state-court-appeals WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT CAN CONSTITUTIONALLY IMPOSE SANCTIONS UPON A PRO SE PETITIONER WHEN SUCH A PETITIONER IS WITHOUT AN AVAILABLE STATE CORRECT DU…
22-5402 Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing Question not identified.
22-5407 In Re James R. Austin 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent miscarriage-of-justice procedural-mechanism rule-60b-motion standing supreme-court supreme-court-holding 1. WHETHER THE HIGH COURT'S HOLDING IN GONZALEZ VS. CROSBY, 545 U.S. 524,528,125 S.Ct. 2641,162 L.Ed.2d 480 (2005) CONTROLS AND IS MANDATED TO BE FOLL…
22-5379 Thomas Powers v. Krista Wilcoxen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Question not identified.
22-5384 In Re Randell Joseph Redmond 2022-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
22-5359 Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike, without following the three-step pr…
22-5368 Kultar S. Goraya v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED AN IMPROPER HEIGHTENED STANDARD UNDER SLACK V. MCDANIAL, 120 S.Ct 1595 at 1604 (2000) AND BUCK V…
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement 1). If the record in this case contains two "written waivers" of counsel, and one request to proceed pro se by counsel, prior to voir dire. But, the r…
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Does Slock Burge # vs, united States^py u.s,^ CM33P DPPlt To my Cnss? Dou&is ieoPARoy DOES BzRCWFXELD CSJ CONCuRRETfRuLlNOS reply To roy CASE? Birckf…
22-5339 Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law if ame^tleyl <£i/^r Gvudc-T -a Jk^encfoui tUui* r an fFHciregj o-r i wc^'wiploTle Le^s^. fl*£fx r wial v 1/ (xl do-eAfVclujd^/ cJv&ytj e_ Uik urn chc…
22-5341 Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied IFP alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1) Did the State Violate Supreme Court precedent of Apprendi v. New Jersey and Alleyne v. United States by having a sentencing judge not the jury make…
22-5343 In Re Quelyory A. Rigal 2022-08-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment 1. Whether a non-unanimous verdict in C.D.FL. # 0:12-cr-60088-WPD, in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment, is plain error, reversible…
22-5329 Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner condemned to be executed in violation of the Eighth Amendment because he was found not to b…
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (1). Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment Rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim…
22-5312 Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment (1) When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, according to state and clearly established federal law as determined by this co…
22-5321 William S. Divine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation 1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19 safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of §2…
22-5261 Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert District of Columbia 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation 3., Do&S "fye Aw£i>PA 6-f N/ibloAe- 4*V\C Ce>n5454i£>in 0-f 4~ln£- l)n\4ed Skk^ i5^ a/\J 6^&wevoJoi-evv4- 'J Sp^C\§i c\\j fV^£, Ist Ostno^.^ ime/it Ju…
22-5309 Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
22-5279 Abdulhakim Muhammad v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congressmen-letter due-process federal-jurisdiction foreign-terrorist-organization habeas-corpus national-defense-authorization-act new-evidence standing statute-of-limitations 28 U.S.C§ 2244 (d§ () One-Year STATUTE OF LIMITATION even though including New laws that were passed BY CONGRESS
22-5281 Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-08-04 Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus as the issue was one of law instead it applied R…
22-5289 Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Petitioner Phillip A. Brown II respectfully petitions this Court for a Writ of Certiorari to review the judgement of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal…
22-5290 In Re Phillip A. Brown, II 2022-08-04 Denied IFP circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether The Circuit Court Must Recall The Mandate In Extraordinary Cases Where It Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over A Final Judgment Resultin…
22-5291 Barton Ray Gaines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists recusal rule-60b-motion standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether GAINES made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). And whether reasonable jurists could deba…
22-5292 Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation I < £upr&mZ' Court of -Me U/i/icJ Cfl/fa CjUidc( ifleS rcjAircfifa) fke. mofcriVl ferm. ^-tafa 4^<d iS i/nfaW Ia>/A~ iV) 4-he prov//sion«3 of 3$ [^/S'…
22-5293 Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States First Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers 1.- Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability(C.O.A.), where petitioner sought review…
22-5294 Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing 1 [QUESTION ONE]: DOES THIS COURT HAVE [JURISDICTION & POWER]- TO GRANT CERTIORARI-EXCUSED LIMITION BAR AN CORRECT FUNDAMETAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE…
22-5268 Anthony Peters v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus limitations-defense petition-dismissal procedural-timeliness state-court-review state-courts timeliness (1) Whether a federal court lacks authority, on its own initiative, to dismiss a habeas petition as untimely, once the State's highest court has answe…
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?
22-5251 Levonne Jomarrio Greer v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement plea-bargaining sham-plea-bargaining sham-tactics DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN…
22-5255 Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition 1.) Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Err in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as Untim…
22-5256 In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan 2022-08-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error Q: Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue? The petitioner is incarcerated despite Structural Error, Viola…
22-5263 Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review I. WhetherWAs the Courtof Appeal's decision that Petitioner's trial Counsel told the jury degree of murder was Suficient, is the Petitioner entitled t…
22-5269 Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G…
22-5240 Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire I. WHETHER OR NOT THE EQUITABLE TOLLING, THE MAILBOX RULE ENTITLES PETITIONER FOR RELIEF WHEN THE SUPREME COURT, AS WELL AS THE LOWER COURTS ACCORD DE…
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b 1) Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability ("COA") to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds? 2)…
22-5224 In Re Alfred Lane-Bey 2022-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus human-rights jurisdictional-challenge moorish-american native-american-rights sovereign-citizen sovereign-immunity standing 1. Should this Court use its power to grant Writ of Habeas Corpus to a MOOR American SOVEREIGN MAN who was not on international laws jurisdiction and …
22-5225 Craig Anthony Ross v. Ron Bloomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied IFP aider-and-abettor aiding-and-abetting cabana-v-bullock death-penalty enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-first-degree ninth-circuit-review shared-intent 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err under Title 28, United States Code, Section 2254(d)(1) in affirming that the jury instructions given by the California Su…
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 …
22-5200 Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard QUESTION ONE: IN FILING FOR A COA, CAN A SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE RECORD BY AN INDIGENT BE CONSIDERED A SUBSTANTIVE PART OF DEMONSTRATING "A SUBSTA…
22-5201 Jurel Dion Roberson v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest ninth-circuit state-courts state-created-liberty-interest When the State Courts denied Petitioner Wis state created becky interest, LAS i¢ error to deny the Cerhficate of Appealability im the Ninth Circult?
22-5202 In Re Tavon Dameon Davis 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals (Fourth Circuit) to remand this case to the district court without delay to hol…
22-5207 Brandon L. Cooper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel One: Whether Petitioner presented a sulstantial showing of neuly discovered factual actual innocence in this case? I he lower court's desision was bas…
22-5184 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Do a paritiones need to dotom oO Ccattifitate of appestabdrtity Sear the duriol of oe Civ via bo (b) motion 2 O13 sho couct of AppaUmls properly appl…
22-5189 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-default rule-60b-motion (1) Whether the district court abused its discretion when it denied Abdulrazzak's motion to reopen (alter or amend) final judgment under Fed. R. Civ. …
22-5193 Shaidon Blake v. Maryland Maryland 2022-07-26 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard Vv^vci+t\e Caucus use rVs irrWpuAaV* on' QftA appWtoA\6r\ &F cW\ o,aA y, WetsW* n In pe-VI Vione.0 £ASc. c*UiOtj A"HoCaty& t^c6 SS ecfcC \r\«A *<^. D…
22-5173 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brecht certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-determination rule-60(b) state-court-prejudice This petition presents two important issues concerning a state court's prejudice determination on direct review, 28 U.S.C. §2254(d); and the appropria…
22-5177 William Eugene Moon v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations trial-delay Was the Defendant denied a speedy trial?
22-5179 Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings 1) Should the U.S. Supreme Court grant a Certificate of Appealability in light of this Court's decisions and the Petitioner's three §2255 application …
22-64 Samuel Arrington v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process excessive-force false-arrest false-imprisonment habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-agreement 1. Whether Heck applies to a former prisoner who was ineligible to challenge his subsequent conviction through federal habeas while he was incarcerate…
22-63 Antoin Deneil Marshal v. Texas Texas 2022-07-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches prosecutorial-misconduct reconsideration standing I. Whether the TCCA's application of the equitable doctrine of laches constitutes an independent and adequate state law ground that bars review of pet…
22-5152 In Re Jerry N. Alfred 2022-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment WHETHER A TEMPORARY EXCEPTION EXISTS TO CITE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S UPLE HOLDING THAT A CRIMINAL CONVICTION USING USE OF FALSE EVIDENCE "MUST F…
22-5155 In Re Donald Williams 2022-07-22 Denied IFP cage-v-louisiana cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan out-of-time-appeal writ-of-appeal 1) Whether the facts of Cockeiham and Petitioner Williams are exactly the same for purpose of out of time appeal and application of Cage to their conv…
22-5164 Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield Fourth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. Whether ar noit the Agooals Court Tuliwg deprived patittonor oF his Tight under Braoly V. Maryland. Su pra.where tne Government had Violated is obl…
22-5166 In Re DeVinche Javon AlBritton 2022-07-22 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law due-process federal-appeals federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus procedural-standard standing (1) Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit evaluating a 28 U.S.C. § 2244 Motion for authorization to file a Second or Succes…
22-5138 Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als…
22-5140 Nolberto Lemus v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard Question not identified.
22-5116 Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance After this Court struck down the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual cause in 2015, the Fifth Circuit granted Mr. Vickers permission to file a "secon…
22-5106 Kalvin Lamar Washington v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-14 Denied IFP acquittal court-forms criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner jury-trial state-prosecution statutory-provisions Question not identified.
22-5090 Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
22-5070 Lane Walker Waldron v. Texas Texas 2022-07-12 Denied IFP attorney-credibility constitutional-rights conviction-reversal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED IN CONCLUDING PETITIONER WAS NOT DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHEN HIS T…
22-5079 Steven Martinez v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4001(a) constitutional-rights detention-authority false-imprisonment habeas-corpus indefinite-detention prison-program-statement-5380.06 sentencing-review void-judgment void-judgment-and-commitment DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT APPLY THE WRONG MODEL FORM MOTION TO VACATE, SET ASIDE, OR CORRECT SENTENCE UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (e);…
22-5062 Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden Third Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a …
22-5066 John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment (1) Does a certificate of appealability ("COA") debatability review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) mean that the COA panel may deny debatability of…
22-5049 Percy Love, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation Whether an extension to file a 2255 petition is "properly filed" under Artuz v. Bennet? Where petitioner was pursuing his rights diligently during th…
22-28 Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. California 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing 1. Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of Constitution pursu…
22-5047 Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel when trial counsel misadv…
22-5036 Raleigh Figueras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2106 circuit-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review objective-standard prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. When a circuit court unambiguously and erroneously applies a subjective standard in assessing whether a habeas petitioner has established the preju…
22-5038 Kevin Lee Kennedy v. Dan Watts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-5039 Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review 1. FOR PURPOSES OF RECEIVING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FROM THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, HAS A "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A REA…
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari 1. Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance? 2. Are juries entitled to factual answers once aski…
22-5045 Shaheed Scott, Sr., aka Rodney L. Scott v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights confinement-challenge due-process early-release habeas-corpus parole parole-hearing procedural-defect Did the Ninth Circuit Court properly deny habeas petition where petitioner made substantial showing requirement at -least- described a burden that the…
22-5030 Paul John Denham v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-07-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-protections due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-bias post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Where a Criminal defendant has a postconviction habeas petition alleging the district attorney's office engaged in Brady/Napve multiple intentional vi…
22-5013 In Re Megan Kyte 2022-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment due-process false-arrest fourth-amendment habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure sixth-amendment unreasonable-search 1. Was petitioner denied her Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution right to a pro se habeas corpus in the US district of Oregon? 2. Was petitione…
21-8244 In Re Dominic M. Franza 2022-06-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest statutory-relief unconstitutional-imprisonment WHEN A PETITIONER'S IMPRISONMENT AS CONCEDED IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN A PETITIONER IS BEING HELD AND PUNISHED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW INFRINGING ON…
21-8259 In Re Johnny Brett Gregory 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari on 2^ 2o2.\ , o-F * / fl/ot/ ct 0-£ h'lt*y ,o4 7'or-i cUt/rts- flc-t [FT cA) rel"tvu /o OhArtat 7Ay /A 1 n (rr*-yry V, Ur\AA /cr$ub/r\ J$6/o^\ . -f…
21-8265 Michael S. Gorbey v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-8280 James Michael Forney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process electronic-dockets federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-notice procedural-dismissal rule-4 section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, 28 U.S.C. foll. § 2254, which prohibits a district court from dismissing a habeas corpus pet…
21-8284 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-report habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus obstruction-of-justice writ-of-mandamus WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ISSUE THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO MANDATE THE LOWER COURT'S REVIEW OF A FORENSIC REPORT SURROUNDING PETITIONER'S SUBSTANT…
21-8267 Dave Lawrence v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP equitable-tolling habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief retroactive-constitutional-right retroactivity time-limitation I. Whether the United States Supreme Court decision recognizing ineffective assistance of counsel claims for criminal defense counsels failure to advi…
21-8257 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(l) when the government by locking down the defend…
21-8249 Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation I. Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the principle of party presentation by adjudicating a habeas corpus petition under § 28 U.S.C…
21-1601 Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas Texas 2022-06-28 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (7) capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict…
21-8228 Angel Daniel Caraballo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health sworn-testimony Question (1) WHETHER DEFENDANT IS ENTITLED TO A COMPETENCY HEARING WHERE THE FACE OF THE COURT RECORD REFLECTS THAT THE STATE, DEFENSE COUNSEL AND THE…
21-8226 Eric C. Sutherland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-claim habeas-corpus indictment indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-challenge new-evidence procedural-default schlup-standard schlup-v-delo subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. IF-AN INDICTMENT OMITS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AND A PRISONER FILES A §2255 A FEW MONTHS AFTER AEDPA'S ONE-YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS PASSED, IN …
21-8223 Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Should a 28 USC 224 1 HC (not a 28 USC 2254 HC) be filed in State in which incarcerated or State in which conviction occurred, for a State prisone…
21-8218 Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a dicision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup…
21-8211 Richard Vincent Letizia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-appeals habeas-corpus identity-dispute 1) In the State of Texas, County exhumed without first necessary third judicial to confirm hundreds Identity? Proved by his SWAT testimony and Sworn …
21-8208 Homer Jones v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-nation treaty Is a treaty between Sovereign Nations over an individual States Laws ? Does the United States have jurisdiction over a Sovereign Nation it is NOT at …
21-8206 Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD? II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO…
21-8203 Galina Rytsar v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs Third Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deportation-consequences discovery due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus impeachment-of-witnesses ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right translation Did Appellant receive ineffective assistance of counsel, in violation of her Sixth Amendment Right, beginning at the Bucks County PA Court of Common P…
21-8192 Ronnie L. Thums v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process ex-parte-communications ex-parte-meeting habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias jury-tampering right-to-counsel 1. Whether a judge, sitting on the bench; admitting; not having jurisdiction over an issue, but makes a criminal threat to sue defendant of liable; wh…
21-8186 In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson 2022-06-21 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority district-court due-process filing-refusal habeas-corpus petition-rights pro-se standing WHETHER "THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CLERK WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY AUTHORIZED TO REFUSE TO FILE A PRO SE LITIGANTS PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS, PETIT…
21-8178 Jing Hua Wu v. Eric Arnold, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure I. Jury Misconduct In applying 28 USC § 2254 (d)(1)(2.), both the state Courts' and Federal Courts' decisions were based on an unreasonable determinat…
21-8175 Adrian Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals due-process government-objection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-jurisdiction sua-sponte sua-sponte-review Where the Court of Appeals itself grants a Certificate of Appealability and specifies the issue to be decided, the parties fully brief the merits, and…
21-8153 Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti…
21-8135 Zachary Chandler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sympathy sixth-amendment sympathy-defense trial-strategy I. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE COUNSEL'S DEFENSE STRATEGY WAS TO HAVE CHANDLER WEAR PRISON ATTIRE IN ORDER TO GARNER THE JURY'S SYMPATHY? …
21-8107 Keith Undray Ford v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-interpretation presumption-of-innocence presumption-of-law state-court state-courts 1. When an issue before a state court is resolved by an assumption of fact, as opposed to a factual finding, has the issue before the state court been…
21-8090 Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner 1) Considering that federal habeas courts maintain their power to fashion equitable remedies that allow for review and correction of otherwise barred …
21-8081 Moses Clark v. California California 2022-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Review should be granted, beause the state court failed to bring the defendant before the magistrate within 48-hours after arrest, violating The Fo…
21-1531 Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking I. The jury instructions here permitted conviction for felony "stalking" based merely on the Ardell's communications with third parties about the alle…
21-8066 Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS V. DAYIS , 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 20…
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
21-8056 Earl Lee King v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-impediment standing state-court-action state-created-impediment Has the action by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas in dismissing Petitioner's State Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Violated Article Sec…
21-8055 In Re Shane Jeansonne 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing pul -f-U nrCO(sh SfalcQi of H,V CH&S /* f%VA*Sh M \t> P^{*- H-€ O <\ pztP^<il S-j-PPZ 0/? q^yq/'i^G Unfif °l i $ fOM>\d '\-0 , T^i(\ n\(AcU [v^y-lirp^…
21-8047 Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit I. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR, WHEN IT FAILED TO FIND AS DEBATABLE OR WRONG THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT THE PROSECUTOR'S REFERENCE TOI PETITIONE…
21-8054 Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden Missouri 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation To guarantee fairness, should criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings be provided under the due process clause with a more robust righ…
21-1524 Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied courts-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review objectively-unreasonable precedent standard-of-review state-court unreasonable-manner What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable mann…
21-8024 Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing [QUESTION ONE] Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Ce…
21-8016 John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma…
21-8015 Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether, under § 2254(d), a federal court may "look through" to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoni…
21-8018 Ramon Ortiz Perez v. Giselle Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit search-and-seizure standing supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
21-8008 In Re James Martin Graham 2022-06-01 Denied IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federalism fifth-amendment habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Did the complaint/information or indictment fail to charge an ONE: offense againse the laws ofthe United States, because no jurisdiction has been ced…
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…
21-7987 Keith Rose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining standing 1. In Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018), this Court held that a plea of guilty, without more, does not prevent an individual from having h…
21-1493 James Joseph Knochel v. Amy Fackrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud-on-court habeas-corpus next-friend standing vexatious vexatious-litigant whitmore-standard #1 - Does Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149, require an evidentiary hearing before dismissing a next friend's petition for writ of habeas corpus, or …
21-7973 In Re Roberto Villarreal 2022-05-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization 1. Whether applicant/petitioner, denied certificate of appealabihty for habeas relief from the District Court, has no other court to go to but here. …
21-7972 Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana Indiana 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal DID I HAVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF DIRECT APPELLATE COUNSEL WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL FAILED TO TIMELY NOTIFY ME OF THE DID THE INDUANA COURT OF APPEA…
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan…
21-7961 Patrick Glenn Goodwin v. Marion Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif I cannot generate the question presented or ident please include the full text of the document. please include the full text of the petition. constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus knowing-and-intelligent-waiver right-to-testify 1. Whether and to what extent a trial court must obtain from a defendant an on-the-record waiver of the right to testify in his or her own defense, re…
21-7953 Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's "Judge: Robert L. Miller, de," erred in his decision makin…
21-7936 Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law Does a disabled veterar have a "personal stake, interest, or standing" on seing that his wlthheld 20% bereFit, dve to his incarcerator, recelve a 'spe…
21-7931 John Bailey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prolonged-detention sentencing standing trial-rights Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that petitioner's constitutional claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and whether petitione…
21-7925 Robert Wallace Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing 1) Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability. …
21-7922 Jason Michael Ehret v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-bias rule-11 standing structural-error uncounseled-counsel void-conviction Does an uncounseled guilty plea — where defense counsel was suspended and thus "ineligible to practice in federal court" at that time -- constitute a …
21-7920 Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error 11. Whether his Court Will Certify that A Manifert has been Cireumvented by the lower injustice disregarded by the Appelliate Also been Courts and rul…
21-7914 Andres Santana v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District California 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights board-of-regents civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus people-v-wende pro-se-brief state-created-liberty-interest wende-procedure 1. is a California Penal Code §1237 (b) appeal from "any order made after judgment, affecting the substantial rights of the party," a state created …
21-7913 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness 1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the F…
21-7902 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California Ninth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-bar standing vexatious-litigant writ-denial Can a vexatious litigant order be used to deny a writ of habeas corpus?
21-7900 Christopher A. Henry v. Erinn Brown Second Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
21-7895 Antoine Mayes v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA…
21-7884 Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. North Carolina 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-court state-jurisdiction 1. Is it lawful for the State of North Carolina to hold the herein Petitioner under unconstitutional confinement under the Court's unexplained refusal…
21-7883 In Re Graham Schiff 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
21-7871 Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case Did the the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of A Appealability standard that…
21-7862 Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K…
21-7853 Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings In 1995, a California state-court jury sentenced petitioner Gregory Demetrulias to death after finding him guilty of first-degree murder and finding t…
21-7850 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP ada-disability appeal appellate-jurisdiction clerk-error constitutional-rights counsel-substitution habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-substitute-counsel pro-se pro-se-motions What is the remedy available, if district judge never ruled upon the prejudgment (Ecf.107,1 10,132-1) 18 U.S.C.S. $ 3599(e) pro se Motions to substitu…
21-7839 Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference deliberative-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-reconsideration standing untimely-filing 1. f /Q did Hit /IAvt/A ChrtiA[H (4,$. C?tAr 'f~ of HfptHf C0WMI wkIn fkty CU lid (ny la<hf/tpftal Wcu ffiW (0 (/O' whtn Ht Hck Oi/\d (a W pflftvffzd …
21-7821 Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search Question not identified.
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Magnitude by Not Considering petitioner Body Cam evidence which under Mive the case against petitioner, andanswers petitioners Sole resened aplWhhe n …
21-7819 Kevin Ray Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect 1. Did Petitioner have Article standing to collaterally attack a federal criminal conviction, assuming 28 U.S.C. §2255, relying on this Court's preced…
21-7814 Julia Ann Poff v. Warren Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus standing structural-error trial-process 1. Was Hr Lomplete deprivation oF Ms. POEFS Sundamental rights 4D determine hoo +b Broted Wer i berhy related to. . Structural error violaked multipl…
21-7799 Sam Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied IFP equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus irwin-v-dept-of-veterans-affairs martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan statutory-limitations statutory-tolling trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler QUESTION ONE : DID THE DISTRICT COURT AND FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN REFUSING TO EQUITABLY TOLL PETITIONER'S UNTIMELY REFILED §2254 HABEAS WHICH WAS ORI…
21-7794 Paul C. Bolin v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-discretion mitigation mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This capital case, in which defense counsel's investigation and preparation for the penalty phase was grossly deficient, presents two questions concer…
21-7774 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Alex Villanueva, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-and-statutory-provisions constitutional-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing state-court-adjudication Question not identified.
21-1411 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2022-05-03 Denied Amici (2) brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Petitioner James Milton Dailey was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. He has since discovered that the State made knowing use of perj…
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is ihe. 5^cde Coor-t re^c,;fed ie Keo^ c*/\ci rwxYe. o. cleAe.fi*' no. S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue …
21-7746 David Piper, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion aedpa aedpa-deadline certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Court of Appeals denying Piper's 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence for a Certificate of Appealability reasons were…
21-7741 David Mejia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding fraud on the court not a substantive constitution violation of due process? Has the Fifth Circuit erred in hol…
21-7726 Michael Charles Sartin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi…
21-7728 Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts First Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-appeals Question 1. May a dismissal of a Section 2254 Petition based on failure to exhaust state remedies, be overturned, given that the judgement conflicts w…
21-7715 Lacy E. Lewis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Is the Framework as Explained in Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 120 S.Ct. 1495, 146 L.Ed 2d 389 (2000), For Review For 28 USC 2254, applicable to t…
21-7716 Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review vs eoWHerf 40 Relief oil ao -Etfideohe-c^ ^ \4beR6 *4*ve, 'UtaW Couxri- of ^Ws/^ r»AVi duzcu^ auq SI Uto liute# SUifes ~L>^(Zurf (iouftl kJmibQO 7).s…
21-7717 Kacy Fonteze Williams v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim discretion discretionary-review district-court federal-review firearm-charge habeas habeas-corpus right-to-be-heard standard-of-review state-court Whether The District Court Failed To Properly Utilize Its Discretion On The Petitioners Habeas Where The Court Dismissed The Firearm Charge Issue Rend…
21-7719 Gary Wall v. Jeffrey Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process executive-detention habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rules retroactivity teague-nonretroactivity teague-v-lane Does the Fourth Circuit's holding that new procedural rules cannot apply to any federal habeas proceeding, even where federal habeas is a petitioner's…
21-7692 Manuel Geraldo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petitioner-rights procedural-fairness Whether a Court of Appeals Paying Lipservice in denying a COA violates the princples of Due Process in effecting petitioner's opportunity toibe heard.
21-7693 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness How does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals policy of reviewing plain error only prevent appellate counsel from "raising all claims of error in a …
21-7695 Allen Wayne Hatcher v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus limitations-period prisoner-diligence prisoner-rights procedural-sufficiency 560 U.S. 631 (2010) Florida / Holland Under can I. v. extraordinary circumsatnces be established by the same facts that establish a prisoner's diligen…
21-7708 Amit Patel v. Mark Rockwood Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus in-custody When the District Court sua sponte "closed the Courthouse doors" upon "Garden-Variety" reasons, dismissing writ of Habeas corpus for 1) statute of lim…
21-7690 Anthony J. Springer v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment-by-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-supreme-court pre-trial-defense reasonable-jurist TRAIL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL PROVIDED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESENT THE PRE-TRIAL DEFENSE OF ENTRAPMENT BY ESTOPPEL. A…
21-7682 Travon DeAngelo Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief res-judicata spoliation-of-evidence Whether Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 1 (1988), is sufficient to except such due process claim from procedural default of RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF JU…
21-7668 Russell Haley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a guilty plea waive a defendant's right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel's failure to investiga…
21-7670 In Re Oscar Smith 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa capital-punishment constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus suspension-clause Question not identified.
21-7671 Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,…
21-7675 Jason Leon Cruse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-structure habeas-corpus mcgirt-retroactivity native-american-rights retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when it was decided?
21-7663 Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether a demonstration that a state constitutional test is less protective than the federal constitutional test means that an adjudication of the …
21-7652 Damian Scott Olvera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability as dictated by §2253(c)(2) and this C…
21-1363 Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement 1) Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence? 2) Ifone federal district court finds I was no…
21-7637 Marecellus Adams v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did trial counsel violate Adams's right to choose the objective of his defense when he conceded guilt over his express objection? Was Adams entitled …
21-7642 Brandon J. Weathers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-court-conviction Is the Petitioner, on retake, prisoner entitled to an evidentiary hearing in a State District Court habeas corpus proceeding, where the petitioner has…
21-7628 Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se 1. Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally fight dissemble avoid or neglect a pro se applicant's petition specifically identify adduce propos…
21-7615 Randolph Codner, aka Jah Rastafari Malchizdek v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process facebook habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction social-media /\sdr Mpov4wl<A/ nfx, 1\\mMTk KMeii/l wj om- sflwf/iW •ov/eK' Jxsje\y\A'^ Hal wiw <a/~1 0iA,-tStl®Vl 16 op a 4AhT -/Alt (cMJtv' cj6 op ityiSii/lP …
21-7617 Stevie Wyre v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence federal-rights habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence perjury-testimony 1) Whether Wype is ewttlet Yo Relief 02 av Eviherhiney heain Whene Whe Lded Slates Coue of Appeals. SCaeut avd Whe VUrled Ques Dishdiel Couet Loe Whe …
21-7618 Tony Gene Williams, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2022-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony insufficient-evidence jailhouse-snitch newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment WHETHER OR NOT JUDGE MCCLURE OF THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, AFTER EXAMINING PETITIONER'S APPEAL, ERRED WHEN HE DETERMINED HE WOULD GRANT P.D.…
21-7592 Detrick Deroven v. Texas Texas 2022-04-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment…
21-7604 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus procedural-access standing WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPROACH AND PRACTICE WHEN THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL AND ITS DOCKET CONTENT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY OUT OF STE…
21-7605 Lwane A. Mansell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING CLAIM ONE OF THE PETITIONER'S 28 U.S.C. § 2254 AS PROCEDURALLY BARRED WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED HIS 5t…
21-7591 Donald Morris Lee v. Washington Washington 2022-04-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy judicial-review resentencing sentencing sentencing-error state-action Can the court void the illegally obtained J&S? Can the court reverse and dismiss the conviction? Can the court order Lee released? Can the court di…
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…
21-7571 Anton F. Liverpool v. Reggie Cleveland, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force habeas-corpus judicial-review qualified-immunity standing present an argument of genvine dispute ldissagrement to officer cleveland tl indicent exposure andy thecelore admitedly the delendent to havino knowla…
21-7562 Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation 1. whether, the fifth Circuit Court appling Moore,534 f3d 4les Conflict with the decisian of this Court Hancock. 139 sct2714 2. whether the fifth Cir…
21-7563 Alexander Kates v. New York Second Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent 1. Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions? 2. Is a petition…
21-7565 Brandon James Lee v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus standing IN THE OF OS oa BASH PROCEEDING THAT THE. ISSUES PRESENTED WERE ADEQUATE TO DESERVE. ENCOOZAGEMENT 1 PRECEE D Soup Tne FEDe@ar. Cougs? EXEC CASE THE …
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct WHEN A STATE TOGETHER WITH STATE'S EXPERT WITNESS CHANGE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO A NEW COMPLETE DIFFERENT VERSION, TO LINK THE A…
21-7536 Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing 1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT SENTENCING IS NOT CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW? 2. WHETHER THE DIS…
21-7541 In Re Taumu James 2022-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus standing takings Whether the exceptional circumstance of Petitioner being unable to have a federal court review the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process violatio…
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…
21-7545 Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation 4) Is Petiti fao bt bt\v\d n\y\ oafaody fa fa If USC § H5i } y{OfttC fast parti'e^or faefa rds io\fah NmH\ \b Cou/Hofafapptds o\pw preccfan^ &5 wiXI…
21-7546 Ronald Scott Eddington v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-decoster wilson-v-sellers 1. Should the Ninth Circuit or the Federal District Court of Idaho have issued a COA on Petitioner's claims based on the evidence that Idaho courts co…
21-7551 In Re Mark Jendrzejewski 2022-04-05 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process evidence-withholding false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony ONE IS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN PROSECUTOR WITHHOLDS BIOLOGICAL AND RELATED EVIDENCE LAYING IN WAIT UNTIL PETITIONER MOVES HAB…
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred when the Court dismissed Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability when other juri…
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…
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Question not identified.
21-7524 Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHT WAS FORECLOSED ON WHEN ON APPEAL FROM THE LOWER COURTS DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO …
21-7501 Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia 1. WHEN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IS DISCRETIONARY BY THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN NOT REVIEWI…
21-7514 Sidney J. Clark, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus sentencing (1) THE SENTENCING OF S.J.C.JR., TO THE H.C.A. PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 21-4504 ,WITHOUT ANY LEGAL PROOF OF THE ONE PRIOR JUDICIAL COURT PROCEEDING OF THE S…
21-7496 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing TRIAL THERE PETITIONER HAD A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HAVE THE JURY INSTRUCTED ON HIS THEORY OF DEFENSE THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE EVIDENCE? 4) THE UNI…
21-7498 Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights Are State prisoners protected under this Court's decision in Helling v. McKinney from being forcibly subjected to its unknown health complications/ ex…
21-7499 David Lopez Gonzales v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland cullen-v-pinholster due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fifth-amendment habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct I. Does Cullen v Pikolster S53 U.S. 170, 181 (1011) bar consideration of evidence in federal habeas corpus proceedings like in a case like mine, to re…
21-7493 Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
21-7494 David Samuels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals crime-of-violence district-court due-process fraud habeas-corpus legal-claims standing Did Petitioner make a Substantial Shawing of a derial of a Constitutional right. As required by 28usc 2253@)I Did the Caurt of Apeals err in denying …
21-7476 Samuel Lee Dantzler v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel scientific-evidence sixth-amendment 1. Whether it is clearly established federal law that a criminal defendant is entitled to a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientific…
21-7480 Willie George Moore v. Billy Tompkis Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction HO (Jhl lkl$ (fa* COU&fUod Ojfyfa fn\3ooS- Cotitel fa ) X, JPe /M hts f0s#l To yf)E OrM (sffflBS Dlsjticr CouPT) TPP ri° 0/9&&V&D jge, ftLLouJeS 'pb p…
21-7464 Ioan Lela v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus irreparable-harm pre-trial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention I. Whether a pre-trial detainee, amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, can obtain dismissal of his/her pending state criminal charges in federal court pur…
21-7471 Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation In the course of a "New Judgment " under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA2018) new imposed sentence, what truly excess the reset clock for habeas corpu…
21-7472 Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Correction of Serterce And As the same the Habear Corpur to be corstrned as the same to Correct an Illegal senterce After senterced hos beer served; w…
21-7473 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his Civil Right to Due Process against law without due process of law in Violation of the Constitution and Law…
21-7423 Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
21-7415 Matthew Rausenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-analysis custody-determination due-process habeas-corpus interrogation-circumstances miranda-warnings police-interrogation Whether reasonable jurists could debate the issue of custody for Miranda purposes, as various state and federal courts have, when an individual has be…
21-7402 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedure Question not identified.
21-7410 In Re Eduardo Pineda 2022-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-liberty due-process ex-parte-watkins fifth-amendment fourth-amendment gonzales-v-raich habeas-corpus liberty marijuana marijuana-prohibition Eduardo Pineda petitions for writ of habeas corpus from Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. "In the early day…
21-7411 Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review WHETHER THE 11™ CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY PURSUANT TO SLACK V. MCDANIEL, 529 U.S.473, 120 S.Ct. 1595 …
21-7383 Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied IFP abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho…
21-7389 John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Question not identified.
21-7392 Jeffery Neil Brantley v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process federal-habeas-corpus financial-records habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review state-constitutional-rights supremacy-clause DOES THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE PREEMPT THE STATES FROM CREATING A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF PRIVACY THAT GRANTS WITHIN THE STATE INDIVIDUALS, LEGITIMATE EXPE…
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 …
21-7367 Adam Shane Swindle v. S. Ma'at Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation court-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pandemic-review record-review -fa be ■U- he y>un<^bej QlC\ Covid /7df iv*^ K* SK ould (Ama or 0<Xjsr\ V-i7t>t-V^eci ? 'p'C© Vc' ^ "l 1_S>V yc>vjW £Kp, ( (Xtk 4-^eti ck'td Ooir Com^…
21-7362 Kyle Kurtz v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt rules-of-court self-defense Are the rules promulgated by the United States Supreme Court not being enforced by the judges representing the Kingdom of Judah or are the law enforce…
21-7363 Jessie Vornell Lewis v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason sixth-circuit united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-district-court Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den…
21-7341 Jerry Fruit v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law direct-appeal fourth-amendment full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus stone-v-powell trial-litigation Whather habeas corpus petitioners •• who received a decision contrary to clearly established federal law on their Fourth Amendment claim at trial and …
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY HUESTION THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COA WHEN TIMELINESS WAS THE RESULT OF FACTS BEYOND HIS …
21-7331 Darregus T. Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION? 5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS! CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE…
21-7335 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2022-03-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus state-procedural-law 1. Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applica…
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 …
21-7303 Edward Pinchon v. Raymond Byrd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-precedent At age 17, Edward Pinchon was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of a middle-aged man who was sexually abusing him. Tennessee law mandat…
21-7305 Steven Bryant v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-deal prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Where the state's only eyewitness and linchpin of its case, the co-defendant, struck a deal whereby she would plead to a lesser offense and testify ag…
21-7315 Michael Lynn Cash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions Question not identified.
21-7292 James E. Walker v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16 Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco…
21-7297 Jaime B. Garcia v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jury-instructions legal-theory prosecutorial-concession reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Because the appellate court must issue a certificate of appealability ("COA") when the issue is debatable among jurists of reason, should the Ninth Ci…
21-7276 Julio Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness 1. Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary. 2. Whether a general verdict that was …
21-7261 Ezeani Gregory Ifesinachi v. Guy Cirillo, Warden Third Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review procedural-inconsistency state-court Question not identified.
21-7262 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas-proceeding federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-60(b) Davis / 1: Whether this Court's decision in Buck v. QUESTION No. 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) foreclosed the Petitioner's argument that a COA is not required…
21-7264 Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires indictment by a Grand Jury for a capital crime? Whether the Fourteenth Amendme…
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT TH…
21-7245 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing Question not identified.
21-7254 Stephen C. Hanf v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights COVID-19-pandemic criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus molestation-charges standing trial-procedure Whether the COVID-19 pandemic qualifies as an extraordinary circumstance for equitable tolling in the instant cases consistent with Carter v United St…
21-7239 Michael Arrington v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether trial Counsel must inform the defendent of the nature of his right to testify und that the utimate decision belongs to him? What standard nus…
21-7220 Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing I. For more thn 180 pours this court hs held that the priv Juisicition o 4h0 cquistie ro discretionary; it is a mundatory limitation on a courts juris…
21-7192 Thomas Johnny Wilkins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP circuit-court-interpretation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-evidence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-supervisory-power Question not identified.
21-7194 Mainor Canales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-preparation witness-investigation 1. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? a. COUNSEL DID NOT PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE WHEN HE FAILED TO CONDUCT REASONABLE INVESTIGAT…
21-7202 In Re Mohammed Kwaning 2022-02-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-imprisonment IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE DISCHARGE, WHERE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT TRIED AND IMPRISONED PETITIONER FOR INFAMOUS CRIMES WITHOUT PRES…
21-7177 Maurice O. Byrd, Jr. v. Raymond Byrd, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-of-appeal conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prejudice structural-error Does grossly inadequate representation on appeal by appellate counsel, counsel acting after announcing an actual conflict of interest was the basis to…
21-7178 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida 2022-02-23 Denied IFP constitutional-intolerance double-jeopardy due-process federalized-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-appellate-courts state-courts summary-orders systemic-inattentiveness I. WHETHER SUMMARY ORDERS REJECTING FEDERALIZED CLAIMS HAVE BECOME CONSTITUTIONALLY INTOLERABLE POST-AEDPA BECAUSE STATE CONVICTIONS ARE NOW UPHELD …
21-7188 Elishay Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio…
21-7164 Charles Pyne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination 1. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue where there is a conflict in the Circuits concerning the ability to employ Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) b…
21-7166 Mustafa Ozsusamlar v. P. Adams, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights discrimination due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-prison free-speech habeas-corpus postal-service prisoner-litigation standing 1-in commen and out going leqal mail opened by Mailing Room Guard. Readed-copied-Forvarded to the warden or unit manager. dilayed or Distroyet. That i…
21-7171 Robin Lee Sherwood v. George A. Neotti, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency competency-to-plead-guilty guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In evaluating the prejudice prong of habeas petitioner Robin Sherwood's ineffective assistance of counsel claim concerning his competency to plead gui…
21-7175 Keith Smeaton v. United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus international-human-rights judicial-discretion mandamus-petition obstruction-of-justice Was the lower Court correct to deny my Petition For Writ of Mandamus seeking 5th Circuit be ordered to order Lower HHDJ Cain, Lake Charles County Cour…
21-7141 In Re Taquan Rashe Gullett-El 2022-02-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alien-status civil-rights constitutional-violations dred-scott due-process habeas-corpus international-law pro-se-petition sovereign-citizenship standing unlawful-detention Question not identified.
21-7131 Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel WHETHER THE COURTS BELOW ERRED IN DENYING JONES A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO REVIEW THE COURTS ERRONEOUS AND CONTRARY APPLICATION OF THIS COURT'S…
21-7109 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice Whether, given that the district court's agreement that Mr. Mills was denied the opportunity to confront the forensic analyst in this case, did Mr. Mi…
21-7112 Sophana Sovann v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice-of-judgment pro-se right-to-appeal Was a pro se state prisoner denied his right to appeal the District Court's order denying his habeas corpus petition where state prisoner never receiv…
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment QUESTION #1). Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealibility where the record holds a clear showing…
21-7099 Edwin Disla v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates & Supreme Court Precedent set …
21-7092 Epati Malauulu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-7082 William Speer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In federal habeas proceedings, Petitioner William Speer presented a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failure to investigate and pr…
21-7087 In Re Wesley Thompson 2022-02-09 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing PRIOR COURTS DISPITE THE CONSTTTUTIONAL VIOLATIONS? 2) CAN MR. THOMPSON'S CONVICTIONS STAND WITHOOT VINDICATION OF THE VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION…
21-7074 Benny Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
21-1099 Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment? 2. Whether the search of Mr. Steres' cell ph…
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy 1. Petitioner's trial counsel accidentally opened the door to devastating extraneous offense evidence. Could reasonable jurists disagree with the dist…
21-7058 Adam Pelletier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider rule-60(b)(3) state-court-dismissal 1.) Whether Petitioner's claim prosecutorial fraud upon the court is a Rule 60(b)(3) claim of fraud upon the court? 2) The U.S. District Court ruled …
21-7061 John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for …
21-7017 Kenneth Lynn Funkhouser v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-01 Denied IFP federal-preemption habeas-corpus habeas-jurisprudence indian-lands jurisdictional-challenge mcbratney-draper-rule public-law-83-280 retroactivity-jurisprudence subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Does Oklahoma's 1906 Federal Enabling Act preempt the State from exercising jurisdiction over "Indian lands"—despite race—thus rendering petitioner's …
21-7029 David Pedder v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus substantial-availability-test QUESTION No. 1: Whether a federal habeas petitioner is deprived of his constitutional rights to Due Process as implicated by the 14TH Amendment to the…
21-7036 Jeffrey Davis v. Orange County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arrest-validity civil-rights criminal-procedure detention-challenge district-court-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard prima-facie-evidence standing Whether the district court departed from the essential requirements of the law, in the absence of prima facie evidence attached to its order to refute…
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…
21-7039 Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application 1. Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S…
21-7015 Edward T. James v. Florida Florida 2022-01-31 Denied IFP capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review 1. Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim?
21-6990 Roger D. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-standard habeas-corpus informant-credibility police-misconduct search-and-seizure state-court-review How did the prosecutor use evidence of a drug sell allegedly by Mr. Roberts an informant where there was no Us.nq 2 were purchased from Mr. Robert's t…
21-7008 Marco Dane Acoff v. Alabama Alabama 2022-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-protocol criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-evaluation state-constitution supreme-court-review WHETHER "THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT WRONGFULLY DECIDED AN IMPORTANT ISSUE RAISED TO THEM BY PETITIONER MARCO DANE ACOFF WHERE HE WAS DENIED A TIMELY AN…
21-1053 Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber Seventh Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference During Danny Wilber's jury trial in 2005 for fatally shooting a man at a party, Wilber became increasingly belligerent with the Milwaukee County Circu…
21-6977 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal (1) The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict to the United States Supreme Court and other Circuit Courts which prohibi…
21-6988 Paul E. Pavulak v. Warden, FMC Butner Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-§-2241 28-U.S.C-§-2255(e) federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan postconviction-review section-2241 section-2255 May a federal prisoner seeking review of a defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel seek postconviction review under 28 U.S.C. § 224…
21-6962 Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights denial-of-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
21-1044 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. James Nathaniel Bryant, III Fourth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference In review of a claim fully adjudicated in state court, did the district court violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deference mandate and offend the principles o…
21-6949 Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing Question not identified.
21-6917 Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and/or abused its discretion in affirming summary judgment against petitioner. Can court dismiss claims in the compl…
21-6924 John T. Veysey v. Louis Williams, II, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states controlled-substance-act habeas-corpus mandatory-guidelines pre-booker sentencing-guidelines 1. WHETHER § 2255 (E) "SAVINGS CLAUSE " IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OF OTHER COURTS OF APPEAL AS THE CORRECT INSTRUMENT BY W…
21-6931 Tom Iles White, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify structural-error 1. When a defendent claims their trial counsel denied them the right to testify in a habeas corpus proceeding, can this claim and a witness' supporti…
21-1016 Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-01-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense A. Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full a…
21-6879 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2022-01-18 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim life-sentence original-jurisdiction state-court-review 1. Whether Petitioner Ao Me Sickack Court Lor hearing gursus nt PON Combs ocainal \qaloeas yursdicion Vo rarcanked fa AHS excephional Life serene case…
21-6880 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2022-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner successive-petition successive-petitions unreasonable-application Whether on ZaWwidual Cire Surge of the US. Ceork Of Ageeals Was ociainal Hebbeas Compus Worishidhoa over a second of Suceassve heloeas Pelion. Filed L…
21-6863 Nesly Loute v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand 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…
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition should this Court use its power to grant certiorari to a non-prisoner to raise a compelling claim of actual innocence Whether the Court of Appeals de…
21-6871 Alan Price v. Florida Florida 2022-01-14 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule I. Whether McCoy u. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review? II. Whe…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, ... as to call for an exercise of this Cour…
21-6847 John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit When a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, there are various procedural bars that often preclude relief on the merits. …
21-6850 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional, invoking federal question jurisdiction in a di…
21-6823 Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether, when assessing a claim of actual innocence, the district court must determine as a matter of fact whether the new evidence is credible and re…
21-6828 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida Florida 2022-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure I. Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily "dismiss as unauthorized " a prison Petitioner's is Sta…
21-6831 Albert L. Richardson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability drug-effects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment taped-interrogation Question not identified.
21-6832 Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review 1) Has the Supreme Court overruled Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 holding that there was reversible error where the record did not disclose that the …
21-6813 Ronald Charles Washington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Question #1: Did U.S. District Court and/or Fifth Circuit err by misconstru ing Rule 60(b) as a federal habeas and time-barring petition without all…
21-6789 Gurpreet Singh v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing takings Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit were required to consider the "evidence standards for applying the 'actual innocence…
21-6790 Timothy Ryan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing 1. DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT AND/OR DISTRICT OF INDIANA—SOUTH BEND DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING RYAN'S § 2255 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WI…
21-6795 Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe…
21-6797 In Re Lawrence Earl Wilson 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equitable-tolling exceptional-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel 1. WHETHER, A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN DENIED THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS AND RECEIVED THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANC…
21-6807 Davis Salary v. California California 2022-01-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing X. -ZTjf ^ fossibt My fa? Jj faC G£?7fy) 6)f 5 yriof' ^
21-970 Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot Tenth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations In 1988, an Oklahoma jury convicted Karl Fontenot in the abduction and killing of Denice Haraway. The chief evidence against Fontenot was his own conf…
21-6759 Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct On de novo review, is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel because of her lawyer's conflict of interest when, at the t…
21-6764 In Re Eric Denorris Kennedy 2022-01-05 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-rule civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-issues legal-standards procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
21-6752 Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied IFP AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a pr…
21-6748 Jose Luis Wong v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court…
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…
21-6747 Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit 1. Is a statement by the prosecutor that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one Af…
21-6732 Julio Cesar Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mandates nonfrivolous-claims notice-and-opportunity procedural-rule slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court supreme-court-mandate 1. HAS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS EFFECTIVELY ESTABLISHED A PROCEDURAL RULE TO EFFACE yMUli ABRIDGE . OR ABROGATE THE SUPREME COURT*S • MANDAT…
21-6720 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law i. When enacted the AEDPA, did Congress intend to grant habeas petitioners, who surmount AEDPA's strict standards, a complete habeas relief, or just t…
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant who has incompetent representation, that is established under prevailing Sixth Amendment stan…
21-6727 Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej…
21-938 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2021-12-23 GVR Relisted (2) capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Did the Fourth Circuit violate basic principles of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when it failed to reweigh the whole of the evidenc…
21-923 Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-22 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6697 Melvin Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-and-death-penalty-act civil-procedure court-jurisdiction district-court-authority docket-modification due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Concerning procedures of the District and Courts of Appeals regarding due process in federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motions as well as a …
21-6698 In Re Carlton West II 2021-12-22 Denied IFP due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent EXACTLY HOW, WHEN AND WHERE ARE PRISONERS TO USE THE NEW EQUITABLE RULE ANNOUNCED IN MARTINEZ V. RYAN 566 U.S. 1 (2012) AND TREVINO V. THALER 569 U.S.…
21-6702 Oscar Porter v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 alibi-witness alibi-witnesses criminal-trial eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when trial counsel pre-judges and excludes close friends and family from testifying as alibi witnesses without inve…
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment 1) Does a United States.Court of Appeals have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1291 to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the Di…
21-6674 Paul David Storey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process first-federal-habeas habeas-corpus panetti prosecutorial-concealment prosecutorial-misconduct second-federal-habeas Does 28 U.S.C. §2244 bar claims of prosecutorial misconduct that were deliberately and successfully concealed by the prosecution until after the petit…
21-6676 Mario Murillo-Mora v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review precedent-interpretation roe-v-flores-ortega Whether Circuit Courts of Appeals can Properly Summarily Deny Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability to a Habeas Petitioner when the District Cour…
21-6677 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas 2021-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-review conclusions-of-law constitutional-rights due-process findings-of-fact habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process texas-criminal-appeals trial-court-findings IS THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS VIOLATING PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY DENYING RELIEF TO HABEAS APPLICANTS WITHOUT EXPLANATION WHEN THE TRIAL COUR…
21-917 Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville Fourth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT…
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-6649 Paul J. Hultman v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juror-misconduct presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment I Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdic…
21-6659 Glen Seals v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky habeas-corpus johnson-v-california judicial-review mixed-question-of-fact-and-law peremptory-strike prima-facie prima-facie-case race-discrimination standard-of-review 1. Whether, under Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), a court may supply and consider potential race-neutral reasons for a prosecutor's peremp…
21-6664 Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire First Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana In light of this Court's holding in Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275 (1993); and, Massaro v. United States, 123 S.Ct. 1690 (2003; as well as United…
21-6640 Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony 1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m…
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit In 2012, an Oklahoma jury convicted Alonzo Cortez Johnson of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced him to life in prison i…
21-883 Glen D. Gore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-15 Denied chickasaw-nation conviction-finality criminal-procedure federal-native-american-relations habeas-corpus indian-major-crimes-act judicial-precedent McGirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma Oklahoma-law retroactivity substantive-rule Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was decided.
21-6593 Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony 1. Whether this Court should clarify its holding in Greene v. Fisher, 565 U.S. 34, 38 (2011), to reflect that the state court decision by which "clear…
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appedability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition if there Las a dispute in the l.s. District Cou…
21-6624 Arthur F. Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WHETHER THE PRIOR EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION RULE SHOULO HAVE PAECLUDED THE OISTRICT COURT AND THE APPELLANT COURT FROM EXERCISING JURISOICTION OVER TH…
21-6602 Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation In petitioner §2254 petition, Petitioner raises this question of error? The plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court fa…
21-6610 Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction Whtf McGirf ]/. j^O s, c>i, (lbzo)j applies ~h) to/hJittiofls Anft\ 4]hen W&S an^uAtcl,u3t(t,
21-6580 Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan 1. Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28…
21-6585 Freddy Crespo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic…
21-6588 Amy Bishop Anderson v. Deidra Wright, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion cumulative-error effective-assistance-of-counsel exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-determination voluntariness-of-plea voluntary-plea Charged and convicted of capital murder, sentenced to Life Without Parole Question 1: Whether the 11th Circuit Court used a merits determination to d…
21-872 Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law 1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence? …
21-6576 Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage Question not identified.
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…
21-6559 George Russell Kayer v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP capital-murder competency-determination direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-specialist sentencing-hearing trial-counsel In March 1997, a jury convicted George Russell Kayer of capital murder. Only after his conviction, and just two months before his sentencing hearing, …
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 …
21-6541 Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution 1. Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive prosecution, trigging a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he succe…
21-6549 Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-07 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-public-defender habeas-corpus standing state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
21-6552 Keith Carr v. Steve Kallis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.-2241 due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-851 sentencing-enhancement title-21-enhancement 1. WHETHER AN UNLAWFUL APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT PURSUANT TO TITLE 21 U.S.C. 851 AMOUNT'S TO A FUNDAMENTAL MISSCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. WHEREAS THE PE…
21-6526 Darneau Versill Pepper v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standing ZC U)blCT'rt<£R. Mr- ^zpPdZ. GOo^ ^eK&d I Accen To TT4c nrf-Ws, Jkwij We- . * <pt*W ' ^TJi^f-e Tbl/I/ic^ Ult-CTtf-cfc 1 4/vli» '^errOv ri,Jk and <£fpO…
21-6533 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-review 1. Plaitiff ask thesapreme Court did the dislnct coast abuse their clesurelion regarding issue A? or wns the distrit (ourt Ceary erronpous? 2. Plaiit…
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and asjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invo…
21-6494 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6496 Christopher Wood v. Florida Florida 2021-12-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-information due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction pro-se standing supreme-court A. Did The State Court Violate The 14th, 5th and other Amendments To The United States Constitution as well as clearly Established federal law when it…
21-6462 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6464 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6486 Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation 1. In Deck v. Missouri , 544 U.S. 622 (2005), this Court held that shackling a defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates d…
21-6439 John Joseph Rushinsky, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-standard 1. May the state, consistent with Due Process, sweepingly criminalize a broad range of conduct embracing both innocent and culpable behavior and assig…
21-6422 Jake Rader v. Darrell Miller, Warden Virginia 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing ISSUES RAISED IN PETITONERS HABEAS WHICH CUUID OF BEEN RASED ON DIRECT APPEAL. THIS FIDIN'G ON ITS OWN SHOUID SUFFICE A VALID CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASS…
21-6432 James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6434 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas 2021-11-29 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties 1) CAN A LAW OF PARTIES (OR AIDING AND ABETTING) BE ADDED TO A JURY CHARGE WHEN A PERSON IS INDICTED AS THE ONLY ACTOR TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE? 2) IS U.…
21-6440 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6442 Armando Cardon-Cortez, aka Vatto v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction Question not identified.
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6444 In Re James Joseph Knochel 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus inaccessibility judicial-process medical-rights mental-incompetence next-friend next-friend-standing standing 1. May a next friend who is denied standing to petition for writ of habeas corpus be declared vexatious without considering evidence of fraud on the c…
21-6410 Steve Herbert Speckman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review limitations-period petition-deadline statute-of-limitations supreme-court-interpretation Question not identified.
21-6428 Danny Lee Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (18)IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnoses federal-review habeas-corpus historical-evidence intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice present-functioning state-court-review I. Whether it constitutes an unreasonable determination of the facts under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) when a state court decision rejecting an Atkins v. V…
21-780 Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause Ewin Oscar Martinez was convicted in 2000 of using and carrying a firearm during a "crime of violence" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), based upon …
21-6357 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a…
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather…
21-6377 Anthony Harris v. J. Philip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search 1. Did the Us. District Court crrad in ruling that the stato court violated petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourtewth. Amendruts of the Unitad States …
21-6379 Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights Question not identified.
21-6380 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. William Hamilton, Warden Florida 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts article-one-section-nine castro-v-united-states civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction writ-of-court QUESTION ONE Whether Habeas Corpus Court Violated Gibbs ' right to due process and access to the court under Castro v United States 540 U.S 375 by …
21-6382 Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder 1 Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and "right to evidentiary hearing" habeas law when they summarily denied a hearing on in…
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…
21-754 Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2021-11-22 Denied Response Waived appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo…
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…
21-6343 Jonathan Robins v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing state-court-convictions Whether the trial Court violates the Constitution by ordering a defendant to present a defense to charges involving his wife. Whether the trial Court…
21-6310 Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing In Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954), the United States Supreme Court held that when extraneous information enters into a jury's deliberati…
21-6329 Steven Blakeney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
21-743 Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is "in custo…
21-6276 Terrell B. Sullivan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie united-states-v-havis united-states-v-winstead Whether the Eighth Circuit Erred in Holding that Petitioner's Issue on "Certificate of Appealability" Was Not Debatable Among Jurists of Reason, When …
21-6292 Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Issue I: Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by…
21-715 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-11-15 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-liberty criminal-justice drug-crime drug-policy due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus 1. Is being incarcerated a substantial denial of Petitioner's constitutional right of liberty, without "sufficient cause," without compelling reasons …
21-6249 Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center First Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl…
21-6254 Deante Blackman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting circuit-precedent crime-of-violence habeas-corpus overruling-precedent procedural-default witness-murder 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim or …
21-6244 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-conviction state-court-proceedings IS A STATE FEDERAL HABEAS PETITIONER PURSUANT TO A PROCEEDING UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C SECTION 2241 REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A…
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 …
21-6242 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Washington Washington 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling factual-innocence fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus state-court unlawful-incarceration When a state court evidentiary ruling impinges on the constitutional rights of a factually innocent person, does the fundamental miscarriage of justic…
21-6241 Eric J. Turner v. Richard L. Broch Seventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus legal-competency mental-competency schizophrenia Whether the trial court failed to order a determination of the defendant's schizophrenia? Whether a conviction that violates due process happened whi…
21-6236 L. B. Joseph v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt testimony WAS DEFENDANT GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL? WAS DEFENDANT FOUND CGUILTY BEYOND A RESONABLE DOUBT? WAS PERJURED TESTMONY GIVEN TO COVER UP THE TRUTH? WERE FAR…
21-6227 Misael Cordero v. Jonathan Gramp, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Which divided Courts of Appeals are correct: the Eleventh, Fifth and Second Circuits holding that a due process violation occurs when the governme…
21-6202 Charles Gregory Clark v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP capital-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan shackling shackling-claim specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The trial court required Charles Gregory Clark to be visibly restrained during his entire capital murder trial, without a hearing and making no requis…
21-679 Tim Shoop, Warden v. August Cassano Sixth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Relisted (14) aedpa criminal-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment timely-invocation 1. Should th e Court summarily reverse the Sixth Circuit 's award of habeas relief? 2. When a three -judge panel clearly errs in awarding habeas r…
21-6203 Michael Walker v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60(b)(6) strickland-v-washington trial-counsel As a result of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in denying Petitioner's Motion for Relief pursuant to Rule 60(…
21-6197 Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
21-6187 James E. Lyons v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment WHETHER THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HEAR AND RULE UPON PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY THAT WAS DENIED AND ALLEGED THAT TRIAL C…
21-6193 In Re Roy Allen Nichols 2021-11-04 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-power habeas-corpus prejudice recurrent-issues sixth-circuit territorial-limits The Defendant/Petitioner states that the issues being presented in this Writ are not only ones of great public interest or Constitutional importance, …
21-6184 Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing I. Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (Eighth Circuit) granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then den…
21-6157 Christopher Coker, aka Christopher Forman v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pcra post-conviction-relief standing trial-procedure 1. Did Trial Judge failed to rule on meritorious issues ? 2. Did.. PCRA Counsel l fail to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of tria…
21-6162 Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation 1. Sheer this Cowal skaisld issue this kt of Contionani LAdhetee the lonler Couets in Tennessee exceeded the jueisdidtion conteaeed and acted illegall…
21-6152 Keith Arthur Vinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability over trial counsel's potential ineffectiveness in the plead-vs-trial decisio…
21-6151 Gary DuBose Terry v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-review summary-judgment trial-counsel In determining whether a federal habeas petitioner's pleadings and supporting documents have alleged a substantial but defaulted claim of ineffective …
21-6138 Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision Should the Court hold this petition pending disposition of Brown v. Davenport, No. 20-826, which will likely address how 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) and Brecht…
21-6127 In Re Howard Griffith 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-rules habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation What was the reason for not making application for writ of habeas corpus to the district court of the district in which I am being held? (Rule 20.4[a]…
21-637 William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility v. James Garlick Second Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied autopsy-report confrontation-clause deference habeas-corpus harmless-error testimonial 1. In granting habeas corpus relief to a state court prisoner, did the Second Circuit create a circuit split and deny the state court judgment the def…
21-6101 Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent (1) When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition based upon an inproper standard of review; (Harrington v. Richter…
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…
21-6096 In Re Byron T. McCollum 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process void-judgment 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals can refuse to consider and rule upon a duly filed Motion to Recall Mandate, the basis of said motion …
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition If a petitioner litigated a pre-AEDPA federal habeas petition, do AEDPA's new restrictions on second or successive petitions apply retroactively to th…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Question not identified.
21-6052 Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim Whether, and in what circumstances, the 4th circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative exhaustion were lack…
21-6036 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't properly grant a Certificate of Appealability to an improperly dismissed §2255 Motion/Case asserting Actual Inn…
21-6038 In Re Brian David Hill 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitution constitutional-violations district-court due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-rebellion north-carolina supreme-court-authority uncontested-motions Where the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina had systematically and repeatedly deprived a Petitioner of Due Process of Law …
21-6051 Travis L. Watson v. Dennis Daniels, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment fraud habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice and Fraudulent imprisonment under a falsified document? The state imprisoned mr. Watson past the l25 month maximum sentence ordered in the zoo5 Origi…
21-6031 William Greg Thomas v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance 1. When a court determines that a court-appointed CJA counsel "sacrificed [Petitioner's] guaranteed opportunity of federal habeas review" by intention…
21-6015 Robert Lee Walden v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida legal-precedent reasonable-diligence unsettled-circuit-law Equitable tolling is available to excuse an untimely claim for habeas relief if a petitioner shows extraordinary circumstances and reasonable diligenc…
21-6001 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (17)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stare-decisis strickland-v-washington vertical-stare-decisis I. On remand, did the Texas court reject this Court's conclusions in Andrus v. Texas, 140 S.Ct. 1875 (2020), which were amply supported by the habeas …
21-5972 Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim I. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course where reasonable jurists — here, the district court and the magistrate ju…
21-5969 Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely?
21-5964 Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand to the Court of Appeals for issuance of a certificate of appealability when …
21-5963 Norris Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus investigation right-to-silence self-incrimination 1. When a defendant in an investigation says "No" is it a 5th amendment violation. When does the investigation stop? 2. When new evidence is made ava…
21-5948 In Re Henryk S. Borecki 2021-10-13 Denied IFP citizen-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-travel due-process freedom-of-movement habeas-corpus jury-trial standard-of-review supreme-court supreme-court-review Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whether the final and the conclusive determination of the right of a United States citizen to his unfetter…
21-538 Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic While Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984), requires an ineffective-assistance claimant to prove both deficient performance and prejudic…
21-527 Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute 1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States Abandoned its own precedent in Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886),…
21-5935 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation 1. Does not the law say anything the Jury did not hear is Now Evidence ? 2. Is the Court abusins there decreation by issuiny denied order on Clian? …
21-5934 Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations The issue is whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are a part of the "direct review" process under 28 U.S.C…
21-5917 Darius Murphy v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-deference state-court-procedure statutory-deference The question presented to this Court is whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) , when it gave s…
21-5920 In Re Jason Brooks 2021-10-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness (i) Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal …
21-5915 Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued on the question of whether a Defendant can be imprisoned pursuant to an orally pronounced ve…
21-5897 Shahram Shakouri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense state-law state-law-interpretation 1. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals [TCCA] in several opinions has observed that, "Even unknowing use of false testimony violates a defendants's …
21-511 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III Sixth Circuit 2021-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation 1. 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) allows federal courts to issue a writ of habeas corpus ordering the transportation of a state prisoner only when necessary to br…
21-5904 Joseph Woods v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure standing I. Can a court of law in the United States, whether State or Federal Court, render a decision in a court proceeding without first deciding on a questi…
21-5901 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment 1. Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal nonsupport judgment and its direct counterpart civil judgment tolls the limita…
21-5888 Wes Joseph Pertgen v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2021-10-05 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing disciplinary-proceedings due-process due-process-violation evidence-disclosure habeas-corpus liberty-interest nevada Does Due Process and Liberty Interest exist in Nevada's Disciplinary Proceedings, and when Disciplinary Proceedings are Constituted is Due Process Vio…
21-5871 Stephret R. Harvey v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecution-bar state-court-record statute-of-limitations time-limitations Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time limitations once the institution o…
21-5866 Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing courts decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence, not presented for review in prisone…
21-5863 Jack Anthony Chatman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief texas texas-law trial counsel claims on Drrect Appead where the Only Cpportunity of A Garrantee of Cunsel n S T abvious troth is that lawyers are necessifies ot Luur…
21-5859 Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations 1. Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right and that jurist of reason would find i…
21-5845 Danny Collins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule Question not identified.
21-5826 Armel Baxter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt structural-error Whether an erroneous reasonable-doubt instruction that would be structural error on direct appeal warrants a presumption of prejudice when raised in a…
21-5817 James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan, 378 US 1, 10, 12 LEd2d 653, 84 SCt 1489 (1964) require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or inef…
21-5809 In Re Dwayne Stoutamire 2021-09-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing Does the constitution recognize free-standing claims of Actual inNoceNcy? the facts presented meet the standard Articulated in Schlop v.Dlo, 513 U.5.…
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-467 Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. Oklahoma 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (1) collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-475 Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith Seventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference Respondent Kenneth Smith has been tried and convicted on three separate occasions for Raul Briseno's murder. During the last two trials, the jury hear…
21-5788 Paul Joseph Begnoche, Sr. v. Melinda Adams, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mercer, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-neglect judicial-partiality jurisdiction statutory-jurisdiction third-circuit This case before the Honorable Court through its Materiality of (5) years of impermissible Inordinate Delays presents important issues in the interest…
21-5787 In Re Randall Thomas McArty 2021-09-24 Denied IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation 1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio of nelease or paude. 2). Whether 28 usc 246 …
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as…
21-5775 Peter George Noe, aka Ghost v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
21-5774 Joseph Hilton Dierks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus Question not identified.
21-5732 In Re Artoska Gillispie 2021-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance misidentification personal-location-information probable-cause suggestive-identification warrant Has prejudice been shown where defense counsel (a) failed to file a motion to suppress (CSLI) (cell-site location information), and (b) failed to obje…
21-5742 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-counsel Question One: has Whether the 5th Circvit Court of Appeals that is in direct conflict with entered a decision the United States Supreme Court precede…
21-5765 Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review 1. Whether, even after Wilson v. Sellers, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), when the last state court to decide a prisoner's federal claim explain…
21-5769 Joseph R. Dickey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation 1. In light of the fact that actual innocence supported by newly discovered evidence acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus by applying 2244(b…
21-5753 James Allyson Lee v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing childhood-trauma habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief ptsd ptsd-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Where a capital sentencing jury hears only a brief, conclusory, second-hand allusion to childhood abuse and neglect, can detailed, graphic accounts…
21-5751 Charles Elmer Kovary v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witness constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief trial-counsel witness-testimony 1) Was Appellate Counsel ineffective for failing to raise trial counsels ineffectiveness for failing to fully investigate Alibi witness, and help Alib…
21-5746 In Re Conghau Huu To 2021-09-22 Denied IFP criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-5729 Frank R. Stevenson v. New York New York 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law, as establi…
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his…
21-439 Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition 1. Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate p…
21-5741 Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel 1. WHETHER AN APPLICANT HAS TO DEMONSTRATE BOTH THE DEBATABILITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM(S) AND THE DEBATABILITY OF PROCEDURAL RULING(S), BEFORE ISSUA…
21-5738 Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-5719 Edward Zinner v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court government-failure-to-admit-or-deny habeas-corpus hazel-atlas prosecutorial-misconduct 1. When prosecutors conspire with known conflicted defense counsel pre-indictment, and devise a scheme to deprive two targets in a criminal investigat…
21-422 Steven Hatton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance o…
21-5710 Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Nebraska 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation A Criminal Defendant's initial Habeas Corpus action, filed for the purpose determining the validty of the statutes convicted and sentence under, as be…
21-5702 Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings Whether the United States Court of Appeals Erred by failing to Issue a Certificate of Appealability (COA) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A), becau…
21-5700 Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard Mr. Tilley alleged that he is actual innocent, and his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call expert witnesses as requested by Mr. Tilley, …
21-5691 Juan Guzman Zuniga, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-courts fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search (1) WHETHER HIS PETITION HABEAS CORPUS IS "SECOND OF SUCCESSIVE"? (2) WHETHER THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT RULING DECISION BY THE DISTRICT COURT ON PRIOR H…
21-5677 Randolph Armstead v. Keith Deville, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing 1. Did the state trial court, la. appellant ha. Supreme Court and US District court, Eastern Violate the petitioners Constitutional Rights IM? Amendme…
21-5684 Zaire Paige v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-confrontation constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-v-allen judicial-discretion second-circuit trial-rights Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to be present at his trial, where the judge ejected him after a single, brief, spontaneous, non…
21-5683 Jerome McBride v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy criminal-procedure due-process federalism habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief separation-of-powers standing Did the State-Division and the Federal-Division unconstitutional-Convert adopt depriving/ .This question is inlight. is the Petitioner beina Subject …
21-411 Damon B. Cook v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider rule-60b standing 1. WhetheR The PetitioNeR DAMON Cook HAS MAde A SubStantiaL Showing Of The DeNial Of A ConStitutioNAL RighT PursuanT TO 28 USC 2253(C)(2) IN ORdeR To …
21-5647 Adolphus Symonette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-discretion habeas-corpus post-offense-rehabilitation reasonable-jurists resentencing sentencing Whether reasonable jurists would find the district court's decision to vacate Count 3 of the second superseding indictment while simultaneously denyin…
21-5651 Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent Under the principle that federal courts must defer to state courts on questions of state law, if a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law…
21-5658 Elias G. Montalvo v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instructions lesser-included-offense motion-to-suppress open-murder voluntary-manslaughter Question not identified.
21-5648 O. B. Davis, Jr. v. Johnny Sumlin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nolo-contendere prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review witness-testimony Whether the Court's adjudication of this case ensue from a decision that was to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established law as…
21-5645 In Re Donald Mack 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from trying or convicting a defendant who is mentally incompetent. See Pate v. Rob…
21-5642 Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, …
21-5639 Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation k)kje.-rkfiA +VUL U'5- CouA-t-o-f. Appeals, 44 a +VuL 4 C>N:ai^ cPf>Mio^ ;as u>eN at> -vW ©p<* '<M ©44U£ . ftfe-tNc-*' CcuM- -VW btetXcto4 ^av\SGS Qj…
21-5638 Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE…
21-5637 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Darryl Glenn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-resources due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus inmate-rights legal-access standing DOES THE DENIAL OF THE RIGHT TO FILE A §2254 HABEAS PETITION OF A CLAIM AND AN INJURY? IS THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL DENIAL OF SUPPLIES TO INCARCERATED I…
21-5614 In Re James Williams 2021-09-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error [1]. Does the District Courts arbitrary denying defendant Sixth Amendment Constitutional Right to Self-Representation on initial 2255 constitute extra…
21-5600 Linda Hardison v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication CAN THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE APPEALS' COURT OVERLOOK A BLATANT ERROR OF LAW WHEN THE PETITIONER PRESENTED ALL DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND DECLARATIONS …
21-5589 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing 1. whether the United States District Court or not has jurisdiction to grant Habeas Corpus relief for WNH pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 2. whether or no…
21-5582 Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the state court unreasonably applied this Court's precedents when it concluded that Evans's trial counsel was not co…
21-347 Michael Jackson v. Donald Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-09-03 Dismissed circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum saving-clause section-2255 statutory-maximum Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to bring a habeas claim under the saving clause of Section 2255(e) to challenge the unlawful application of a m…
21-349 Kent Eric LeBere v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction 1. Whether the lower courts should fully decide whether the state knew or should have known that the testimony about Mr. LeBere's "confession" was fal…
21-5565 Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing I. Whether delendant was the ^ deried the Oppurtunity to hry CRoss - examine the key Goveenment witness. II. Whether remand is requrees to deteemines…
21-5561 Tyrone Cade v. Texas Texas 2021-09-01 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen…
21-5554 Joseph H. Gibbs v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-courts fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus harmless-error standing state-court-process state-courts Abrogated constitutional holdings/ in its application of the legal standard/ (...fundamental fairness shocking to universal justice ) in Butler V Stat…
21-332 William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived 18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation When, if ever, is relief available under 28 USC §2241 and 28 USC. §2255 (e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existant…
21-5552 Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure 1. Whether the eleventh circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial /When the police officer who investigated Greens …
21-5547 Yimoe Siddha v. Donald B. Sealing, II, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
21-5544 Thomas Charles Scott v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment Were petitioner's rights under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by trial counsel's failure to challenge the …
21-5558 William Paul Langrum, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation pre-trial-investigation presumption-of-prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard 1) The flntiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) establishes a one-year statute of limitations for state inmates seeking federal …
21-5536 Eddie Dewayne Lee v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-library prison-access procedural-barriers Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 sec. 2254 be afforded Equ…
21-5538 Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel In this case, the United States Court of Appeals per curiam affirmed denial of Petitioner's appeal for habeas corpus relief. Petitioner contends that …
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 …
21-5533 Marsha A. Springer v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit IS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONTRARY TO THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT? WHERE ONE JUDGE OF THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT DISSEN…
21-285 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson 2021-08-26 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
21-5488 John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver 1. Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial? 2. Was the trial judge's noting the Defenda…
21-5481 James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether Watts Sentence OF Petitioner Withut The Possibit OF Parores Life AI ETE, Loot Committed IAC1 the RAU ERROR Durins Gentecing When Phaud have Kn…
21-5479 Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation Does the plain meaning of "properly filed" in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j…
21-5460 Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi…
21-5454 In Re Samuel L. Quinn 2021-08-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-discretion procedural-technicality statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
21-5466 Roxman C. Castro v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-procedure statute-of-limitations Ujke4W ordinary ex.i'v4 +o +oll>r,^ coVen, Kro^V, no £<*olf KCs O? ki5 S+cde koVeos denial o-fW fw e*.prcd-ion <=*r k'* -yeiar S+ah^e of li mikaVt on…
21-5467 Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing Ceetificate of Appealalontith Sterting: AppEllant has Not Made A "SubstantiAl Shawing PEtition andl HIS Habeas CoRAs PEtitin that His SixthAmendment C…
21-5470 Aleksys Lomeli-Garcia v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arizona casey-v-united-states constitutional-review fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners indigent-rights judicial-fraud supreme-court-procedure suspension-clause (1) . Did the concealed 28 U.S.C. 2244(c) facts cause this Court to unwittingly Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for all Ariz. indigent prisoners whe…
21-267 James Garfield Broadnax v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge cullen-v-pinholster evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011), a federal habeas petitioner may present evidence of a prosecutor's r…
21-5452 Elliot Joseph v. Daniel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel miranda-v-arizona strickland-v-washington Whether the lower courts incorrectly found petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus failed to demonstrate a substantial showing of the denial o…
21-5435 In Re Antonio Crawford 2021-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus CAN A FEDeral Prisoner resort to a orginal writ OF habeas Corpus Pursuant to 2241(C)13) 8C a U.S.C 3 In her DIstrict OF Confinement 1 ChallenGING her …
21-5426 Stephen C. Shockley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP cone-v-bell constitutional-claim constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-habeas state-relitigation state-relitigation-bar U.S. Const. Amend. XIV When a federal district court refuses to hear the due-process component of a state habeas claim because that claim was twice …
21-238 Keith Foster v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct 1. How can panels of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirm decisions as matters of law, that are in direct conflict with previously established bindin…
21-5415 Jarvis Brown v. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing supreme-court-review Whether the United States District Court and United States Court of Appeals 5ir have violated United States Federal Constitutional Rights? Whether th…
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin…
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…
21-5395 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…
21-5407 Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-17 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion 1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO…
21-225 Ashley Mere Howard v. Texas Texas 2021-08-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility-determinations criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal I. Does the state court's decision that petitioner cannot challenge her murder conviction based on her original counsel's failure to inform her of the…
21-5377 Alexander Ascencio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence watson-v-state WHETHER THE LOWER COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS, WHEN THE COURT DID NOT CONSIDERED THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE ON THIS CASE WHICH WAS A CRUC…
21-5365 Mark Lee Wilkinson v. Siobhan Burtlow, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction conviction-challenge habeas-corpus new-judgment petition-filing sentence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation successive-petitions time-limitation Whether, consistent with this Court's holdings in Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147 (2007), an intervening new judgment between two habeas petitions res…
21-203 John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the "savings clause" of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e). 2…
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and…
21-5317 Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied IFP attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent In 2018, this Court decided McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), recognizing a criminal defendant's right to secured autonomy over his defense. …
21-176 David J. Tatara v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus judgment-of-acquittal mens-rea superseding-information 1. Does a conviction of a crime submitted to the jury through a superseding information filed after jeopardy attached and after the court granted judg…
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…
21-5316 In Re Taryn Christian 2021-08-06 Denied IFP autonomy brady-v-maryland brady-violation counsel-strategy habeas-corpus mandamus mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment strickland This case presents the kind of extraordinary circumstances in which this Court exercises its discretionary authority to issue a writ of mandamus. The …
21-5288 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-review standing writ-of-certiorari CoRnelius L.Jones, PetitioneR- Appllant, APPeAls fm A file A successive post-Conviction Petition. An isse is Raised concerning the sufficiency of the…
21-5285 In Re Ivar Voits 2021-08-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violations constitutional-claim due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct Does it appear that Petitioner Mr. Voits lacked an "adequate and effective " opportunity to test the validity of his constitutionally substantial actu…
21-5279 Ernest Francis v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation You WC \ye 'ied wes C sik wie) he + PORN 2 TIS Guan Sheadesd NE Review Lor Weber ona 'elo er N Ve ° aS Sendenced On \e Dosis of acco ks cotton Questi…
21-5276 William H. Bransford v. Dan Winkelski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard appellate-counsel civil-commitment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining 1. Should pre-A-EDP-A standard of a 2.8 4-.§2254 petition apply when an indigent defendant has been U.S.C. constructively abandoned by appointed appel…
21-151 Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi v. Texas Texas 2021-08-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (16) brady-violation burden-of-proof due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Petitioner was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole based on the identification testimony of a single eyewitness who was t…
21-5259 James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied IFP class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct 1. The State may not selectively deny its protective services to certain minorities without violating the Equal Protection Clause. Petitioner's wife a…
21-5260 James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge perjury standing writ-of-certiorari 1. Shall the Writ of Certiorari be Granted in favor of the Petitioner James E. Nottingham for false arrest? 2. Shall the Writ of Certiorari be Grante…
21-5253 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR…
21-5262 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2021-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination /- 771 e /cjJfr Federal Courts Jef rived tii5 Petitioner of his congressional right to Full round oF his initial Federal habeas review ly dismissing …
21-5243 Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN ISSUING AN UNELABORATED OPINION DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AFTER DENIAL OF A COA…
21-5252 Jason Robert Twardzik v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus mental-competency pretrial-detention state-harassment The Supfeme Court Was recognized three Ato Young relief Younger u. Harris ,H01 U,S, 37 ( M7I). _ ,W.»* of Ui fnltb orK-»rA™« e«tLyrt,teofhcwl S r«pwiU…
21-5239 Kevin A. Craig v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals trial-counsel Did the sixth circuit court of appeals clearly err in its denial of petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability, when it assessed petition…
21-122 Davin Seth Waters v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mutual-mistake plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal voluntariness 1) Does the doctrine of mutual mistake provide a cognizable basis to find a guilty plea involuntary?
21-107 Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington State courts must appropriately apply the standards for counsel's performance outlined in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), to survive fe…
21-5226 Faryion Edward Wardrip v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-factual-determinations 1. Though Faryion Wardrip 's trial counsel failed to present critical evidence supporting his strategy to spare Wardrip from the death penalty, the T…
21-5218 Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default 1) IT 1 (krifrcuet's "O&rscrxou/ To Hacss TLatc Judge 's kePofix awo kECOh^cAiaATxojj t C. lcaP.lv atMousntkTio TUkt hie vsa.% bcuxca 77/e (Iahc J ^E…
21-5216 Fredie Phillip Koryal v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit 1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
21-5213 Zachary B. Taylor v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus medical-negligence mental-health veterans-affairs Review the voir dire jury selection process in the trial court that resulted in a Batson challenge about the racial composition of a majority of a jur…
21-5200 Walter Himmelreich v. Stephen Spaulding, Warden First Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-sovereignty habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights standing statutory-analysis Did the lower courts err in failing to Grant i.) a hearing on the issues ofa Constitutional nature raised 2) As this Court has never in opportunity to…
21-5181 Gerald Patrick Thomas, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP collateral-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan retroactivity teague-bar teague-v-lane trevino-v-thaler 1. Does Teague v. Lane bar Federal Habeas court from reviewing the merits of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim because Martinez v. Ry…
21-5177 Skyler Chiras v. Jill Marshall, Superintendent, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo Tenth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-orders due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
21-5159 Alfred P. Centofanti, III v. Nevada Nevada 2021-07-21 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus medical-disability pro-se stay-proceedings Centofanti is a state prisoner litigating the appeal of the denial of his state collateral review proceedings in the Nevada Court of Appeals and Nevad…
21-5155 Michael Wayne Shellito v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion postconviction-proceedings standard-of-review 1. Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or t…
21-5145 Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED.ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING AND/OR DECLINING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY UPON THE CONTENTION …
21-79 Jonathon Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided Petitioner's Motion for a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of his § 2255 petition rather than e…
21-5139 In Re Donald M. Boswell 2021-07-20 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-petitions Was the denial of Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealibility (COA) to file a second or successive feredal habeas corpus for new claims fo…
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding.
21-5138 In Re Willie S. Smith 2021-07-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal aedpa-review exceptional-circumstances finality-of-verdict habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review jury-verdict non-capital-case statutory-interpretation Whether transfer to the District Court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional non-capita…
21-5133 Michael Skillern v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari coa criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit geders-rule geders-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel supreme-court trial-recess DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S RULE ENUNCIATED IN CRUTCHFIELD v WAINWRIGHT, 803 F3d1103 (11th Cir. 1986) ABROGATE OR MODIFY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AS…
21-5113 Michael Anthony Almendarez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied IFP article-vi constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process state-court-records united-states-constitution Is a judge categorically in excess of jurisdiction to enter an order if said judge refuses to obey the interplay between Article VI, cl. 2 of the Unit…
21-5129 Gary E. Peel v. Barbara Zarrick Seventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review district-court due-process federal-criminal federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus non-capital standing writ-of-mandamus Whether a stand-alone (a/k/a free-standing) claim of "actual innocence " is cognizable in a federal non-capital criminal case.
21-5115 In Re Lisa A. Biron 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process gatekeeping-mechanism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-duty notice-of-appeal standing threshold-function I. Whether, after the enactment of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") in 1996, promulgated law and court rules require a § 22…
21-5127 Noel Aldana v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se procedural-bar strickland-standard strickland-v-washington untimeliness Does a meritorious claim that a pro se Petitioner raises which clearly present and meet the cause and prejudice standard addressed in the Strickland …
21-5120 Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings 1) IS IT AbUSE oF dISCRETION WShAN ANY COUET MALES AN ORDR SUST - AINING A DEMURRER WIHOOT LERNE TO AMENd, HE QUESTION AS TO WHEtHIR OR NOT SOCh COUET…
21-5118 Michael D. Dyers v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-court-dismissal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript-evidence Question not identified.
21-54 In Re Chad Anthony Ray 2021-07-15 Denied constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure Whether "liberty" in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power? Whether the operation and effects…
21-5093 Stephen Dale Barbee v. Texas Texas 2021-07-15 Denied IFP autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel florida-v-nixon habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Whether the sate court's decision to foreclose habeas review of a capital defendant's claim under McCoy v. Louisiana contravenes federal law becaus…
21-5124 Derrick Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-fabrication government-misconduct habeas-corpus miller-el-standard standing Did the Court of Appeals err in concluding that Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability had not "made a substantial showing of the denial of a const…
21-5103 Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default 1. Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadl…
21-5101 Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release 1) Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement, where conc…
21-41 James Allen Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel failed to object to irrelevant, inflammatory testimony that petition…
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…
21-5067 Lonnie Ray Wiseman v. Patti Wachtendorf, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure complex-legal-issues counsel-appointment custody-transfer federal-custody habeas-corpus legal-representation primary-jurisdiction writ-of-custody writ-of-habeas-corpus (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in refusing to order the government to produce a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum —as the Tenth Circuit did …
21-5052 Walter Drummond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing us-constitution writ-of-corpus 1. How Can a legitimate Writ of Habeas Corpus be denied outside the guidelines of the Florida Constitution; Article I, Section 13, Habeas Corpus, U.S.…
21-5054 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-08 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence L. Vjke-tlwi Obfhr -tine m //sA-A/^ s-P Pku&rafat lb PfoS^ec-U-hcun j as\^ ra-h 4iri €/r> oF'' '. P4< l4 £ouI 4 kat/e-f'kut'id *ffhe_ Vc&afAfaaf^ tfnT…
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli…
21-5025 James Galen Hanna v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 abuse-of-writ banister-v-davis due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-law second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition 1. When a petition for writ of habeas corpus presents claims that do not constitute an "abuse of the writ," is it a "second or successive" petition un…
21-5015 Reginald Franklin v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurists trial-counsel Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Franklin's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find it deba…
21-5010 Robert R. Taylor v. Florida Florida 2021-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-procedure state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari 1. Under the constitutional provisions and guarantees of the U.S.C.14th Amendment due process and equal application of the law, providing that there a…
21-5004 Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony 1. DID THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDE THAT BO SHAFER'S IAC CLAIM REGARDING HIS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DURING VOIR DIRE WAS WITHO…
21-5003 Don Edward Carter v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-corpus federal-question habeas-corpus mental-incompetence post-conviction sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, or has decidedwas…
20-8476 Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations Whether a state of appellants' responsibility should issue where the district court failed to adequately review of the portions of the Report and Reco…
20-8463 Luther Pete Haynes v. Mona D. Houston, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus illegal-extradition new-evidence 1 Did the ul.s. q+b Cir. Ct. place to high aburdan Denying COA when Hagnes merely had to show Jurists o f reason could Disagree with the Dist. Saurt r…
20-8455 April Ledford v. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Fourth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cherokee-nation civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus indian-civil-rights-act judicial-review property-rights standing tribal-court tribal-remedies 1. Do 11 men and women have the right to change a will deemed valid by The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and by the State of North Carolina,…
20-8450 Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment I. Does a state trial court 's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of …
20-8449 Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure Gorham will present three brief statements with three concise questions for this Honorable Court's review. Gorham alleged multiple Sixth Amendment ri…
20-8447 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-distinction procedural-bar standing state-court supreme-court supreme-court-authority CAN A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CIRCUMVENT THE AUTHORITY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO CREATE AN INVESTMENT LEADER TO A PROCEDURAL CASE, A 12.2…
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, …
20-1815 Dale J. Richardson v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus immigration-court judicial-suspension obstruction-of-justice torture torture-prevention Is it constitutional to leave a person in the custody of someone they alleged torture against? Is it constitutional to use a grievance policy to obst…
20-1798 Sylvanus Rene v. Texas Texas 2021-06-25 Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility Does it violate procedural due process for an appellate court, in denying relief on federal constitutional claims in a state habeas corpus proceeding,…
20-8420 Jimmie O'Neal v. Jay Christensen Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay district-court-merits due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness standing A/. IN THIS CASE OF PETITIONERS PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI, PETITIONER REQUEST REVIEW OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION THAT DENIED …
20-8433 Abdu-Salim Gould v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
20-8399 Clarence O. Hopkins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-criminal mandatory-supervised-release pre-trial-detention sentencing speedy-trial Wsappellate Coseieffective o ing incue a ha hi iioe pentfo speedy trial violation?
20-8391 Oliver Price v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Ohio 2021-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction Does it matter I petitioner Oliver Price Pro Se? This Court Denied Mrs..-Gondeck Cert, on 6-11-62-; This Court Denied Mrs. Gondeck rehearing 10-8-62. …
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses when counsel failed to subpoena an expert that had found exculpatory evidence and this evidence w…
20-8386 Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE …
20-8377 Herbert Garfield Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process external-interference habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations Compelling reasons exist for the exercise of the court's discretionary juris diction. The Fifth Circuit's [COA - DENIAL] "conflicts" with prior Suprem…
20-8376 Jay Earl Haynes v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit standard-of-review tennessee-corrections warden WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRERED IN DENYING THE CRETIFICATE OF APPEALIBILITY?
20-8373 Kevin Herriott v. Associate Warden Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights discovery due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements legal-mail mail-room procedural-law standing state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation 1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS MISUNDERSTOOD THE GOVERNING RULE OF LAW THAT THE RIGHT TO DISCOVERY WAS PREDICATED UPON?
20-8370 Loranzo Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether, in light of Borden v. United States, -- U.S. --, -- S. Ct. -, 2021 WL 2367312 (U.S. June 10, 2021), aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery by …
20-8358 In Re Hector David Sanchez 2021-06-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction retroactivity standing Question not identified.
20-8360 Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WAS MILITARY APPELLATE COURT OBLIGATED TO ACCEPT PETITIONER'S LATE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIM WHERE IT WAS FILED BY APPELLATE COUNSEL…
20-8368 Bruce L. Farmer v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP criminal-statutes due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-officer presumption-of-correctness state-court I. WHETHER A CLEARLY ERRONEOUS LEGAL CONCLUSION BY A STATE COURT MY BE AFFORDED A PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS AND RELIED UPON TO DEMY HABEAS CORPUS 'RE…
20-8332 Damen Rabb v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-claim standards-for-coa-determinations successive-petition 1. After a court of appeals finds that a petitioner has met the prima facie threshold to proceed in a successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244…
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Question not identified.
20-8334 Jerome Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion acca armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states legal-landscape section-2255 sentencing-review Where a § 2255 movant relies on evidence of the legal background at the time of his sentencing to prove he was sentenced under an unconstitutional law…
20-8314 Timothy Brewer v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-psychology constitutional-rights evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-8309 Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records Whether the United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeals below erred by failing to grant Petitioner a 'certificate of appealabi…
20-1730 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson 2021-06-15 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-documentation procedural-challenge standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
20-1729 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson 2021-06-15 Denied 28-usc-2241 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-documentation procedural-challenge state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
20-8293 Louis John Fontanez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 but-for-causation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness expert-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-enhancement Was counsel constitutionally ineffective because he failed to consult or hire expert witnesses to investigate tte but-for causation of the victim's in…
20-8299 In Re Michael Skillern 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent mandamus scotus writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S RULE ENUNCIATED CRUTCHFIELD v. WAINWRIGHT, 803 F.3d 1103 (11th Cir. 1986) ABROGATE OR MODIFY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AS…
20-8304 Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as…
20-8305 Gersu Guisao v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding martinez-v-ryan material-witnesses new-evidence newly-discovered-evidence procedural-standard 1. Did individual counsel collateral counsel breach no. Judiciary job) loading three, of four grooms 4wvt mydodkA'-Wne critical Expert $ndL material u…
20-8277 Richard Wesley Bryan v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment First-Amendment-right,civil-rights,due-process,sta habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction Question-not-identified 1) has the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT (USDC) decision conflict with this aggrieved party's fundamental First Amendment Right? 2) has the NINTH CIRC…
20-8260 Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court whether the S.C.s 1983. Jurisdictione OVER
20-8268 Duprece Jett v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing separation-of-powers Whether testimony identifying Agent Guy's identifying Def. Dyprece Jett, as one of the two robbers under the Open Door doctrine was harmless error alt…
20-8246 Tony Ray King v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability defaulted-claim ground-for-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino-exception procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a petitioner need to meet the Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) standard when presenting a defaulted claim under the Martinez-Trevino…
20-1704 RonRico Simmons, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa evidentiary-hearing government-impediment habeas-corpus limitations-period pro-se timeliness To promote the finality of criminal judgments, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) generally imposes a one-year limitations peri…
20-8253 Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause 1. Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intel…
20-8252 Timothy James Thompson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP default habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion martinez-v-ryan prejudice prejudice-standard trial-counsel trial-judge Whether when assessing prejudice to determine if the default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim should be excused under Martinez v. R…
20-8251 Jayrionte Thomas v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment west-virginia-law Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in declining to hold, on direct criminal appeal, that the Petitioner received ineffective ass…
20-8226 In Re Francis Boyd 2021-06-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure 1). CAN A TRIAL JUDGE INSTRUCT A JURY DURING A JURY CHARGE , THAT THEY CANNOT FIND PETITIONER GUILTY OF A CERTAIN DEGREE OF MURDER AFTER ENTERTAINING …
20-8222 In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams 2021-06-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-8209 Dennis J. Edwards v. Kim Larson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-8195 Calvin James Reid v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-02 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation WHETHER A 30 YEAR OLD JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT IN STATE COURT CONVICTION SHOULD STAND UNCORRECTED BECAUSE THE VIOLATION OCCURRED OVER 30 YEARS AGO?
20-8196 William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1) Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United State…
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-06-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery (negro, black,colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act reinstates such persons as chattel propertv and reopens the institution o…
20-8205 In Re John L. McKenzie 2021-06-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner is illegally confined where confinement is due solely to the irrefutable fact that police fabricated the only evidence used to conv…
20-8182 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2021-06-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines QUESTION NUMBER ONE The trial court judge in this case states unequivocally that she misdirected the jury as to the law in this case that changed Peti…
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) 1. In the federal habeas context, Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524 (2005), held that a post-judgment motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Pro…
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction DID THE TRIAL COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO PROCEED AND ENTER JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW? WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT HAD POSSESSED JURIDICTION IN ABSENCE …
20-8175 Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Honorable Court when the lower court…
20-8171 Terry L. Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations 1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -…
20-8170 Ronnie Ray Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea judicial-discretion recusal statute-of-limitations Whether the state's adjudication - or lack thereof- of Petitioner's Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) Motion, Tennessee Rules of Criminal …
20-8164 Michael Mosley v. John Rich, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-counsel schlup-v-delo sixth-amendment In this wholly circumstantial case where the Petitioner has alibi, and after trial presents: 1) substantial new exculpatory witnesses and evidence sho…
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.
20-8155 Frederick Wayne Smith v. California California 2021-05-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence autonomy civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie sixth-amendment successive-petitions Should, the. May 2, 1 995 0Kde.fi to Show Caute/PKlma Facie. cate; The W0I/ 05 201 8 SupeKloK CouKt WKlt of habeat coKput/PKlma facle showing of viol…
20-8149 Quinn Palacios Cruz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cuyler-test habeas-corpus individual-representation ineffective-assistance methodology-of-review multiple-representation supreme-court-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Cuyler test for ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest applies to individual cases of representation and not onl…
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether, in pursuit of his first federal habeas corpus petition, Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling during the d…
20-8139 Mark W. Blond, Jr. v. New York New York 2021-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus state-court-procedure Question not identified.
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure 1. Does the intentional use of the *67 feature to obfuscate one's phone number create a justifiable, reasonable, or a legitimate expectation of privac…
20-8125 Raymundo Eusebio-Noriega v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus language-barrier miranda-rights motion-to-suppress self-incrimination voluntariness-of-statements 1. Where petitioner was denied Court appointed counsel by the District Court of Oregon, where such petitioner denied his Due Process of law, 1. where …
20-8115 Christopher Scott Merrill v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 42-usc-1983 civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Whether prisoners can challenge unsafe prison conditions causing death and other life threatening conditions by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks using …
20-8123 Verlan Perez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal precedential-ruling CAN AN APPEALS COURT DENY A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A PETITIONER WHO HAS SHOWN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT IGNORED PRECI DENTIAL RULINGS FROM THIS…
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…
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements Question not identified.
20-8118 Joshua Broughton v. Florida Florida 2021-05-25 Denied IFP 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus standing T c i\ |\JftT c\tac Vc> Wiii VWoraUe Courl' \Uai ItViKo'ner TosWa fefouojUVon <X\od\ d V\Q\)e. E_^iJcL-hVi^rv Heori/vj \n VY\e EAeve^VU£can+e<l Circiu…
20-8135 Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment 1) Under the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and the cause of the action against a person, can a person convicted while suffering from sever…
20-8128 Teddy Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations 1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -…
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to Apply the Law on Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. T…
20-8113 Samuel Coleson, Jr. v. Anita Parker, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus international-law standing takings Question not identified.
20-8108 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-8080 Jason C. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Should Jason C. Johnson be held as Culpably negligent in the untimely Filing of his Petition For Dae to Appeal in the Illinois Supreme Court, given th…
20-8093 Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP bible-reading biblical-reference capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-rights external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mattox-v-united-states presumed-prejudice remmer-v-united-states Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read pa…
20-8095 Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Question not identified.
20-1624 Robert Butts v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act attorney-deception effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus holland-v-florida section-2254 1. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF EXPRESS AFFIDAVIT BY PETITIONER DEMONSTRATING ATTORNEY DECEPTION ABOUT COMPLYING WITH DEADLINE, THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT WRIT T…
20-1613 John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application 1. Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a…
20-8054 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to apply the Law Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. Ther…
20-8060 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus standing trial-errors A. Did the inattention and errors on the court violate Art. 1, Section 9, also known as the "Suspension Clause," of the United States Constitution? B…
20-8055 Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-system material-perjury perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure trial-procedure 1. Whether the entire affidavits of probable cause are based on completly Material Perjury? 2. Whether the government illegally searched, seizure and…
20-8063 Darius Theriot v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP case-by-case-review constitutional-error federal-constitutional-error federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error state-court-ruling unpreserved-claim Whether a state court's ruling that an unpreserved claim of federal constitutional error does not meet the requirements of the "plain error" standard …
20-8068 Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden Georgia 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey This case presents several issues of fundamental importance to the legitimacy of the United States' court system and the right of its citizens to be h…
20-1605 Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence Whether, as concluded by every circuit that has considered the issue, the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA…
20-8051 Lucas Kenneth Sabatino v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity prejudicial-error sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether defense counsel committed prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to raise issues relating to defendant's mental capacity at …
20-8052 Vicente Quiroz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus systemic-breakdown Question not identified.
20-8037 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas Texas 2021-05-17 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity 1. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law that Petitioner is eligible for but could not pre…
20-8042 Jorge Cervantes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-determination postconviction-relief standard-of-review state-court-findings strickland 1. Was the state court's failure to make the requisite findings of fact and law thus an unreasonable law, as determined by the United States Supreme C…
20-8044 In Re Annamalai Annamalai 2021-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody-release due-process habeas-corpus judicial-order privity-of-judgment specific-performance state-court warden-liability pursuant to the "specific performance" (Execution) ordered & adjudicated by the Indiana
20-8026 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts 1. This is a question of first impression since AEDPA. When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts, the opportunity to review federal claims, this fa…
20-1581 Malia Arciero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether this Court holding in Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), is still good law, and if so, whether Arciero is entitled to relief due to defens…
20-8016 Rico Blackwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel…
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 …
20-8001 In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. 2021-05-12 Denied IFP and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering 1. As noted by Justice Betty Fletcher in her dissenting opinion, "[w]hen faced with the corruption of our legal system, we must start over. The first …
20-8007 Alfred E. Caraffa v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach habeas-corpus standing the privilege of AN writof Habeas Corpus Shall Not bE Suspended. the right to the gOVerNMENN NO4120 f0ssu3 y GRIEVENCES the united states No CitizeN …
20-8008 Eric Christopher Conn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in "custody" so as to trigger conspiracy to escape for a "walk away."
20-8009 David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court Question not identified.
20-7982 Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, …
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire The trial judge relied on a discussion with the jury, during voir dire as satisfaction to a constitutional guilty plea that he informed Petitioner of …
20-7989 Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, AND/OR SANCTIONED A DEPART…
20-1556 Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi…
20-7952 Pablo Bastidas v. Matthew Atchley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d) alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Bastidas's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-7957 Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Petitioners who seek to have AEDPA's statute of limitations equitably tolled must show (1) they were diligent in preparing their federal habeas petiti…
20-7962 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds a. Should courts Procedurally time-bar a pro se inmetes habeas Corpus then a priser official with a sericus health illness, such as COVTD ~ 19, is Tes…
20-7946 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits The First Circuit held that Fed. R. App P. 4la) is jurisdictronal under Bowles v.Russell, 551 4.s. 205, 214(2007), and dismissed Ms. Birons 2255-proce…
20-7949 Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition, err in holding that evidence admitted at trial essentially established wha…
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), permit a federal habeas court to assign "implicit" factual findings to a state court's order when appl…
20-7942 Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-05-05 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings How Can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 (The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act) (i.e. hereinafter The Act) be considered "constit…
20-7918 Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that "mere outcome determination" is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington…
20-7911 Anthony Ates v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-timeliness standing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
20-7915 Larry Marcel Vaughn v. Texas Texas 2021-05-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel right-to-appeal sixth-amendment WHETHER THE FAILURE OF APPOINTED COUNSEL TO ADVISE PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL AND/OR THE ASSESSED PUNISHMENT IN THIS CASE DENIED PETITIONER HIS…
20-7916 Shomas T. Winston v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-v-delo WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT SHOULD BE ABLE TO DENY A PETITIONER ACTUAL INNOCENCE AS A GATEWAY TO OTHERWISE BARRED CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS WITHOUT CONSIDERA…
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…
20-7877 Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington VOVve.VW-r T\\& Ur^cA CVcAeS SeX>e*\^V\ (XifcoiV Coor^V D^r ■ Appe^S Brr<sd 1 U^Vie-n I dr Oejo\.ec& PeA\Vv,one-r vS AppUccA*or\ For A Op (CO A} ^ U.…
20-7847 Phillip Minor v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-law habeas-corpus new-intervening-judgment state-court-decision statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by not "second guessing" the decision of the state court as to the timing of Mr. Minor's petition, when the state court d…
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review (1) May a federal court seeking to determine whether a state court decision was reasonable for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) substitute its own reas…
20-1481 Adrian Parbhudial v. Jamie LaManna, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process habeas-corpus home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistake police-officers Strickland strickland-standard witness-testimony witnesses 1. Was it an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and its progeny for the state courts, and the habeas courts bel…
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth 2021-04-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Question not identified.
20-7823 Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. …
20-7833 In Re Demarcus Wright 2021-04-22 Denied IFP dna-evidence dna-match due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus inconclusive-evidence judicial-review perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Question: Has prejudice been shown where the prosecuting attorney, whether intentional or unintentional, allowed false evidence and inaccurate inf…
20-7813 Richard Allen Benson v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-21 Dismissed IFP aedpa aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence prima-facie state-law 1. When a federal habeas court examines for reasonableness a silent state court habeas denial pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (AEDPA) and Harrington v…
20-7809 Julian J. Miller v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-of-court access-to-court actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-bar ineffective-assistance statute-of-limitations 1)Does @2244{d)(1)(A) apply to a Habeas Petitioner's Access of Court claim that is barred by Heck & can't accrue pursuant to Christopher v. Harbury un…
20-7792 Ralph Stephen Gambina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied IFP career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness 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 …
20-7787 Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling Jurisdiction for federal habeas? Why Appellant Constitutional error should be cognizable in a petition for Habeas Corpus? Whether errors by courts i…
20-7788 Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler Is The Fifth Circuit effectivly overturning The Supreme Court, and it's own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability to conside…
20-1449 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan rule-60b section-2255 trevino-rule trevino-v-thaler Whether under Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler a Petitioner May Use Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to Reopen a Proceeding Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the B…
20-1440 David Abram Anaya v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability Whether this Court's decisions clearly establish that a defendant can show he was prejudiced by his counsel's deficient performance causing him to rej…
20-7733 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mandamus unlawful-detention Question not identified.
20-7763 Brian David Hill v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus indecent-exposure procedural-defect state-custody supervised-release Where the Virginia Supreme Court didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus should apply to the case of Brian David Hill being convicted…
20-7768 Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Does it violate a defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights to be present at trial when he is not informed of the consti…
20-7779 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C. civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-authority prisoner-petition second-or-successive statutory-construction OHAuihotiJZ£cl ££COMol OR,ttl„ J^lcl i%£ ±iflj P.lRCut'f' doozt ^ Appeals k.fKR u)li£N / CouRis CONS^R u/nJ of P$iitioN£US ff&tofJ AS AH SUdaBSSivB. …
20-7783 Michael A. Farrell v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus lower-court-ruling perjured-testimony standing supreme-court-precedent 1. Are the lower court's rulings in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent? 2. Did petitioner make a substantial showing he's in custody in vio…
20-7739 Patrick J. Gage v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel good-faith habeas-corpus reasonable-decision sixth-amendment state-criminal-defendants state-criminal-procedure Does habeas corpus exist for state criminal defendants? Does the Sixth Amendment Right to effective assistance of counsel exist for Gage? Is the sta…
20-7744 Millard Price v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court Question not identified.
20-7751 Efrain Lopez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial 1. Ih Petitioner's COA, Lopez challenged the U.S. District Court's adjudication of his claims that: -(l) he is actually innocent; (2) he did not recei…
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) ruled correctly on the Petition for Writ of Mandamus, MA-2020-930, to the correct Petition in th…
20-7766 Lyndon Davis v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-analysis civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process standing state-court-proceedings A) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit exceed its Scope of the COA (Certificate of Appealability) analysis When the Court d…
20-1439 Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus I. The district court denied Petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing because Petitioner's factual allegati…
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure ARE FEDERAL COURTS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH PENDING STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS? DOES CONVICTION AND SENTENCES ON ALL COUNTS BECOME THE FINAL JUDGMENT O…
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court I)CAN A STATE PROCEDURAL RULE OR STATE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT PRECLUBE A FEDERAL COURT FROM REVIEWING A DEFENDANTS FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONIAL CLAINS? 2) CAN…
20-7689 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misconstruction 1). Does the court's misconstruction of the habeas corpus claim violate due process of law? 2). Does the court's failure to adjudicate the merits of …
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? D…
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Mr. Washington (Petitioner) alleged that the CCL Court lack subject matter jurisdiction to try him. Petitioner was convicted, in large part upon Plain…
20-7692 Donald Violett v. John R. Grise Kentucky 2021-04-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence attorney-client-privilege civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus state-court-review void-judgment Based on new discovered evidence, can a State court convict and prison incarcerate Petitioner on dismissed and fabricated charges? Can the State cour…
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida 2021-04-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence 1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? 2) Are capital defendants confined to …
20-7666 Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counse…
20-7637 Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing Can A Stale Corrections Arbitrarily Change A Defendant 's Prison Sentence Nearly Two Decades Later, Even After Having Initionaliy Structured Said Cou…
20-7652 Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is procedurally invalid because the Panel failed to consider, and overlo…
20-7653 Jeffrey Denton v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence procedural-gateway prosecutorial-misconduct trial-confidence Whether it can be presumed given the facts underlined in Schlup v Delo 513 US 298; 115 SC 851 (1995), Holland v Florida 560 US 631; 130 SC 2549 (2010)…
20-7643 Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence 1. In applying Minnesota v. Olson, 495 U.S. 91 (1990), and Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83 (1998), to a habeas corpus claim based on the state's unre…
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DEFERRING TO THE DISTRICT COURT FINDING THAT PETITION ER ' SSCHLUP V DELO, "EXCEPTION" TO OVER COME THE PROCEDURAL BAR,…
20-7614 Gerald Von Tobel v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d)(1) criminal-trial federal-review habeas-corpus juror-misconduct mattox-remmer-test mattox-v-united-states presumption-of-prejudice remmer-v-united-states state-court-procedure In Nevada, when a juror commits misconduct by engaging in an unauthorized conversation about a criminal trial with a third party, the Nevada state cou…
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7619 Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott Seventh Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial A. WHETHER THE THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE CONDUCTED A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANALYSIS UNDER MBARKER VS WINGO"407 US 532,92 SCt.2182 ON THE "EIGHT YEA…
20-7620 Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ 1. Does a criminal conviction halt or defeat a pending pretrial Habeas Corpus Action? 2. Does the successive-writ doctrine bar a Petitioner from fili…
20-1371 Bart Posey, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-consult habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. Whether the duty to consult about an appeal requires the effective assistance of counsel.
20-7603 In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion The district court Judge A. Marcia Crone, has unreasonably delayed the ruling on my 28 U.S.C. §2255 Motion for over Seventeen (17) months after the la…
20-7589 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-state-court strickland-analysis 1. Can a federal habeas court conducting a penalty phase Strickland analysis ignore post-conviction mitigating evidence that is materially different i…
20-7590 Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-29 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation I. IS AN pro-sELitiaANT eNtitIEb to relcive CourT procecdinqs NO NO INDONNNUbND OO 21 violatetheeiqth AmevomeNt 3 ON A ACTUAL FALTWALINNOCENCE CLAIM 4…
20-7596 Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding that jurists of reason could not have found it debatable that the district court erred by dismissing Petitione…
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to issue a dispositive decision upon Gary…
20-7569 Deidre M. Hunt v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-claim post-conviction procedural-dismissal standing state-court substantive-validity PuurouOJrL do tiajnes \J. Hornet, t+°'+ ^ C«tp) sivcib prfSGtet> mcUy crri / pro( soI J-s dr\ ■crM-Hid. -io <sdrhc posd- tomvitbt cm dcum prcmis^f on…
20-7553 Len Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review evidentiary-hearing federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus supervisory-authority threshold-inquiry 1. Whether this Court should grant certiorari and exercise its supervisory authority to bring uniformity to the circuit courts' COA practice so as to …
20-7556 Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (1)& (2), did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct in rely…
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim Titled Or Styled As: Ground Four - Argued as Ground Tw…
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing California instituted prosecution against the Petitioner January d6, 2014 during a warrant/ess search and seizure without probable couse for a "welfar…
20-7551 Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman Sixth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction QUESTION ONE: When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings…
20-7554 Eron Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction speedy-trial Question not identified.
20-7525 Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process? Is Sandin v. Conner, 518 U.S. 472 (1991) applicable to parole challenges? Is Vitek v…
20-7536 Timothy L. Coleman v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-habeas capital-punishment confessed-murderer due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase right-to-appeal right-to-due-process 1. Does a federal appellate court violate a capital habeas petitioner's rights to a meaningful appeal and habeas review of a federal constitutional cl…
20-7523 Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-22 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v…
20-7524 Mathew Ryan Byrd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review parolee probationer search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-7511 Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition 1. May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district c…
20-1304 In Re Rexford Tweed 2021-03-19 Denied conflict-with-constitution constitutional-violation due-process florida-sentencing-statute habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence indeterminate-sentence parole-eligibility sixth-amendment There exists exceptional circumstances of a United States Constitutional magnitude, wherein, based on substantive United States Supreme and other Fede…
20-1302 Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence This case presents important issues concerning a criminal defendant's constitutional rights to an impartial jury and to the effective assistance of co…
20-1298 Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardi…
20-7489 Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing I, WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT RELIED ON CONTROLS TO DENY PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AS LAWFUL EVIDENCE. 2. WHETHER THE FOURTH CI…
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), prohibiting federal courts from granting a writ of habeas c…
20-7494 Kirk A. Simmons v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-issue fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-innocence rule-60 rule-60-motion standing 1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's Rule 60 motion, which asserted evidence falsification and Fraud on the …
20-7498 Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing I. WHETHER THE COURT PROPERLY DENIED COA? THE TRIAL COURT AND THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAVE DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW RE…
20-7504 Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts (1) Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, which may result in incarceration for an indeterminate and possibly lifel…
20-7506 Peter Gakuba v. Terry Grissom Seventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights conclusory-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standing HABEAS 28 USC $2264 ; CERT. OF APPEAL. 28 USC S2253 F.B.CIY.P.RULE 6O(b)(1-4) PER GONZALEZ V. CROSBY 545 US 524, 125S.CT. 264) (2005) GAKUBAS F.R.CIN…
20-7467 Timothy Wayne Carver v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Where plea counsel erroneously convinces a defendant to believe that he is guilty of an offense, may the guilty-pleading defendant obtain relief from …
20-7471 Christian Joseph Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation -Can the Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's application for Certificate of Appedlability ("coA") withoct any analysis of whether the District Courts d…
20-7472 David Maurice Milner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to consider Mr. Milner's R…
20-7480 Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard The district court vacated Petitioner's death sentence because his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. On appeal, Respondent contested only…
20-1282 In Re Kaysha F. N. Dery 2021-03-17 Denied administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus immigration immigration-law indigenous-rights terrorism torture 1. Is it constitutional to detain someone who is fleeing torture and terrorism? Is it constitutional when that person is the posterity of the UNITED S…
20-7469 Joaquin Hernandez-Ayala v. Rene Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Hernandez-Ayala's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find …
20-7457 Mark Andrew Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which confl…
20-7437 Frederico Ramsey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment amendment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent mayle-v-felix I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE TENTH CIRCUIT DECISIONS DIRECTLY CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION IN MAYLE V. FELIX, 545 U.S. 644,664, 125 S.Ct. 2562,…
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas 2021-03-12 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire DOES A STATE'S INITIAL-REVIEW PDST-CONVICTIDN COLLATERAL PROCEDURES MEET CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS WHEN THOSE PROCEDURES FAIL TO PROVIDE PRISONERS THE …
20-7442 Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden Zof /}ppeals for He St x/k Ha.s fye. ZCn i Zed Z>fa Ces ir* po&ed <xn tmproper burden and tcnduiy kturden Some d&r /i ftc<k ie Q f $ pp€.ai<xj)i fI f…
20-7419 Kamil Johnson v. W. E. Mackelburg, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance iowa-supreme-court juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief Is whether the Iowa Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying the habeas corpus petition based upon ineffective assistance of counsel under th…
20-7429 William Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-examination mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether Petitioner made a substantial claim where: i) Counsel failed to move for mental examination for plead…
20-7406 Lionel Robinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition gross-negligence habeas-corpus postconviction-counsel 1. Does gross negligence on the part of postconviction counsel in the filing of timely postconviction motions constitute reasons warranting applicatio…
20-7371 Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Question not identified.
20-7378 Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This case presents a question on which the circuit courts are split: to what extent must a claim to be "sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law…
20-7389 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD OF REVIEW TO PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ("COA") ON PETITIONE…
20-1246 Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review (1) Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district c…
20-1233 Johnny Gatewood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Amici (2) cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim. 2…
20-7353 Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Whether, in a case where the jury question was whether Petitioner acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life when she made a drivin…
20-7365 Ronald Brount, aka Ronald Brunt v. Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction Did The United States Court Of Appeals For The FouRth Ciecuit ERR In Denying The PetitioneR A Certificate Of Appealability?
20-7366 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2021-03-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition 1. Due to the fact that the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners in custody and now seek to file successive habeas corpus within 1-year-from…
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),…
20-7335 Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing Question not identified.
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error 1o Whether Petitioner's trial Counsel sleeping during the Commonwealth's witness directexamination is a critical stase of the triali Whether it consti…
20-7341 James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment On direct appeal, the state court found that constitutional error marred the trial, which ended with a death sentence for petitioner. The error—barrin…
20-7342 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions SHOULD THE COURT ISSUE AN EMERGENCY WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REQUIRING RESPONDENT'S TO RELEASE PETITIONER DUE TO THE FACT COVID-19 AND ITS VARIANTS PRESE…
20-7331 Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default Whether the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. United States. Whether petitioner's request for counsel was ineffe…
20-7328 Alberto Matias-Martinez v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan state-impediment statutory-limitations I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT Mr. MATIAS-MARTINEZ 'S § 2254 HABEAS APPLICATION WAS TIMELY FILED, OR IN THE ALTERNATE, THAT…
20-7317 Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing Whether the United States system § 2254 Habeas corpus petition as interpreted, set court decision to petitioner's motion is Constitutional Amendment. …
20-7313 Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r…
20-7310 Derrick Arnold Johnson v. Raybon C. Johnson, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's trial counsel was not ineffective under Strickland v. Washington for failing to investiga…
20-7309 Phillip Maldonado v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause I. DOES THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION'S ARTICLE VI, CLAUSE 2 SUPREMACY CLAUSE PRESCRIBE A RULE OF DECISION UNDER INTERPRETATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT PER …
20-1218 Demetrius William Edwards, et al. v. Sherry Burt, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) is entitled to habeas relief thereby giving rise to a presumption of prejudice counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment During an overnight recess in Demetrius Edwards's and Bryant Royster's bench trial, the judge made an independent, nighttime visit to the crime scene,…
20-1207 Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a "second or successive" petition under the Antite…
20-7307 In Re Wayne M. Beaton 2021-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus miranda-rights Has the state appellate Court decided an important constitutional-federal Miranda rights question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decision(s…
20-7278 Charles Dennis Friedman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit A. Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision departs so vastly from the accepted course of judicial proceedings —by forcing a litigant to challenge a decis…
20-7283 John Larvie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-bargaining procedural-default standing state-court-reasoning tribal-sovereignty my attoing didit leve me with Instrutions ot hou to propers appeal Nor cani contact. Aftorng doesid say muh so Ive boen for avhite and battted bore co…
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing 1. Petitioner's request for state post-conviction review was deemed filed three days late because of a series of errors by the court clerk, who: • inc…
20-7269 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing Question not identified.
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether, in affirming a district court's denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied this Court'…
20-7239 Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-7237 Clyde E. Bradley v. Teri Kennedy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus petition pro-se rebuttal statutory-interpretation I.) WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PRO SE PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WITHOUT PERMITTING THE PETITIONER A FAIR OPPORTUN…
20-7213 Nathan Ray Dent v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924…
20-7209 In Re Rodolfo A. Lopez, Jr. 2021-02-23 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency speedy-trial 1. IS MR. LOPEZ HELD UNLAWFULM IN ACCORDADCE WITH THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON DETAIWERS?
20-7202 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour…
20-7201 Jerry Neil Alfred v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied IFP 2254-petition civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel successive-petition trial-counsel WHETHER DOCTRINE OF EQUITABLE TOLLING COULD BE PROPERLY INVOKED AND ULTIMATELY APPLIED BY DISTRICT COURT TO RENDER AN OTHERWISE UNTIMELY CLAIM THAT EX…
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Under California law, premeditation requires more than just intent to kill; it requires "careful thought," as a "deliberate judgment or plan," carried…
20-7192 Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine Whether the rule announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review.
20-7180 William Hugh Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief…
20-7170 In Re Abhijit Prasad 2021-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus pro-se standing supervised-release Question not identified.
20-7159 Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation I. Whether oa not the lower Covrts' "decision"to "timebar Petitioner' Claims of "Statutory tolling" was in "conflict" with Btatutory Congressional ist…
20-7123 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation 1. When was my conviction final? 2. When did the limitations period under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1)(D) actually start? 3. Did the Caddo County District C…
20-7136 James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default 1. IN REQUESTING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, DOES THE REQUISITE "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING" REQUIRE PRO SE LITIGANTS TO RE-SUBMIT SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS T…
20-7148 Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings Question not identified.
20-7158 Raymond J. Ramirez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge standing WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ? WHETHER RULE 3.I9I (J), FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, IS TRULY JURISDICTIONA…
20-7151 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Clifton Harrold, Sheriff, Lane County, Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP bail civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel speedy-trial state-court-review Did the V.S. Coust of Appeals for the Ninth Grcuit err when it denied the certificate of appealibility whereas there were in-set before the istrict co…
20-1121 James Saylor v. Taggart Boyd, Interim Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure due-process gateway-claim habeas-corpus standing summary-judgment 1. Whether summary judgment may be utilized to dispose of a federal habeas petition in light of AEDPA. 2. Whether a State's failure to address a gate…
20-7147 Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Does this Court's holding in Cole v. Arkansas 68 S.Ct 514 constitute "Actual Innocence" or "Miscarriage of Justice" to excuse procedural default?
20-7142 Lewis R. Fox v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process felonious-assault habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence merits-review sixth-circuit Lewis Fox's federal habeas corpus petition case (Insufficient Evidence Claim) raises a pressing issue of national importance: Did the United States Co…
20-7141 Curtis Jerome Brown, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-review fraud habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-court Can this Court fund pro tunc Release me under libers ouFt orderFr Discharge From SAil JAn3!,1997 Strete Should the Federal Courtshould have let the S…
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…
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one year limitations for filing a Federal Petition statute of tolled when a State Court statutorily or equitably delays the filing of a S…
20-7133 Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects 1. Authority to File The Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 States: Section 1. Prosecution by indictment or Information - all offenses heretofo…
20-7130 Kareem J. Cobbins v. Cherryle Hinthorne, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus illinois post-conviction standing 'Ibis Untied Sbshtf Supreme, Courf should kwer courte <hS +o bout much is expected °X tortshtufwrwl' ohm, AjiernJJvcb * CsOurT be Confident dnotdh . P…
20-7115 Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and…
20-7132 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-7110 David Falcon v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alibi-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-hearing miranda-rights police-misconduct police-testimony right-to-counsel strickland-standard David Falcon was convicted of murder based on an incident where two men approached and shot a stranger in a public park. Falcon's counsel raised an al…
20-7094 Kenneth Ray Sheffey v. Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se I. Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both lega…
20-7093 Noel Christopher Turner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins statutory-provisions 1. Are the lower Courts misinterpreting and applying the United States Supreme Courts decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924,…
20-1084 Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (8) aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court.
20-7086 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it applied a death penalty sentencing Strickland review, in a non death penalty case, raising an actual innocence…
20-7082 Edward Bishop v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 924(c)-prosecution constitutional-violation constructive-amendment deficient-performance drug-trafficking-crime due-process habeas-corpus indictment-defect ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice vagueness-challenge 1. Whether Trial Counsel's performance was deficient and whether any errors were prejudicial? 2. Is an indictment defective in a 924(c) prosecution i…
20-7077 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims constitutional-provisions federal-procedure first-step-act gall-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-standards sentencing-reform statutory-provisions supreme-court-review united-states-v-booker The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header …
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42 U.S.C. §1983? Is 42 U.S.C. §1983 the pro…
20-7065 Anibal Canales, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13)IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice sixth-amendment Wiggins-v-Smith 1. For penalty phase ineffective assistance of counsel violations, has Richter "established a substantial likelihood standard for evaluating prejudice…
20-7056 Faramarz Mehdipour v. Heather Coyle, Judge, et al. Oklahoma 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges frivolous habeas-corpus malicious procedural-deficiencies sentencing-disparities standing The Oklahoma Supreme Court's October 26, 2020 ORDER denying his petition for writ of habeas Corpus is based upon the bare allegation that Petitioner h…
20-7026 Jerome Berry v. Teri Lawson, Superintendent, Farmington Correctional Center Missouri 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-application board-of-probation discriminatory-treatment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus missouri-sexual-offenders-program parole sexual-offenders state-courts Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner was entitled to immediate release due to the Missouri Board of Probation and Paroles ar…
20-7025 Derrick Michael Allen, Jr. v. Orlando Hudson, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus immunity monetary-relief post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT ORDER IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO …
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…
20-7022 Amado Reyes Trujillo v. Mona D. Houston, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review language-barriers petition-for-relief pro-se standing WhEthEr ThE DisTriCT court Erred wheN dEniEd PETiTiONEr WRiT oF habEAS CorpUs, duE TO lack thE IAW, WhEN hE is NOT AN ENglish spEAKER? WhEthEr ThE Di…
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas 2021-01-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution? If the criminal punishment of an i…
20-7000 Felix Brown v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim equity federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-default rule-60 1. In the context of a Habeas proceeding, does the United States Supreme Court require a showing of actual innocence in order to pursue an independant…
20-6986 Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights Question not identified.
20-6983 Demarcus Cole v. Kevin Myers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone-evidence certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress trial-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability on trial counsel was ineffective, when counsel failed to file a pre-trial Motio…
20-6980 Michael Ray West v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135…
20-6972 Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given …
20-6957 Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order?
20-1009 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry v. David Martinez Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) aedpa evidentiary-development federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Does application of the equitable rule this Court announced in Martinez v. Ryan render 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) inapplicable to a federal court's merits…
20-6920 Sean Moffitt v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition (1) Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition, (i.e. motion to amend) during the pendency of appeal…
20-6919 Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion 1). Whether the court of criminal apeal's was invioaltion or not filing and ruling on all of this petitioner grounds of error that the Court of Grim…
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole 1 Did a Courts erred in the opinion that petitioners writ of habeas corpus was dismissed as unauthorized and successive federal relief? 2 The Double …
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention…
20-6952 In Re Russell Adam Pelletier 2021-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1) Does the exceptional circumstances within ihis Writ reach the level required tor Court to use Its discretionary powers ? 2) Does ignorance of the …
20-6944 Jose Manuel Zavala-Marti v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-act WHETHER ZAVLA MADE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF A DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW AS SECURED UNDER FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STASTES CONSTIT…
20-6929 Stephen Hugueley v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington In Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1, 12 (2012) , this Court reaffirmed the right to effective representation " is a bedrock principle in our justice sys…
20-6924 Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea…
20-988 Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson Third Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review Under Pennsylvania law it is well-settled that to be found guilty of First Degree Murder as an accomplice, a defendant must have the specific intent t…
20-975 Freddie Owens v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default The Court of Appeals granted a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on Freddie Owens's constitutional claim that he was denied the effective assistance …
20-6901 Antonio Sierra v. Jack Daneri, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus rules-of-court standing state-court-error unreasonable-seizure Whether petitioner sufficiently asserted federal rights in the case being heard by state courts who defeated by rules of court, in error, petitioner's…
20-6899 Cynthia Hudson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bench-warrant certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court 1. Is a state habeas corpus petitioner who pleads ineffective assistance of counsel claims denied federal constitutional due process when the state ha…
20-6898 Lewis Anderson v. California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure standing suppress-writ-of-habeas-corpus 1. ARE SECTION 2254, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, AND ACTUAL INNOCENCE GATEWAY CLAIM THAT GOVERN THE COMMON LAW WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS COMMON LAW A LEGAL STANDARD…
20-6889 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness I. WHETHER THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OVERBROAD AND VAGUE II. WHETHER WARRANTS BASED ON INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS…
20-6826 Melissa Dean-Baumann v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP aedpa due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-exception state-habeas-petition This case presents questions about the AEDPA: I. Do the California Courts' Denials Bar Dean-Baumann's Federal Claims? ; Does Martinez Apply to Ineffe…
20-6893 Patrick Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 The United States District Court for the Central District of Ilinois and the Seventh Circuit Court should have issued a COA to review the denials of t…
20-6875 Jason Pierce v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty faretta-protocol habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-defect structural-defect Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in filing to issue a Certificate of Appealability from the denial of the Petition …
20-6861 Justin Lee Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error The United States District Court, Southern District of Iowa - and the Eighth Circuit Court should have issued a COA to review the denials of the Petit…
20-6866 Kevin Sutherby v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct warrantless-arrest Whether, Mr. Sutherby is entitled to a new trial, based on Newly Discovered Evidence, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at trial, and appeals, and the…
20-940 Alaska v. Sean Wright Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2…
20-6838 Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing A) Whether a lower federal court loses its jurisdiction over a petition for writ of habeas corpus upon release of the civil detention petitioner, al…
20-6848 Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing VfcLS \\\L IhsrfricA C-cuifrf Fc>r OhiAnd OF MoualjUni e_(MTe.£rf \n T3.5^ ?e.Vrf\on W uarrf erf ha.beaS V\w\£. VsClt r-e_d , lv r\A tx .ft CjlS Corpu…
20-6850 Ronald Eugene Weems v. Alabama Alabama 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-supreme-court attorney-representation constitutional-rights court-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-representation post-conviction sixth-amendment I) Does the Supreme Court of the United States have authority to represent a client in a post conviction petition when the Supreme Court's representat…
20-6822 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing 1. Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims in a written opinion and subsequent summary denial of the same claims in a habeas petition, all…
20-6816 Edward G. Rodriguez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Rodriguez's request for a certificate of appealability on an ineffective assistance of counsel clai…
20-929 Neil J. Gillespie v. Florida Florida 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california forced-counsel habeas-corpus right-to-self-representation self-representation state-proceedings Can a writ of habeas corpus free a criminal defendant in state criminal proceedings from being restrained by forced appointment of counsel prohibited …
20-918 In Re Johnathon Kelly 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence ①. Does the petitioners "Wrongfully Excluded" actual innocence evidence allow the petitioner to gain review of his actual innocence claim under the Sc…
20-913 Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington During opening statements at Petitioner's murder trial, his counsel promised the jury that it would hear from the only eyewitness. Counsel later reneg…
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…
20-6793 Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error (1) After Weaver, can a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error demonstrate prejudice by showing…
20-6798 Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon Third Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether, during review of the petitioner's prior application for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court, the petitioner was entit…
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's application of § 2254(d) —which explicitly requires deference to unreasonable state court opinions if the federal court ca…
20-6756 David Ray Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime 1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys…
20-6762 James W. Knipfer v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury jury-trial procedural-due-process I. CAN THERE BE A "PERPETUAL JURY", "PHANTOM JURY", "FOREVER JURY" or a "JURY on a JUDGES WHIM", in the UNITED STATES? II. DID THE 7th CIRCUIT CASE L…
20-6758 Patrick Koroma v. Katti Lanham, et al. Georgia 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order death-penalty-act district-court due-process equal-protection final-judgment habeas-corpus standing writ-of-appeal 1. Whether an order denying a motion to strike pursuant to OCGA 9-11-11.1 (j) is directly appealable, and whether the Georgia Court of Appeals had jur…
20-6751 Roger Darryl Waldrep v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-evidence civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance self-representation sixth-amendment voluntariness-of-plea 1F Does this Supreme Court Grant and Honor CIVIL RIGHTS to all Arizonans and US Citizens? If so, is Habeas Keelief and Remedy thus appropriate to any …
20-888 Abdul Razak Ali v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-04 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights detention due-process foreign-nationals guantanamo guantanamo-detention habeas-corpus military-commissions Whether the Due Process Clause of the Constitution applies to the detentions of foreign nationals at Guantánamo.
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…
20-6698 Richard H. Morrison v. Florida Florida 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-burden habeas-corpus legal-burden procedural-standard state-courts state-jurisdiction DO THE STATE HAVE THE BURDEN, AND THEN THAT BURDEN SHIFT BACK TO THE DEFENDANT TO CHALLENGE?
20-6686 Benjamon Ray Stewart v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6665 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy standing trial-record I.) Whett THE Clek Phefoened A Jideceal Kwctow AS AN Offete of Hhe Cout Wew ste ctnged the Couets oDrL QUESTIONS ghesertee BY JUCA FiNCION WTSOUT HeAR…
20-6658 Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Petirénep wishes te challeuge the ARisiows of the united States Court of Ampenls far the Fifth circuit m caus€ no. 19-4o72XO And the united sty tes pi…
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment I. Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he fails to investigate …
20-826 Mike Brown, Acting Warden v. Ervine Davenport Sixth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (3) 28-usc-2254(d)(1) brecht-test chapman-standard chapman-test constitutional-error federal-habeas-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-adjudication In Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), the Court held that the test for determining whether a constitutional error was harmless on habeas revie…
20-817 Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether the District Court should ha…
20-6645 Joe Cervantes, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jury-trial notice-of-charges void-for-vagueness void-statutes 1. Does AEDPA v deprive federal courts of the power and obligation to review claims—Not previously known and could NOT have been known through reasona…
20-6648 Gezo Goeong Edwards, aka Gezo Edwards, aka Zo v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus privacy search-and-seizure standing state-court-conviction Whether the lower court and relevant state bar association of a state should be conducted for the issuance of a COP in that state, lower court shall a…
20-6644 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing 1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a…
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations CAN U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE MARCIA MORALES HOWARD WITHDRAW THE FORMA PAUPERIS ON THE HABEAS CORPUS FILED IN JURISDICTION APPEAL NO. 20-104215 AFTER PLAINT…
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ANDREW R. JACOBSEN ERROR, In denying the Petitioner's Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §…
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies XM F* F) P-ec'-erpyi Hcdagcxs Corpus For criMtNPd os^ej^cftNfS irJ c-hevieNQiNc. tVie V€-GrR-'-\FY OF ThOT CONiFlNx2»Ae.MF WeFoce -fir^r st^TS *fTfA…
20-6621 Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden Georgia 2020-12-14 Denied IFP appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure 1) Ms. Smith alleged that her appellete course! was ineHectue — Tor Failing 40 raise: on appeal that hertrial counsel wos deficient For not moving to …
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…
20-6605 Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal court reviewing a habeas petition incorrectly applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), when it rel…
20-6608 Zachary Michael Patten v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense investigation medication mental-health search-and-seizure I. Pettioner was denied his constititonal right to the effective assistance of counsel, where in spite of pettoners eftensive mentd health history and…
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State trial Counsel's conflict of Interest and failure to Call a witness who would have impeached the st…
20-6618 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Does An Appeal Brought Under 28 U.S.C. § 1455 Associated To Other Avenue Of Relief Grits When An Appellate Court Fails To Adequately Resolve Impartial…
20-6592 Edgar Gomez v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process faretta-right habeas-corpus right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness (1) Was Petitioner's denied his right to self-representation pursuant to Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975) when the trial court denied the re…
20-6603 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error WHETHER: A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE ONLY APPROPRIATE REMEDY WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IS IN CLEAR AND UNEQUIVOCAL DEPARTURE OF FEDER…
20-6581 Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable based on the standards for certificate of …
20-6584 Richard Olive v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. What do Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), and Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), require of a defendant to demonstrate prejudice resulting…
20-6587 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health Question not identified.
20-6558 Sonya Bamberg v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-proceedings right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Sonya Bamberg was denied due process because she was denied a full and complete record to review for appeal. Bamberg was denied meaningful review of h…
20-6563 Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner had not made the requisite showing by reference to a (CoA), when two courts of appeals …
20-6564 Eric Bernard Scott v. Artis Singleton, Warden Georgia 2020-12-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review standing state-law supreme-court-jurisdiction .DID GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY FAILING TO RULE THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WILCOX COUNTY WAS WITHOUT SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO ENT…
20-6567 Kedrio Lekeis Summerville v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief The counsel conceded dtiring sentencing that "it was his fault that Mr. Summerville was faced with the increased penalty because he failed to investi…
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…
20-6547 David Franklin McNees, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURT'S ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN THEY MISAPPLIED THE LAW IN DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL AND GINTHER HEARI…
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler COUNSEL ON AN INITIAL STATE POST-CONVICTION HABEAS CORPUS APPLICATION, CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT OF MARTINEZ v. RYAN, 56…
20-776 Gregory Williams v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-defendant criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-test 1. When a criminal defendant is considering whether to accept a plea offer, is defense counsel's failure to advise the defendant of his or her sentenc…
20-6523 Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing 1. Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a "protected class of citizen's" claim for relief? 2. Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a "de jure"/"de facto" L…
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court I would like to be able to have a lawyar uppointed to me on this matter because of my income Im asking for the courts to provide me with one. so I con…
20-6536 In Re Vinodh Raghubir 2020-12-04 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights conspiracy court-integrity due-process federal-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct legal-procedure malicious-prosecution predetermination Question not identified.
20-6500 Alfred Bourgeois v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Amici (1)IFP death-penalty diagnostic-standards due-process federal-death-penalty-act federal-statute habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review Does the Federal Death Penalty Act, which provides that a "sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a person who is mentally retarded," prohibi…
20-6498 Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in, inter alia, Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), when it denied Petit…
20-6502 Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim 1. Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise un…
20-6505 Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Tennessee 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Whether the Court of Crim. App. erred in deeming the ressential robbrery elements that thee pelitiorer was fouend gueilty of, in thee lesser included …
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co…
20-6487 Andrew Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6438 Hector D. Molina v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process fair-trial gang-conspiracy habeas-corpus natural-and-probable-consequences premeditated-murder Whether conviction for premeditated murder committed by others while the defendant was incarcerated based on the natural and probable consequences 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…
20-722 Rodney Anton Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massiah-v-united-states right-to-counsel rule-33-motion section-2255 sixth-amendment The right to counsel in this case was violated by the prosecution surreptitiously recording Petitioner after indictment and before arrest and arraignm…
20-6419 Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Dismissed IFP clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.…
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 In Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), this Court held that a plaintiff cannot bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly unconstitutional …
20-708 Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied 28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard 1. Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland v. Wa…
20-707 Duane Joseph Johnson v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden District of Columbia 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-counsel brady-standard brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance preponderance-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Must a habeas petitioner asserting ineffective assistance of appellate counsel establish by a preponderance that counsel's omitted argument was mer…
20-704 Cesar Santana v. California California 2020-11-20 Denied age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender 1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court…
20-6401 In Re Gregory Richardson 2020-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-6370 David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction 1. Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability by sanctioning…
20-6380 China Hester v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective assistance of counsel such that certiorari should be granted, and this matter reversed and remanded.
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit 2) Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the Defendant of Felony Murder, using the aiding and abetting theory when there is no prin…
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…
20-6356 Ryan Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e…
20-6331 Raphael Dimenick Sam v. Texas Texas 2020-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing WHETHER OR NOT THE LOWER COURT ERRED AND ABUSED HIS DISCRETION THE TRIAL COURT REVERSIBLY ERRED FOR ALLOWING "VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AND VICTIM IMPAC…
20-6302 Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in part, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or …
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.Does The State Lack Subject Matter Jurisdiction Under The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution? 2.Can The Petitioner Demonstrate …
20-6310 Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington These capital habeas cases arise from petitioner-appellant Dean Phillip Carter's 1989 Los Angeles County death judgment and his 1991 San Diego County …
20-6321 Alexander Cameron v. John F. Walrath, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence false-forensic-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-fabrication witness-tampering Can the State convict an innocent defendant for crime against a person that do not exist? Can the State Convict an innocent through the Prosecutarial…
20-6322 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-13 Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-665 Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing 1.) WhetheR The PetitioNeR DAMON COOk Has Made of A Substantial Showing The DeNial ConstitutioNAL RighT 28 USC 2253(C)(2) IN order To ObtaiN A CertiFi…
20-6286 Ruben Aragon v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-agreement state-impediment state-imposed-impediment statutory-limitations 1) Is Mr. Aragon entitled to equitable tolling of the statutory limitations set by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A), due to a state-imposed impediment which …
20-6287 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default WHETHER: FROM REACHING THE SHOWIING NECESSARY TO OBTAIN THE REGULAR APPEAL PROCESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE: (A). Where a Habeas Petitioners predicates, merits…
20-6298 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing Does Fed.R. Crim. P. Rule 35(c)(4) provide the District Court with authority to increase a defendant's otherwise lawful sentence previously imposed on…
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Question not identified.
20-6266 Mario Salas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-power case-error civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b standing 1. Question in reviewing the merits of Rule 60(b)(6). Motion is whether the unique fact of Petitioner's case reveal extraordinary circumstances justif…
20-628 Samuel Anstey v. Ralph Terry, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa arson-investigation due-process fire-science habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief summary-judgment Whether a petitioner whose conviction was based substantially on discredited arson investigation techniques can survive summary judgment under 28 U.S.…
20-633 Byron David Smith v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) aedpa antiterrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus public-trial sixth-amendment The question presented by this petition is whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterror…
20-644 Terrence Pendergrass v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal I. Contrary to the holding in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of app…
20-6259 Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing …
20-6247 Jermont Cox v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability default-rule exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan rule-60(b)(6) Rule 60(b)(6) authorizes a district court to grant relief from judgment for "any . . . reason that justifies relief " on a showing of "extraordinary c…
20-6252 David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28 USC 2244 (d)(1)(A) when Ohio Rules of Appellate Procedure prohibit the only remedy rai…
20-597 Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error, such as a claim of ineffective- should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. …
20-6209 Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO REVIEW THE JUDGEMENT BELOW WHERE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT DENIED CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILTY IN CONFLICT WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS …
20-6210 Deondre Arthur Staten v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied IFP federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case state-court-procedure state-court-procedures strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d)(2) and this Court's decision in Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), does a federal court's deference to a state cou…
20-6184 I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit I. WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATED BUCK V. DAVIS, 580 U.S.__, 137 S.CT. 759, 197 L.ED.2D 1 (2017) WHEN IT DENIED A CERTIFICATE OF …
20-6186 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions 1. Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential: 28 U.S.C. s 2253 (c) (1)? 2. Whether Court of Appeals was correct in its procedural ruling t…
20-6199 Jacob Townley Hernandez v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-communication gag-order habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-order trial-procedure Before trial began, the trial court issued a concededly unjustified gag order that prohibited defense counsel from discussing with the defendant or an…
20-6201 Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law 1. Should a certificate of appealability have issued where the District Court incorrectly opined that claims raised by Mr. Thomas were matters of st…
20-6208 Ira L. Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-due-process counsel-representation district-court-writ due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-errors standing 1) whether the Elevant Cirarit was in error wheni+ failed to grant a certificate of Appeala bility based on the District Court's Clisby'Error. 2) whe…
20-6183 Timothy N. Hatton v. Mark R. Sevier, Superintendent, New Castle Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing Did the State violate Hatton's U.S. Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial? Did the state violate Hatton's U.S. Fi…
20-6193 Martin L. Harrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diligence-standard due-process habeas-corpus material-fact mcquiggin mcquiggin-standard new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Whether Evidence Not Presented as the Result of Prosecutorial Misconduct Should Be Considered New Evidence under McQuiggin? Whether a District Court …
20-6176 Brandon J. Weathers v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standard-of-justice standard-of-review 1. Did the Court of Appeals correctly apply the interest of justice standard into the Petitioner's substitution of counsel claim where the trial facts…
20-572 James R. Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity (1) - Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) provides for Criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate Commerce, absent proof that they knew…
20-6140 Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel when it addr…
20-6135 Justin Mertis Barber v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING BARBER'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A MOTION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FINDING T…
20-6107 Larry Michael Maples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights controversial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts pillow state-evidence Whether an accused's Due Process Rights are violated when all lower courts deny an Evidentiary Hearing on controversial evidence and picture of a pill…
20-531 Derek Hutter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse…
20-6065 Delmar Reinheimer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act collateral-consequences collateral-consequences-of-conviction exhaustion-doctrine failure-to-advise federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), is an ineffective assistance of counsel claim of "affirmative…
20-6067 Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to …
20-6078 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-20 Granted IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process exhaustion fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 PREFACE: Denial of certiorari means Petitioner will die in a Colorado prison for a crime a jury found him not guilty of - Petitioner was forced to tri…
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "C…
20-6083 John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review…
20-6087 Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review 1. Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object …
20-6048 David J. Godine, III v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification ninth-circuit pro-se-petition strickland-claim Petitioner David Godine sought leave in district court to amend his untimely pro se federal habeas petition with new claims. To excuse the untimelines…
20-6053 Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha…
20-6059 Paul Edward Duran v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review arbitration-award civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-arbitration-act federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate Question not identified.
20-507 Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of cou…
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations A state prisoner has one year from the time that "the judgment" becomes final to file a habeas petition. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). Applying this stat…
20-6017 Tracey Godfrey v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing DS BOUBLE JCOPHROY 0 A MISCARDIAGE &f JUSTZCS JUST s SENTONCES FOR THE VIOLAION Of 46-18-502 MCA IS 2 SEPERATE DOUBLE JEOPARDY 2 LOVOAH SONTONCE WAS …
20-6021 William Allen v. Candice Batts, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alexander-v-louisiana constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-discrimination habeas-corpus jefferson-v-morgan systematic-exclusion 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief where he was indicted by a grand jury from which African-Americans were systematically exclu…
20-6024 Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Defendant contend? that he i? being held on what what contend? to be a void judgement redured during a jury trial where the main witne?? who wa? al?o …
20-6034 Christopher Thieme v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-challenge equal-access-to-courts equal-protection equitable-estoppel first-time-filer habeas-corpus material-mutual-mistake suspension-clause When faced with a plea agreement that contained unconstitutional provisions, does the doctrine of "equitable estoppel" or "material mutual mistake" ap…
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does United States Postal Service Form 3811 Domestic Certified Returned Receipts demonstrating properly and timely filing of State and Federal Habeas …
20-6005 Victor Brancaccio v. Florida Florida 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-6015 Lance R. Martin v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2020-10-14 Denied IFP administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-rights documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty state-court-procedure state-courts writ-of-mandate The question presented to the United states Supreme Court, is that the State Courts wrongly misconstrued the writ of mandate for a habeas Petition, an…
20-6016 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-5983 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016.
20-6000 Sara G. Kielly v. New York New York 2020-10-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing 1.5 a defendant required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly state a plea agreement's constitutional conditions, and treatment in priso…
20-5973 Efrain Santos v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-5950 Clinton Riley v. Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
20-5961 Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel failed to conduct an independ…
20-5964 Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
20-448 Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas Texas 2020-10-08 Denied appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were …
20-5941 Charles Victor Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) aedpa-deference capital-punishment constitutional-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus Massiah-claims punishment Sixth-Amendment state-court-review Williams-v-Taylor I. Did the circuit court err in holding that a federal habeas court may never hold a hearing on a punishment issue without first considering 28 U.S.C.…
20-5944 In Re Gerald M. Calmese 2020-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment 1. Was the Eidere tresrs toblishThe "Anoter Person. in RDiRn Ent of Pantiff which The LAS COnUCED of Lakno thie I 2 2. Ds the cot betore which the Pe…
20-5946 Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity I. May a personal locker be a disciplinary notice wrote in fact if nothing wrote links the sulprit to it? II. May a tribunal limit its review of a pr…
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 …
20-436 Thomas Haugabook v. Walter Bery, Warden Georgia 2020-10-06 Denied Response Waived child-molestation child-testimony criminal-defense expert-testimony forensic-interview habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Habeas Court err in not finding that trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when counsel failed to …
20-5893 Jonnie Ravon v. Florida Florida 2020-10-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
20-5889 In Re Jesus Anaya 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review WHETHER TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL(S)' S INADEQUATE REPRESENTATION OF JESUS ANAYA CONSTITUTED, AT BEST, CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL, WHERE TRIAL C…
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process I. Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due procedd by failing to treat relators Jwith fundam ental fairness …
20-5856 Alimamy Barrie v. Matthew M. Robinson Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules strickland-v-washington Whether an Omission by habeas Counsel for Failing to Include a Supporting fact that Appellate Counsel was Ineffective, after Petitioner Specifically r…
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Did the panel abuse its discretion by denying certificate of appealability when there is a conflict in the District courts on the issue and Jurists of…
20-5860 Miguel Antonio Wooten v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause sixth-amendment 1. On habeas corpus revi ew of a state-court judgment under 28 U.S.C . § 2254, di d the Di strict Court fai l to uphol d peti tioner's Si xth Amendmen…
20-5832 Damon Graham v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused it's discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appeal…
20-5835 Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California California 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement CAN A STATE PAROLE BOARD COMMIT A FATAL ERROR BY THE REFUSAL TO ENTERTAIN FAVORABLE EVIDENCE OF THE STATE PRISONER FOR HIS SUITABILITY TO BE RELEASED …
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise 2020-09-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a co…
20-5823 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights contempt-trial double-jeopardy due-process government-action habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pretrial-proceedings 1 pUrSUANT to 28 USC 2241, A pretrial petitioner MAY ChAlleNGe his custodt THAT S IN VIOIAHION OF the consttumon its laws and trenties. COgNIzAble ClA…
20-5826 Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte 1. In United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575, 1578 (2020), this Court held that the Ninth Circuit "departed so drastically from the principl…
20-5827 Michael R. Spengler v. Alex Villanueva Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-claims due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus legal-abuse petition-review standing Federal Habeas book oN the lexIs Nexis touckcreen Here At the JAil (by MAtthew BeNdeR) 28usC 2241-autharizes "other specIAl ciranstances CrEAHING A su…
20-5830 Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment 1. Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims. Whether a district court judge's impa…
20-5786 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause 1. Whether it amounts to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for the state courts to fail to consider claims from an individual with compelling …
20-5800 Robert L. Rose v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability discretionary-ruling federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure reasonable-jurists rule-70(a) In order to appeal a final order in a habeas corpus proceeding, a state prisoner must obtain a certificate of appealability. See, 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(…
20-5801 James Rogers v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5806 Anthony Rogelio Griego v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254d2 28-usc-2254e1 collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus Hill-v-Lockhart's-prejudice-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity strickland-standard 1) Whether the state court's decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington's deficient performance anal…
20-5818 Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL ("COA") BASED UPON A FAILURE TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF, DESPITE SATISFYING THE REQUIR…
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th 'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex Parte Motion F…
20-5788 Edward James Wilkins v. Washington Washington 2020-09-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-5761 In Re Antonio M. Bogan 2020-09-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collusion constructive-possession due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness retaliation Whether habeas corpus relief is being denied where (a) the State of Illinois failed to prove the substantive demerits of constructive possession — Mr.…
20-5762 Will Robertson Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent petition-standard retroactivity section-2255 successive-petitions unconstitutional-law At issue is whether, when a petitioner files a second or successive § 2255 petition, jurisdiction over the § 2255 issue hinges on a showing it is "mor…
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT err in denying my motion (Staples) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5729 Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Granted Response WaivedIFP actual-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington QUESTION#!: Does the 11th Circuit decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Martinez v. Ryan . (2012), since it ignores that in Martinez v. Ry…
20-5731 In Re Brent L. Alford 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa article-i-section-9 constitutional-impediment great-writ habeas-corpus state-prisoner statutory-tolling Although the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied 60(b) motions reopening Habeas petitions, most circuits have used 60(b) to reopen untimely dism…
20-5735 Michael Dean Perry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-review Question not identified.
20-5736 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-counsel fla-r-app-p-9-141(d) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review pro-se-litigant standing writ-of-review Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to review the underlying merits of an issue when the action being challenged is a petition for…
20-363 Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co…
20-5705 In Re Paul Satterfield 2020-09-16 Denied IFP aedpa-statute constitutional-procedure district-attorney federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction-defects jurisdictional-defects marbury-v-madison moot-issue standing 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS JUDGMENTS WERE INVALID FOR FAILURE TO RESOLVE NUMEROUS PREEXISTING FUNDAMENTAL JURISDICTIONAL DEFECTS? 2. WHETHER THE…
20-5719 Efrain Camarill Cruz v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness plea-bargaining Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claims th…
20-5725 Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation WAS PETITIONER'S 42 U.S.L. $ 1983 LOMPLAINT ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OFEQUITABLE TOLLING? IN SOME EXTLA DRDINARY WAY FRDM ASSERTING HIS RIGHTS BEFDRE THE S…
20-5696 Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction (a) Would the ordinary Forfeiture rule, as codified in the Civil Rules, apply to the limitations period of the 28 U.S.C. § 2254? (b) Would a § 2244(d…
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court A. Is a petitioner deried a fair trial when a juror B Is counsel ineffective if he does not raise the fact that A Petitioner was dheried a fair trail…
20-5699 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex'Parte Motion "F…
20-5680 Larry R. Steele v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violations due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing state-court-review Question not identified.
20-5684 Frank Joseph Schwindler v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-procedures state-courts venue 1. Whether or not the August 28, 2019, opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, finding that it lacked jurisdiction to review the Ma…
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT'S PETITION DOES NOT…
20-5665 Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements 1) IS THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OR OVERTLY PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION? (AND IS SUCH A VIOLATION SUFFICIENT TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABE…
20-5668 Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Along with the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit requires petitioners that qualify for equitable tolling to show diligence during the perio…
20-5677 In Re Jimmy Wren 2020-09-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus 1. Whether 28, §2244, U.S.C. deprives similar situated litigants of due process of law? 2. Whether the enforcement of 28, §2244, U.S.C., subjects sim…
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…
20-5624 Juan Francisco Vega v. Chad Poppell, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-discretion extraordinary-circumstances false-imprisonment habeas-corpus sexually-violent-predator successive-petitions WHETHER JURISTS OF REASON COULD DEBATE THAT THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY NOT GRANTING A COA WHERE THE UNDERLYING CLAIM OF THE…
20-5625 Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Petitioner was not entitled to issuance of a certificate of appealability?
20-5631 Riggin Valley v. Texas Texas 2020-09-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5632 Rick Shawn v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County Nevada 2020-09-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial 1. When lawenfoccement ar state presecutors violate guaranteed rights afa criminal defendant and a couct when the staite moves to withdraw the case -w…
20-5633 Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the district court committed error when it determined that newly presented evidence does not create for consideration under the Acosta factors…
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the law regarding allegations of Counsel being ineffective regarding Plea Negotiations …
20-5609 In Re Gary Wayne Barnes 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction can the claim of Actual innocence be reviwed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ans 22…
20-5611 Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-convictional relief counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial…
20-5617 David Allen Rundle v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 aggravating-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus incest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychological-impairment psychological-impairments sexual-abuse state-court-determination 1. Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's claims that defense counsels' failure to present evidence corroborating his sexual abuse by h…
20-5618 Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether, by erroneously affirming Petitioner's conviction based on a finding that the district court lacked authority to hold an evidentiary hearing a…
20-5592 Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. D. Goree, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review frivolous habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance malicious procedural-default standing state-court-review Cllo Does 42u.S.C.1983 coMPlaints that Sound, in Part, like hablas Constitute Strikes inder 28 u.s.csi9is(9) explicitly Stating they are being sued in…
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…
20-5593 Chaz Antonio Earp v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mistake 1. DID THE Appellant RECEIVE A Fair TRIAL, AS PROMISED BY BOTH FEDERAL, AND STATE CONSTITUTION. 2. DID THE VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT SHUT THE DOOR, NOT …
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to be ada…
20-281 Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement I. Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement. II. If so, whether a court con…
20-5563 Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied IFP aedpa atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia certificate-of-appealability death-penalty habeas-corpus hall-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas 1. Is it at least debatable whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he …
20-5566 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-counsel relief-denial standing state-court-procedure Can the systematic deprivation of counsel be used as the primary reason to deny access-to-the-courts of Florida? 2. Is a two (2) year period reasonab…
20-5570 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Amici (2)IFP adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and "adjudicated on the merits" by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder…
20-5574 Jose Luis Torres v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions deficient-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance multiplicious-offenses plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default Question not identified.
20-5556 Genaro Edgar Espinosa Dorantes v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied IFP §2254-case civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extradition extradition-treaty habeas-corpus language-barrier mexican-national Did the District Court Err Or Abuse Its Discretion in a § 2254 case When It Denied Equitable Tolling To A Mexican National, Unable To Speak Or Underst…
20-254 Kuang-Bao Ou-Young v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights competence-restoration criminal-action criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing 1. Should a three-judge court instead of a single judge at the North Carolina district court adjudge the FTCA case? 2. Does denial of certiorari just…
20-5529 Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied IFP aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition Question not identified.
20-5460 Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation Quastin of greatpabli mportance: Das Sction 22A .' of the A E D P A of lgb) stating that" The Antiterrorism and Effaitive Death Penalty Act requires a…
20-240 Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White Kentucky 2020-08-28 Denied Amici (1) atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), and its progeny.
20-5509 Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order Whether Court of Appeals erred.) ujk.em it disposed. of -ike. Constitutional question presented, by habeas petitioner bydevxyinc) his application Von…
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…
20-5527 Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus 1). When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, is this Honorable Court intent to apply Hollando to "Capital cases onl…
20-5518 Lewis J. Vance v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
20-5523 Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure 1) Would reasonable jurors find the district court's assessment of this petitioner's constitutional claims to be debatable or wrong, or whether his ha…
20-229 Michael Woolen v. California California 2020-08-26 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-error mental-illness prosecutorial-misconduct I. WHETHER PETITIONER ,1 OF 60 MILLION AMERICANS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS WAS DEPRIVED BILL OF RIGHTS PROTECTIONS OF AMENDMENT I ,V ,VI ,IX ,AND XIV. WHER…
20-5483 Dion Black v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights cross-examination double-inference-rule effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence Should the petitioner have been granted a certificate of appealability where the State courtS/U.S. District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals d…
20-5485 Maurice Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5486 Spencer E. Miles v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5492 Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal after new law and evidence developed. The Eleventh Circuit had limited the…
20-5466 John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel When a petitioner supplements his Constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence that was not raised in his habeas petit…
20-5473 Andres Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing I. WHETHER CHAVEZ WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN HE WAS MISLEAD INTO ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA; BECAUSE COUNSEL FAILED TO REVIEW THE PSR WITH HIM AND FAILED…
20-5441 Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate that the District Court's limitation on the cross-examination of the prosecutor about objections to the use…
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts defense cause prejudice } due to inadequate nofice? If so, is it bad favth -for a conscious prosecutor to seeK this outcome? Does a Federal Court's,…
20-5448 Antonio Williams v. William J. Pollard, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standards antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence 1. Whether federal courts should or must consider the restrictive standards for granting habaes relief under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death P…
20-5451 Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution When Petitioning For Federal Habeas Relief a 2nd Time, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where "Conceding Guilt" Nevertheless Could Not Wa…
20-5426 David Moss v. Texas Texas 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-code-of-criminal-procedure AState Court of last resort decided an- important question of law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this court. This court decided L…
20-5432 Michael James Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Barnes' Plea Agreement bars …
20-5437 Wendell Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars…
20-5402 Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5412 Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit Where Petitioner has never been allowed to develop the factual record which supports his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, should thi…
20-5415 Gillman Roddy Long, aka Dave Gillman Long v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appeal-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. Does an objection to the governments arguement that a defendant."had not denied the accusations against him." violate the fifth Amendment? 2. Does…
20-5416 Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5419 Michael D. Dyer v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. Georgia 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel 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…
20-5383 Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su…
20-5397 Wilbert Romon Banks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining racial-bias racial-discrimination trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel venue-change WAS BANKS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING HIS FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS PETITION, A SUBSTANTIAL CLAIM WITHIN …
20-5370 Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S PETITION IS TIMELY AND/OR THE ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN PETITIONER'S CASE ARE EQUATABLY TOLLED UNDER HOLLAND V. F…
20-5371 Keith Lemont Farmer v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
20-5372 Melvin Gamage v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mississippi-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether circumstances that constitute exceptions to rule precluding successive postconviction filing include: 1) cases in which the prisoner can show …
20-5378 James Lynn Styers v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review eddings-standard eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit second-or-successive-petition Whether the Arizona Supreme Court, during reweighing on collateral review to correct its error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), is requ…
20-5354 Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio and Brady violations, and insufficient evidence plain on the fa…
20-5358 David Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure davis-precedent davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration legal-standard reasonable-probability reconsideration standard-of-review supreme-court-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5360 Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Given the extreme facts of this case, should this Court finally turn to footnote 10 and Justice Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in Cullen v. Pinholster…
20-5362 David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee…
20-156 Kevin Edward Connors v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation cold-record credibility-determinations due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility I. Whether it violates due process for a superior court to substitute its own unfavorable fact findings based on a cold record for an inferior court's…
20-145 Carl Skidmore v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error de-novo-review district-court evidentiary-hearing fact-finding habeas-corpus post-conviction speculative I. Whether a certificate of appealability should have issued to address the question whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition as "sp…
20-5334 Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability on the district court's denial of Kieren's motion to amend his petition w…
20-5316 Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing 1. Abbednee toe Slate Covort decrvgor Patt "here v3 NO Beguiremeut Hye Court ufoven Hae ly <feadanit of tHe Elemieats of @ach Chinogs" Coatrory to Sup…
20-5325 Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Where the State postconviction courts assessment of Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of counsel claim was "I guess the only potential issue would b…
20-5312 Sharrieff Brown v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation discovery-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations summary-reversal Petitioner Sharrieff Brown filed a claim for the ineffective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to locate critical impeachment mat…
20-5289 Justin W. Sanderson v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Ohio 2020-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether this present petition should be liberally construed by this court as a petition for Writ of Mandamus to the court with directions, or as …
20-5262 Stephen Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012), (placement of GPS monitoring on a vehicle and cells-site tracking withou…
20-5271 Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit 1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
20-5272 Jomiah Washington v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-testimony due-process habeas-corpus habeas-review initial-arraignment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-coercion 1. Whether The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals erred and made a decision that conflicts with this Court's holding in Rothgery v Gillespie . 128 Set 257…
20-5274 James S. Harris v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period reasonable-jurists Did Mr. Harris present reasons for why the one-year limitations period should be equitably tolled in his case to which reasonable jurists could differ…
20-5276 Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law…
20-5247 Avern Lee Burnside v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence perjured-testimony presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN…
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…
20-5242 Maurice Miles v. CDCR Correctional Officers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied IFP asylum civil-rights detention due-process habeas-corpus immigration Question not identified.
20-5192 Scott Allan Moser v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied IFP appellate-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel invited-error-doctrine martinez-framework martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment, are procedurally defaulted claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel excusable under the framework established …
20-5194 In Re Kevin D. Moore 2020-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
20-5232 Iris Lamarr Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts 1. WAS PETITIDNER DENIED "FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS" BY STATE AND FEDBRAL LOURTS RESOLUTION OF HIS CLAIMS DN AN ERRONEOUS INDEPENDANT AND ADEQUATE STATE LA…
20-5233 Michael R. Burns v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-31 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-fabrication due-process evidence fingerprint-fabrication habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief 1. Appoint Counsel And Recall A Mandate 2. When Appeals Court Have Jurisdiction Summary Cases, Where A Rule 33 Is Filed Under US v. CRONIC?
20-106 Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review In 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed convictions of Petitioners Gary Tanaka and Alberto Vilar for securities law-related offenses, but vacated the sen…
20-5224 Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual …
20-5212 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fact-finding factual-findings habeas-corpus judicial-discretion trial-court (1) Whether the Texas Count of Criminal Appecls and individual judges thereof as the ultimate factfinders in Texas habeas corpus proceeding abused the…
20-5210 Ashley L. Dunn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness substantial-showing timeliness I. DID PETITIONER MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWINIG THAT HER 28 U.S.C. 2254 PETITION WAS TIMELY? II. DID PETITIONER MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING THAT HER 28 …
20-90 Eugene Slone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Slone sufficiently meet his burden under Strickland such that the District and Circuit courts should have granted his petition for a Certificate o…
20-89 Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i), a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application must be dismissed before a hearing on the me…
20-86 Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross Ninth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab…
20-5188 Adelso Barnes v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-exception criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-consultation miscarriage-of-justice plea-change right-to-counsel 1. Whether an affirmative statement that Mr. Barnes wished to remain in the county jail for the critical ten-day period entitles Mr. Barnes to the con…
20-5201 Travaris Crawford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas …
20-5160 Keith Henderson v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
20-78 In Re Scott Louis YoungBear 2020-07-27 Denied civil-rights due-process fiswick-v-united-states habeas-corpus sex-offender-registry united-states-v-morgan 1. Whether the SOR violation of civil rights via an expired sentence provides a subject matter for a habeas court. 2. Whether petitioner can be relea…
20-5174 Ronald Demetrius Thomas v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-courts habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-application state-court-review 1. In applying Harrington Vs. Richter, 562 U.S. 86((2011), on the state's unreasonable application of Constitutional effective assistance of counsel i…
20-5154 Jorge Armando Herrera Salguero v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability closing-argument credibility due-process habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Salguero's prosecutorial misconduct claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-5150 Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution 1. Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous? 2. Does the petitioner have a fundam…
20-5134 Donald Robin Barren v. Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Impeted within Ninth circuit court case No. 19-168s in cnTonction with Ninth circuit curt case N8. 19-159s2 denonstrated that State District curt case…
20-5132 Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied IFP criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner Is actually, Factually, Legally, and Lawfully Innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) recently decided by T…
20-5111 James Earvin Sanders v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review rare-and-exceptional-circumstances statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-provision If a petitioner can demonstrate that he falls under a built-in tolling provision as described in 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(A)-(D), does he also need to de…
20-5124 Allen Fitzgerald Calton v. Texas Texas 2020-07-21 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion materiality petition-review (1) whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as the ultimate factfinder in Texas habeas corpus proceedings abused its discretion and erred wher it …
20-5125 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2020-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus Whether the resolution of Petitioner's Brady Violation claim by the State courts resulted in a decision that was contrary to or involved an unreasonab…
20-5127 Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-5130 Antonio Lozano Solis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts appeal-review civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. Was petitioner denied meaningful access to the court? 2. Does Petitioners INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL claim require a Certificate of Appeal?…
20-5036 Jermond Perry v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment I. Was counsel's objection at the moment the pattern emerged sufficient to warrant a full Batson inquiry withrespect to all strikes in the alleged p…
20-36 Michael J. McGowan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness pro-se Whether Petitioner, a mentally ill prisone r serving a 110-year prison sentence, whose appellate counse l led him to believe that no further legal cha…
20-5097 Robert Earnest Wilkerson v. Texas Texas 2020-07-17 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Appellant has a sincere religious belief in his use of psilocin mushrooms for religious ceremonies. The Texas Courts erred in finding that error was n…
20-5089 William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat…
20-5083 Telly Kavantzas v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court electronic-dockets federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-notice rule-4 rules-governing-section-2254-cases section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, 28 U.S.C. foll. § 2254, which prohibits a district court from dismissing a habeas corpus pet…
20-5066 Everett L. Spillard v. Superior Court of California, Humboldt County, et al. California 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-courts transcripts 1. Can Superior Court and it's DA Violate all Judicial mistakes and misconduct can't be ruled an J? 2. Can all the Courts in the State ignore the Law…
20-5067 James A. Riggs v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-process civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-deficiency standing grounds that the th Cireuit Count displayed a blatoN abusE of thER eNumeRAted PoWeR being INconstant with the loth Constitional AmendmeNT Resulting in…
20-5082 Robert Deane Schwartz v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied IFP affirmative-defense certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit err for failing to grant a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) on petitioner's claim that the state …
20-5060 Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act…
20-5052 Jeremy E. Lewis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights due-process frivolous-filings habeas-corpus immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen standing statutory-interpretation Lewis was "Completely" barred from filing a motion in federal court. Does Lewis have a "Constitutional Right To Petition The Courts" under this Court'…
20-5039 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment habeas-corpus personal-liberty 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether Petitioner is Deprived of his Pers…
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 …
20-5018 Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the District Court for the Northern District of Florida apply f…
20-5013 Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause (A) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit relied on HECK v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, the usual part of malicious prosecution and its favora…
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…
19-8921 Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Trial counsel in this capital case knew that the defendant's mother had consumed alcohol while pregnant. Despite recognizing the need to investigate w…
19-8930 Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing Th C Ab Petitioner Appointment Of Caunsel? n il Co y iA gi Wendy kelley Mashall Red Jy Andw icials he CAy Cancurring withhe . istrict Court' misl? …
19-1474 Tyler Herndon v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief hearsay-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment A. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's refusal to review the Trial Court's Denial Order on a Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief, in a case where a…
19-1467 Robert S. Ortloff, aka Robert Stanley Ortloff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability docket-management due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-petition 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it contravened long-established decisional law to deny a pro se habeas petitioner a certificate of appealab…
19-8906 Nathan Matthew Kinard v. Michael Hoffman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP abuse civil-rights commitment-procedures constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus individual-liberty mental-health Were the witness statements and emails considered? How many others were tortured into taking a plea while in Escambia County Jails protective custody…
19-8907 Jonathan Boyer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 civil-procedure federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-recall relitigation-bar statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether and under what circumstances a motion to recall judgment attacking the erroneous application of the relitigation bar in 28 USCS 2254(d) should…
19-8911 Lee Montez Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8850 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition 1. Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal h…
19-8901 Fabian Fuentes Rosas v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-exception federal-habeas habeas-corpus material-misrepresentation ninth-circuit plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to consider and decide one of the certified claims raised in Rosas's appeal, namely an exhausted argument that Ros…
19-8863 Michael Strausbaugh v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination miller-el-doctrine procedural-standard standing Whether the Court of Appeals contravenes the Certificate of Appealability is denied based on the Unsheltered Court Records determined in and whether t…
19-8871 Joshua Adam Schulte v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Does an aggrieved party have no right to appellate review of a Closed 28 U.S.C. §2241 pretrial habeas corpus civil action Challenging Pretrial Conditi…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Mr. Wardlow's initial state habeas proceeding was essentially a sham, in which the trial court wholly allowed the prosecutor to determine the course o…
19-8823 Alex Joseph Pedrin, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct stash-house-sting Was Mr. Pedrin prejudiced by both the individual and cumulative impact of 1.) multiple deficiencies or errors by counsel during the pretrial, plea, tr…
19-1420 Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction when dismissing without adjudication petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2241 Federal h…
19-8811 Michael Lee Crane v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied IFP citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-citizen constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules standing statutory-citizen 1.a. - Presume that MrCrane is a stATuroRy citizer born M and doniciled in Federal Territory(see 8 u.s.c s1401 anwher he specifically bas claimed that…
19-8794 Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-possession criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements restitution territorial-jurisdiction HAVE NORTH CAROLINA COURTS REAAOVED THE BURDEN OF PROOF Altogether in criminal Possession cases ? What decides A criminal court 's territorial Jurisd…
19-8784 Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY?
19-8776 Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing How cAn the court Deny HAtter His HabeAs Petition ASking For HiS diSeCt APpeAl rishtS bAcK When A DiveCt AppeAl iS A FundAmentAl constitutionAl Due Pr…
19-8775 Kirby Gardner v. Texas Texas 2020-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
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…
19-8762 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULV DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT'S PETITION WAS UN…
19-8746 Scott A. Group v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-18 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-trial trial-court 1. Does a state court deprive a capital defendant due process of law when it denies the defendant's request to present new evidence to challenge the c…
19-8728 Joshua Harrell v. California California 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness rational-understanding Question not identified.
19-8716 Eric Martin Pepke v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Did the Eastern District of North Carolina err in summarily dismissing Pepke's motion under Rule 12(b)(6) to challenge the constitutionality of 18 U.S…
19-1380 Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c…
19-8713 Michael K. Bailey v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus liberty-interest parole parole-board prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Can a state prisoner be incarcerated forever based upon falsehoods deliberately created to prejudicially bias future decision makers in the exerc…
19-8698 Neal Scott Stone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit 1. Does the Sixth Circuit's Amended Order, in which it denied Stone's COA Motion; conflict with Lozada v.Deeds, 498 U.S. 430 (199r)(per curiam) and pr…
19-8701 Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition Question not identified.
19-8704 Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts IS THE DECISION OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BASED ON AN UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION OF THE FACTS INASMUCH AS IT IS BASED ON AN INCOMPLETE REC…
19-8685 In Re Gigi Fairchild-Littlefield 2020-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-duties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-procedure rules-of-court standing state-attorney-general writ-of-certiorari 1. When a State Attorney General has been admitted Admission To The Bar of This Court, and has Signed an Oath of Office monic, AS Sopport The Constitu…
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 …
19-1360 William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994), held that, to prevent circumvention of habeas corpus's statutory exhaustion of state remedies requirement, a p…
19-8674 Rolando Gus Paez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-system civil-procedure dismissal-rule due-process federal-procedure federalism federalism-doctrine habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation Does Rule 4 of the rules governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Court, which provides that "[i]f it plainly appears from the petit…
19-8664 Charles T. Kirvin v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenges legal-standing petition-denial procedural-grounds standing THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARBITRARINY ERRONEDUS/Y DENIED APPEllanT CERtiFiCAtE oF APpEAlAbilitY StatinG,"PEtitiOn fail to state any federal Constitutional Cla…
19-8647 Martin Diez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland cone-v-bell due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where the state courts did not address Petitioner's claim that the prosecution failed to disclose certain evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 8…
19-8633 Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 A writ of certiorari be granted since the Eleventh Circuit's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this court whic…
19-8626 In Re Thomas Reid DeCarlo 2020-06-05 Denied IFP checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-accountability congressional-authority constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers supreme-court-authority 1) Do Citizens who have been injured by an Act of Congress that has been enacted in Violation of the Commands of the Constitution have a Right to be a…
19-8624 Miguel DeFreitas v. Jaifa Callado, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights corrective-remedy due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction Did the New York State Appellate and Supreme courts' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas corpus petition, which left Petitioner with no corrective remedy…
19-8591 Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-motions exonerating-evidence habeas-corpus juvenile-jurisdiction new-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing 1. Does the improper waiver of Exclusive Juvenile Jurisdiction, (Title 47 Arkansas Code Annotated 45-413(1977)), allow for the dismissing of the previ…
19-8598 Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement 1. In determining intellectual disability, at the time of the pertinent state court decision in 2008, whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated…
19-8589 Ramon Enrique Acosta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether reasonable jurists could debate the district court's determination that trial counsel was not constitutionally ineffective with respect to the…
19-8581 Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an …
19-8578 In Re Khayree Smith 2020-06-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction denationalization due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction nationality racial-classification slave-nomenclature status status-correction A) WHat branch 6f law authorized States to assume jurisdiction over any person prior to adjudication? B) What branch of law authorized states to viol…
19-8575 In Re Andrew Robinson 2020-06-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus jurisdiction-claims 1) . Does State and Federal law allow jurisdiction claims to be made at anytime? 2) . Does Sate and Federal law say jurisdiction claims go under habe…
19-8565 Christopher S. Andersen v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the test for granting a Certificate of Appealability in a habeas action on an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim must incorporate t…
19-8555 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error The Fourth Circuit has held that error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), is structural; the Ninth Circuit and other courts routine…
19-8548 Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la…
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell 2020-05-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell ("Russell"), convicted of first degree murder under 18 U.S.C. Section 1, retains a federal constitutional righ…
19-8532 Lester B. Lynch v. Beth Cabell, Warden Virginia 2020-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct strickler-v-greene 1. Were the petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when the Commonwealth failed to provide the trial court with exculpatory evidence? a.…
19-8535 Courtney Rashon Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review grand-jury habeas-corpus plea-bargaining standing 1.) THE 11+CnCUIT conCEDES thAT JOhUSON SObSTANtiAl RinTS WERE NOT 3tAtOS ElEMENT ANd dENiEd JOHnSON RELEf. BUt ON thE othER hANd thE 4+ CIRCUt COnCED…
19-8529 Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility ftlMWS ckifij MfyCuloi Opim&if) $ VwVmj -for M Woj UirWw todibili^ m \m\4 mpws/VVnWbd fip^ 1mtm mm ■«4iwfie OounSe 'ivauiYi^t. 3* WWW 4W personal Dpmi…
19-8521 Aaron Daniels v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP amadeo-v-zant amended-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The Sixth Circuit reasoning concerning Petitioners attempt to get new counsel assigned during trial is flamed, as several United States Supreme Court …
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…
19-8505 George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-1307 Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes Fourth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part…
19-8490 Timmy Stevens v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus Question not identified.
19-8483 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Does new evidence of actual innocence, discussed in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), require that it was not available at trial, as interpret…
19-8482 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction petition-for-writ procedural-error sentence state-custody Mr. Gray alleged that he is in state custody "pursuant to" a sentence/ not pursuant to "the" (e.g. one) judgment/ which includes both the conviction a…
19-8476 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their Original 1-3-2020 and subsequent 3-B-2020 decision to refuse jurisdiction of his appeal …
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure 1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme…
19-8467 Juan Petis McLendon v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandatory-review speech-trial-act standing statutory-interpretation stricklands-prejudice Does a failure to obtain a dismissal without prejudice under the Speedy Trial Act constitute "Strickland prejudice," when the mandatory language of Ti…
19-8465 Earl T. Moore v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness third-circuit timeliness writ-of-habeas-corpus 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Petition for a Writ of Hab…
19-8451 Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for …
19-8450 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing 1. whether the Court of Appeals forthe Fifth Cireuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the united States District court issuin…
19-8446 Anthony S. Twitty v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions pcra-statute reasonable-doubt 1. Was the Petitioner denied the right to a fair trial, due to hypothetical jury instruction, and suffered ineffective assistance of counsel, regardin…
19-8441 Richard John Vieira v. California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-general-duty constitution-violation constitutional-interpretation federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-authority judicial-misconduct judicial-oath legal-accountability oath-of-office prosecutorial-discretion state-law California's Constitution (Art. VI. §14) clarifies A COMMAND upon the Judicial Branch as follows: "Decisions of the Supreme Court and courts of appeal…
19-8436 In Re Michael A. Young 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing I. Whether indigent petitioner's "GATEWAY" FACTUAL INNOCENCE" Showing while being Constructively "DENIED appointment of Counsel on" FIRST and "ALL" ot…
19-8419 Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure 1) HOW CAN ANY PARTY OR MEMBER OF THE COURT, FROM A QUESTION OF HABEAS CORPUS (FEDERAL), UTILIZE WHEN STATE COURTS, NOT ALSO A CROWN IN A USTED, WHEN …
19-8433 Anthony Paul John v. Florida Florida 2020-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE COURTS BELOW DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THIS HONORABLE COURT WHEN THEY D…
19-8416 Hadori Karmen Chantel Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law boumediene-v-bush civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether, in light of Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), Mr. Williams' 28 U.S.C. section 2255 Motion to Vacate was timely if 18 U.S.C. sect…
19-8413 Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision Question not identified.
19-8410 Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation The Constitation's Direct anthorty that the wi't of Habens Corpus Shall ot be suspended" superceeds the requirement suspendig shch wight perding the S…
19-8392 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2020-05-04 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-procedures In a death penalty case, where a state provides a post-conviction procedure for challenging the unresolved constitutional violations that occurred at …
19-8386 David L. Culverhouse v. Texas Texas 2020-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion standing May the Court of Appeals of Texas circumvent attorney of any actually innocent Petitioner error motion before to file original Application for writ of…
19-8377 Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations ARE THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (FRAP) TOO RESTRICTIVE OR INFLEXIBLE IN RESOLVING IMPEDIMENTS TO TIMELY LITIGANTS HAMPERED BY THE CONJUNCTIVE…
19-1255 Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA, given that this Court reversed the Ninth Circuit under materially similar circumstances in Nevada…
19-8373 Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing Did ARIZONA COURT UOTE TW COURTS DETSION A) TONs adv. Mississipei By ENTELUNG QUDENCE oF A 1483. PRAGL CORVICNOI TAT. WAS SEF-ASIDE, DISMISSED. LAs Th…
19-8375 Lamarr Robinson v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-claim exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-presentation federal-review habeas-corpus incorporation-by-reference procedural-default state-court-remedies Does a prisoner "fairly present" the substance of his federal habeas corpus claim to the state's highest court, when he utilizes a commonly used, unof…
19-8365 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Question not identified.
19-8363 Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions 1) Why are alleged time limits excuses berg erroneaus le misused to disrtss abunclant matlérs of reversable error, and promote extraordinary asurpatio…
19-8346 Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding? 2. Does the…
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta 2020-04-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel Yielding to a ends of justice inquire in regards to a federal application for writ of habeas corpus, should review be granted in the spirit of correct…
19-8344 Brett Combs v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury This Court in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003) determined that the state-court fact-finding process is undermined where the state court has …
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…
19-8343 Kenan Allen v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-notification statutory-limitation Whether a "Certificate of Appealability" should have been issued regarding the matter of conduct during Mr. Allen's filing of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 pet…
19-8319 Tarvares James Watson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT?
19-8327 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP case-processing certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-power due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) when the United States Court of Appeals, in a decision dated Septembe…
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Question One A review of an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion does not involve the validity of the underlying judgment. Yet, the Eleventh Circuit, lik…
19-8313 Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari In McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 393 (2013), the United States Supreme Court ruled: "a prisoner otherwise subject to defenses of abuse or succes…
19-8325 Qais Hussein v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin…
19-8306 Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review 1. Whether, in this case, under the authorities of Martinez, Trevino and Ayestas, Petitioner is entitled to Rule 60 (b) (6) relief due to the alleged …
19-8307 Jose Lopez v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2020-04-19 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-tampering habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct 1) The State Superior court At Rockville sent me A letter stating that thay have misplaced the or some of the valuable evidece that I have provided at…
19-8282 In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. 2020-04-17 Denied IFP arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness Did reasonable jurist debate whether Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbitrary and di…
19-8285 In Re David L. Williams 2020-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing 1. Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Ciruit? 2. Does Appeal lie with Appeal court,when Petitioner claim he is in custody in viola…
19-8291 Willis J. Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the merits of…
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…
19-8280 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corp…
19-8272 Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-04-16 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review capital-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court's reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel's p…
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-8248 Herve Wilmore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.-§2255 due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mischaracterization Whether a mischaracterization of facts by a Judge warrant relief from a final judgment in light of Gonzalez v. Crosby ? Whether a misrepresentation o…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Absent relief from this Court, James North will forfeit federal appellate review of his conviction and life sentence because his lawyers forgot to put…
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards The untrained pro se Appellant respectfully attempts to succinctly present from the trial record, compelling justiciable Constitutional reasons of err…
19-8223 Timothy W. Connors v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Nevada 2020-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Question not identified.
19-8226 Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition If a laymen criminal defendant has presented the general and operative facts supporting Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment claims in the United S…
19-8219 Juan Gilberto Medrano v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus legal-question ninth-circuit timeliness (1) Was Petitioner's 2016 Petition filed in a timely manner? (2) Does the dismissal of a protective federal habeas petition prior to the decision in …
19-8213 Jesus Rodriguez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP collateral-review cullen-v-pinholster due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pinholster-ruling sixth-amendment 1. Whether receiving inadequate representation at a first collateral review proceeding that causes the material facts of an ineffective assistance cla…
19-8211 Frederick Banks v. Scooter Braun, et al. Second Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus standing Wheter te Dstrict Cort erred in Disming the 2a41 Habeas Corpus under 28 UsC 81915(g)? Whether the District Court erred in dismising the dd4 Habeas Co…
19-8207 In Re David Dwayne Brown 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review default-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-v-delo The issue(s) presented is based on a claim of actual innocence, supported by newly discovered evidence, the new evidence is not proffered as a "freest…
19-8197 Fred Furnish v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hearing-impairment impartial-jury juror-bias juror-impartiality jury-selection right-to-fair-trial When a juror realizes that he has been in an identical situation vis-à-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua…
19-8185 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1] Did the California State Superior Court,Los Angeles County, Compton Branch violate the Petitioner's Due Process ,Sixth Amendment Rights,and Eighth…
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California 2020-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15 year ol…
19-8179 In Re Harold Wayne Nichols 2020-04-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions 1. When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenti…
19-8173 Ervin L. St. Claire v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Circumventing the two step ineuivey mandated by 759, Buck U. Davis 137 .S.ct, (2017), based upon Tollins Provisions, 7I Erved in Ciscuit WHETHER the E…
19-8170 Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Question not identified.
19-8163 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-04-02 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention Question not identified.
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar (1) When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursue…
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation I. Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different …
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-8112 Mustafa Ali v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession coerced-statement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction-challenge pretextual-arrest right-to-counsel unwanted-counsel 1. Whether the Court of Appeals denying Application for Certificate of Appealability and Petition for Rehearing/Rehearing en Banc is contrary to this …
19-8122 Allan Widdifield v. Kevin Mazza, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights discrimination due-process habeas-corpus kentucky legal-resources time-limits Why are the United States District Judges for kentucky in total disarray with the other Judges in the 6th Circuit concerning the AEDPA's time limits f…
19-8130 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction ISSUE ONE: CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO CORRECT SOUTH CAROLINA'S ERRONEOUS DENIAL OF EXTRAODINARY WRIT CHALLENGING THE SOUTH CAROLINA'S INADEQUATE POS…
19-8103 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim. 2. Whether the Fifth Circuit…
19-8109 Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry Whether a certificate of appealability (coa) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims land issues in the request) and a general assesmen…
19-8110 DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground (1) Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Irideperidetit or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's Claim of prosec…
19-1174 John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no reasonable probability that the state's appell…
19-1167 Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment AEDPA anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of- cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-trial-errors due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence statute-of-limitations trial-errors Whether Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terroris…
19-8089 Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.…
19-8093 Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-8064 Rubin Rurie Weeks v. Stan Payne, Warden, et al. Missouri 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process forcible-rape habeas-corpus kidnapping prosecutorial-misconduct void-judgment (1) In this case the defendant factual guilt of Forcible Rape and Kidnapping has never been established in any fashion permitted by the Due Process Cl…
19-8072 Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard 1. Whether it was at least debatable among jurists of reasons that petitioner established actual innocence, or at least warranted an evidentiary heari…
19-8073 Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo…
19-8076 Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat…
19-8080 Julio Solorzano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea…
19-8022 Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied IFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california deck-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt shackling shackling-error sixth-amendment 1. When a trial court unjustifiably orders a defendant shackled throughout trial contrary to the rule in Deck v. Missouri, is it the defendant who bea…
19-8040 Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility 1. Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cros…
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…
19-8046 Michael Anthony Cervantes v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation witness-testimony WAS PETITIONERS CONVICTION SUSTAINED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS WARRANTING HABEAS RELIEF WHERE THE DISTRICT THE INJUSTICE THAT RESOULTS FRON THE CON…
19-8026 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial 1. DOES THE PETITIONER IN A HABEAS PROCEEDING HAVE AN INHERENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE ENLARGED UPON HIS PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE IN THE INTEREST OF H…
19-8033 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error CAN I, JONATHAN ANDREW HAMPTON, AN INDIGENT PRISONER, SIGSI(A) PETITIONER ANA 42 USCS SI983 CIVIL RIGHTS PIAINTIFF, APPEARING IN PROPRIA PERSONA BEFOR…
19-8009 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure juror-contact juror-misconduct remmer sixth-amendment third-party-influence Question 1: During deliberations, a juror contacted her preacher, who gave her an eye-for-an-eye Biblical passage, which made her "at peace" with voti…
19-8008 Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights Does B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, w…
19-7982 Alex Penland v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-fraud legal-remedy post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion 1. Does the trial court abuse its discretion when it failed to entertain Penland's claim that his conviction was tainted by fraud when the prosecutor …
19-7970 Shawnte L. Shade v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-unconstitutionality statute-of-limitations I. Whether the Petitioner's statute of limitation was equitably tolled under Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) in excusing his 92-day delay. II…
19-7894 In Re Charles S. Renchenski 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-adequacy statutory-interpretation statutory-notice writ-of-certiorari DID THE FEDERAL COURT(S) UNLAWFULLY SUSPEND THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS BY RENDERING DECISIONS CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT RELATING TO: …
19-7908 Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN APPLYING THE TWO PRONG SLACK V. MCDANIEL, TEST (PROCEDURE AND MERITS) IN DETE…
19-7944 In Re Steven Beebe 2020-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-order double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,united-states-v-di fifth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-developments legal-precedent probation probation-condition publish-opinion united-states-v-dixon I - Whether this Court should issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus. II - Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy holding of United States v. Dixon, 509 …
19-7962 Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement APPEALA c CO Ai ) PfcTLTtkrLlER S£ERTtfl.Ci\T£ OfRested ££>uari _V o/u q me puE«>Tio iu ; UUAS PETITIOMER REPRESENTED 6s? EQUNSEL X IVi 1*182. PRIOR…
19-7967 Kenneth Durant v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights filing-deadlines habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy procedural-due-process right-to-counsel tolling o -K / r i a I -PQch! C\\o^h\ '+° 3. Tke a4<rte 5 reboiM 4 \os>I Assistance C ounS-C ;_L-ne i\/f -Pa \ r 4r (1 a. arG^y^^en 4~D i^e-rPtsc' hv/«ApptelU…
19-7913 Pooroushasb Parineh v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-remedies statutory-tolling (1) Pursuant to 28 USC 2244 & 2254 ? did the Petitioner file a timely (AEBPA ) Writ of Habeas Corpus/Pe tit ion from the State Court to Federal Cour…
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment 1] Is it contrary to clearly established laws for to knowingly use Court Cases thatan Attorney were never Filed or Commenced, or Maintained to use as …
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief WHETHER A STATE CREATED DELAY OF UNINFORMED NOTIFICATION THAT A SECOND AMENDED (CORRECTED SENTENCING)JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION HAD BECOME FINAL AND RIPE …
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 …
19-1105 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review 1. In holding that the OCCA made an "unreasonable determination of the facts," did the Tenth Circuit contravene this Court's repeated admonition that …
19-1106 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Relisted (2) adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit 1. Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that Moore I and Moore II were mere applications of Atkins that could be applied retroactively on collatera…
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…
19-7900 Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan Michigan 2020-03-06 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation It T&s £vz:t>svcF tki^^FF tctb /^t T Fxr/ub TUB Ftncr-^soe/z £vTtTi T>T( cv1> A- Bter ]>oo>SF FofZ /4-~&rtuc-r~ k/^T7/ t+jTevT To d?£&rr /3o^ f fi'U&…
19-7902 In Re Darnell W. Moon 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings Question not identified.
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
19-7832 Sean Wayne Pierce v. California California 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actually-innocent constitutional-review conviction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama mitigating-factor sentence standard-of-review-under-miller-v-alabama status-rather-than-criminal-conduct validity-of-conviction youth-offender 1. Whether habeas corpus under Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 465 was necessary when a "significant mitigating factor " pop-up that calls into qu…
19-7861 Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering Whether the "actual innocence" gateway to federal habeas review applied in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 115 S. Ct. 851, 130 L. Ed. 2d 808 (1995), and…
19-7866 Farid Popal v. Stephen Brown Second Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus witness-tampering WHETHER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION PROTECTS WITNESSES FROM BEING TAMPERED WITH WHEN DETECTIVE WAS WHISPERING INTO HIS EARS DURING LIVE SKYPE TESTIMONY IN…
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test (1) If Petitioner provided sufficient newly presented evidence for all reasonable jurors to conclude that he was "not guilty by reason of insanity"—wo…
19-7874 Jackie Dewayne Andrews v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction federal-proceedings habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings integrity-of-proceedings judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b DOES THE DISTRICT COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO CONSIDER A RULE 60 (b) MOTION IN HABEAS PROCEEDINGS SO LONG AS THE MOTION ATTACKS NOT THE SUBSTANCE OF TH…
19-7835 Miguel Rodriguez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc , 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the …
19-7850 Bobby Drew Autry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-error due-process false-imprisonment final-judgment habeas-corpus plea-bargain statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Does the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996; one year statute of limitations as quoted in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) ".final…
19-7815 Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts How can there be Habas Corpus reli…
19-7816 Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts 1) Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fac…
19-7841 In Re Elloyd Johnson 2020-03-02 Denied IFP certiorari-denial conviction court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-assignment judicial-misconduct judicial-oath judicial-review jurisdiction oath-of-office sentence (1) When a judicial officer clearly preside over a conviction and sentence WITHOUT BEING ASSIGNED OR HAVE TAKEN OATH OF OFFICE AND RECEIVED LEGAL FORM…
19-7844 Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing Was it an abuse of discretion to sentence Buck White when the Statutory Maximum is 10 years or 120 months? Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse…
19-7845 Omar Weise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing Question not identified.
19-1075 Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review whe…
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if …
19-7813 Michael C. Jamerson v. Jason Lewis, Warden Missouri 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus napue-standard napue-vs-illinois perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony I. Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated its obligation under Brady v. Mar…
19-7818 Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington I. WHETHER UNDER §2254(e)(l) DISTRICT COURT REQUIRED TO GIVE DEFERENCE TO STATE APPELLATE COURT'S FINDING OF HISTORICAL FACTS AND UPON FINDING THAT P…
19-7810 Dale W. Eaton v. Mike Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency new-evidence state-court-adjudication strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. WHETHER A STATE COURT HAS ADJUDICATED THE PERFORMANCE PRONG OF A STRICKLAND V. WASHINGTON CLAIM ON THE MERITS WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-7772 John Lee Barron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review life-sentence Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied due process where a single judge of the Court of Appea…
19-7788 Ulises Corrales Vega v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-jurists split standing summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari I. DID THE PETITIONER RAISE A SUBSTANTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM THAT WAS NOT SO PATENTLY FALSE OR FRIVOLOUS AS TO WARRANT SUMMARY DISMISSAL?
19-7761 Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment This non-capital habeas case arises from petitioner-appellant Jose Osvaldo Arteaga's 2003 California state conviction fo r an attempted murder that to…
19-7765 William Reyes v. Robert Ercole, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254 conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood section-2254 witness-testimony Is a defendant deprived of his right to due process of law when he would not have been convicted had perjury not been introduced at his trial? The qu…
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others? ii. Whether the United States C…
19-7749 Andrey L. Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-review res-judicata strickland-v-washington I: Does the State affirmative defense of Res Judicata defeats Amendment Fifth; Sixth; Eighth, and Fourteenth of the United States Constitution? II: I…
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-20 Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
19-7719 Adam Christopher Sheafe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumvent-obligations circumvention criminal-procedure detainer federal-government federal-state-relations federal-transfer habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum interstate-agreement-on-detainers judicial-discretion purpose-of-iad state-filed-detainer violate-purpose writ-of-habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum 1. Whether the Interstate Agreement on Detainers applies when the State, in which the federal district sits, filed a detainer and the federal governme…
19-7725 William Desmond Conrad v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alleyne assistance-of-counsel attorney-negligence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation descamps habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance precedent pro-se pro-se-rights sixth-amendment 1. Is the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance of counsel ? . …
19-7709 John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty Question not identified.
19-7710 George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings On the record in this case, the District Court erred in denying a writ of habeas corpus without a plenary hearing. When an application by a state pri…
19-7683 Marlon Blacher v. California California 2020-02-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal arbitrarily-denied civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion resentencing standing state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation carse /evidantiary haaring af a fetition fon a writ of habaas corpus wherein the prasanted faets include : Marlon Blacher, hereinafter "Patitioner ", …
19-7687 Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede As Ne…
19-7696 In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton 2020-02-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury In Deck v. Missouri, 544 U.S. 622, 629 (2005), this Court held that "the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of physical restraints visib…
19-1023 Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Requested actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel If a petitioner defaults an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with "some merit," does Martinez v. Ryan allow a federal court to excuse the…
19-7672 Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Relisted (4)IFP access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process when the precedent is based on a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 app…
19-7675 Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing WHETHER the us court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied petitioner's request for a certificate of Appealability by failing to grant hi…
19-7666 Donniel Woods v. Aaron Joyner, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holdin federal-habeas-relief herrera-v-collins independent-constitutional-violation newly-discovered-evidence state-criminal-proceeding actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-criminal-proceeding Has the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holding that claims of actual inno…
19-7634 Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe Seventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's…
19-7639 Gregory Franklin Harris v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus prison-law-library unpublished-opinions certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus michigan-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court-review unpublished-cases unpublished-opinion writ-of-certiorari WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO FILE A MOTION TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE OBTAINED FROM HARRIS'S HOTEL ROOM? WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR …
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 …
19-7603 Mark D. Jensen v. William Pollard Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-error constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy retrial trial-rights The federal courts found that his wife's voice-from-the-grave letter violated Jensen's confrontation right and granted his habeas petition, ordering t…
19-7614 Jason Perry v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court 1. Whether the Courts violated Rule 2/a) Governing Section 2254 Cases? 2. Whether withholding an officer's statement until the habeas Corpus stage is…
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 …
19-7590 David K. Howell v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication methamphetamine methamphetamine-intoxication sixth-amendment This Court has repeatedly held that to receive a certificate of appealability ("COA"), a habeas petitioner need only show that "'jurists of reason cou…
19-7597 Robert William Wazney v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP asset-forfeiture asset-freezing constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-process pre-trial-restraint state-corrective-process IS PETITIONER, ROBERT WILLIAM WAZNEY, IMPRISONED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?
19-7606 Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida Florida 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. DOES STATUTORY TOLLING AS DESCRIBED IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) AND (D) PERMIT A PETITIONER 'S DIRECT FILING OF SECOND 28 U.S.C. § 2254 HABEAS COR…
19-7563 Terry Glynn Speed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus new-trial perjury racial-bias trial-procedure Question one. On remand claim by Petitioner under Petitioner v. for reasons of Potential racial Prejudice (D) Pled with Consisted Perjured x and confl…
19-7564 In Re Michael Dewayne Seibert 2020-02-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty-case due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-representation resentencing resentencing-hearing void-judgment When a defendant is represented by counsel, who refuses to raise a substantial meritorious claim of fraud on the court, and therefore defendant's conv…
19-7582 Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing My question Des roof of) Prison mail Log (2) Prisone declaration oficer who receives DosumentFrom Prisoner for mailing, acknowledementof receivin docu…
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY 2. OID THE UNTITEO S…
19-7555 In Re Eugene French 2020-02-05 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction-question newly-discovered-evidence original-jurisdiction successive-petition WHETHER TRANSFER TO THE DISTRICT COURT FOR A HEARING PURSUANT TO THIS COURT'S ORIGINAL HABEAS JURISDICTION IS WARRANTED IN THIS EXCEPTIONAL CASE WHERE…
19-7560 Michael Swain v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-action circuit-court-conflict constitutional-protections due-process federal-law government-agency habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief parole parole-board DID THE JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL VIOLATE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS WHEN THEY AFFIRMED TH…
19-7540 Random Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 attorney-abandonment attorney-neglect confrontation-clause due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-proceedings reasonable-diligence state-postconviction 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his attorney's neglect/abandonment (i.e., after his attorney abandoned him in t…
19-7546 Juan Jorge v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights coa constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus precedent standing supreme-court WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHERE: (1) THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S HABEAS CORPUS, AS CONSTITUTI…
19-7501 Steven Livaditis v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abusive-conduct constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairments mitigating-evidence penalty-phase reasonable-probability (1) Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's claims, alleging defense counsel's failure to present any penalty phase evidence of (i) Petit…
19-7527 Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing In the Eleventh Circuit, law established in a published, three-judge panel order issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) in the context of an applicati…
19-7528 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing IS APPELLANT ENITITLED TO RELEASE ON HISWN RECOGNANICES,AFTER DEMDNISTRATING NI.C.G.S.I4-7.I IS PATENTLY UNCANLSTITUTI ONAL COLORABLY SHAINIING HIS IN…
19-7532 Travis Welsh v. Florida Florida 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 3.850-motion 8th-amendment capital-sexual-battery civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus law-of-the-case motion-filing petition standing void-for-vagueness I. DID THE COURTS REFUSAL TO ACCEPT THE TIMELY 3.850 MOTION FILING BECAUSE IT DID NOT IDENTIFY THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CERTIFICATION OF SERVICE VIO…
19-7514 Ekanem Kurfreobon Essien v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-street-gang due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement street-terrorism-enforcement-and-prevention-act sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it denied petitioner Ekanem Kufreobon Essien's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition based on its conclusion that his …
19-7523 Micah L. Lawson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-discipline standing takings Wheather the decision. bot the United States CouRt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circnit in LAwson √. Secratary Department of Corrections, Docket No. 17…
19-7524 In Re Lexter K. Kossie 2020-01-31 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2244 28-usc-2244 constitutional-performance due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan Martinez-v.-Ryan mitigation-investigation procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-review trevino-v-thaler Trevino-v.-Thaler trial-counsel 1) Whether the Court's 'equitable' ruling permits Texas prisoners to avoid the successive requirements found at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(a) and (b) regarding …
19-7491 In Re William James Berry Sr. 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP byford-v-state due-process habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-court-remedies welch-v-united-states 1. Did the jury instruction given in his trial for first-degree murder, which deprived the element of premeditation and relieved the state of its burd…
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…
19-7498 James Earvin Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process psychiatric-mitigating-evidence time-bar-exception united-states-v-fessel Where counsel lies about the existence of psychiatric mitigating evidence and deries the accused the use of 18 U.S.C. § 3ooloAle) in United States v. …
19-7505 Lamar James Crump v. Tracy Beltz, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
19-7509 In Re Lawrence E. Mattison 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act") allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal pro…
19-7488 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-01-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was "thorough"? Was an appeal warranted on …
19-7445 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search ARE All StAtE PRiSONERS bEINg UN/Awfolly Held, If the eVideNCe UsED TO CONVICT THEM INVOlUED SheRiff DepaRrtment offciAls from ONE CoontyI SEARCHiNg S…
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness 1. Whether the "clearly established Federal law" provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categori…
19-946 William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of beyond all reasonable doubt and the innocence conviction occurred be…
19-941 Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Amici (2) aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's unanimous holding in Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996), clearly established that Georgia could not impose the burden of req…
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…
19-936 Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no "certificate of appeal…
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Question/Issue No.l: Isthe juckgment of the because the habeas petitiower's State hebeas proceralie Question/Issue No.2: Did the United Stctes Distri…
19-7420 In Re Adrean Francis 2020-01-27 Denied IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender QUESTION ONE: Whether the continued application of a vacated New York "Youthful Offender" conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separ…
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Court of Appeals decide an important federal question -- whether a "mere modicum" of evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction -- in a …
19-7440 Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-7396 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim(s) …
19-7398 Andrew James Gibbons v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knaffla-bar mental-illness mental-illness-defense Opsahi-rule procedural-default Spears-rule state-procedural-rule 1. Is petitioner (Gibbons) procedurally defaulted on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to investigate a mental illness defens…
19-7400 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings pro-se-petition standing supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
19-7403 Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution 1. Judgment based upon criminal violations of State and United States Constitutions and Laws, by Law Enforcement, Prosecution; Qualify for Habeas Corp…
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…
19-932 In Re Julius Jerome Murphy 2020-01-24 Denied 2244(b) 28-U.S.C.-§-2244(b) circuit-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction prima-facie-showing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions I. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) tasks federal courts of appeals with determining whether an applicant has made a "prima facie showing" that his application …
19-7353 Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied IFP brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions Whether Petitioner filed "a second or successive " application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or…
19-7386 Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light …
19-7393 In Re David Gulbrandson 2020-01-23 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty standing state-law successive-petition arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit second-successive-petition state-law state-law-application successive-petition Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case where…
19-7355 Herman L. Gaines v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-collusion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Question not identified.
19-7356 James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff…
19-7360 Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-substance federal-constitutional-substance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Ground I. Did a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in denying Mr. Simonton a Certificate of Appealability by statin…
19-7347 Broderick Marshall v. Texas Texas 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial standing Question not identified.
19-7327 Antonio Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-by-claim claim-determination constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists Does a federal habeas court have to determine the need for an evidentiary hearing on a claim by claim basis? When one court grants a certificate of a…
19-7329 Jamaar Jerome Williams v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction-litigation post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-analysis Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it concluded Williams had failed to establish prejudice under Martinez v. Ryan because the record clearly shows W…
19-7304 Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond The Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in light of Unit…
19-7315 Andrew Wright v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United St…
19-7325 Hope K. Kantete v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy 1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi…
19-883 Jason Isaiah Robinson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity retroactive-application substantive-rules suspension-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to conduct the requisite threshold inquiry and impose d an unduly burdensome s…
19-882 Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment I. Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective at the guilt-innocence stage, in violation of the Sixth Amendment, in failing to request jury in…
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre…
19-7299 John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL…
19-7300 Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions DOES A MNLLY HALDULELT MANLNACULED IDITMENT COLPEL CREMIHAL JURISDICTIDLL BL A STAE MIAL CUAT. (Q)OOES A COUICTIOLUUDER A FAUDLLELTT LUDICTMEITT BINI…
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings New evidence establishes Petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust.
19-7274 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct wearry-v-cain witness-testimony I. Did the lower courts err in failing to properly review and conclude that the prosecution's withholding of exculpatory and impeachment evidence favo…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution xnHbthet l PeTiTfotjGk Bol^btt S CoHsjimTONAL PH&hts \siezjg v/W)7£-o /3y THE tHiHteeht H Judicial b<37&CT Cjduat orN&n./Dexivd und&l the Dub Proces…
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness To whether Jones' successful Florida Claim 23-80 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart his one-year statute of limitations and Effectiv…
19-7285 In Re Lawone Wilkinson 2020-01-14 Denied IFP auto-repair-laws business-dispute-criminal-case constitutional-conflict criminal-conviction deceptive-testimony diligence-and-cause habeas-corpus mandated-compliance new-evidence possession-property-interests pro-se-prisoner robbery robbery-elements state-federal-laws unconstitutional-error The auto repair LAWS: 9884.16 and 9884.9; CONFLICTS and INVALIDATES the ELEMENTS of ROBBERY, specifically forces the auto repair shop TOO FORFEIT thei…
19-7256 Joseph Eugene Osborne v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute-of-limitations civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-predicate habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness 1. Do suspicions trigger AEDPA's statute of limitations even if they would be insufficient to state a factual predicate for a claim under AEDPA? 2. E…
19-7264 Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-13 Granted Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation Whether Lazar tpata was denied his Right to a Fair Trial where the trial court refused to instruct the jery on second fisal to provide essential jury …
19-7244 David Anson Alandt v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-01-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-claims constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding executive-clemency habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal According to Arkansas State Supreme Court Justice, Josephine L. Hart, There is no remedy in the Arkansas criminal court system which permits prisoners…
19-7245 Darren Lavald Bowie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-waiver habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment unknowing-waiver waiver 1. Does a Plea Agreement which waives challenges to collateral relief forbid challenges to ineffective assistance in proceedings following the entry o…
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…
19-7177 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen…
19-7222 Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law Timothy Richardson's death penalty case raises a significant issue of national importance: whether our criminal justice system tolerates the execution…
19-7231 Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN NOT ISSUING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE PETITIONER DEMONSTRATED THAT JURIST OF REASON COULD FI…
19-861 Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district…
19-851 Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t…
19-7203 Arthur Luther McKinney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-challenge due-process habeas-corpus prison prisoner-rights property-rights reentry supervision 1. When you work for someone and they give you something for that work does it not belong to you? 2. Does the Texas Department of Criminal Justice no…
19-7212 Ronald Lee Alexander v. Texas Texas 2020-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing Question not identified.
19-7216 Daniel A. Ramet v. Robert LeGrande, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper legal-malpractice plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington If a defense attorney advises a client to reject a favorable plea offer based on a grave miscalculation about the viability of a legal defense, has th…
19-7219 Jonathan Canales v. Florida Florida 2020-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Question not identified.
19-7184 Stanley Brewer v. Robert F. Cunningham, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct miller-el-standard prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit misapplied the ruling in Miller-El v. Cockrell, in denial of petitioner 's claims? Using con…
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation (1) The judgment of the United States District Court has violated long standing precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the United States Cou…
19-7190 Ernesto Benavides Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP appeal collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence 1. Have davied viaht +a moaninaful appeal of his mation to Suppress owidenck, under Dackson v. Denne 378 U8. 208 (1904), that oceuved prior trial ? 2…
19-7192 Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations DOES THE READING OF 28 U.S.C. § 2244(A) CREATE AMBIGUITY IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(D)(A) READ IN PART "A ONE YEAR PERIOD OF LIMITATION SHALL APPLY TO AN APP…
19-7148 Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u…
19-7162 Carlos Juan Negron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process filing habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-procedure legal-filing prison prison-filing prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether a document when placed in the hands of prison officials hands for mailing pursuant to Houston v. Lack . 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed…
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…
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response 1. A court of appeals lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to decide a § 2255 the district court's procedural error-that the movant defaulted an ineffect…
19-7155 Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation First Question: Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of authority, prohibits petitioner's 2…
19-7156 Robert E. Clayborne v. Brad Hansen, Warden Nebraska 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing unlawful-detention whit of habeas lor pus are not in his petition fer junsdichonal defects and then crdered that the
19-7099 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intentional-concealment prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review state-habeas Whether it violates due process for a state court to deny substantive review of a constitutional violation in a death penalty case, when the state hab…
19-7114 Joe Lewis Finley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness 1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career…
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution 1. Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief b…
19-7122 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-12-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Phillip Tomlin's sentence of life imprisonment without parole reflects a breakdown of the Certificate of Appealability ("COA") review process and rais…
19-836 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions 1. When a motion under Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 60(b) is granted with respect to a prisoner's first application under 28 U.S.C. 2255, whether a subsequent a…
19-7095 David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation ib PKQ-SE. permPMCA. eaititlek Ta this c-ounrk eecx — c>i Aia ft tAlR.IT Fftm TD h&dLARE Al.d. S.SQF ENTIRE. ArtATTER. iM £aMT£OVSGSV B'/XSSCtlMe ap…
19-7098 Antonio Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony (1) Whether defense Counsel's performance in failing to inform client of important witness against him fell below an objectively reasonable Standard o…
19-7069 Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial …
19-7049 In Re Antwoyn Spencer 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay 1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States.
19-7055 In Re Charlene Rosa 2019-12-23 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure strickland-v-washington 1. Whether mewly Discovened Evidence From the American socity % crime Laboratory Advise to the sate scuntficand the oNA Evidence dunng tnal, thatwas S…
19-7029 In Re Paul Fahring 2019-12-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prison-law-library prison-litigation pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing Does an inmate have access to the courts if all of the state courts refuse to address his issues in a timely manner? Does the First Amendment guarant…
19-7032 Kevin Dion Gaddis v. Michigan Michigan 2019-12-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-forms due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner patent standing takings Question not identified.
19-7036 Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Y MR. depriveration of Rigt's ? (SecONd TSSUE $1983, persons liable ndto $ 1983 dAmAgES WAs itUuncnstitio oeni f mdcal d M D tmutoA C A DENiaM2.DAlE…
19-7043 John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
19-7048 Bernardo Costa v. Missouri Missouri 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-criminal-procedure 1. Whether a defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of tr…
19-7008 Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis WHETHER DEPORTATION AUTHOMATICALLY ENDS AN IMMIGRANTS IMPOSED SUPERVISED RELEASE? IF COURT WAIVES COURT SUPERVISION UPON DEPORATION IS ALIEN "IN CU…
19-7010 Omar Folk v. Prime Care Medical, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-issues double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus mandate-stay rule-59(e) rule-60-motion standing third-circuit-appeal 1.) Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeal Judge's apply the Standard Under Timely 60(C)(1) from the Doc. 115 Jan. 26, 2018 District Court Opinion. S…
19-7014 Geoffrey Scott Gaffney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-provisions district-court due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procunier-v-atchley stare-decisis SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THIS PETITION TO ADDRESS THE OBVIOUS FAILURE OF THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO REQUIRE A DISTRICT COURT TO CONDUCT AN …
19-7022 Jesus D. Cruz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report 1. Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner producted a valid search warrant, once they broke…
19-7024 Germira Lamar Carter v. Michigan Michigan 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test WHERE THE STATE COURTS OF MICHIGAN HAS CONVICTED A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IN VIOLATION OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, IS…
19-6951 Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, John Nathan …
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default (1) WHETHER TO MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT A HABEAS APPLICANT FOR A C.O.A. NEED NOT SHOW THAT HE WILL PREVAIL O…
19-6984 Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1 -) Does Martinez v. Ryan / 566 U.S. 1 (2012) excuse a procedural default in a Federal Habeas Corpus proceeding where Post Conviction relief Counsel…
19-6987 Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo QUESTION ONE: Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis…
19-6993 In Re Augustus Larry Lundy 2019-12-18 Denied IFP constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Did the trial court divest itseld of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it Administered the Law in an improper and unconstitutional manner? Was Lund…
19-6994 Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination (1) In order to obtain relief under § 2254(d)(2), is a federal court required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is "unre…
19-6946 In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds 2019-12-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness 1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his 18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi…
19-6950 Christopher Brian Rogers v. Tammatha Soss, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Is federal habeas review barred under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) and a claim procedurally defaulted when a petitioner fails to bring an indep…
19-6962 Tom S. Mourning, II v. Honorable Gayle L. Crane Missouri 2019-12-17 Denied IFP civil-rights commitment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus hearing judicial-circuit mental-health notice notice-and-hearing state-court state-department state-detention 1. Mou ow. Skote Dudtelal Cirevik Courk cekuse »_peovid, Aottce cond oo henclag pursuant by due FIC, Darensmark bo We Unik Shakes Corstitvitn when o d…
19-6966 Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the "fair presentation"/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the decision…
19-780 Willie Newton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully…
19-770 Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler This Court's decisions in Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler , 133 S. Ct. 1911 (2013) held that state prisoners whose states …
19-6954 Jerry Scott Camp, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP coa department-of-corrections disability due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus medical-condition medical-disability procedural-barriers sec-2254 section-2254 statute-of-limitations 1. Should an inmate, who has shown that he was prevented by the Departement of Corrections (the State) from timely filing his Sec. 2254 petition, and…
19-6933 Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served Base upon the case laws, rules, and the authority provided by the Genral Assermbly and the Attorney General, petitioner alleged the his jail good time…
19-6934 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) moti…
19-6918 Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel 1. The state habeas testimony of Michael Nance's trial counsel established that they inexplicably omitted highly mitigating evidence from Mr. Nance's …
19-6925 Sulaiman Taalibdin v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court due-process final-decision habeas-corpus motion-timeliness rule-60(b) rule-60b standing third-circuit Pursuant to U.S.C.S. § 1291 did the Circuit Court possess appellate jurisdiction when the district court ruled petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion untimely…
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the…
19-6928 Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing 1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp…
19-756 Louis Taylor v. Pima County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-imprisonment wrongful-incarceration In Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), this Court held that federal habeas corpus is the sole avenue by which a "state prisoner" may bring a claim …
19-6888 In Re Roger A. Libby 2019-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Oo&* VY\e. >Ox/-\VV\ Cxv/COxY C-OO v/A- O y -Af>y>eo,,\6 \ ov/i>>^ i g U o\r\ Vo .£ v fin V .AVe. Ve. x V 0 cx\ __V\oxv e. C-0-WA\A x o>v:vW:>A <3% o…
19-6889 In Re Joel Law 2019-12-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-2422b 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment,false-imprisonm constitutional-rights false-imprisonment habeas-corpus immediate-relief judicial-review section-2255 sixth-amendment 1) Am I entitled to immediate relief from this Court, to protect myself and others similarily situated ,. from being falsely imprisoned pursuant to 1…
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause 1. Based upon the claims and supporting evidence presented in Petitioner's state post-conviction habeas corpus petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Co…
19-6880 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus prejudice prejudice-standard speedy-trial IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEMONSTRATION OF PREJUDICE TO THE ACCUSED'S ABILITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF ESSENTIAL TO PROVE THE DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL? …
19-6863 In Re Melvin Bonnell 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard Bonnell's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will cause disparate interpretations of the federal Constitutio…
19-6870 Kenny Brown v. Mental Health Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
19-6846 James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court Where the tril judge failed to revew evidence of trial coursel's gross misconduct of Fraud identical to the issues addressed in this Court's decision …
19-6844 Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Illinois 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel A.) The Petitioner presents the inquiry into the U.S.Ct, whether the refusal of the legftl rep resentative (sic) of the ftetitioner durirg arraignment…
19-6857 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP brady-and-progeny brady-claim brady-claims-review constitutional-error due-process fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus judicial-duty pervasive-effect-of-errors prejudice-analysis preservation preservation-doctrine preservation-of-issues totality-of-evidence totality-of-the-evidence An utterly corrupt law enforcement officer tainted the guilt and sentencing stages of Mr. Goode's trial. The courts have never fully evaluated Goode's…
19-6854 In Re Alexander Palomarez 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights prisoner-rights standing state-court-review suppression-of-evidence 1. Can the "Prison Mailbox Rule" announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 101 L. Ed. 2d 245, 108 S.Ct. 2379 (1988), be applied to this case to excu…
19-6843 James Rice v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-application 1. Was Petitioner James Rice denied the right to a speedy trial in the state courts? The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guar…
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…
19-6838 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…
19-6836 Therian Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Georgia 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights court-appeal-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge speedy-trial standing Question not identified.
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Petitioner was sentenced to death at a trial at which he did not cooperate with counsel in preparing his defense, repeatedly disrupted proceedings, to…
19-6860 In Re Lee Hall 2019-12-04 Denied IFP biased-juror capital-case capital-punishment due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review juror-bias original-jurisdiction structural-error Whether the structural error of service of by biased juror in a capital case, discovered on the eve of execution, presents extraordinary circumstances…
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling A divided panel of the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated a panel opinion that reversed a capital sentence on the ground that the sentence rested…
19-6832 James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines 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 …
19-6798 Corey Eugene Gill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent 1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)…
19-6807 Marcus Robinson v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court takings Could the District Court or the State Court make a decision to deny the Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim based on U.S. Supreme Cou…
19-6810 Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THERE IS PRETENSE THAT THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE STATE UNDER WHICH MR. GREGLEY IS CONVICTED OF, ARE REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LA…
19-6815 Blake Wingate v. New York New York 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-application pro-se pro-se-representation WHERE THE RIGHT TO PROCEED PRO SE IS CONSTITUTIONAL# EVEN ON APPEAL OR A POST CONVICTION APPLICATION , IS IT A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS AND OR THE EQ…
19-6827 Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DENIED DORCELUS' MOTION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
19-6830 Don Emmery Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjective to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?1) Was petitioner subjective to cruel and unusual p…
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…
19-6792 Victor Sanchez v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-intervention plea-bargaining procedural-due-process right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-review Where trial counsel admits to ineffective advice that lead to this petitioner being sentenced to (5) five years more time than he would have received …
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure HAS THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IMPLEMENTED PRATICES FOR FLORIDN'S JUDIUAL SYSTEM THAT CONTRADICTS THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONS T LTH AND IT AMENOMENT RGHIS F…
19-6765 Anthony Lee McNair v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-11-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Question not identified.
19-6776 William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ IF XKWESTX&AT OF^ XMTEMTXQMRLLV X MV ES TX & ft TBS, LO^AUUhl T/\1HERE. FLElEiM& VX&TXAA XLQLLAPAt/SSS ft klh &ZB£ AS dRSMBL SEEM EL - XAlST EA b QF…
19-6786 Carol Johnene Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings Whether the Western District of Texas' District Courts lawfully uses Carol Johnene Morris, C# 57931, 1988 for conviction to try granted home confineme…
19-6785 Bobbie London, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline residual-clause statute-of-limitations unconstitutionally-vague vagueness-doctrine 1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career…
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review 1) Was the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability based upon an adjudication of the underlying m…
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6755 Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6740 Glendal Rhoton v. Richard Brown, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process e-filing extraordinary-circumstances fraud fraud-upon-court habeas-corpus notification-delay rule-60-b rule-60b The District Court mandated that all prisoner communications to and from the Court be transmitted via the E-Filing system. The prison's legal libraria…
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-6660 Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law When Opinion reflects Appellate Court relies on States Findings, ..and Litigant has asserted, States Findings are not entitled to deference because, p…
19-6713 Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari I.) WAe/^er -Ike £/eve/v// CVrcaj*/ erred Ly oLe/vy / tvc^ e-hUoMerk A^/'^ oJiq/Y Far CerAA'c^de dr AppeoJoAl/'d Aw //?e recori <c/e_ocr AAA f /Ao-4…
19-6714 Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite…
19-6726 In Re Billie Byrd 2019-11-22 Denied IFP aedpa-filing-limitations aedpa-limitations constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-treaties subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties-with-indians treaty-supremacy-clause (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions i…
19-6730 Cameron A. Harinarain v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
19-6733 George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 Petitioner submits that this Honorable Court;s decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924, 185 L.Ed. 2d 1019 (2013) was a change i…
19-6734 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
19-655 In Re Dimitri J. Patterson 2019-11-21 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-documentation procedural-challenge standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his consti…
19-6708 Daniel Wert v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence administrative-remedy atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sandin-v-conners section-2241 standing A Writ of Certiorari should be granted to address the important and novel question of whether the district court had jurisdiction over the actual-inno…
19-6704 JB Foster McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-rejection civil-procedure-mail-box-rule due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus houston-v-lack mail-box-rule obstruction-of-justice prison-mail prisoner-appeals prisoner-petition sentencing-guidelines timeliness timely-filing Whether a prisoner's petition for rehearing of his appeal decision that is due in 14 days, is considered timely filed under the "mail box rule" and Ho…
19-6692 Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release Question not identified.
19-6685 Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases capital-cases-habeas-corpus certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability confrontation-clause eighth-circuit giles-v-california habeas-corpus pro-forma-denial procedural-due-process standard-of-review A disturbing trend is developing in capital cases in federal courts in Missouri regarding the pro forma denial of certificates of appealability ("COA"…
19-642 Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral Sixth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas re…
19-6667 James Anthony Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER A UNITED STATES CITIZEN SHALL BE HELD IN PRISON FOR AN
19-6666 Christopher Thornton v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections First Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court filing-fees habeas-corpus return-of-fees rule-60 the filing of a State prisoner writ of habeas corpus 1. does prohibit the federal court from returning a filing fees. 2. does the Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 6…
19-6665 Wesley Harlan Kingsbury v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-coercion section-2255 voluntariness The petitioner entered a guilty plea to health care fraud after his jury trial on the charges had commenced. He later filed a motion seeking to vacate…
19-6661 Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation A. IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION-OF-POWERS , WHICH PROHIBITS WJUDTGIAL ENCROACHMENT ON THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF CONGRESS TO MAKE LAWS, VIOLATED, WHEN…
19-6655 Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct…
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.
19-6639 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…
19-6645 In Re Morgan Allen Armstrong 2019-11-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability after Petitioner made a substantia…
19-6611 William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar 1. Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct?
19-6608 Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This non-capital habeas case arises out of Steve Romero's 2006 conviction in the state court of California for attempted murder and the Ninth Circuit'…
19-6604 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence In this capital case, Ray Jefferson Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death as the man who shot a store clerk, Richard Slysz. …
19-6599 Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred 1.) Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
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 …
19-6567 Danny Lee Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-08 Denied IFP bite-mark-evidence constitutional-rights conviction death-penalty death-sentence due-process expert-testimony fair-trial habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Bite-mark comparison evidence was the foundation of the State's case that convicted Petitioner Danny Lee Hill of murder and sentenced him to death. Th…
19-6562 Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se Petitioner alleged that his conviction and death sentence were caused by per se ineffective assistance under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (19…
19-6560 Matthew Joseph Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus plea-agreement united-states-court-of-appeals Whether Mr. Lucio's plea agreement which extracted his guilty plea lacks consideration, and if so, whether his guilty plea violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-6556 In Re Therian Wimbush, et vir 2019-11-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus joint-petition judicial-review petition-denial procedural-barriers standing 1. Can co-convicted, co-freed, co-convicted and sentenced, even if by the same, codefendant husband and wife file a joint federal §2254 habeas corpus …
19-6520 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada 2019-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing wrongful-conviction Why is a Police Officer's record of misconduct not considered as peremptory evidence, when doubt cast upon the credibility of the officer? A Fourth A…
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 …
19-6543 Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese Seventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors Question not identified.
19-6545 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture 1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture? 2. Am I able to pursue relief under …
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation 1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision…
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Involues: "Caprtal Offence" cases; Class Action HabeasCorpus; lack ofjuvisdiction claim Injudiclously predicated by the lower courts' striking refusal…
19-6531 Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists could disagree over the district court's res…
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not applying the Davis ruling to Mr Williams firearm habeas corpus petition towards his firearm co…
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 …
19-6516 Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure Question not identified.
19-6515 Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error QUESTION ONE: Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup? QU…
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…
19-6506 Joshua Jake White v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-contest criminal-procedure expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prevailing-professional-norm professional-norm sixth-amendment Counsel failed to object to prejudicial testimony. Specifically, the State's expert's testimony vouched for the alleged victim's allegations of abuse …
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6482 Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 2254-review 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. When a death-sentenced inmate obtains punishment-phase relief from the district court during federal habeas proceedings conducted pursuant to 28 U.…
19-6479 In Re Charles Russell Rhines 2019-11-01 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst…
19-6476 Charles Blunt v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-jurisdiction equity fraud fraud-allegations habeas-corpus pro-se-pleadings rule-60 standing 1. Did the district court contrary to Castro v. US abused its discretion when it recharacterized the petitioner ''"? pleadings In equiting under 60(b)…
19-6461 Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland Maryland 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors (0). TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT A WRIT OF ERROR CORAM NOBIS PETITION CAN BE BARRED UNDER THE TWO PRONG TEST UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF A LACHES DEFENSE TH…
19-6429 William Jovian Davis v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (7)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review pro-se strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
19-573 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe…
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Question number one of five Question number two of five Question number three of five Question number four of five Question number five of five
19-6465 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-funding martinez-v-ryan meaningful-representation sixth-amendment This Court has unanimously ruled that Congress' intent in enacting 18 U.S.C. § 3599 was to provide high quality representation to qualifying prisoners…
19-6464 Alejandro Garcia-Jacobo v. Marion Feather, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-convictions due-process habeas-corpus immigration jurisdiction suspension-clause Because he is actually innocent, petitioner Alejandro Garcia-Jacobo challenged his convictions for being an alien found in the United States without p…
19-6460 Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records I. When a defendant claims mental impairments had prevented him from timely filing his habeas petition, under Schrire v. Landrigan, should the distric…
19-6444 Jermaine D. Harris v. Stephen T. Moyer, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aiding-and-abetting appeal cell-phone-technology cell-tower-testimony criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legally-inconsistent-verdicts sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner 's claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffec…
19-6455 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-filing state-court-proceedings statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling tolling Jowarski R. Nedd filed in the district court, below, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2254. Despite the facts alleged in Nedd's…
19-6441 In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default First Question: Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the "fundamental miscarriage of justice" exception under the C…
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6419 Scott Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING WILSON'S HABEAS CLAIM(S) ALLEGING COUNSEL'S UNREASONABLE FAILU…
19-6413 Ricky Langley v. Howard Prince, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal ashe-v-swenson collateral-estoppel constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-verdict Whether it is clearly established that a jury's failure to return a verdict, which is tantamount to an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes, will ha…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
19-6399 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis jones-v-bock jurisdictional-grounds procedural-grounds WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT RENDERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCED IN COPPEDGE -V-…
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing me issues responding to a no-merit repart that doesint sion with respect of allclaims raised by Evers' ere was never a weapon pruduce. the Sixth Amend…
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…
19-6385 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements raises a significant issue: Integrity of appeals that circumvent Supre…
19-538 Albert S. N. Hee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus stare-decisis substantive-constitutional-rights It is fundamental that the constitutional right of due process is violated when the Principal Government Agent lies by fabricating evidence in order t…
19-6367 James Eugene Keiser v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-errors 1. Whether the 4th Circuit exceeded the limited scope of the COA analysis which was an error, albeit Petitioner met the requirement showing of denia…
19-6355 Eric Mack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t…
19-6352 James Byron Coon v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability exhaustion expert-opinion expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-postconviction vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-6351 Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i…
19-6350 Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing Was Petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial violated?
19-6345 William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion 1. DID MOBILE COUNTY CIRCUT COURT JUDGE ROBERT SMITH ABUSE HIS DIBCRETION BY GRANTING EVICTION ORDER IN CIVIL CASE# CVI-O852 WHILE PETITIONER WERE IN …
19-6328 Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue jury-selection mandatory-minimum state-criminal-procedure Does A State Constitutional violation Rise to the same severity As A United States Constitutional violation? If a majority of en banc Justices in A s…
19-6317 In Re D'Angelo Hildan Shipman 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-sentence legal-sentence mandate 1. I would like to know why I'm Sahin Oprison? I CNveda Federal Habeas Corpos in the Uncted States District Court, Middle District Of Florida, Dackson…
19-6316 James Matthew Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE LOWER COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING SHELTON'S HABEAS CLAIM ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNS…
19-6312 Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY.
19-6311 Adam Douglas Boylen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-exhaustion constitutional-law due-process foreclosure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-preclusion procedural-default record standing state-court-record takings Whether, in light of Jones v. United States, 529 U.S. 848 (2000), and the interpretive rule that constitutionally doubtful constructions should be avo…
19-516 Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments This case presents clear and intractable conflicts regarding: 1) the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the limitations it imposes on the jurisdiction of low…
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.…
19-501 Shawn C. Rutland v. Warden, Smith State Prison Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-tolling assistance-of-counsel discretion-of-district-courts district-court-discretion equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Did the Eleventh Circuit opinion improperly create a new bright-line rule, unsupported by authority and in derogation of principles of equity and of t…
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers, this Court instructed that a federal court should train its attention on the particular legal and factual reasons of the state-c…
19-6299 Victor Lopez v. Sterling Correctional Facility, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit appeals case-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance innocence judicial-review sentencing-enhancement substantial-innocence Whether Mr Lopez should be in prison on a case that the 1OTH Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismis sing 3 cases that were …
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent 1) a.Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? Where the 4th Circuit has denied equitable tolling…
19-6259 Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing 1. whether or not an indigent defendant is entitled to equitable tolling, where he was in fact denied the right to challenge his sentence and convicti…
19-6251 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-fraud fraudulent-conviction habeas-corpus impeaching-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suborned-testimony witness-tampering wrongful-conviction Concealed impeaching evidence, 1" In Light oF ihe neuuly discovered Fraudulently exposing many Suborn Fraudulent" testimon admithd that Jurors wouldha…
19-6245 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation IS a Family Law Divorce Proceeding in which Parental, Custody Property and Financial rights are at issue a Bona Fide Civil Access to Courts Action war…
19-6239 Randell Glen Laws v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-due-process supervisory-power Because requisite exceptions are shown and have been met in the State and Federal proceedings/ regardless of styling said pleading-presented claims a…
19-6237 Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Respondent Daniel Redington, Warden, Northeast Correctional Center through counsel of record have been untruthful, in all the courts > denying Petitio…
19-6228 Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture 1. Was the US. Court of Appeals unfair for intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 19, 2013, opinion/memorandum, then mailing it 20 days be…
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…
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing WHEN A DEFENDANT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) IS HE THEN ENTITLED TO CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? ISS…
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs 1. Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner had Beceived Adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medicalcentar? 2. Whether Petitioner's Symptons, tests, m…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one of the tried crime merely being in the quise a theory of crime of the Florida Statutes. and each are comple…
19-6203 Eric Christopher Barrass v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied IFP chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-review green-v-georgia habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts third-party-confession 1. In light of Wilson v. Sellers, 584 U.S. __, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), did the Eleventh Circuit err in applying 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the state appel…
19-6197 Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation 1) Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in Martinez v. United States , that the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions, inconsistent …
19-6208 Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 1.) When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of…
19-6181 Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which …
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings 1. Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution. 2. Whether …
19-6156 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6)IFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is "second or successive" under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed …
19-6152 Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure 1. Did the Court of Appeals err below in denying Ms. Owens a COA as to whether Ms. Owens received effective assistance of counsel when the trial judge…
19-6151 Ahmed Ali v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions third-party-culpability trial-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on his claim that he was denied his right to present a defense by the tri…
19-6138 William A. White v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power 1) May a District Court, in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding, strike all of the evidence presented in support of the motion from the record, refuse to allow …
19-6134 In Re Recardo Wimbush, et ux. 2019-10-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus jurisdiction slavery speedy-trial state-remedies void-judgment 1. VOID JUDGMENT of Conviction for Lack of Jurisdiction Pursuant to U.S. Constitution 2. SUBJECTION TO FORCED SLAVERY In Violation of U.S. Constituti…
19-6125 Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Counsel admitted that he did not know that his chosen defense, diminished capacity, could be based upon mental illness. As a result, counsel never …
19-6122 Jermaine Stevenson v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence presumption-of-innocence state-court-judgment void CAN A HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONER THAT IS PRESUMED GUILTY PURSUANT TO A STATE COURT JUDGMENT MAKE A SHOWING OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE WITH NEWLY DISCOVERED E…
19-6121 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct SHOULD THIS SUPREME COURT ISSUE THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO THE LOWER U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN ORDER TO COMPEL THE DISTRICT COURT TO EXERCISE ITS ARTICLE II…
19-441 In Re Dimitri Patterson 2019-10-02 Denied 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-documentation standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constitu…
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 …
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review 1.Why th cse as fidand it tms from201 nt 2017 2. To Keep fming the of cheating the State of Arkansas Cheating Scandle and the the Government for: Col…
19-6102 Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision GRANTED PETITSONER A CERTI FICATE of APPEAlAbIty PORSUANT TO MILlER -EL V.COCKER, 537 U.S.3a2 ON. QUESTIONS OF HIS THE U.S. CONSTITUIONAl RIGHTS? PERT…
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1½-page order that su mmarily denies a certificate of appealability without any analysis of the facts and the law in a murder case satisfies…
19-6093 In Re Barbara Stone, et al. 2019-09-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection habeas-corpus retaliation state-detention unlawful-detention vulnerable-adults I. The facts herein irrefutably demonstrate: A. Willful violation of protected rights under the Constitution to life, liberty, property, and the pursu…
19-6090 Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied IFP amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere serivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a "new judgment" within the mea…
19-6089 Joseph Signore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general Question not identified.
19-419 Antonio L. Saulsberry v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-trial precedent retrial sixth-amendment verdict Whether this Court's precedent clearly establishes that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a defendant on a charge that was submitted to a jur…
19-6081 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations 1. Is this instant case before the Court to answer the question left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991)…
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. IS RELIEF DUE. TO AN CONVICTION I DEVOIN OF THE RUDIMENTARY DEMANDS OF FAIR PROCEDURE ? 2. DOES BATSON" DEFY A HARMLESS-ERROR ANALYSIS? BJ DOES A…
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error 1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal .foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON 507U…
19-6066 In Re Jeffrey S. Collier 2019-09-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure double-standard due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-system legal-precedent manifest-injustice precedent standing THE VIOLATION OF GUARANTEED CONSTITU1. DOES TIONAL RIGHTS AND DOCTRINE OF PRECEDENTS CREATE INJUSTICE ? MANIFEST 2. WHY DOUBLE -STANDARD USED BY IS TH…
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…
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings 1) Whether Petitioner was denied "Fundamental Fairness " in the State Court Proceedings? 2) Whether State and District Court erred in denying Petitio…
19-6049 Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted for the following Claims/Issues : 1, Whether fact of an Actual Loss Amount, which sets the m…
19-6031 In Re Keith E. Doyle 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-intent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-recusal montana-constitution preliminary-hearing recusal stare-decisis state-constitution unlawful-conviction In the Montana Constitution it clearly states that the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall never be suspended; the Convention Notes of the Great Writ shall th…
19-6029 Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order 1. Is not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court required in its Per Curiam conclusions of law with respect thereto. If the court finds that...[2] the sentenc…
19-6023 Jeffrey Guy Ringle v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prejudice withholding-evidence Did the majority below err in applying this court's decision in Giglio v. United States to hold that Petitioner could not show prejudice, solely becau…
19-6016 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-20 GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court …
19-6014 In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. 2019-09-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law (1). What branch of law authorizes the State of Arizona to apply and slave label of a Black )40 any person , of African descent after 1865? (2). Are …
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution (1.) Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (…
19-5964 In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c…
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?
19-5955 Dennis R. Heilman v. Randy Blades, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions rape variance Does a variance between the Information charging aggravated assault and rape, and (a) a 1) conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, a…
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing 1. Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appeal Is Jeffrey Harris entitled to a Pinholster Hearing to Drov „^ rhls ^ial Counsel, Robert S.…
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES v. SWOPES , 892 F.…
19-5943 In Re Nathan Wayne Smith 2019-09-16 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act congressional-power constitutional-convention constitutional-limitations federal-criminal-statutes habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether habeas corpus relief in this Court is warranted on the claims the federal criminal statutes charged in the district court below are unconstitu…
19-5945 Timothy Eugene Sampson v. Cathy M. Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review pleading-standards procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standing I. THe Astinat CouT Enraned in Drsaissing the Complannt TO Heck bAe And 4 CAW lelanT A wriT of CenTiORtRi ? II. Did the DistTa covl enreR in necanfrE…
19-5954 Ricardo Irive v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-negligence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment DOES IT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL TO ALLOW A PLEA AGREEMENT THE DEFENDANT WISHED TO TAKE LAPSE DUE TO MISTAKE OR NEGLIGENCE?
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Petitioner Questions whether Discrimination of Equal Opportunity Because of Social Economic To Defend Petitioner Right to Appeal. Petitioner Question…
19-5934 Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fyrfth Civeultr erred w affir ming the lewer tribunals ruling and denied petitroner 4 gateway tlaim ef a…
19-5932 Chavez Myers v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act Question not identified.
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing 1. Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or t…
19-5920 Michael Don Pogue v. Texas Texas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Mr. Pogue alleged that his trial counsel, William G. Mason, was ineffective and presented 18 specific points of ineffective assistance of counsel to t…
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…
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1). Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state …
19-5916 Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings 1. IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON ALL HIS AMENDED CLAIMS AND ORIGINAL CLAIMS? a. Did The Court Violate Defendant's 5th, …
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…
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In state habeas proceedings, Ramirez alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate for, develop and present evidence in su…
19-5894 Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations Petitioner Bentley's murder conviction rests on a clerical error committed by the Wayne County Clerk Office which denoted the wrong filing date to his…
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction Q1) What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete? …
19-5898 Danny Howell v. Duane Southerland, et al. Tennessee 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions racial-discrimination standing Question not identified.
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard A: WHETHER THE DISTRICT STATE COURT OF APPEALS RENDERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, WHEN UNREASON…
19-5851 Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP 2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default Is there a federal procedural rule, written or unwritten, which permits a United States Court of Appeals and/or a United States District Court to simp…
19-5840 Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California California 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review WHETHER MR. STUCKEY IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WHEN ATTACKING HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCING ON GROUNDS OF TITLE II A.D.A. AND A.D.A.A.A. VIOL…
19-5834 Thomas David McWaters v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review standing In PetitroweR's ReQuest to the Ninth Circunt Court No. Owe: FOR A CeRtWFCATe OF APPEAlAbUAy, WOUld A gURISt OF REASON FINd rt debatable whetheR he sta…
19-5831 Lorenzo Davis, Jr. v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-constitution. 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus illinois-constitution legal-procedure state-detention Prison on Counts that wee"Dismissed" did the Leave do file a Petitien for Weitot state Habess Cocpus? In which Retitioneris showiag that his Aeticle S…
19-5827 James Michael Peluso v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim procedural-bar right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing raise a claim of ineffective assistance at trial? Whether a prisoner in Texas has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provid…
19-5820 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) permits a court of appeals, when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based …
19-303 Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner d…
19-298 Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court …
19-5799 Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts 1. According to Cone V. Bell , 556 U.S. 449, can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (D)(2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal…
19-5800 Darren Denson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-04 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Miscondvet when they deried Denson of his dve process rights by witthholding evidence before the econd trial that justifies post-conviction velief In …
19-5824 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied IFP 5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Ciruit err in it's ! . denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S. District Court's denial…
19-5798 Lonnie Bernard Davis v. John Hancock Mutual Funds Accounts First Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Question not identified.
19-5791 Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. Georgia 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re…
19-5773 John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Question not identified.
19-5762 Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida Florida 2019-08-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-5759 Travis Lavoy Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing and convicting District Court that cheried a constitutional right to trial, to a district to entertain/address, foreign the legal sufficieney of the c…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute, MCL § 750…
19-5755 Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied IFP 60b-motion change-in-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rule-60b statutory-representation statutory-right-to-counsel structural-defect I. Whether in ruling on a 60(b) motion for relief from judgment, a court can consider "a change in the law" as one of many wide-range of factors, in d…
19-5754 Charmar Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment? Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.…
19-5728 Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court (1) Whether a federal appel late court fai ls to provi de legitimate federal habeas revi ew when i t rejects an i neffecti ve assi stance of counsel c…
19-5723 Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis 1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b…
19-5717 Ronnie C. Brown v. Jeff Macomber, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-capacity mental-illness pro-se pro-se-petition Is equitable tolling available to render a late-filed pro se habeas petition timely when the record shows that during the relevant time period the pet…
19-5715 Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Texas Texas 2019-08-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts competent-counsel constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-post-conviction Whether the appointment by a convicting court of a lawyer, who was not competent to represent the indigent, death-sentenced prisoner at any stage of t…
19-5665 Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing Parsuant to U.S. Sup. C. ruke 1H. 1(a). In 2o08, Pefitioner was convictedf ofa'misdemeanor' D.U.I.(V.C.823152). This was elevated to a felory ander P.…
19-5705 Leighton Martin Curtis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-proceeding counsel-objection due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review magistrate-report martinez-v-ryan procedural-default record-preservation standard-of-review Does Counsels failure to on the record d the pee and pos-V infLannc^bf>£-Cs dor the petitioners ike specific objections todbe report and reccommendqt…
19-5711 Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon…
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell 2019-08-23 Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians (1) Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions i…
19-5686 Ronnie L. Payne v. United States District of Columbia 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt WAS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVELY UNREASONABLE WHEN HE DID NOT OBJECT TO THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAULTY REASONABLE-DOUBT INSTRUCTION DIRECTING THE…
19-5692 Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction Congress conshained orgivenflexibility Has U.S.ofA'S for U.S.A Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of juicesurfd wtnts reac to be codanexa…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review I. Ohio has a two step procedure under Ohio App R 26 when one claims the ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. First, there must be a timely "a…
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment WHETHER GARZA v. IDAHO, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), APPLIES TO PETITIONER'S CLAIM THAT HIS DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BY FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF A…
19-5703 Eric Massey v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington AFTER PETITIONER MADE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF A DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT; WAS GRANTED BY THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAL, FIFTH CIRCUIT, A …
19-239 Larry Benzon, Warden v. Troy Michael Kell Tenth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Amici (1) appeal appeals appellate-review capital-case capital-punishment collateral-order-doctrine district-court federalism habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay Whether a district court's order staying and abeying a capital prisoner's habeas corpus petition under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), is immedi…
19-236 Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd v. Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine dred-scott due-process equal-protection foreign-sovereign-immunity functional-immunity habeas-corpus standing state-action-immunity yick-wo 1) Whether orders denying state-action immunity; functional immunity; foreign sovereign immunity; are immediately appealable under the collateral-orde…
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing (1.) DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (ERRED) BY DENYING APPELLANT'S MOTION TO STAY (DOCKET ENTRY NO. 4) (2.) DID THE UNI…
19-5672 Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man on Florida's death row. Despite this Court's holding in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002)…
19-5675 Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-5678 John T. Beyers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-review sentencing-procedure standing supervised-release John Beyers was sentenced in part, under a statute held unconstitution, 18 USC § 3583(k). Rather than wait until this court's ruling in Haymond, as th…
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-5682 In Re Gary Ray Bowles 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty habeas-corpus intellectual-disability successive-habeas-petition successive-petition writ-of-certiorari Petitioner Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man who is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on August 22, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. …
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Despite lower court COA denial, should this Court consider, or remand for consideration, habeas claims: a. Does judicial confession in this case, with…
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review 1. When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim his claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by fe…
19-5656 Armando J. Mena v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy presumption presumption-of-regularity silent-record standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), in concluding that a state court could reasonably presume from a silent…
19-5658 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel standing state-collateral-review state-post-conviction-proceedings state-proceeding this court to answer whether the due process clause requires appointment of counsel to those prisoners where state collateral review is the first oppo…
19-5659 Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution A federally funded, multi-jurisdictional Mortgage Fraud Task Force (Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant # 2009-SC-B9-0080) prosecuted 1,000 citizens, i…
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…
19-5667 John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; WH…
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent 1. Was DAVIS improperly included? (5th.Cir.) 2. Was PAXTON improperly dismissed? (W.D.Tex.) 3. Did PITMAN abuse discretion in disallowing Perkins's …
19-5633 James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing 1. DID THE COURT BELOW WAIVE IT'S POLICY OF NOT TO REVIEW OR OVERTURN ANY DECISION RENDERED BY AND FROM THE APPEALS COURT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN …
19-5640 In Re Larry Swearingen 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 death-penalty due-process false-testimony forensic-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition innocence innocence-standard schlup-v-delo scientific-evidence scientific-testimony successive-petition 1) What is the scope of the evidence for a court's assessment of innocence under 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (b)(2)(B)(ii) ? Is a court of appeals ' consideratio…
19-5648 Desmond Justin Murray v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-5651 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th…
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review 1. Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction where the District Cou…
19-5610 Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution First Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curi…
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Question One: Whether the district Court and the 5 th Circvit was correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance …
19-5619 Leonardo R. German v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights consular-assistance consulate-assistance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus mental-health miranda-rights sanity-hearing 1) Did Mr. German possess a Constitutional right to a SANITY COMMISSION HEARING, after his new lawyer raised issues as to his competency prior to the …
19-5587 In Re Levar Lee Spence 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights 1.) Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?…
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that th…
19-5595 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process false-evidence government-misconduct government-misrepresentations habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit 1- Did The Denial of COA Violate of Appeals Denied Effective When A Clear Claim ofDue Process Where The Second Circuit And Meaningful Review As ACourt…
19-5602 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question No. 1: Did the court of appeale error by cenging a kertificate a BPR0 whether the cistrc Pehtover's fecleral hebees petton Ome uwclerTatle 2 …
19-5570 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review Question One As to the violation of Mr. Barton's right to be free from double jeopardy whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed upon Mr. Barton an impr…
19-5562 Sekou Kouyate v. United States Customs and Border Protection Second Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Hu n o a D down my Mneget me l IA, FBI, Mis Cutoms and Border protection USCIS SSA, MTA, all Vdated My fu Conio in their full. and ethers Righb…
19-5575 Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)?
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos…
19-5559 In Re Arnold King 2019-08-12 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-power due-process extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus legal-standing memorandum-of-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction THIS THIS HONORABLE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAVE THE POWER TO; [A] Dismiss the case and discharge relator where the case itself is against law as …
19-5518 Muamar A. Sayyed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP §2254 §2254-petition civil-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-correction procedural-error successive-petitions void-judgment DOES THE DISTRICT COURT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DISMISS §2254 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION AS SUCCESSIVE WHEN IT WAS CLEARLY NOT SUCCESSIVE? DID THE DISTRICT…
19-5530 Leroy Lyons v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights statutory-construction wrongful-conviction Motion to shik Coeriosari on in Dieu of granting Coontisani Remand to the ixth Lovicil imstuwith chions to consider the amended Bile5 moerid sfer Rema…
19-5538 Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
19-5549 Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM?
19-5551 Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest I. Is actual innocence of the crimes for which Petitioner was convicted and imprisoned a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? II. D…
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…
19-5504 In Re Joel Diaz-Hinirio 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel WHETHER DENIAL OF APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL TO PETITIONER BY THE SUPREME COURT IN THIS INSTANT CASE, WOULD BE TANTAMOUNT TO PETITIONER JOEL DIAZ HINIRIO,…
19-5511 Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Are inccrcerated plaintiffs m civil coses in corcercted fro se U.S. Distriet Cout cnfairl trected, cadlar in prejedd agoinst, becaule they ore not giv…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari I what remedies is available for petitioner when Court appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in deference to the pe…
19-5519 Rubin R. Weeks v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect liberty-interest parole-revocation state-court-review state-jurisdiction void-judgment (1).Does Petitioner have the Fundamental Rights to be free from the Missouri State Court's void judgment that has him restrained of liberty ? (2). Do…
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not Was petitioner's initial demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice? Was it legal for the…
19-5524 Tong Lor v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa evidence-presented-in-state-court federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-procedure presumption-of-correctness state-court-finding-of-fact state-court-findings unreasonable-determination-of-facts DOES THE ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1996 (AEDPA) REQUIRE THE PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS TO BE APPLIED TO THE STATE COURT'S FINDI…
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations three monthsextraordinary Circumstance if counsel filed AEdP^' s limitations period expired? duoare Of the AtoP Als lima motion,1s it an after the …
19-5494 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing MR. ISKANDER WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AFTER SERVING SIXTEEN YEARS (INCLUDING 2 CONCORDANT TO 6 CONCORDANT YEARS WITHOUT SUBSTRACTI…
19-5495 David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing Petitioner has had three (3) plus two 42. U.S.C. §1983 Civil Actions dismissed under the 3 strikes provision of 28 U.S.C.§1915(g), latest 42 U.S.C.§19…
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether The District Court And Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability Where. The Pet…
19-5441 Louis Mercado v. Jacob Sorey, Warden, et al. Florida 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process property-rights standing state-statute takings 1. WERE THE FETITIDNER'S RIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES AND FLURIDA CONSTITUTIONS EGREGIOUSLY VIOLATED BY FLORIDA CIRCUIT ANS APPEUATE COURTS? 2. SHOULD …
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) provides the procedures by which inmates request, and federal appellate courts grant, permission to file second or successive 28 U…
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
19-5446 Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel During deliberations, the jury issued a compound question as to the elements of Balint's trial defense, duress, as well as the defense of necessity. T…
19-5463 Jesse Dean v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley Whether the District Court had jurisdiction where Petitioner was indicted for acts which do not constitute a criminal offense? Whether Petitioner's c…
19-161 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-removal habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause Respondent is an inadmissible alien who was apprehended almost immediately after illegally crossing the U.S. border and was placed into expedited remo…
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 S. Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-164 David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners.
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i…
19-5413 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or Statutory subject-matter jurisdiction or due to an Unconstituti…
19-5430 Christopher Devon Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health mental-health-mitigation mitigation wiggins-v-smith Where the district court wrote that Petitioner "raises issues worthy of judicial review," has the Fifth Circuit again applied an overly restrictive st…
19-147 Michael Baraka Mason v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied certificate-of-appealability federalism-and-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-based-standard merits-standard plainly-meritless procedural-complexity reasonable-probability reasonable-probability-of-different-outcome rhines-stay I. Whether a habeas petitioner who seeks a Rhines stay to exhaust a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must establish a "reasonable probabilit…
19-5386 David Charles Sussman v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-07-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process habeas-corpus legal-representation prison-discipline right-to-counsel suspension-clause Where a prison inmate files a petition in a trial court seeking the restoration of gain time credits that were lost in a prison disciplinary proceedin…
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court when the Court of Appeals departed from the accepted…
19-5416 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Apex Reporting Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-U.S.C.-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fraud habeas-corpus judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct standing whistle-blower whistle-blower-protections 1) Can fraud be allowed to be committed as the underlying reason for dismissal of a complaint? 2) Can evidence of fraud used to dismiss the complain…
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Fairly W. Earls completed satisfaction of his criminal judgment case raises a pressing issuance of National Importance: Whether and to what extent the…
19-5378 Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. California California 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel MY FEPERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGUS UUDER THE LYTH DBS WELL AS My CTN BMENOMENT RIGNTS, I3Y RUBBER STRMPiNg iTs DENIAL OF MY HABENS CORPUS DETITON, TNAT C…
19-5395 George Cleveland, III v. Jerry B. Adger Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals case-and-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus procedural-limitations standing suspension-clause writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000) requires the Court of Appeals to determine with specificity, if a Habeas Corpus Petitioner's Appeal "st…
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Question not identified.
19-5367 Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW* WHEN THE STATE COURT COURT SENTENCED HIM TO SPEND 30 YEARS TO LIFE IN STATE PRISON, UNDER A "THREE…
19-5371 In Re Mary Capri 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release Under this Court's precedent in Mary Capri Vs. US Attorney Financial Litigation Unit. The Petitioner was Released from Probation in 4/2016 WITHOUT Vio…
19-5387 Shevaun E. Browne v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE THIRD CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS NOT INEFFECTIVE FOR FA…
19-5388 Marquis Travell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure discovery due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct tactical-advantage Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability (COA) because reasonable jurists would disagree whether …
19-5389 Mervin R. Barteaux v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trial-counsel trial-court-error writ-of-certiorari Whether where the procedural default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is excused under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), that in…
19-5302 Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing IGNORE A MANIFEST FLORIDA OF CAN THE STATE COURT DENIAL Conshitution Amendment 6, U.S.C. CON STITUTION ERROR, under plain errot Jopy Compounded Right …
19-5305 Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing First Question: Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the "fundamental miscarriage of justice " exception under the …
19-5309 William Dante Mitchell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _ S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)?
19-5340 Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DEFERRING TO THE STATE COURT FINDING THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO FIND INTENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION OF AG…
19-5348 Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel A federal habeas petitioner challenging a state conviction cannot obtain appellate review unless and until a certificate of appealability ("COA") issu…
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…
19-5354 Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Third Circuit) err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificat…
19-5360 Curtis Nairn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights counsel counsel-assistance due-process exhaustion-of-remedies florida-corrections florida-department-of-corrections futility-doctrine habeas-corpus prisoner-rights spencer-sanction spencer-sanctions standing state-court-exhaustion state-courts Whether it would be futile for a prisoner to return to State Courts to have unexhausted claims exhausted with the assistance of counsel under Florida …
19-121 Kenneth Miller v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington Ninth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment 351 (1973) which satisfies the habeas-corpus 411 US. 345 civil-rights custody-requirement due-process standing 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-prohibition fundamental-rights habeas-corpus liberty-interest second-amendment self-defense severe-restraint-on-liberty standing Is the following question one that jurists of reason would find debatable? Does the total prohibition on the exercise of a person's fundamental Secon…
19-130 In Re Randolph George 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti…
19-5332 Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference 1. Does federal habeas law allow the application of a "some evidence" standard in upholding state court factual determinations? 2. Is it correct to m…
19-5337 Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard 1. Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doublydeferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis? 2. May a …
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…
19-5320 Romon Lamont Dobbins v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure (1) Was Petitioner's Conviction Sustained With Insufficient Evidence Beyond A Reasonable Doubt ? (2) Did Petitioner Receive Ineffective Assistance O…
19-5322 Ottis J. Cummings, Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Cummings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether Counsel's Ineffactive Assistance Deprived the Petitioner of Some Substantive or Procedural Richt to Which the Law Entitles Him?
19-5323 Edwardo De Juan v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHEN POSTCONVICTION MOTION WHERE CASE ELEMENTS FILED OR EXIST8 AND (B) CONFLICT EXISTS IN DEC…
19-5267 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions 1. Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process in his direct appeal violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive …
19-5271 Demarko Deon Cooper v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review lower-court-decision state-court unreasonable-application Was the lower court's decision to deny habeas corpus relief to the Petitioner in this cause contrary to, and an unreasonable application of, clearly e…
19-5288 In Re Otis B. Brascom 2019-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
19-5291 Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of…
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 …
19-113 William F. Holdner v. Katy Coba, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response Waived agricultural-operation agriculture-operation-permit civil-rights due-process environmental-law environmental-regulation federal-environmental-regulations habeas-corpus patent patent-rights property-rights stormwater-permit water-pollution water-rights Whether a person engaged in an agricultural operation can be charged and convicted for failure to possess a stormwater permit under Oregon State Statu…
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…
19-5247 Charles Michael Hedlund v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing 1. Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), requires resentencing, particularly where the error originated in t…
19-5264 Joseph Hyungseop Shim v. Michael Sexton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus standing 1. Whether Petitioner has made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right to authorize the granting of a certificate of appealability…
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…
19-5258 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP 60(b)(6) change-in-decisional-law change-in-law civil-procedure constitutional-relief decisional-law due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus relief rule-60(b) search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing Should relief under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(6) be made available to habeas corpus petitioners when a change in decisional law occurs? II. Is Rule 60(b) re…
19-5261 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under …
19-5215 Lowrell Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit 1. RESULTED IN A MANIFEST INJUSTICE? 2. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR BY DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO EXPAND COA ISSUES TO INCLUDE A CLAIM THE DISTRICT…
19-5220 Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness This Case involves the Trial and Appellate Counsels Performance falling Below an objective Standard of Reasonableness, that prejudice the Petitioner. …
19-5221 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review? Can…
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria…
19-5246 Jason Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court …
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hinth circuit court of Appeals dismissed Frivolous with out having given My Case as present's documentary to oppornutety nne that my Case IS e…
19-5233 Martin Leyva Valdez, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-timeliness rule-4 section-2254 state-court-proceedings state-court-records state-court-review timeliness ylst-v-nunnemaker (1) Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Ylst v Nunnemaker because it failed to presume that the silent denial of his …
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings. II. The Petit…
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…
19-91 Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen Missouri 2019-07-18 Denied consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility Under the Eighth Amendment, may a State sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison und…
19-5200 In Re Isidro Roman 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Was patitionar daniad affactiv3 assistanc3 of counsal balow th3 standard mandats of tha Unitad Statas Constitution Amandmant Six ? 2. Was patito…
19-5209 Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conviction direct-appeal due-process federal-exhaustion habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence speedy-trial state-court-remedy Does the timely and sufficient filing of a Notice of Appeal of a Directly Appealable pretrial statutory speedy trial motion preclude the trial court o…
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
19-5217 Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 GVR IFP ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY MAXIMUM…
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…
19-5170 Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions FEPERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT EN VIOLATION OE THE U.S. CONSTZTUTION IF THAT CLAIM HAS NOT BEEN ADJUPICATEP BY THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT AND IS BESULTIN…
19-5175 Gregory Green v. Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review standing Whether South Carolina Appellte Court Rule 243 Voltes de prcss andegual protedtion of laby not entiting petitioner the right to be heard on appeal, Co…
19-5184 Kristopher Courtney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing Question not identified.
19-5185 William Eric Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner? Alter…
19-5186 Mauricio Warner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing (1) Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the…
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…
19-5144 David R. Uribe v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia underlying-charges Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process…
19-5149 Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-5131 Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations The question of whether the District Court properly applied the statue of limitations to Rackley's habeas petition in Respondent's first order by th…
19-5104 Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent Appeals deny prisoners Due Process to determining rather the CoA should issue and merely quoting Slack v. McDaniel and Miller-El? 2. State trial reco…
19-5126 Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence DID THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT ERR IN DENYING APPELLANT RELIEF ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DO TO COUNSEL'S FAILIN'G TO-OBOECT…
19-5127 William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)--"old law" — parole statute 18 USC §42.06(d) mandating federal prisoners' lease on parole absent certain…
19-5092 Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence court-of-appeals district-court gateway-claims habeas-corpus house-v-bell Did the district court and the court of appeals misapply this Court's holdings concerning habeas petitioners' gateway claims of actual innocence as de…
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…
19-5066 Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation 1) IF Your OriqNAl IndiCtmeNt is lAte ANd dismissed UNder 18 USC 316/A) qrantina the Ends oF Justice . Wher You Get A Second Irdictment When the First…
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…
19-35 Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis 1. Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis, 2019 W…
19-5051 Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus WAS ARIZONA ABSENT OF JURISDICTION OVER EVENTS THAT OCCURRED ON LANDS UNDER EXCLUSIVE FEDERAL AUTHORITY, AND INVESTIGATED EXCLUSIVELY BY AGENCIES UNDE…
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction (1) Should Hendershott have been barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when he turned his docs over to prison Authorities to mail Feb. 2014 months before his …
19-5058 In Re Artur Tchibassa 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY REFUSING TO APPLY THE REYES-REQUENA/SAVINGS CLAUSE JURISPRUDENCE.
19-5060 Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing 1: Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons abilities t…
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation I. WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL(S) DECISION WAS IN CONTRARY WITH U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT, BY FAILING TO LIBERALLY CONSTRUE THE MAILB…
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOLLOWED THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN BUCK V. DAVIS, EXPLAINING THAT THE COA STAGE IS NOT COEXTENSIVE WITH A …
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his findings and the prosecutors conduct du…
19-5073 In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz 2019-07-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244 (b),(3),(D), when more…
19-5074 Forge Dennis Mileham v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-5036 Craig Alan Toaz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS ERRONEOUSLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, AND IF SO THEN; II. WHETHER T…
19-5046 James Gregory Armistead v. David Millis, Superintendent, Hyde Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-documents prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-error WHETHER CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ERROR WHEN DENIED PETITIONER APPEAL, FOR WRTT OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF INEFECTIVE ASSISTA…
19-5049 Michael Wilson v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling sixth-amendment standing Under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution would "jurists of reason" find it debatable of whether the petition states a valid claim o…
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt 1. DOES THE WILLFUL AND SERIAL DENIAL OF ATTEMPIS TO DEMONSTRATE ACTVAL INNOCENCE, BY BOTH COURIS AND COUNSEL, PRESENT AT A MINIHUM, THE DEBATABLE QUA…
19-5002 Jared Len Cruse v. Texas Texas 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment cell-phone-evidence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence search-and-seizure warrantless-search QUESTION 1: Whether the cell phone evidence was the product of a warrantless search and seizure and/or an illegal detention; and thus/ whether this …
19-5004 Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud Whether Outrageous Governmental Conduct claim may carry a custody simpliciter of: oath requir…
18-9822 Bryan K. Noel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a meaningful question presented actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidence-exclusion habeas-corpus penumbra wrongful-conviction wrongly-excluded-evidence Question One: Does the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus entail a penumbra of the Due Process of Law Protections when credible and reliable evidence …
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI…
18-9830 Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied on th…
18-9842 Alpidio Gonzalez v. Ralph Hanson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241 2241-petition 2255 2255-motion habeas-corpus judicial-review mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction saving-clause savings-clause sentence-enhancement 1. How can a person show that a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2241 is the proper way to demostrate he is entitled relief when the lower courts Deny a motion…
18-9843 Freddie Lee Fountain v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant indigent-defense procedural-protections A United States citizen accused of crime upon American soil retained no constitutional rights or procedural protections of any value during the crimin…
18-9846 Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
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…
18-9815 Kazi Bowles v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discretion district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition relief standing writ-of-habeas-corpus DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERROR BY NOT USING A CLEAR ERROR STANDARD OF REVIEN WHILES REVIEWING THE PETTIONERS MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM JU…
18-9818 Bruce Allen Echols v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing 1. this appl gress of a I A'c claim that had not bee adjdcate by the required well established strickland two plong test leaving dish Pi order non lin…
18-9795 Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO DENY A COA CONCLUDING THAT PETITIONER SUFFICEINCY OF EVIDENCE CLAIM WAS PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED BASED ON STA…
18-9751 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa brady-violation castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman I-A-l) First Question ; Does the Appellate Court's obsecure Panel Denials, violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Prosess Question in Conflict…
18-9743 Hollins Tizeno v. Gerald Janda, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-default standing sua-sponte waiver Whether a district court may sua sponte raise a waived procedural default defense and, if so, under what circumstances is it appropriate to do so.
18-9719 Jason M. Lund v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins ? And does the error warrant summary relief?
18-9721 Frederick H. Banks v. Dennis Walker, U.S. Marshal, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts which held that "federal Courts have "pre-trial"habeas corpus jursdiction. see Ex parte Royall 117 U5 241, 252-53 18); Braden v. 30th Judcial Circut C…
18-9724 Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas WHETHER AN UNSOLICITED AND UNAPPOINTED ATTORNEY'S FILING TRUMP.S A PRISONER'S PRO SE FILING WHEN BOTH FILINGS RELATE TO THE SAME ISSUE BUT RELY ON DIF…
18-9730 Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence PURSUANT TO FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS JURISDICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. 2254 (A) FOR STATE PRISONER'S: 1. DOES A SUSPENDED SENTENCE COUPLED WITH AN ACTIVE DOM…
18-9733 Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery I wish the cout to review my medial file shewng Iunstill Needingy Surgery from the fall in Nevada County Jail. This incident hoppered ON Novenber 30th…
18A1337 Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete convention-against-torture due-process habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction removal-proceedings Question not identified.
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-9656 In Re Lexter K. Kossie 2019-06-17 Denied IFP character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense by (1) proceeding to the sentencing trial 45 minutes after the j…
18-9686 Bobby Bordelon v. Texas Texas 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts There are three reasons petitioner contends that this Court should grant certiorari of this federal constitutional issue regarding whether the Fifth A…
18-9688 Emanuel Rivera-Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the trial judge's pending unrelated lawsuit or egregious violations by the Chicago Police Department in an unrelated criminal case constituted…
18-9690 Curt M. Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions Q1: Should a habeas petitioner's claims of actual innocence, supported by the face of the court record, be subject to deference of abusive or successi…
18-9695 Robert A. Wagner v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-representation expert-testimony eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-probability trial-outcome Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with the "debatable" standard from Miller-El u. Cockrell, 537 U.S.…
18-9674 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2019-06-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
18-9676 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona In light of these decisions, the Fifth Circuit's denial of Randy Halprin's motion for a COA gives rise to the following questions: 1. Has the Fifth C…
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims QUESTION 1 an extraordinary This Court holds that factual innocence equates to circumstance that overrides a statute of limitation. McQuiggin v. Perk…
18A1312 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-default writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-9646 Max Edward Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
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…
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan 2019-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Bryan's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will result in disparate interpretations of the federal Constitut…
18-9634 Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing ISSUE NO ONE AND TWO whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge th…
18-9625 Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas Texas 2019-06-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct WERE PETITIONER'S "DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS" RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES & IMMUNITIES VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAD "TRIED, CONVICTED AN…
18-9626 In Re Rexford Tweed 2019-06-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute IS PETITIONER'S FLORIDA CAPITAL LIFE PRISON SENTENCE WITH A 25 YEAR MINIMUM MANDATORY FOLLOWWED BY ELIGIBILITY FOR PAROLE UNDER FLORIDA STATUTE §775.0…
18A1289 Walter Barton v. Cynthia Griffith, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
18A1294 Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus legal-access pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9597 Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Miere The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misap…
18-9526 Jimcy McGirt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-07 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedRelisted (10)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-country indian-major-crimes-act major-crimes-act state-jurisdiction state-law WHETHER OKLAHOMA COURTS CAN CONTINUE TO UNLAWFULLY EXERCISE, UNDER STATE LAW, CRIMINAL JURISDICTION AS"JUSTICIABLE MATTER" IN INDIAN COUNTRY OVER INDI…
18-9588 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Illinois 2019-06-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus illinois-supreme-court standing state-court state-court-review supreme-court Was the Petitioner denied his constitutional right to of Illinos denied his Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus, pursuantto 735 IcS 5/0 -102 tSeg witha…
18-9554 In Re Billie J. Allen 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alabama-v-shelton arizona-v-fulminante capital-case capital-punishment due-process gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mccoy-v-louisiana non-capital-case right-to-counsel structural-error 1. Whether McCoy V Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) is a new "watershed rule", akin to Gideon v Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), which falls within t…
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction (1)-Do thπ AStAchKO Okut stortk Couht OROARS VTOLAK A-DUE PROCASS (B-AEt tO SUSPANO HAAKA -CONUS. ( A VFOLATON OF US. CONAt AA 2 WheN Loth Cok Rrrue t…
18A1270 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete aggravated-robbery certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
18A1262 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus plea-agreement writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-9511 Christopher Stepp v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to § 2254 habeas relief where the district court failed to "look through" to the state court's determi…
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review On the basis of a § 2254, a claim of fraud upon the court will have been reviewed by state courts prior to the Federal District Court level. However, …
18-9540 Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year…
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-9524 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report rehabilitation Dres e claim of Doubke Teopardy tll AEDPA as a Miscrringe ofin double jeo pardy violation s plain on the faeof the iceusatony instument? is Does a Co…
18-9525 Mark A. Harris v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Extending Strickland v. Washington's general prejudice standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims to ineffective assistance of counsel stem…
18A1249 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Question not identified.
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation DOES THE FAILURE OF THE STATE COURT CLERK'S OFFICE TO NOTIFY PETITIONER OF THE COURT'S DECISION ON APPEAL CONSTITUTE RELIEF? SHOULD EQUITABLE TOLLING…
18-9452 In Re Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. 2019-05-31 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-authority clerk-discretion court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts filing-requirements habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority procedural-compliance standing title-28 title-28-usc-1915 Issue No.1: Does a United States District Court have the authority to treat and serve a Complaint under Title 42 U.S.C, Section 1983 pursuant to Title…
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-9494 Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing 1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce…
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…
18-9503 Donald M. Boswell v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-created-impediments statute-of-limitations Boswell contends that, due to several errors by the state court officials in processing his post-conviction filings, his §2254 petition hsould be cons…
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is a state court objectively unreasonable, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), when it concludes that a capital defendant was not prejudiced by hi…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond…
18-9457 Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation DOES STRICT CALCULATION OF TIMELINESS AFTER FINDING OF EXTRAORDINARY CURCUNSTANCES CREATED BY A STATE IMPEDIMENT TO FILING 28.U.S.C. SECTION 2244(D)(1…
18-9475 Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual innocence claim establish cause to exc…
18-9476 In Re Anthony K. Anderson 2019-05-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the 8th District Court unfairly precluded pro-se litigant Anthony K. Anderson from obtaining an equal and fair ruling without implied judicial…
18-9435 Steven Jacob Seibert v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Georgia 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel interstate-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge restraining-order retroactivity. stalking-statute standing Whether the Georgia courts violated petitioner's constitutional rights by convicting and sentencing him for Aggravated Stalking based on conduct occur…
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations I. The Sixth Circuit conmitted plain error, contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) and Miller-E1 v. v Cockre11, 537 U.S. 322 (2003). because …
18-9462 Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender 1. Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was…
18-9468 Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation Whether, when a state court enters a nunc pro tune judgment to attempt to cure a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, the first …
18A1233 Donaveon Lightbourn v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete correctional-facilities due-process habeas-corpus legal-resources personal-property transfer Question not identified.
18-9438 Nathaniel Woods v. Cynthia Stewart, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,ma ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining plea-negotiations trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Could reasonable jurists disagree with the district court's rejection of Mr. Woods' claim that Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Tha…
18-9421 In Re Ronald D. Veteto 2019-05-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions Question not identified.
18-9385 Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-05-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel PETITIONER CERTIFICATION TO APPEAL FROM THE APPELLATE COURT? THE HABEAS COURT'S FINDING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS NOT DEFICIENT? THE HABE…
18-9388 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions Does Federal Abstention only relate to unconcluded state criminal proceedings and not state appeal processes if injunctive relief is found to be neces…
18-9403 In Re Christopher Johnson 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a federal prisoner may file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding…
18-9405 John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial (I) INEFFELTIVE OF TLIAL COUNSE/: COUNSEL FAILEO TO SECURE AN OBSECTION TO SWABS BEING AOMITTEO IWTO EVIDENCE WHEN THE STATE DED NOT PAODUCE TANGIBLE …
18-9416 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether the District Court judges order of denial, denying petitioner's habeas petition and grounds, to the Honorable Robert L. Windle aforementioned …
18-9417 Wade Lay v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP available-state-corrective-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus standing state-court-determination wainwright-v-sykes PETITIONER, WUUO REPRESEUTEO HIANSELF AT TRIAL AND FILED A PO-SE APPEAL TO THE OISLAHOMNA COORT OF CRIONUINAL APPEALS ON DIRTCT APPEAL, SEEKS TO FILE …
18A1217 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus johnson-precedent section-924c vagueness-doctrine Question not identified.
18A1208 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection state-court-review Question not identified.
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief 1. Whether the Petitioner's Direct Appeal, warrants the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus to compel action by the Court. 2. Whether the Petitioner shoul…
18-9362 Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus as only a reque…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18-9348 Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing Whether or not the State Court And Federal Courtis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing crimels) and charge (s).
18-9357 Mondrick Bradley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution sentencing standing unlawful-search Question not identified.
18-9319 Robert Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred, when it failed to issue a Certificate of Appealibility under title 28 U.S…
18-9329 Sean M. Barnhill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis when it re-adjudicated the merits of pro se petitioner's § 2255, and then denied …
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Would it be violation of procedural & substantive due process and deprivation of right to meaningful, effective access to courts, if District Courts, …
18-9332 In Re Nawaz Ahmed 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus mandamus prohibition standing Question not identified.
18-9333 Gustavo Gomez v. California Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal case-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction motion-to-amend sixth-amendment standing Were this Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth …
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton In the context of a Motion for Summary Affirmance of a District Court decision, should lower courts follow the mandate of this Supreme Court - most re…
18-9338 Noah F. Corbitt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus standing state-remedies time-limits No DECISION JUDGE. STATE OR FEDERAL, HAS MADE A THE CONSTITUTION ISUBMITTEL ON THE VIOLA TIONS OF JUDGE WOOD, COURT, DID NOT BRUNSWICK DISTRICT TOLL T…
18-9340 Anes Subasic v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 18-7047 make an error in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing …
18-9297 Jeremy Shane Hall v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance professional-norms reasonableness-of-counsel record-evidence sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Whether a court can disregard record evidence of the prevailing professional norms in assessing the reasonableness of counsel's action or inaction und…
18-9314 Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court 1) Was the District Court Judge's Illiberal Construction of the Pro Se Pleadings a Denial of Access to the Courts? 2) Does a State Court Fail to Unre…
18-9256 Zeeshan Khalid Syed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-affidavit court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se reasonableness-of-counsel standing waiver waiver-doctrine writ-of-certiorari Q1. When a pro-se files for a COA and discuss his claim extensively in his argument, can the Court construe the issue as being waived? Q2. When the C…
18-9289 In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike WHETHER PETITIONER IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR A THIRD-STRIKE SENTENCE UNDER 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)? WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCING WA…
18-9294 Andre Derrell Lee v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel standing 1. Did +he Circuit Court err in Aot granting a C.o.A? 2. Did the District Court err in dismissing +he petition for failure to exhaust without having …
18-1424 Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held, in an acknowledged conflict with the Third Circuit, that a district court may deny a request for the issua…
18-1421 Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the deferential review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) by setting aside a state murder conviction based on its…
18-9257 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-9262 David Wood v. Texas Texas 2019-05-14 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an …
18-9264 Robert Marshall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER.
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 1. Does a district court's denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitute a defect in the integrity of the p…
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has again violated the standard for determining whether a Certificate of Appealabi…
18-9228 David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat…
18-9240 Carlos Cordoba v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations A one year statute of limitation exists for a federal prisoner to collaterally challenge his criminal judgment. The limitation period, however, is not…
18-9198 John Naasz v. Texas Texas 2019-05-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-passion sudden-passion-defense Whether a Texas prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral review proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffe…
18-9224 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights habeas-corpus sec securities-enforcement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
18-1413 Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'prosecutorial-misconduct" ' 'right-to-confrontation" ' 'right-to-counsel" ' 'sixth-amendment" ' 'standard-of-review' certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jail-telephone-calls prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment A prosecutor had Petitioner's jail telephone calls recorded, listened to them, made notes from them and had at least one witness listen to them. This …
18-9207 Leon Markel Winston v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-assistance one-year-filing-deadline prison-access prison-law-library Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 sec. 2254 be afforded Equ…
18-9156 Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review Question not identified.
18-9178 Matthew Oliver Alford v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment jurisdictional-constraints procedural-limitations standing state-court-conviction 1) Did the DistRict CouRt (W.D.N.C.A.D. and the 4 CiR. L.D.A.s Violate PetitiOnERS Right to aces feal Coun&Rght to oces yapplg the o Ro ceduRal Rules/…
18-9187 Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules (1) Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subseque…
18-9190 Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment WHETHER REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED BECAUSE STATE COURT'S SUMMARY DENIAL OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, SEEKING BELATED DIRECT APPEAL OR REINSTAT…
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari The Court of Criminal Appeals erred, denying Petitioner a new trial? Distric+ Attorney (prosccution)violated +he Due Process Clause , Fourteenth Amen…
18-9155 Robert Strecker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus standing Where a district Court denies a dass petition and denies a cerificatle of appealability Ccon) to the petitioner, the petitioner may seck a CoA from th…
18-9173 Paul Hillard Posey, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied IFP counsel-on-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Sixth Amendment's constitutional guarantee to counsel on appeal, extend to habeas corpus when habeas corpus is the first opportunity to rev…
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction 1.Under the AEDPA of Title 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), should Petitioner's State Nunc Pro Tunc Request be considered as "other collateral review with resp…
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9151 Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-counsel capital-punishment criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice successive-petition Question not identified.
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9163 Phillip L. Horrell v. Michael D. Downey, Sheriff, Kankakee County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing voluntary-plea Question not identified.
18-9098 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mootness prison-discipline retaliation standing Should a COA have been issued? Do inmates lose all constitutional rights merely because actions were taken in the guise of prison discipline no matte…
18-9108 Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance WHEATHER TRE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN : Falling to oRdDER THE RESPONDENT +o Show - CAUSE And PROVIDE. LNDOIctments, TRIaL . TRiaL TRANSCRIPTS, Habeas CO…
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) applies to denial of access to court claims? 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) allocates s…
18-9128 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-05-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights privileges-and-immunities standing state-action Does the State of Nebraska violate the 14th Amendment's privileges and immunities clause by arbitrarily denying committed offenders the privilege of a…
18-9097 Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI…
18-9069 Hector Rengifo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court. Whether Pennsylvania's statute fo…
18-1385 Ruben Delhorno v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis In Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment imposes on attorneys representing non-citizen criminal defendant…
18-1379 Jeremy J. Godwin v. David Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appeal constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus prior-bad-acts prior-conviction profile-evidence propensity-evidence Was the decision of the Ninth Circuit to deny a Certificate of Appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) under the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Co…
18-9091 Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-9066 Peter B. Rojas v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP does 42 U.S.C. § 2254 (e) obviate the need for fe 42-usc-2254 constitutional-provisions due-process federal-hearing habeas-corpus state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court undeveloped-facts Where the State Court conducted a hearing and the party was "denied due process of law in the proceeding', does 42 U.S.C. § 2254 (e) obviate the need …
18-9116 Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts I). "Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Det…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9076 Bobby Glenn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition herrera-v-collins mcguiggins-v-perkins mcquiggins-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar procedural-default Petitioner untimely first habeas petition for actual innocence claim is continue to be procedural barred to relief because petitioner discovered evide…
18-9074 Aaron Francois v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-constitution sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error Whether the evidence established that the murder and underlying felony of armed robbery formed part of a continuous transaction without a significant …
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power I. Whether The United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit Violated The Procedure Prescribed By 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) And Imposed An Imprope…
18-9053 Paul William Hilton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing title-28-usc-2255 Whether the Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255, when reasonable jurists have already determined, the …
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…
18-9044 Troy Latrial Ramsey v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell per-se-rule reasonable-jurist sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's ruling in Miller-El v. Cochrell, 537 U.S. 322, 3…
18-9028 Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Seventeen (17) Constitutional Violations of gross structural errors? Did…
18-9031 In Re Michael Brandon Samra 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who …
18-9027 Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. S 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-9023 Keith Clayton Brooks Jr. v. David Gabriel, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-collateral-order-doctrine collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-violations due-process enlargement-of-time federal-relief habeas-corpus magistrate-judge prison-litigation prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner standing The appeal was determined to be taken in bad-faith on the following issues: First, an issue of first impression raises the question of whether the co…
18-9022 Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrue meritorious unresolved fac…
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…
18-9015 Diego Rodrigo Perea v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constructive-denial criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the State Court's rejection of the Petitioner's claim that he was constructively denied the assistance of counsel, when the State Court failed to …
18-9014 Jamaal A. McNeil v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-clerk-failure-to-forward-record district-court-judgment-dismissal-stay due-process ecclesiastical-court ecclesiastical-court-letter-of-rogatory-registered exhaustion expand-record habeas-corpus standing writ-of-certiorari Can the Ecclêisastical Court, Letter of Rogatory, Registered Deed Poll be admissible and appied in this herein Writ of Certiorari; The Certificate of…
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence 1) wher Extrating aN INvoluNtary CoNtessioN by Police threat's andlor promises when te. delectues Can Never be Harmless Error Rex vs- Teeples, 753 u5,…
18-9011 Anthwaun Jordan v. Texas Texas 2019-04-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel kIa JIov' o6&L vkks /o - &-& ax&_o i,zS( rEbn&kfl 4p/ead /1 la4i Frhc e 4pp/'e pi P i6 4T>C6 a k ii Z4 3 /q L. &d Zd 3 gj V,Sm; 1s 37'
18-8989 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Donald Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 appeals civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandate motion-to-vacate record standing successive-petitions Is my motion to recall the mandate considered a Second or Successive petition? If my motion to recall the mandate is a Second or Successive applicati…
18-8993 Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence when a habeas petitioner serving li…
18-8984 Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error Is AeDpA (i)(B) and ts determination actvally a retrospective determination where mental incompetence is the impediment? Competency DOES AEDPACISCB):…
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8977 Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers 1. Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (…
18-8962 Ronald Collins, Jr. v. Kristen Keller Fourth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations (1) (2)(3 and/ar (G)? 2)D0es 28 U.5. C. 2107 (0). which allaws a district Appeals Cous fran envaking Rule 60 (d) (1) authocity by the districr coud? …
18-8961 Dion Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion blackledge-v-allison civil-rights district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearing-discretion habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ins-v-phinpathya plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rose-v-lundy sixth-amendment standing unsworn-statements QUESTION # ONE: Whether the District Court abused it's discretion by failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing by relying upon the unsworn statements …
18-8934 Teresa Miller v. Phillip Douglas Gaujot, Judge, Monongalia County Circuit Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evading-review habeas-corpus judicial-review jury-trial petition-dismissal review standing Why was a civil petition dismissed without review because the defendant was no longer in states custody it was not a heabas petition it was a civil pr…
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Did the eleventh circuit court of appeals enter a decision in conflict with decisions of other court of appeals (U.S.C.A.) on the same important matte…
18-8967 In Re Larry L. Brinson 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence all-writ-jurisdiction all-writs constitutional-review constitutional-rights gate-keeping gate-keeping-order gatekeeping-order habeas-corpus jurisdiction successive-habeas-corpus successive-petition supreme-court-jurisdiction WHETHER THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS JURISDICTION UNDER HABEAS CORPUS AND ALL WRIT JURISDICTION TO REVIEW CIRCUIT COURT'S GATE KEEPING ORDER DE…
18-8968 Emmanuel Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as…
18-8970 John William King v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel teague-analysis teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether McCoy applies when a defendant's attorneys concede, against his wishes, his guilt to a lesser-included offense during final argument, and i…
18-8972 Wardell Nelson Joiner, Jr. v. John Sutton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial false-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus schlup-standard schlup-v-delo time-of-death wrongful-conviction Did the courts below err in applying this Court's decision in Schiup v. Delo to hold that Petitioner's compelling new evidence, though presenting at t…
18-8942 Jeffrey Akard v. Robert E. Carter Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 412-Rape-Shield-law-conflict Brady-materials brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process habeas-corpus habeas-relief impeaching-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-shield-law sentencing-claims strickland-standards Was Petitioner's 94 year sentence for rape related charges, based only on accuser's testimony, in violation of Fifth Amendment Due Process rights warr…
18-8937 Michael P. Johnson v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights federal-court-rulings habeas-corpus similar-facts sixth-circuit state-court-proceeding Whether a state habeas petitioner may satisfy his burden under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) of making a substantial showing of a denial of a federal constit…
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief, or in the alternative an evidentiary hearing, on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, wher…
18-8929 In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have considered Petitioner's timely filed Amended Certificate of Appealability and Motion to Expand the A…
18-8888 Nexis Rene Gomez v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-diligence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that petitioner did not showed that jurist of reason would find it debatable whether the district court abused …
18-8920 Charles Franklin Glasscock v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury memorandum-decision ninth-circuit supreme-court Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision, affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief, contravene this Court's commands regarding the vital guara…
18-8922 In Re Efrain Campos 2019-04-19 Denied IFP due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution, By The With Holding Of Information By The Assistant Distric…
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals. Whether the Sixth Circuit C…
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b 1. Does this Court's decision in Gonzalez v. Crosby completely foreclose a habeas petitioner from obtaining Rule 60(b) relief arising from a demonstra…
18-8925 Charles Reginald Cooks v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing PeTiTioneR Ask'S WhEThER The CoMPLAInT NAmEd VN DeFEndAnT In TheIR TRUe Names, WiTh STAteMeNTS ThAT ARE TRUE. (a) ThE WoRdS "CoMperENT CoURT." WhEn US…
18-8917 Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation (1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran…
18-8914 Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, which states "the Petitioner may submit …
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…
18-1320 Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied 28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit 1. Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes—that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence—should be consid…
18-8891 Warner Bernard Crider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit Crider Filed Under § 2255 fostering several issues warranting a certificate of appealability. To Crider's dismay the Sixth Circuit denied all of issue…
18-8881 Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ANY FINDINGS OF FACT SPECIALLY AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AS IS REQUIRED BY…
18-8875 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation Question One: The 'Pipeline' Analysis Should Be Expanded To New Law That Applies To Postconviction Claims Where The Resolution Of The Postconviction …
18-8867 James A. Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing 1. DOES 28 U.S.C.3 2244(d)(2) TOLL THE LIMITATION PERIOD DURING THE PENDENCY OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO THE COURT OF APPEALS? 2. ASIDE FROM…
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-8863 Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process GROUND ONE Whether State's highest court errs by refusing to remedy a Prisoner's Miscarriage of Justice claim, abuse of discretion and cause of willfu…
18-8852 Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-8860 David Clum, Jr. v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,habeas-corpus,pro-se,a equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-litigation sixth-amendment supervisory-powers Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifth Amendment-Due Process Rights of the Petitioner by applying different standards and meth…
18-8845 Abel Revill Ochoa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-funding funding habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-standard statutory-interpretation (1) Whether, in light of Ayestas v. Davis, 138 S. Ct. 1080 (2018), a court applies an overly burdensome standard for funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f)…
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain 1. Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to det…
18-8832 Annamalai Annamalai v. Darrin Harmon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights custody district-court due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief illegal-custody jurisdiction legal-procedure standing warden-authority Whether the district court 'illegally' suspended Habeas Relief(s) for Annamalai Annamalai and or did not dispose of Annamalai Annamalai's habeas relie…
18-8820 Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Mr. Deck filed a petition for habeas corpus relief from his convictions and death sentences. The district court granted relief as to two grounds, but …
18-1304 Richard Ashbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained …
18-8816 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus merits-adjudication miller-el voluntariness Where an appellate court, in connection with an application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA"), decides that circuit precedent precludes the u…
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment IN MARBURY VERSES MADISON, THIS COURT HELD, "IT IS EMPHATICALLY. THE PROVINCE AND DUTY OF THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT TO SAY WHAT THE LAW IS," DOES THIS R…
18-8788 Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review WHERE A STATE COURT DENIES A PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH THE NECESSARY FACTUAL RECORD TO SUPPORT A CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL,…
18-8798 Brent Lynch v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
18-8796 Larry Junior Copeland, aka La-La v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act habeas-corpus procedural-default retroactivity sentencing-discretion This Court holds that when a habeas petitioner alleges facts that are outside the courtroom, and if proven, those facts entitle a petitioner to relief…
18-8791 Danny D. Bissonette v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-law prosecutorial-jurisdiction state-sovereignty treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty 1. Did the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Pennington County. South Dakota error when it failed to set-aside the Judgment of Conviction, once it was…
18-8789 Roy Easterwood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-11 Denied IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions res-judicata Will this CouRt Reguire OKIAhOMA COURts to tREAt SiMilARly iNMAtes the situnted PRISON SAme? CAN 6 StAte CouRt dismiss PRISONERS RElIgIOUS FReedom Cl…
18-8775 Samuel William Maines v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration? Can an implied waiver o…
18-8772 Ellery Bennett v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-law-library pro-se pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations 1. According to the pro se petitioner's undisputed affidavit filed in the district court, he did not know about the habeas corpus statute of limitatio…
18-8732 Leonoris Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-victim criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury jury-deliberations video-evidence video-interview 1. Whether permitting the jury to review child victim's video interview during deliberations, which included, the child's description of a hopeful fri…
18-8760 James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony (1) Is a sentence as a career offender (com) unvalied se valid when a fone violent ors conviction, (Kloada attery on Law en Mv Licey), LO au by wily o…
18-8722 In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard 2019-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing THE PLURAL WAS AMENDED FOR 28 U.S.C. § 1915 TO IMPOSE NEW FELUC PROLEDUREE OJ ARCEONER'E DEEIRONG TD APAEAR LIFAJON CERTAIN PROCECDLNCE ULA PRISONER E…
18-8729 Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter In light of United States v Peter, 310 F.3d 709 (11th C ir 2002), does the ambiguousness of the nature of the term "material" within Title 18 USC 2252…
18-8727 Corey Wiggins v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure failure-to-investigate habeas-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, ERRED IN REFUSING TO GRANT…
18-8718 Anthony C. Barrett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex…
18-8717 Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel DOES THE BLANKET DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUNCED IN SLACK V. MCDANIEL? DOES 28 U.S.C. § 224…
18-8730 In Re Jimmie Dixon 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the 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…
18-8701 Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida Florida 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation 1. May a state court resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits when this Cou…
18-8687 Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard (Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), does not require absolute cer…
18-8689 Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy I. Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance where counsel failed in the most basic sense to litigate a claim of i…
18-8702 Vernon Carter v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-04-04 Denied IFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-traffic-stop ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Certiorari Review should be granted where the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Carter's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a person in …
18-8705 In Re Keith Bryan Webb-el 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus human-rights illegal-confinement standing suspension-clause I. Whether, the Petitioner Webb-EL, a mentally ill Moorish-American Citizen, or any other State, or Federal Prisoner's, Title 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3) W…
18-8708 Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether the decision handed down in Maths v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have sta…
18-8695 Deontray Vershon Tate v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review After the prosecutor admitted misrepresenting her actual reasons for striking a prospective juror, the trial judge was "troubled by" some of the prose…
18-8685 Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a of writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of app…
18-8682 Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review The evidence in the state court record suggested that Sean Carter suffers from organic brain damage. Carter's trial attorneys performed deficiently, t…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE DECISION OF MCOUIGGIN V. PERKINS, 133 S.Ct. 1924 (2013) APPLIES RETROACTIVELY BECAUSE IT CHANGED DECISIONAL LAW AND WHETHER THE DECISION I…
18-8676 Ronald Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis…
18-8666 Tremane Wood v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP circuit-court-review death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-test Tremane Wood was one of four defendants charged with crimes related to the death of Ronnie Wipf, which occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January …
18-8651 Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir…
18-8656 Geneva Elaine Hames v. Patricia Yeldell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing state-court-procedures STATE VCUU A200o Supreme Court CA e. Denialeha Const tut) spa/ Mie being Set up,
18-8639 Anthony Franklin v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection faretta-hearing faretta-v-california habeas-corpus pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment third-circuit third-circuit-law Whether the district court err in denying a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Petitioner, and by Holding that Petitioner's multiple interjections did not amoun…
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…
18-8646 Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts Question not identified.
18-8610 Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article…
18-8619 In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241 TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18.
18-8620 Joel M. Hicklin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred for Not finding the Petitioner's failure to investigate Showing Comprehensive? 2. Whether the effective a…
18-8621 Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial, or alternatively a full evidentiary hearing, because his trial and appellate counsel rendered constitut…
18-8624 Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO MAKE A TIMELY OBJECTION OR FILE A PRETRIAL MOTION TO DISMISS A FATALLY FLAWED INDICTEMENT CANNOT VALIDATE A "CONSTITUTIONALLY…
18-8630 Joseph Christopher Birdtail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal section-2255 Is it error for a district court to deny either discovery proceedings or an evidentiary hearing under the Federal Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceed…
18-8636 Brian Hoskins v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions Whether, this Court's decisions in Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1995), Daniels v. United States, 532 U.S. 374 (2001), and Johnson v. United …
18-8591 Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony Is it logical to conclude 1. that a trier-of fact has reasonably and rationally the "beyond a reasonable applied doubt" standard as contemplated under…
18-8599 Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING…
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…
18-8612 Jason Johnson v. Paul M. Gonyea, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination DID TRIAL COURT UNREASONABLY APPLY SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT WHEN IT BYPASSED STEP 3 OF THE BATSON v. KENTUCKY REQUIREMENT'S IN IT'S CONSIDERATION OF …
18-8617 Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari…
18-1251 Sandy Annabi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of …
18-8560 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON OCTOBER 31, 2018 W…
18-8586 Roderick Black v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-licensing constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing IN LIGHT OF HIS TRIAL ATTORNEY NOT BEING DULY LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW IN VIOLATION OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNDER THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION?
18-8588 Francis O. Rossy v. Sgt. Lupkin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP asylum-state civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extradition extradition-liability habeas-corpus prison-litigation-reform-act procedural-challenge standing 1. WHEN A PETITIONER CHALLENGES HIS EXTRADITION, ARE THE DEFENDANT-RESPONDENTS TOTALLY EXEMPT FROM LIABILITY, ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW OF THE PENDING HABEAS…
18-8549 Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute In 2013, The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Va. Code § 18.2-361(A), a state criminal statute under which Petitioner remains convicted, sente…
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 …
18-8557 Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing GRou oNE: Houston Police Department Detective, Jhn Brooks, testified during the state's case -in-chief concerning ownership of a cll phone involved in…
18-8562 Joseph Charles Tice v. Rupert Markley Dennis, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights conditional-freedom criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole standing Did Rupert Martley Dennis Jr depard Prom theaccepted and usual course of the Judicial procecdings? Did the Us, District Coort of South Cardina fail i…
18-8567 Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review Under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2), a state habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability ("COA") when he raises a "debatable" issue. Buck…
18-8568 David Piper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-rights witness-production I. Whether Petitioner was deprived of compulsory process under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Compulsory Process Clause of the …
18-8550 Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. Florida 2019-03-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE…
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…
18-8489 Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply. Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim
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…
18-8533 Lance Williams v. California California 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description 1. How can the state courts deny appeal on a issue of prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on a uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report of …
18-8486 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Minnesota 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ of Habeas corpus moot? Did Court error by holding his petition was moot…
18-8503 In Re Leroy Lamont Wells 2019-03-21 Denied IFP case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.20 1404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pu…
18-8483 Rafael Agosto v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
18-8491 Ernest Marquis Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment unlawful-detention WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ILLEGALLY DETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS UNDER FULLY ENFORCEABLE VERDICTS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT …
18-1222 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition After the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit resolved Petitioner's motion under § 2255 seeking habeas relief from his death sentence…
18-8449 Juan Bustos-Chavez v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi alibi-evidence due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review murray-v-carrier procedural-review Whether the actual innocence exception established by Murray v. Carrier, applies to alibi evidence; II. Whether, based on the alibi evidence submitte…
18-8464 Oscar Lamar Mims v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial strategic-decision strickland-standard suspension-of-writ writ-of-review Does the Certificate of Appealability process weaken the efficacy of the Writ, either to the point of working a Suspension of the Writ or of making §2…
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHEN THE CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY APPLIED AN "OVERLY RIGID PER SE APPROACH" IN DENYING COA ON PETITIONER'S MOTION…
18-8428 Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review should not the United States District Court of Clorado have granted the Petitiuner counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing complaint aga…
18-8430 Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent In Brumfield v. Cain, 135 S. Ct. 2269, 2276, 2282 (2015), this Court made clear that 28 U.S.C § 2254(d)(2) is satisfied when a state court denies an e…
18-8434 Leif Halvorsen v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP amendment-of-habeas-petition clearly-established-law darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct white-v-woodall I. Does the Sixth Circuit's ruling that a lack of Supreme Court case law dealing with a specific type of improper prosecution closing argument means n…
18-1194 Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), is categor…
18-1197 Deanna Brookhart, Acting Warden v. Anthony D. Lee, Sr. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 affidavit-evidence evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-court-determination state-postconviction-review Respondent claimed on state postconviction review that his counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate and call five witnesses at his state-cou…
18-8416 Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) on the issue whether claims by prisoners challenging…
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test 1. Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the spec…
18-8421 Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel DID THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR WHEN IT DENIED (COA) STATUS ON THE POINT RAISED THAT THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION BY NOT ALLOWI…
18-8423 Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation (1) Once Respondent failed to reply to the courtt orders on October 26,2017, should the application have been granted via 28: U.S.C. § 2248.
18-8386 Michael Apelt v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairment prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When determining if a capital defendant was prejudiced by counsel's deficient performance during state sentencing, whether the federal court may bypas…
18-8389 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 brain-damage capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. The Eleventh Circuit did not focus on the state habeas court's actual reasons for rejecting Petitioner's claim that trial counsel's inadequate inve…
18-8403 Sergio Caballero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability.
18-1181 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Relisted (2) aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent At Ahmad Issa's 1998 trial, two witnesses described statements that their friend (and Issa's accomplice) made to them about Issa's involvement in a mu…
18-8374 Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless error analysis and made objectively unreasonable findings o…
18-8378 Garron T. Briggs v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong reasonable-probability right-to-trial strickland-v-washington Whether the district court's ruling, which implies that when a petitioner successfully proves that his counsel was ineffective, that petitioner must t…
18-8340 Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-8345 Gary Lakey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the …
18-8353 David A. Hicks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus spoliation-of-evidence witness-credibility WHETHER the Government can destroy evidence a defendant has sufficient reason to believe is necessary to prove innocence in an anticipated § 2241 Moti…
18-8354 Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad…
18-8356 In Re Steven Eason 2019-03-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions Cra the petitioner's Chan, that LAE conuretang aon JO have jucitdrctira ty prosedute him on count ¢ Of his indichaven? becauce the state dalaot charge…
18-8357 Richard A. Wilford v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner governmental-custodian habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se pro-se-petition standing unlawful-detention In this case, the Government is holding an individual in federal prison based upon receiving a judgment of a district court that falsely recites an in…
18-8316 Ricardo Guerrero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materials criminal-justice-act evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rights rule-5(b) section-3500(b) trial-counsel THE PROVISIONS OF THE HABEAS CORPUS STATUTE AT RULE 5(b), MANDATES ANSWER TO ALLEGATIONS PRESENTED THE GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE ALLOW…
18-8321 Noah Richard Lovell, III v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process free-standing-innocence-claim habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review signing-statement standing supreme-court teague-v-lane L SHOULD THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A FREE STANDING CLAIM OF INNOCENCE IS A CONSTITUTION…
18-8322 In Re Richard Madkins 2019-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention WHETHER IT WOULD RESULT IN A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IF FAILURE TO ENTERTAIN PETITIONER CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS; 1.That the State of Tenness…
18-8336 London Ettione Dunbar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THIS PETITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S REFUSAL TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IS AT CONFLICT WITH THIS …
18-8337 David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable…
18-8241 Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition 1. Does the o criminal seriousness charges obviate the states' governments' obligation the to uphold Constitutional rights of the accused? 2. I's the…
18-8296 Keith Alexander v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-petition reasonable-doubt standing third-circuit-review Whether the Third Circuit was in error in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of Pro Se petitioner's arguments. Specifically, whe…
18-8303 Thomas T. Alford v. Stephen S. Carlton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-8306 Billy Gene Howard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines 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…
18-8309 Darwin Zoch v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 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…
18-1158 Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Circuit Court" or "Eleventh Circuit") apply an incorrect standard for obtain…
18-8243 In Re Andre David Leffebre 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
18-8282 Jason Andrew Wright v. Oregon Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claim which was brought pursuant to Strickland v. Washingto…
18-8291 Juanita Garcia v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In order to obtain federal habeas relief for a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel, Strickland v. Washington…
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler 1. Must a court categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez ? 2. If the Court declines to…
18-8236 Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation Whether the United States District Court/United States Court of Appeals violated the 10th Amendments of the United States Constitution when they creat…
18-8237 Harry Eugene Briscoe v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se-petition stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether this U.S.S. Ct. will certify the conflict of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, not only with itself concerning its ruling that subject-matter …
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Did The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in Denying Certificate of Appealability of the denial of the Amendment of th…
18-8246 In Re Dennis D. Jackson 2019-03-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest speedy-trial 1. WHETHER PETITIONER'S 5th AND 14th AMEND. U.S. CONST. RIGHTS AND U.S. FEDERAL LAW AS SET FORTH BY U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENCE BE IMMEDIATELY DISCH…
18-8251 Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence. Whether the Eigh…
18-8252 Freddie Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mistrial structural-error Whether The United States District Court And The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Denied The Petitioner Relief Pursuant To The Issues Raised In A Petiti…
18-8253 Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief If hs er Ptn Ce oh Con po c indvda ~ W. h qua Ces o he .S. C ee a te ve e be inam? V. I ohe adilt murderer?
18-8259 Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Gty Was Initially represented by counsel when he filed his § 2255, and application for a certificate of appealability The Court below along with the t…
18-8260 Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings This Court's holding and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) require a § 2255 court to conduct an evidentiary hearing unless the record and filings conclusively prove…
18-8263 LaVaughn Weatherly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2253(c)(2) conflict-of-circuit-decisions constitutional-rights district-court-denial due-process evidentiary-hearing failure-to-investigate habeas-corpus hohn-v-us ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review misadvise On a matter of great importance was the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in "Weatherly V. Jones, 315 -conviction-365-LC/CAS an…
18-8182 Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and …
18-8212 Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness Question not identified.
18-8227 Bodey Cook v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
18-8228 Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden Ohio 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review The state courts sua sponte dismissal of my petition was A departure from the Accepted And usual course of Judicial proceedings including claims of Ex…
18-8229 Sam Chinn, aka Sam Chinn, III v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-iii-violation civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-rule-8 habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification magistrate-judge-process plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60b-motion WHETHER THE DENIAL OF A RULE 60(b) MOTION, BY THE DISTRICT COURT, AND THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE COURT OF APPEALS, WAS A ABUS…
18-8231 Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment WIETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL C LAIM. WHETHER THE DIS…
18-1132 Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to IATC claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went wholly unsubstantiated due to the …
18-8174 Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order Should this Supreme Court Grant Certiorari, to determine this question of first impression "Dose the specific langauge of Federal Habeas Corpus Rule 8…
18-8179 Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER A STATE CRIMINAL CONVICTION SHOULD STAND WHEN A STATE HAS INCORRECTLY CONCLUDES THE SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF AIDIN…
18-8189 Martin Tovar v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction Ground One: Whether (a) The Indiana Southern District Court erred in ruling Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was time barred and (b) Seventh Circuit…
18-8194 Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default Whether, or to what extent, appointed counsel pursuant to Harbison v. Bell, 556 U.S at 194 (2009) .. REBUFFED his demands to Brief and Raise the ineff…
18-8197 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether Texas Penal Code Article 42.082 BEVACCP, as interpreted by the Texas Court in EX PARTE KUESIER, 24 SW3d 247 (2000), is unconstitutional. The …
18-8199 Michael DeVaughn Johnson v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-28 Denied IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure critical-stage critical-stages due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was The ARIZONA STATE COURTS ceCISION that the abSeNCe Of the retitioner's trial counsel during two complet critical Stages" of the trial did not requ…
18-8201 Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether Supreme Court's decisions in Buck v. Davis 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), Trevino v. Thaler, and Martinez v. Ryan apply retroactively to Robert Butl…
18-8152 Alvin DeWayne Trigg v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts Question not identified.
18-8155 Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed…
18-8156 In Re Dennis Bowden 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c…
18-8158 Jerry Anderson, II v. Rex Miller, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-error standing DID DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DISMISSED PLAINTIFFS CLAIM FOR FAILURE TO STATE CLAIM WITH PREJUDICE WITHOUT AFFORDING PLAINTIFF A OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER…
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 …
18-8168 Billy Long v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hearing-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-error withdrawal-of-plea WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD VACATE AND REMAND FOR A HEARING WHERE THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING MR. LONG'S AMENDED PCRA PETITION WITHOUT A HEARING…
18-8169 In Re Alfredo Aguirre 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c…
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts 1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that…
18-8119 Walter Douglas Jenkins v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing waiver Question not identified.
18-8122 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LaClair, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-selection newly-discovered-evidence public-trial sixth-amendment standing WHETHER the District Court's reliance upon Circuit holdings in Estelle v. McGune and William Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, constitutes operative pleadings und…
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis…
18-8061 Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition After being dismissed four times on incorrect procedural basis, without allowing for briefing or a chance to be heard, Morris sought review of his 60(…
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-8097 Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review Why has the Tex Court Crimival Appeals denied my petition, if the Fourth Court of Appeals stated and arqued the Counsels dctions were below a reasonab…
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…
18-8098 In Re Christopher Hanson 2019-02-22 Denied IFP due-process government-interference habeas-corpus pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief-act statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions timeliness WHETHER APPELLANT HANSON'S PCRA'S WERE TIMELY UNDER 42 Pa. C.S. § 9545(b) DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND REFUSAL TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS. WHETHER AP…
18-8100 Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions WheTher Senica Franklin's ConvicTion and Sentence should be reversed, and set asick based upon newly discovered evidence. SeDica FRanKlin's ConviCTiOn…
18-8102 Vivian Monroe Holman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief first trivl? If the orginal tri rial aftorded all of the required procedurnl protection and if the ins titntional players- the prosentor the defense a…
18-8103 Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to …
18-8104 Robert William Frazier v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Under 28 U.S.C. §2253 (c)(2), a habeas petitioner can request a circuit justice or judge to grant him or her a certificate of appealability ("COA"), b…
18-8110 In Re LaShawn Anderson 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement This petition presents two important issues concerning the proper interpretation of the Saving Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); and the appropriate applic…
18-8112 Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing Should the judgment be vacated, and mabe remanded, in light of [ Buck v. Davis, 580 US. _; : 137 S.Ct. 759, 197 L.Ed2d 107 (2017)-]. Where the Court O…
18-8029 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (6)IFP 28-usc-2244(b) amendment anti-gay-animus appellate-procedure appellate-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury juror-bias second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-or-successive-petitions standing Could reasonable jurists debate whether a court may permit an amendment to an initial habeas corpus petition, without applying 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)'s l…
18-8030 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication Where is the boundary between "new claims," whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and "new facts," which federal habeas courts may not consi…
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…
18-8047 Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law WHEN THE STATE CONCEDES IN HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS AND ASKS THE COURT TO VACATE SOME OF THE CONVICTIONSCHALLENGED, WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT MUST G…
18-8056 Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-8066 Roger E. Magana v. Ron Credio, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-review Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's rulings affirming the guarantees of effective counsel and an impartial jury for a…
18-8070 Billie Wayne Coble v. Texas Texas 2019-02-21 Denied IFP counsel-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent objection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy In the wake of this Court's decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), two questions have emerged in the courts called on to apply that c…
18-8073 Tony D. Thompson v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-time-appeal procedural-default standing withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the Trial Court and the Georgia Supreme Court abuse their discretion in failing to reach the merits of petitioner's out-of-time appeal and whe…
18-8078 Elbert Walker v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation time-requirements trial-court-error void-judgment WHETHER THE BENNETT AND PURSUANT TO GEORGIA LAW/ STATUTE O.C.G.A.817-9-4 50 SEe RI/EY V.GARRETT, 219 GA.345,133 S.E.2d 367 (1463 AND GUTIERMEZ V.STATE…
18-8019 Bryan Austin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of…
18-8021 Charles R. Baker v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether thenewly discovered evidence presented to the lower Court's was sufficient to toll the one year statute of limitation set-forth in title 28 u.…
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…
18-8039 James Barstad v. Washington Washington 2019-02-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus invasion jurisdiction legal-standing suspension venue void-ab-initio war Has the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus been suspended in Americas If so, what entity has declared war against and invaded America? Could STATE OF WASHIN…
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
18-8017 Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review In cases where a federal district court dismisses a habeas petition based on procedural grounds and is determining whether to issue a certificate of a…
18-8027 Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied IFP case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari 1. Does Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. Should this Court grant certiorari,…
18-7969 Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT? PETITIONER ANSWERS - YES. WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED …
18-7987 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeal civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal conviction-expungement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus revocation standing 1. Whether or not, the District Judge Committed a reversible Relief, pending the Outcome Court of Arizona, without duscerning onthe Merit of the Case?…
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…
18-7994 Daniel H. King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust…
18-8000 Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing QUESTION ONE: WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT IN DODDS V. UNITED STATES AND ATKINS V. UNITED STATES, DENYING EQUITABLE TOLLING…
18-8005 Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied IFP appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a…
18-7939 In Re Daniel Eric Salley 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus patent standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers Whether the district court failed to Perform it's ministerial duties pursuant to 28 U.S. C. 3636()()(Band(), and Fed,R. Civ. P 6(a) by not Computing T…
18-7963 Fredmun Wayne Reynolds v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights procedural-rules rules-of-civil-procedure state-prisoner statute statute-interpretation timeliness DOES A DISTRICT COURT'S DISMISSAL OF A STATE PRISONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER HABEAS RULE 4, FOR LACK OF TIMELINESS, VIOLATE STATUTE, THE RULES OF CIV…
18-7983 Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation 1) May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly …
18-7899 Ramirez D. Dewberry v. Third Circuit Court of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus liberty standing DID THE RESPONDENT DEPRINVE THE PETITIONER OF LIBERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROLESS OF LAW, IN VIOLATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTTUTON OF THE U…
18-7949 In Re Reginald Watson 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent QUESTION #1- Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watsons 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction? QUESTION #2- Whether in light of Decamps v …
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-7954 Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan Pursuant to Slayton v. Parrigan, 215 Va. 27 (1974), a prisoner in Virginia is not permitted to raise a "non-jurisdictional" claim in a state habeas co…
18-7902 Mario Akothe v. Carl Bear, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions (1) What authority is available to authorize habeas enforcement of the attached 44 OKLA statute barring the State of Oklahoma from having jurisdiction…
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7928 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abney-rule appeal bail bail-denial criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction notice-of-appeal Was U.S. District Court, (S.D. Cal.) divested of jurisdiction because of Abney rule - to hail Defendant to trial - once Petitioner's timely Notice of …
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by derming a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7930 Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness DO THE PROCEDURAL RULES IN EFFECT AT TIME OF FILING, GOVERN WHETHER AN APPLICATION FOR STATE POSTCONVICTION RELIEF IS PROPERLY FILED? WHAT IS THE STA…
18-7898 Latwang Janell Reid El Bey v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion right-to-be-heard standing temporary-restraining-order 1) Did Judge MILTON F. FITCH, TR. err by denying the petitioner the right to a hearing and the opportunity to be heard when the petitioner filed for a…
18-7901 Darrius DaJuan Cohee v. James Yates, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal Was Petitioner's Counsel Ineffective For Failing To File Petitioner's Motion To Withdraw Guilty Plea After Petitioner Specifically Requested For Couns…
18-7798 Steven Floyd Voss v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County Nevada 2019-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing state-court state-court-jurisdiction 1. Do the imposition of and discharge from the subsequently invalidated Judgment of Conviction violate the constitutional principles of Double Jeopard…
18-7822 Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact, as s…
18-7851 Vincent Lynden Young v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions due-process expert-testimony false-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus opinion repudiated-expert senate-bill senate-bill-1134 statutory-provisions UNDER EXISTING LAWS ' SENATE BILL § 1134 (e) (1) OPINION OF EXPERT THAT HAVE BEEN REPUDIATED BY THE EXPERT WHO ORIGINALLY PROVIDED THE OPINION AT A HE…
18-7852 Donald Hug v. T. J. Conley, Warden Georgia 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-review freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-authority prison-policies prisoners-rights statute-of-limitations time-limits Do prisons, through their policies and actions, have the authority to prevent (delay) prisoners from filing legal document notary until it is too late…
18-7856 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act commutation-and-reduction-of-sentence due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue parole-revocation sentence-expiration successive-writ suspension-clause time-sensitive 1. Since, in the drafting of the AEDPA, the U.S. Congress omitted successive-writ exceptions for a prisoner in state custody seeking federal habeas co…
18-7864 Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden Ohio 2019-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling Is it Lawful, For The State 01 4 Ohio To Hoid The Herein FetitionerIn Illegal Confinemen United States Supreme Court Has Ruled UnconstitutioiiaI. On T…
18-7867 Meria James Bradley v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-rights due-process evidence-withholding federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-findings state-court-proceedings state-court-review (1) Whether defense counsel withheld evidence for the jury that shown that the petitioner was actually innocent, but for a reasonable probability that…
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…
18-7872 Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
18-7770 Michael Paul Bradley v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-7787 Alan William Golder v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Did the United states Court of Appeals For the Second Circvit err in its october ll, 2018, Order, denying the Petitioner's request For of uppeclabilit…
18-7789 Ashley Richards v. Texas Texas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d…
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7810 James Traxler v. Sherry Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis merits-review sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether The Sixth Circuit s Inquiry In Denying Petitioner's Motion For Certificate Of Appealability Was Coextensive With A Merits Analysis, When Concl…
18-7813 Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure (1.) At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become so inadequate as to render that process "ineffective" as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. § 2…
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having…
18-7831 Curt Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing Should a circult Court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to Correct illegal sentence after the petitioner has been prose barred from that…
18-7841 Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry I. Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.0 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two co…
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Question not identified.
18-7781 Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden Ohio 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts SHOULD A PERSON'S MISREPRESENTATION OF HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST OR THE PERSON'S BIRTH COMPLETE ERASE HIS DATE OF BIRTH IN A COURT OF LAW? II…
18-7792 Anthony Donato v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-violation brady-violation-disclosure circuit-court-split constitutional-disclosure constitutional-due-process due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit-decision second-or-successive successive-habeas-petition Whether The Second Circuit's Decision That Petitioner's Second-In Time Brady Claim Is Successive Conflicts With Applicable Decisions Of This Court? W…
18-7794 John M. Krott v. Scott May, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest-validity backdated-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-warrant fabrication habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge standing substantive-rights warrant warrant-fabrication Legally or procedurally, can a warrant withstand the scrutiny of at least 30 N.C.I.C., and F.C.I.C. warrant searches, or of the defendant being in the…
18-7801 Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo…
18-7760 Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction Question 1 This Court held that a court of appeals exceeds its subject-matter jurisdiction when the appellate court bypasses the certificate of appea…
18-7765 Burgess Massey v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states new-york-robbery residual-clause retroactivity second-or-successive-habeas sentencing-enhancement violent-felony 1. Whether the New York State offense of robbery in the third degree is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act …
18-7772 Antonio Franklin v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-05 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel execution-date habeas-corpus right-to-counsel Is the right to effective representation critical during which time the State moves for an execution date? Does the constitutional right to effective…
18-7774 Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington I WHETHER PETITIONER BOYETT WAS DENIED EFFECTINEASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL UNDER THE SIXTA AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE CNRLUIT OPINION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY EST…
18-7777 In Re Jaron Brice 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Will the writ of mandamus to be issued to Justice for the Fourth Circuit define the U.S. Court of Appeals the Fourth Circuit in the case entitled Sano…
18-1021 Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts I. WHETHER AN OBJECTION IS REQUIRED TO PRESERVE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR AN ALLEGED PUBLIC TRIAL VIOLATION. II. WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT CAN RELY UPON A S…
18-1022 Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony I. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals misapplied established federal law when it held that the State's failure to disclose threats and promis…
18-7733 Tyrone Justin Cowan v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit right-to-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appeal- ability and in evaluating petitioner's claims: 1) that his rights under Miranda v. Ar…
18-7741 Robert Sills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability ("COA") wasimproper where it sidestepped the CO…
18-7743 Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the Antirerrorist and3 Effea tive Death Penalty A (AEWA) of 1996) vitiates; m citizens 1) Privilege to t he Wr it o' Hbeas Corpa pursuant to "…
18-7747 Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability ("COA") articulated by this Court in such cases as Buck…
18-7748 James Freeman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione…
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination 1) DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO…
18-7710 Jose Garcia Mejia v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-processing aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-error Were Petitioner's constitutional Rights violated during trial? When Petitioner had no realistic chance of prevailing and the record was silent as to w…
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights Question not identified.
18-7687 Dre'Shawn Markuise Lee v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus institutional-confinement pro-se state-court-appeals statute-of-limitations timeliness For an inmate confined in an institution in Prose wher does their Federal Habeas Petition clock begin tò run once the Supreme court of therr State has…
18-7698 Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver DOES TRIAL COUNSEL WAIVE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO APPELLATE REVIEW OF AN ERRONEOUS RULING ON EVIDENCE IF COUNSEL CHOOSES NOT TO OBJECT TO THE RULING WHE…
18-7622 Kendrick Bernard Demus v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP accomplice-witness accomplice-witness-rule criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing GROUND ONE When the State had Petitioner's codefendant testify against Petitioner and claim that the codefendant had received no promises of leniency…
18-7650 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc…
18-7656 Armando Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability coa coa-standard due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b I. Whether a District court deprives a habeas corpus petitioner of his Constitutional rights to Due Process when the Court: Overlooks and fails to add…
18-7660 LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment The Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, O.C.G.AS/-H Enactment of Code, a felory - If these were"Enacted" in violatin of the Georgia Constitotion 201, …
18-7670 Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process 1. Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contr…
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation CourT To Federal CourT? 2) CaN A state Habeas Corpus, Filed by A"state PrisoNer CONTract Housed iN Federal PrisoN (withiN the sTarte) be Removed To Fe…
18-7676 Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am…
18-7677 Charles Geeter v. Dan Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-reporters-act federal-proceedings habeas-corpus jencks-act state-proceedings truth-determining-process 1. Whether the Jenctks Act, 18 u.5.C. 83500, applies to State proceedings aswell as Federal proctedings? II, whether the Court Reporters Act 28 u.s,c…
18-7681 In Re Erasmo Aguinaga 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court…
18-7682 Stacie Demers v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
18-994 Dirk Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel physical-helplessness physically-helpless toxicologist toxicology toxicology-testimony Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
18-7596 In Re Robert F. Russo 2019-01-29 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-overreach legislative-action legislative-overreach procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions Has the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals arrogated its own form of legislative action concerning a Petitioner's request for "leave" to commence a succ…
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler 1. Mr. Haley, acting prose, filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, therefore, appealing the order United States …
18-7632 Abraham Grant v. Wendy Kelly, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion speedy-trial standing state-court-decision Question not identified.
18-7636 Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP 26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation i. Does court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 28 usc 2244(d)(1) to deny review of C.O.A. Challenging District c…
18-7637 Fidencio Valdez v. Texas Texas 2019-01-29 Denied IFP capital-case capital-case-review-habeas-corpus-due-process-equa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mccoy-claim mccoy-v-louisiana standing texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas misapplied this Court's decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. _ (No. 16-8255; May 14, 2018): by dete…
18-7644 Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review Did trial counsel have a conplict of interest by simulttanecusly representing Me. Benitez and a defense witness, violating Mir. Benitez's Sixth Amendm…
18-7578 Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings such as would represent deviation from the directives of t…
18-7594 James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-01-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP capital-cases civil-rights death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination racial-exclusion standing Does Lanier's systematic discrimination against African Americans violate Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880), Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 2…
18-7597 Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment THE NINTH CIRCUIT CCURT OF APPEALS DENIED THE 1SSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BASED UPON THEIR DECISION THAT PETITIONER DIDNT HAVE SUBSTANT…
18-7598 Carol J. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings Question not identified.
18-7603 Raymond Zayas v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights crawford-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment When Petitioner's Crawford v. Washington claim was procedurally defaulted by trial counsel and initial post conviction counsel failed to raise an inef…
18-7610 Michael Colbaugh v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP equitable-exception federal-habeas-corpus federal-writ habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-writ texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rulin g, denying Petitioner a second Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to the Texas Code of Criminal Procedur…
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict The 10th Circuit's application of a reasonable Jurist Standard as a full denial of Jadby's §2255 under the Strickland standard is in conflict with the…
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…
18-7538 Jeffrey Russo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause A motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is considered timely if filed within one year of the date on which "the right asserted was initially recognized by the…
18-7555 Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction 1. Are State prisoners governed by Dodd v. United States, 545 U.S.353 (2005) which governs the activation of the limitations period for newly recogniz…
18-7560 Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED BY MISCONSTRUING THE PETITIONER'S MOTION BASED ON BUCK vs. DAVIS BY FAILING TO APPLY THE CORRECT LEGAL ANALYSIS STANDARD…
18-7563 Lynce P. Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-constitution WHETHER COUNSEL WERE INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT REPRESENTING PETITIONER ACCORDING TO A COUNSEL GUARANTEED TO THE PETITIONER BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNI…
18-7564 Jovan Howard v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amended-information burglary-dwelling constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-remedy prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-alteration unlawful-detention void-indictment 1.Whether Habeas Corpus was the proper remedy for the petitioner unlawfully detained against his will because the prosecution unlawfully altered an am…
18-7565 Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully.
18-7486 Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors Constitutionality, of the entire docket vanishing from the public records of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. Shortly after filing the …
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability.
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of trial…
18-7526 In Re Robert Heffernan 2019-01-23 Denied IFP criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair…
18-7533 Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing 1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL 2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN…
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)…
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether it can be presumed given the fact that (1) the USSC in Blackledge clearly stated that guilty plea cases were cognizable for federal review?; W…
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…
18-7497 Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error (1) Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or …
18-7498 Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision…
18-937 Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2019-01-18 Denied actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six…
18-940 Jamal Martinez Hancock v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence schlup-v-delo state-prisoner triggering-events Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial constitutes "new" evidence for purposes of the "actual-innocence" gateway that permits …
18-7468 Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel advised him to stipulate to a sentence of life without the possibility…
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT RAISING ISSUE OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE? DID COUNSEL LABOR UNDER A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1. Are the sentencino proceedinos that was found to be urconstitutionel made to be invalid? 2. Did the 'trial court ebuse its discretion by refusinn …
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…
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the state court f…
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…
18-7414 Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation 1) Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence a…
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…
18-7422 David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Is defendnt entitled to relef where he was constuctively denied counsel duing trial? Is ndnt ied to whhewas cnuctivy dend counsel duina his one and o…
18-7431 Teddrick Batiste v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance organic-brain-damage procedural-bar state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers The post-conviction state court process in Batiste's case was inadequate for ascertaining the truth and lacked critical components of an adjudication …
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of couns…
18-7396 Alonzo Fishback v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa credibility credibility-of-counsel deference-to-state-court due-process federal-review federal-review-of-state-court-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentencing sixth-amendment state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-review The Anti-Te rrorism and Effe ctive De ath Penalty Act (A EDPA) re quires a f ederal habe as corpus c ourt to g ive substantial defe rence to the findi…
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness I. Beason's trial judge made an election campaign promise to put more child molesters in jail before presiding over Beason's trial on child molestatio…
18-7326 Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's "plain statement…
18-7370 Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations 1 Sal He COU. 7 hear His wht of Chir ar j Lama Wy 2 ror a Le lificate f peceh ply CO Ala to he hes 4 s |Lonnlersts under Lederal Kules ot Lvil froce…
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…
18-7374 David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding, that in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under AEDPA, a court may indulge "post hoc rationalization"…
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth? Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th…
18-902 Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application An application for a writ of habeas corpus should be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings t…
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…
18-7333 DeShawn Maurice Moffett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-adjudication standing writ-of-certiorari Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals apply an incorrect standard when denying Petitioner's Request For a Certificate of Appealability (COA), and fur…
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Err by denying a Certificate of Appealbility (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of th…
18-7336 Jonathan Henry Hill v. Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP affidavit affidavit-standard civil-procedure conviction due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence one-year-limitation post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations Can a Habeas Petitioner rely on an affidavit as newly discovered evidence when the affidavit is submitted more than one year after a conviction?
18-7351 Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r…
18-7365 Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing 1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment? 2. Do…
18-7366 Frederick Gray v. Patricia Sorrels, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions THGMSELUES ARE MST ARMS OF THE STATE AMO THE STATE OR DEPARTMENT WAS NOTLIST GD AS A DEFEUOANT EO EEE E DT PLAINTIFF CRAY WMEN WE REFUSED TS MEDICATE…
18-7392 In Re James Rudnick 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment 1 Whether the Respondent [Warden Hansen] - employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections] has valid authority (in accord with the thirteenth and …
18-7321 Michael A. Young v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-action standing statutory-provisions supreme-court WhEthrindgen petiONEr's Whie being Constructively DENrED'appontment of Covnsel on"FIRSTand "ALLother appeals "DENYING'statulory RIGHT to appeal excus…
18-7325 John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison 3 being N.C.G.S.S14-27.7A, a statute thathas been abolished, and replaced with two separate statutes, …
18-7337 Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue GROUND ONE: Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia "abuse its discretion" and commit 'clear err…
18-7310 Kadeem Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea…
18-7236 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Christopher La Rose, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alternative-grounds appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clear-error-of-findings-of-fact district-court-discretion federal-civil-procedure federal-civil-rule-60(b) federal-civil-rule-60(d) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60 Do a Habeas Corpus petitioner need to obtain a Certificate of Appealability(COA) from the denial of a federal civil rule 60(b) and (d)? Can the Court…
18-7243 Javier Rojas-Cisneros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus notice-and-warning pro-se standing DID THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY SIDESTEPPED THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUA SPONTE INDICATIVE RULING ORDER ACKNOWLEDGING ITS M…
18-7247 In Re Dennis Roger Bolze 2019-01-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining Question not identified.
18-7259 Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Pennsylvania 2019-01-07 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment DID THE PETITIONER GIVE THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE SUCH CLAIMS 1ISSUES,CONTENTIONS IN A STATE HABEAS CORPUS?. DID TH…
18-7260 In Re Vernon Shawn Daniels, Jr. 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 4th-circuit actual-innocence due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause writ-of-certiorari Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court…
18-7261 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) Since denial of the prejudgment Rule 60(b) motion in habeas did not address merits of attorney dishonesty (fraud-on-the--court) did lower court clearl…
18-7273 Shaidon Blake v. Brian Fish, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP civil-rights denial-of-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence standing L nc rp ftc (rk k 4 s H YN, IV Qcr 41 DNa 5 b kC 2 Q( 'j (
18-7222 Winifred Jiau v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation The Second Circuit held, contrary to the holdings of Supreme Court considering the question, a prisoner seeking a Certificate of Appealability (COA) m…
18-7240 Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED…
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment 1. Where a state trial judge summarily rejected, without a hearing, Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective because he induced Petitioner to w…
18-7209 Daniel Oberacker v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-criminal-procedure-due-process-hab civil-proceeding criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parallel-proceedings sex-offender-classification statutory-limitation Whether a parallel civil proceeding may be merged and transformed into a criminal charge/issue at the appellate level. Whether a federal court may us…
18-7210 Gordon Prailow v. Maryland Maryland 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that were…
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation IF THE STANDARD UNDER BAREFOOT. V. ESTELLE, 463 U.S. 89.3 (1983) FOR PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF A STATE WRIT PETITION REQUIRES THE ALLEGATIONS OF THE PETIT…
18-7200 Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo 1. Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense—even when no ne…
18-7208 Nicholas Maslonka v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial critical-stage cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action 1. Is there a requirement that state action contribute to counsel's absence from a critical stage of the proceedings in order for there to be a constr…
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…
18-7216 Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7…
18-7198 Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress Question not identified.
18-7177 Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness This Court explained in Evans v. Chavis, 546 U.S. 189 (2006), that a habeas corpus petition filed in a California appellate court within 30 to 60 days…
18-7188 Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation Ten years after Ian Davis was convicted of aggravated murder and felonious assault, the only alleged eyewitness to the crime admitted, in an unsolicit…
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent The only question in deciding whether to grant a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") is whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district c…
18-7148 Austin Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial 1. Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD") triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction? 2. When there is no evi…
18-797 Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit Is being detained without a trial for two years as frivolous, per , the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or is it an international case of enforced disapp…
18-7097 In Re Leigh Jesse Quinto 2018-12-20 Denied IFP bond-case bond-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process federalism habeas-corpus new-rule retroactivity standing supreme-court Did the Supreme Court's decision in Bond v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2355, 180 L. Ed. 2d 269, decided June 16, 2011 (hereinafter "Bond I"), establish…
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…
18-7155 Alfredo Provencio v. Joe Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aedpa custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights sixth-amendment Under the Fifth Aniedrnent/Miranda Right's; The Sixth Amendment And Due Process Clause of the Fourtheenth Amendment as Applied to AEDPA Habeas Corpus.…
18-7157 Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect …
18-7090 Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent "Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhaufv. Holder, 379 U.S. 104, 110, 85 S. Ct. …
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…
18-7117 Charles J. Mayberry v. Michael A. Dittman, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida mental-incompetency statute-of-limitations Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals contravenes this Court's precedent in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010), by ruling t…
18-7121 Donald Higgs, aka Kyle Beachum v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-elements was states failure to subpoena victim to grand jury for first hand knowledge,but relied on known fabricated police reports and testimony of officer im…
18-7128 Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review 1. Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury by addressing the question of whether it is an unreasonable a…
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? Whether Lott was denied a constitutional right…
18-7081 Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment 1. Whether Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a prisoner to challenge a di…
18-7048 Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY FAILING TO ASSES THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES PRESEN…
18-7059 John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Question not identified.
18-7037 Gerald L. Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'…
18-7044 Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr. v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-review federal-jurisdiction federal-laws-and-statutes habeas-corpus indian-treaties indian-tribes-and-reservations state-habeas-corpus Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's reliance on precedent derived from the state-friendly deferential standard of the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat…
18-7045 Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition This petition concerns the proper standard for evaluating whether a Rule 60(b) motion "alleges" a proper claim for relief from a habeas judgment, and …
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes "an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim" in state court? Does Stone v. Powell apply when a case is …
18-7020 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP brady-giglio-violation brady-violation capital-case constitutional-rights due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-suppression habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-successive-petition 1. Where a numerically-second § 2254 motion raises an actionable Brady/Giglio violation that (a) the government suppressed until after the conclusion …
18-7022 Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder?
18-756 William Gittere, Warden, et al. v. Jose Lorente Echavarria Ninth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied aedpa compensatory-bias due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct law-of-the-case 1. Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's application of the law of the case in the state habeas appeal was an adjudication of Echavarria's compensatory b…
18-7001 In Re Michael Kennedy 2018-12-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing The united States Court of Appeals imposed sanctions against a prisoner without proof of and certified document of petitioner signature or sworn or wi…
18-6973 Andy Edward Minor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing state-court-appeals A.oo SHOULD MINOR'S CONVICTION BE VACATED AND SENTENCE SET ASIDE DUE TO HIS ACTUAL INNOCENCE? PeTiTioner says Yes! B.. SHOULD MINOR'S CONVICTION BE V…
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.…
18-6992 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Amici (1)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-misconduct-allegations standing 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in its reading of Gonzalez , given that five other Circuits read Gonzalez to allow Rule 60(b) motions to remedy a wide r…
18-740 Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-11 Denied Relisted (5) armed-conflict authorization-for-use-of-military-force constitutional-limits detention detention-authority due-process enemy-combatant guantanamo-bay habeas-corpus law-of-war military-detention In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 520 (2004), this Court understood the Authorization for Use of Military Force to include implicit authority to det…
18-744 Mark Unger v. David Bergh, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel junk-science sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to expose junk science that sends his client t…
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 …
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Question 1. Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional …
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether The Standard That Governs the AEDPA Provisions, 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(1), §2244(b)(2)(B)(ii), and §2244(b)(3)(A), is inapplicable To A Second Hab…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d…
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…
18-6957 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON AUGUST 20, 2018 WI…
18-6959 Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure 1.If arbitrary government intrusion violates the fourth amendment by means of unlawful detention with out probable cause, can thgt intrusion be used t…
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Question not identified.
18-6940 Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court (1) Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Faretta "clearly established," for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), that a request for self-represent…
18-6943 Gregory Dean Banister v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP aedpa appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se rule-59(e) successive-petition Question One: In Gonzalez v. Crosby this Court held that a Rule 60(b) motion that either adds new habeas claims, or attacks the court's previous resol…
18-6944 Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel 1. Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of in…
18-6898 Joseph C. Garcia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP 18-u.s.c.-§-3599 18-usc-3599 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
18-6903 Curtis McLaurin v. New York New York 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application - a co…
18-6895 Michael Clark v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i…
18-6872 Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence 1. Post-AEDPA, can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct, where the Commonwealth suppressed arguabl…
18-6876 Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 …
18-6879 Darren Hogue v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-decision due-process federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver-hearing Did the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's command that a proper review of a viable Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assi…
18-6880 Jason A. Lenz v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accidental-death character-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-deadlock standing statutory-interpretation Should a certificate of appealability issue in a Section 2254 proceeding where counsel learned directly from a juror that the jury had deadlocked 10-2…
18-6840 John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause AMEVDMEST DOUBSLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE BAR BETRAL WGEO, UPON DIRECT APPEAL, THE COOLCLUSLOH OF THE APPELLATE COURT IS; OVERLVELMING EUIDEHCE DUES HOT SURPO…
18-6850 Steven Madina Esparza v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 court-appointed-counsel discretionary-review equitable-tolling federal-courts finality-of-conviction gonzales-v-thaler gross-negligence habeas-corpus look-through-presumption ylst-v-nunnemaker I. Under GONZALES V. THALER, 565 U.S.134(2012), does a Petitioner's conviction become 'Final" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) (A), 30 days afte…
18-6860 Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state Was Perkins v State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied? See Johnny Ray McCloud's 2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Does the Young …
18-6834 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER RULE 58 FOR A FINAL JUDGMENT IN DISTRICT COURT FOR A FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY HABEAS PETITION UNDER THE EIGHTH AND FOURTE…
18-6837 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Inaffective Assistance of…
18-6838 Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 - …
18-6845 Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al…
18-6848 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Texas Texas 2018-11-27 Denied IFP death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus penry procedural-default subsequent-habeas 1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals deny Jennings equal protection of the law by dismissing on procedural grounds subsequent habeas corpus appl…
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity 1. Does Pena-Rodriguez apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. The Eleventh Circuit first denied a certificate of appealability ("COA")…
18-6831 David Errol Willock v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal habeas-corpus postconviction-relief remand rule-of-lenity statute-of-limitations WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD PROCEED TO ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT AS TO THE CORRECT CALCULATION OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN A HABEAS CORPUS ACTION UNDER…
18-671 Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision 1. Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or an…
18-6788 Rhett Bean v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice presumption-of-innocence FOR the purpose of U.s.c.A 2253(c), is it debatable that wrongly excluded evidence MAy be used to Rebut the presumption of guilt for A cRimivial convi…
18-674 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor …
18-673 Terrence Edwin Prince v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) and whether applying AEDPA's restrictive provisio aedpa brady-claim brady-rule due-process federal-courts gatekeeping-provisions habeas habeas-corpus retroactivity second-in-time-petition second-or-successive 1. Is a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions when the claim i…
18-6795 Darrell Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case whereas the petition creates an important first impression of the merits, which will ha…
18-680 Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson Sixth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether it is clearly established federal law, as is required to grant relief in a federal habeas case, that the Sixth Amendment jury right applies…
18-656 Johnathan Hall, Director, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole v. William O. Ayers Sixth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 28-usc-2254 experienced-criminal-defense-attorney experienced-criminal-trial-attorney federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-decision uncounseled-defendant waiver Was federal habeas relief improperly granted when, without basis in this Court's clearly established precedent, the federal court disregarded the dete…
18-6786 Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine the facts critical to a proper Confrontation Clause analysis…
18-6785 Christopher Scott v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation 1st degree murder charges Count 23. Whether Petitoner PriNt, while Also Killed in the Course of Another Felny" 5/18-2 & 5/19-3, Violated the Joiner of…
18-6784 In Re Samuel Rivera 2018-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing WHETHER ... RESPECT JUDGMENT OF THE COURT JUDGE'S - - WHOSE MEMBERS TAKE THE SAME OATH AS THE U.S. CONGRESS THAT UPHOLD THE U.S. CONSTITUTION UNDER 28…
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 …
18-6778 DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation In cases such as Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), and Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003), this Court found deficient performance where trial…
18-6769 Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center Missouri 2018-11-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief 1. Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourt…
18-6766 David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions (1) Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petitio…
18-6762 Edward Louis Thomas v. Texas Texas 2018-11-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington DID THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS APPLY THE WRONG STANDARD OF REVIEW IN ANALYZING THE CLAIM OF DEFICIENT PERFORMANCE BY TRIAL COUNSEL? DID THE …
18-6741 Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis?
18-6745 In Re Donald L. Spencer 2018-11-20 Denied IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act district-court-judge due-process federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations tolling-provision A.) Whether the Honorable Richard Williams, U.s. District Court Judge has a clear duty to afford Petitioner the full one-year statute period from the …
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 …
18-6759 Gregory L. Brown v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2244b brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition recurring-issue second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation suspension-clause Is a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. §…
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 …
18-6723 Robert Noel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal structural-error WHEN THE DISTRICT JUDGE HAS "A DIRECT, PERSONAL, SUBSTANTIAL, PECUNIARY INTEREST" IN THE OUTCOME OF THE PROCEEDING IS PETITIONER'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCE…
18-6719 Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice (1) Did the Third Circuit err i rendering petitioners's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and "THE END OF THE MATTER," without, the Pennsyl…
18-6689 Israel Sanchez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pleading-standard supreme-court-precedent Is California's stringent pleading standard to allege a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations contrary to the governing …
18-6685 Bruce Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice right-to-be-present standing statute-of-limitations trial-in-absentia trial-rights Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Can and individual Overcome this limitation, Under the Miscarriage of Justice Exception, By S…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appeal ability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and …
18-6699 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment I. DOES PETITIONER DRANE HAVE A DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO PLEA WITHDRAWAL OR AT MINIMUM A GINTHER HEARING WHERE HIS PLEA WAS UNKNOWING AND INVOLUNTARY, RES…
18-6680 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review Given that Petitioner Moreno Ramos requested the circuit court recall its mandate solely to address a defect in the integrity of his habeas proceeding…
18-6678 Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Oid the united states court of Appeals forthe Sixth circuit evaluate petitioner's certificate of Appealabityunder the Law? Did the petitioner Show a …
18-6675 In Re Ryan Lee Zater 2018-11-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth…
18-6661 Bryan Christopher Samuel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-issues court-of-appeals delayed-opinions due-process first-impression-issues habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers jurisdictional-issues petition-for-certiorari petition-for-rehearing procedural-delay timeliness 1. Whether the federal courts below, in attempts to avoid constitutional and jurisdictional issues in a habeas corpus-type case, abused their discreti…
18-6652 Michael Carlton Lowe v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Minnesota 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion due-process federal-question habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-interest standing Did the district court abuse its discretion by answering a federal question on petitioner's liberty interest in a state court? Did the district court…
18-6626 William Foley Miller v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review bid Al-I - Us A y PJr-/ ss 8r r/ Cos X 4 b ,"± A c'i I A d L J A/o* Pocerie , T-<<; For R v / YA roc A U r xhus+-ed i4r PricurJ/Y bFu/i'ei) /6JM Tr A …
18-6617 James L. Rudzavice v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review separation-of-powers standing supreme-law (1) How Can a CONSTITUTIONAL challenge be frivolous? (2) Did the Appellate Court for the Fifth Circuit Intentionally violate their oath of office to …
18-6620 Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review (1) Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable cl…
18-6622 Keeland Duralle Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether a court of appeals is required to grant a habeas petitioner a COA when the question presented clearly is debatable by jurist of reason as demo…
18-6630 In Re Taquan Gullett 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus ministerial-duties standing Question not identified.
18-6631 David Hollenback, Jr. v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction state-court-jurisdiction Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals commit error by denying the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability, regarding the United States Middle Distr…
18-6632 In Re Danny Howell 2018-11-08 Denied IFP adverse-consequences article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing I. DOES A COURT OF APPBALS ABURE ITS DISERETON IN REPUSING TO PARMIT DO 3O PRELLLIDES HABEAS PETTTIONER BROM BVER RAGBIV ING ANY ADUUDICATION OF HIS C…
18-6608 William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco…
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs 1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA…
18-6592 Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven…
18-6579 In Re Patricia Ann McQuarry 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointment-affidavit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-irregularity constitutional-law constitutional-result due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedies remedy secret-grand-jury standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unsigned-indictment vague-statutes Petitioner challenges jurisdiction of the district court, in this instant case. When a person, challenges jurisdiction, the burden of proof shifts to …
18-6578 Elebert Fox v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Question not identified.
18-6577 Ernesto Wilfredo Solano Godoy v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records strickland strickland-standard strickland-test sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony 1-Petitioner alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective by allowing testimony and evidence to be presented to the jury in violation of the Confron…
18-6585 Raymond Alfred Gagnon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appeal civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-fraud rule-60 rule-60-motion second-or-successive-habeas-petition standing Whether the Appellate Court properly resolved the District Court's abuse of discretion while performing the threshold Rule 60 determination required u…
18-6584 Larry Flenoid v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-irregularity second-or-successive section-2255 supervisory-powers WHETHER THE SUPERVISORY POWERS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL BE ASSERTED TO CORRECT THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUMMARILY AFFIRMING …
18-6570 Timothy J. Kaprelian v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest plea-agreement plea-bargaining Is a Criminal Defendant who pleads no contest entitled to exculpatory evidence that the state concealed and suppressed. Can a defendant's waiver be d…
18-6572 Douglas Wayne Thompson v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Eighth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment buck-v-davis civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6-relief trial-tactics No.1 -- Whether or not because this case was filed pursuant to this Court's rulings in Buck v Davis, Martinez, and Trevino for Rule 60(b)(6) relief, i…
18-6571 Mark Jervis v. Richard Brown, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process e-filing-system habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standing The District Court mandates that all prisoner communications to and from the court be transmitted via the E-Filing system. Per policy, prisoners canno…
18-6568 Harold Max Pompee v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP competence competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-competence Defendants have a right to be competent at all stages of criminal proceedings. Because defense counsel has the most exposure to the defendant, the pri…
18-6550 Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-6539 Allan Wayne Rencountre v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-default statutory-deadline statutory-filing-deadline Should the Court have granted equitable tolling with regards to the statutory filing deadline due to the ineptitude of Petitioner's retained counsel s…
18-6537 In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca…
18-6536 Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden District of Columbia 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the…
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…
18-6470 In Re Gary Malone 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions For the first time under the extraordinary rare facts of petitioner case where an district court Judge and a United States Circuit Judge both agree wi…
18-6503 Thomas P. Richard, Sr. v. District Attorney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prohibited-punishment section-1983 standing structural-error Did the Courts below commit structural error by usurping Law to improperly re-characterize a Class Action §1983 Complaint as Habeas Corpus which serio…
18-6504 James D. Russian v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus haines-v-kerner liberal-construction liberal-construction-rule pro-se pro-se-filings pro-se-pleadings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-of-counsel When a criminal defendant's prose filings can be read as stating a valid basis for substitution of counsel under circuit law, must a federal court, co…
18-6513 Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
18-6514 In Re Melvin T. Bell 2018-10-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment jurisdiction liberty-deprivation standing territorial-jurisdiction (1) Is the party complaining illegally deprived of his liberty; and (2) Is it lawful for the United States District Court to imprison Bell, who was no…
18-6525 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP edwards-v-carpenter federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockett-v-ohio martinez-rule martinez-v-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Under Edwards v. Carpenter, 529 U.S. 446 (2000), may a federal habeas corpus petitioner invoke the rule of Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) to show…
18-6526 In Re Masao Yonamine 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights district-court exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus personal-liberty state-writ unlawful-detention void-judgment writ-of-mandamus POINT I PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 USC 2241(a)(c)(3) SUBMITTED AGAINST THE PERSON(S) WHO HOLDS PETITIONER IN WHAT PETI…
18-6528 Shaheen Cabbagestalk v. Bryan P. Sterling, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings Question not identified.
18-6506 Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires…
18-6494 Terrance Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review In 2013, the district court applied an incorrect legal standard when denying Terrance Johnson's §2255. In 2016, Mr. Johnson sought to reopen the §2255…
18-6467 Tyrone Pulley v. California California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does the rule established in Martinez V. Ryan, 132 S.CT. 1309 (2012) and Trevino V. Thaler 133 S. CT 1911, 1921 (2013) that ineffective state appellat…
18-6471 Anthony Cardell Haynes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit-review finality gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez merits-review rule-60(b) rule-60b strickland substantiality trevino-standard 1. Did the Fifth Circuit majority err in finding that there were no "extraordinary circumstances" and that the claim was not sufficiently "substantial…
18-6479 In Re Evan P. Galvan 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Court for initial cirraignment without ilwhen petitioner appearred in Counsel whether the state Court islwas Sequired by the Us. Constitution bth and …
18-6492 Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent I SHOULD THE DENIAL OF MR. RENTAS' COA BE REVERSED AND RECONSIDERED DUE TO THE RECENT RULING BY THIS COURT IN MARION WILSON V. ERIC SELLERS, WARDEN 58…
18-6441 Roderick McKissick v. Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2018-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prejudice retaliation standing Question not identified.
18-6450 Justen Russell v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal appellate-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-health-confinement mental-illness right-to-appeal state-created-impediment I. DOES THE COMPLETE FAILURE TO ADVISE OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL AND THE FAILURE OF A DEFENDANT "STATE IMPEDIMENT" SUFFICIENT TIME PERIOD IN WHICH TO TOL…
18-6449 In Re Hakeem Sultaana 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ extraordinary-writs federal-courts habeas-corpus mandamus relief-sought standing statutory-provisions 1) Sultaana requests this Court to compel the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to review its jurisdiction authority pursuant to ti…
18-6455 Ronnie McGee v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 district-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-courts federal-habeas gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation WHEN A DISTRICT COURT MISCONSTRUES A § 2254 CLAIM AND/OR FAILS TO CONSIDER OR PROPERLY CONSIDER MATERIAL EVDIENCE SUBMITTED TO SUPPORT A CLAIM, DOES T…
18-6464 Frank Ralph LaPena v. George Grigas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-killing criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus highly-deferential-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-insufficiency legal-sufficiency nevada-supreme-court physical-evidence rational-juror reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony wrongful-conviction Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's decision rejecting the legal insufficiency claim was unreasonable because, even under a highly deferential review, …
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent At Petitioner's murder trial, the State's only fact witness testified the victim was shot once at one location and his body moved and dumped at anothe…
18-6436 Jorge Cintron v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence standing trial-procedure ISSUE 1: Did the Court of Appeals Erred in denying a Certificate of Appeahility and in evaluating the claims under Brady violation ISSUE 2: Should th…
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 …
18-6414 Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation 1. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THE ISSUE " A HABEAS CORPUS IS AN APPROPRIATE VEHICAL FORSECOND OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THIS ISSU…
18-6445 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional I. WHETHER THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 36.1 OF THE TENNESSEE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED § 29-21-101, AND TENNESSEE LAW ARE UNCON…
18-543 State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits …
18-6418 Denver Ivan Wilson v. Florida Florida 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the trial Courts denial of Petitioners Writ of Habeas Corpus Filed Pursuant to florida Rules of Court 3.850 (m) alleging that Petitioner Could…
18-6416 Briand Williams v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-record due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargain registration-requirements sentencing transcripts Is a Plea Agreement considered to be terminated or full-filled fifteen (15) years later upon the destruction or lost of the actual sentencing plea agr…
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.
18-6409 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference Question 1 In Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), this Court announced that where a state court issues a summary denial of a habeas petitioner…
18-6400 Tarvares James Watson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law state-law-procedural-principles state-procedural-law WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN OVERLOOKING THE RELEVANT STATE LAW PROCEDURAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL …
18-6393 Omar Qazi v. Janice Killian, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2243 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-dismissal standing (1) Does 28 U.S.C. § 2243, authorize the District Court to dismiss a 2241 Petition for "failure to state a claim for which relief may be granted."?; (…
18-6394 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus intervening-change-in-law retroactivity second-motion successive-petitions In denying Steele's Second-in-time §2255 motion, did the lower court(s) err in there finding that the district court lacks jurisdiction to hear Steele…
18-6396 Guillermo Solorio, Jr. v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244(b)(2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure evidence-suppression federal-statute habeas-corpus hidden-evidence second-or-successive-petition Whether a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus based on Brady v. Maryland Evidence That Was Hidden from a Criminal Defendant – Until After Appeal and …
18-524 Eric D. Gathings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation suspension-clause I. Was the appellate court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) reciting that it had "carefully reviewed the original file of the …
18-6381 William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry 1. Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability, while citing the relevant statute but not …
18-6372 Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho…
18-6350 Zavien Brand v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts ALTHOUGH NOT ARGUED BY DEFENSE COUNSEL NOR NOTICED BY THE DISTRICT COURT DURING THE 28 U.S.C. §2255 PROCEEDING, WAS THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPE…
18-6330 Jose Arnaldo Rodrigues v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether federal habeas review of a silent state court denial of competency-related habeas claims must consider the state court's appellate opinion on …
18-6344 Brandon Eugene Lacy v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health neuropsychological-evaluation neuropsychological-testing Sixth-Amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court misapplied this Court's ruling in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 688 (1984) by finding it reasonable for tri…
18-6338 Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations Is a Plea Bargain Agreement in essence a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the StateRWA And if so, can the defendant be r…
18-6333 William Staples v. Claude Maye, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraudulent-declaration habeas-corpus legal-procedure prison-officials standing sworn-declaration 1) WAS Staples Due Process complied with by the prison Officials? from the prison officials? prison officials?
18-6332 Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding?
18-6331 Vernon Robinson v. Florida Florida 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation did the 1st Diothict Count of appeal departiment from the essentinl reluinement of law ts Mandate By the uvited States Supreme the count muotmake A ex…
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-6326 Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS RULINGS' DIRECTLY CONFLICT WITH THE HOLDINGS IN (1) McQUIGGIN V. PERKINS; (2) CRONIC V. UNITED STATES, AND (3) CUYLER V. SULL…
18-6320 Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-investigation reasonable-investigation strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard unreasonable-factual-findings unreasonable-findings-of-fact (1) Defense attorneys must conduct reasonable investigations . Out of twenty one potential witnesses, trial counsel only interviewed McGhee and his fr…
18-6314 Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial Is Dertyincj Appealbity of case no.17-1243 when the issues of career offender, enhancements of my priors and excessives sentences, and was unfairly de…
18-6312 Tyrone Mason v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-1 article-1-section-9 constitutional-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-amendment standing writ-suspension DOES ARTICLE 1 § 9 ci. 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROHIBIT SUSPENSION OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND IMPLICITLY GRANT THE PETITIONER AN INA…
18-6311 Winston Ray Walters v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-12 Denied IFP congress congressional-disestablishment criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-prosecution disestablishment federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus indian-reservation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-member tribal-membership Whether Congress has disestablished the reservation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Nation in Oklahoma.
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness -Is the issue 'j accordingly of great import to potentially thousand's of prisoners similarly situated and does if have significant impact on the publ…
18-6298 Robert Alan Fratta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-amendment due-process fatal-variance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-review miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standing sufficiency-of-evidence *** CAPITAL CASE IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR A U.S. COURT OF APPEALS TO ACCEPT, SANCTION OR MAKE DECISIONS THAT: ALLOW STATE COURTS 110 REFUSE TO. ACCE…
18-6275 Ricardo Lupian-Barajas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard I. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DEPART FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS WHEN IT FAILED…
18-6276 Marcus Anthony Terrell v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing state-courts Question not identified.
18-6280 Thomas Gilmore Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion revocation state-conviction state-court-conviction supervised-release I. Whether a district court's decision to revoke a term of supervised release that is based upon a previous state court conviction which is being chal…
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff, who diligently sought favorable termination according to the requirements of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.C…
18-6278 John Martin, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Where the constitutional issues raised was to the degree that should have been debatable among jurist of reason, and were not lacking any factual b…
18-6286 Lisa Jo Chamberlin v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination 1. Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the disting…
18-6287 Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-claim criminal-procedure-18-usc-3599 dna-evidence expert-services habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-necessity (1) Whether establishing that requested expert services are reasonably necessary to the representation under 18 U.S.C. § 3599 requires articulation of…
18-6281 Terry E. Callins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness Did Mr. Callins file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which …
18-6261 Ilich Vargas, aka Ilich Ernesto Vargas Romero v. John McMahon Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT MAGISTRATE ACTS IN EXCESS OF HER DISCRETION AND OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF REASON DURING THE INITIAL SCREENING OF THE PLEADING …
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel…
18-6255 Christopher Earl Oden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists standard-of-review In Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S. Ct. 1595 (2000), this Court held that a petitioner may obtain a certificate of appealability by showing tha…
18-6250 Curtis Nairn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th and 14th Amendment rights unexhausted and meritless which violated Petitioner's 5th aedpa amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-claims constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-default section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied Petitioner's §2254 petition as procedurally barred by AEDPA, unexhausfed and meritless…
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…
18-6244 Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standing civil-rights due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations SERK HABKA d0 whiN A MrrtAly Ao Phy sictly D5SABLK SAtA PRISO NKA 1S hA IW PRTEON FOR 33 YARs -BEFoK- ha FiNOs oat thnt ho tRiKD, CONUTCt DR WAS NKUTR…
18-6240 Darryl Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c…
18-6236 Thomas Lee Swan v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ statement-of-case statutory-provisions Question not identified.
18-6235 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El. v. GockreU. 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), it is sufficient for purp…
18-6211 Pedro Rodriguez v. San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-error due-process exhaustion-of-remedies extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus paredes-v-atherton perez-v-ledesma prosecutorial-bad-faith standing younger-abstention younger-v-harris Whether the district court erred in failing to consider Petitioners claim under the Abstention Doctrine, YOUNGER V HARRIS 401 US 37 (1971), Prosecutio…
18-6214 Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether this Court should clarify that under Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86, 98 (2011), when the federal habeas courts evaluate the summary den…
18-6218 Desrel Ray Linden v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-question habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure supervisory-power 1- DID THE US. FIFTH CIRCUIT CV. OF APPEALS ENTER A DICISION DEPARTING FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF SUDICIAL PROCEEDING BY INVERTING JHE STAT…
18-6226 Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-6223 Martin Jonassen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-procedure cell-conditions civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process facility-design habeas-corpus inmate-safety prison-conditions prison-overcrowding standing 1.a.Did the ath CiR. err bt Ruling (That the 10-17-17 District Ct. OrdeR Is Not a Final Appealable 'OrdeR. A,b. Did the ath Cir. And the District Cou…
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…
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents "compelling" new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-427 Masoud Bamdad v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules Should a habeas proceedings court adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making its final judgment and closing the case, or otherwise suc…
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…
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts 1. Whether a claim made in th e habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invoke s the same constitutional protections, but labeled di…
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument?
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused it's discretion in it's Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secu…
18-6172 Sherman Edward Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions I. Prisoners must file a petition with the Court of Appeals for permission to pursue a second or successive habeas or 2255 petition. Most such petitio…
18-6178 Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man…
18-6182 Randolph Moore v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2018-10-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland capital-murder capital-punishment crucial-evidence due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus outcome-of-trial prosecutorial-misconduct withheld-evidence witness-tampering While prosecuting Randolph Moore for capital murder, the prosecutors in this case relied heavily on testimony from Angela Saldana —the only State witn…
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit I. Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while …
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, …
18-6145 Maurice Nichols v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing successive-petitions Did the District Court abuse its discretion in construing Appellant's Rule 60(b) motion as a "Second and Successive" 2255 Petition?
18-6144 Guadalupe Padilla v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-habeas-corpus-standing-due-process civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-remedy petition standing statutory-provisions writ WHETHER U.S. DISTNICT COUNT JUDGE HAS AUTHORITY TOORDER CLERK TO NOT FILE ANY FURTHER PLEADINGS IN HABEAS CORDUS PROCEEDINGS, WHERE ORDER RESULTED IN …
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Should certiorari be granted to decide how much detail the order denying a COA should contain in order to ensure that the Circuit Court has complied w…
18-6130 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus notice standing Question not identified.
18-6126 Sally D. Villaverde v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-60b standing I- WHETHER THE U.S DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA AND THE U.S COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT INCORRECTLY TREATED PETITIONER'S Fed.R…
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Question not identified.
18-6079 Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings Rowan Brooks was 65 years old on th e night in 2004 when his 68-year-old wife of eighteen years passed away. Neit her the police officer on the scene …
18-387 Ben Gary Triestman v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-restraint liberty-restraints order-of-protection restraint-of-liberty risk-of-incarceration standing state-court-orders supreme-court-precedent Where a state court order of protection that imposes severe constraints upon a non-incarcerated person's physical liberty and civil freedoms, and wher…
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…
18-6090 Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation DID THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT AND COMMON PLEAS COURT ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING WILLIAMS AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO REVIEW THE MERITS OF H…
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?
18-6086 In Re Daniel Clate Acker 2018-09-24 Denied IFP 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the…
18-6085 Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation 1. WHETHER A FEDERAL HABEAS COURT MAY REEXAMINE A STATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF STATE LAW WHEN IT IS AN OBVIOUS SUBTERFUGE TO EVADE CONSIDERATION OF…
18-6082 Jeffrey Eugene Lee v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP betterman-v-montana braden-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-circuit sentencing sentencing-obligation speedy-trial state-constitutional-obligations state-obligations state-procedure WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS BELOW ERRED IN REJECTING THE PETITIONER"S CLAIM UNDER BRADEN V. 30th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF KENTUCKY, 410 U.S. 484 (1973) an…
18-6077 Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP 2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals (1) Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition?; and (2) Should the certificate of appealability have bee…
18-6065 In Re Eric M. Richardson 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing Question not identified.
18-380 Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd Fifth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review 1. Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court. 2. W…
18-6069 Joel Cadena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United …
18-6068 Rodney L. Jones v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion due-process habeas-corpus tI(4Tk QQUtT CUT ci APpju 4u rr grc .X1' YJC TN(~'9 APPLIc,Tzc RQ rrFICAYB
18-6062 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-exception final-conviction habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default retroactive-rights retroactivity 1. Could reasonable jurists debate whether the equitable exception to procedural default recognized in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), should be …
18-6035 Zachary Chambers v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Whether the lower court abused its discretion in ruling that trial counsel's erroneous advice about petitioner's sentencing exposure if he proceed …
18-6047 Leo Llowlyn Seed v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied IFP alibi appeal charging-information civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions trial-counsel verdict-form witness-investigation Whether Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to object to incomplete Jury instructions Whether Trial Counsel failing to object to the Alibi And …
18-6048 In Re Daniel A. Spottsville 2018-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing takings Qustionis, as a staterprisoner does Afiant Spottuillehane vested, tinding Constitutionep sight to file a 28 uscs 5 224 petition in the dostrict court …
18-6051 John Phillip Bender v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa-limitations appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review prima-facie-innocence rule-60b standing Did the lower court clearly err abusing its discretion applying certificate of appealability ("COA") law outside Constitutional bounds, with no clear …
18-6055 Willie Triplett, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 state-created-impediment supervisory-authority I. Whether Lower Court's denial of Motion for Reconsideration pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) based on intervening law was an abuse of discretion that confl…
18-6045 Corey Levon Beckham v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied IFP drug-abuse equal-protection fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington unprofessional-conduct Did the Fourth Circuit erred in holding District Court decision for failing to accept the showing of the two (2) prong test in' Strickland v. Washingt…
18-6040 Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing Does The Petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right? Cognizable on 28 use 2254 and Uudr 28 Usc 225314)(2)?. Does a …
18-6019 John Randall Quintero v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice parole separation-of-powers standing Is a state director over a division prevented by the U.S. Constitution from assigning the duties legislative mandate of NRS 176.156 to the judicial br…
18-357 Dragomir Taskov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and all the violations of his constitutional rights are barred simply as untimely and because of t…
18-6012 Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability ("COA") on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional because the prosecut…
18-6013 Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2…
18-6023 Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus postconviction-procedure postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington swarthout-v-cooke unreasonable-application webb-v-texas Whether this Court's opinion in Webb v Texas, 409 U.S. 95, 93 S. Ct. 351, 34 L. Ed. 2d 330 (1972) applies to prosecutors as well as judges; Whether t…
18-6026 James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing The question presented is whether the Circuit Court's decision which held that the term "ministerial correction" nullified amendments to Petitioners' …
18-6024 Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit (1) Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contrevene Buck. v. Davis,85 U. S.L.WI 4037,2017 BL :54115 (U.s.2/22/17) because the 3rd Circuit …
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep [the COA] process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application by first deciding the merits of an ap…
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review (1) In a federal habeas corpus proceeding where the state court did not hold a hearing or receive evidence to adjudicate facts on a claim, has the hab…
18-5984 Murad H. Beyah v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus self-representation standing 1. Whether where PoSe (Self-Representation Defendant, HASAe MURAD oSIRIS A BEYAH ChETME, "HASAN MURAD" COMPLnd he had a PRETRIAC DETENTIal lawsuit ot …
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.
18-5990 Omar Odale Brockman v. Erick Balcarcel, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA aedpa-statute-of-limitations certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction us-v-cotton Q1. Does petitioner Brockman properly asserts that Sup. Ct. R. 10(c) warrant him certiorari relief because the sixth circuit court of appeals resoluti…
18-5991 Johnny Ray Bennett v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detention WOULD THE 2002 ENACTMENTS VIOLATE THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSES OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, IF ITS RETROACTIVITY DID NOT CURE THE DEFECTS OF CH…
18-5995 Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Is Younger v. Harris abstention appropriate when challenging the denial of Constitutional protections at prosecution; specifically when does prolonged…
18-5996 Gene Lemay Barris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence 1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots 2. Hou Or can…
18-5998 Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.…
18-5994 Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Question One: Is an error of a lower State Court in exceeding the maximum sentence legally allowed, cognizable for relief at any time? Question Tw…
18-5959 John Ingebretsen v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether Ing…
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Ground One The District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible lega…
18-5964 Nicholas Hacheney v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-reasoning state-court-review wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers , __ U.S. __, 138 S. Ct. 1188, 1192 (2018), this Court held that when a state court issues a reasoned decision " a federal habeas…
18-5971 Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62…
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption Judicial 15-16 District Court failure to comply with 28 U.S.C.636 16-17 claims ignored by the District Court.17-18 State Probationary Split Sentence…
18-5926 Darnell Wilkins v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incapacity pcra psychotropic-medications standing DID PETITIONER'S MENTAL INCAPACITY DID NOT ENTITLE HIM TO EQUITABLE TOLLING? WERE THE PETITIONER'S PCRA AND APPELLATE RIGHTS VIOLATED AS HIS GUILTY P…
18-5938 Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence 1.) Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with…
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction? Whether the withheld …
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
18-292 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…
18-5888 Jared Morrison v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitation constitutional-violations deferred-adjudication due-process habeas-corpus mcquiggin-perkins mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice schlup-v-delo Question #1: Whether a Mcquiggin v. Perkins 133 s_ct 1924'(20,13) actual innocence gateway past the AEDPA 1-year limitation period default can be deni…
18-5909 Barry Soldridge v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief waiver Whether the district court erred in failing to find that the state court entered a decision that was unreasonable in light of the full record, and whe…
18-5889 James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review standing 1. Will the Court allow U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin C. Newson (hereinafter "Judge Newson") to deny Appellant's (Welch) Appeal? 2. Will the Court a…
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 ?
18-5887 Cecil L. Morton v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-component procedural-standard supreme-court-precedent Is a Criminal Defendant Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability When; (1) it is Demonstrated that a Substantial Showing of the Denial of a Constitu…
18-5880 Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co…
18-287 Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison v. Frederick Michael Baer Seventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Relisted (3) antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act deferential-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Seventh Circuit violate the deferential review requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by disregarding the reasoned …
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard When a reviewing court on collateral appeal #1 dismisses as "non-cognizable under law" a Cumulative Effect/Aggregate Prejudice claim, asserting multip…
18-5867 Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review The United States Supreme Court distinguishes habeas petitions asserting claims of actual innocence as (a) cases where no constitutional error is alle…
18-5864 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection free-exercise habeas-corpus right-to-counsel state-laws Can State actors and stite Court Violate the due process and equal protection clanses of the United States Constitution and the sfate's own enumerated…
18-5863 Corey E. Johnson v. Butler Law Firm Fourth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-error statute-of-limitations IS THERE HIELP FOR A LONE PETITIONER AND DTHERS SIMI- LARLY SITUATED; DENIED" THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DUE TO NO FAULT OF HIS OWN, ABANDONED BY A DC …
18-5857 Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel state-attorney-office state-court state-courts trial-court WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY DENYING PETITIONER LATIMORE A COMPETENCY HEARING BEFORE A PLEA AGREEMENT WHETHER THE STATE ATTORNEY OFF…
18-5845 David L. Pierce v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing 1.) Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their "ORDER," (Appendix A) that sta…
18-265 Micah Patterson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial confrontation constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation sixth-amendment virginia-supreme-court A. Did the Virginia Supreme Court err by effectively affirming a lower court holding that denied relief for Patterson's ineffective assistance of coun…
18-5842 Ricky B. Chhea v. Theresa DelBalso, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no substantive text was provided in your mess I cannot generate a meaningful question presented please provide the full text of the petition. aedpa civil-rights discovery due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus notes-of-testimony right-to-appeal standing statute-of-limitations HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL WITHIN THE SCOPE OF AEDPA ONE (1) YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS?
18-5817 Jermaine Moorer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-5821 Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law (1) Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief when one of a set of multiple sentences is now invalid because of…
18-5806 Edwin David Corbett v. Washington Washington 2018-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence time-limitation This Court's precedent in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and Sanders v. U.S., 373 U.S. 1 (1963), controls as follows: 1. The alleged victi…
18-5814 Bobby Cruz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix section-2255 DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING BOBBY CURZ A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENYING CRUZ'S AMEND…
18-5826 John C. Carter v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-criminal-trial-court state-law-limitations Number One = Is the hiatus between the termination of a criminal jury trd and the begining of an aecal e citical stage of crininal froeeding in the 5…
18-5832 William Dixon v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion open-file-discovery procedural-stay state-court-claims stay-and-abeyance Whether a Federal Court Can Stay and hold in Abeyance a 28 USC § 2254 Petition for Habeas Corpus to Permit Petitioner to Exhaust Claims in State Court…
18-5805 George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States err in Certificate of Appeal timely as untimely despite petitioner showing that extraor…
18-5801 Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation Did claim(s) state a cause of action?
18-5799 In Re Robert N. Smithback 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining selective-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-by-jury Ground #1. Whether Smithback is being deprived of his liberty without due process of law, to wit: Texas did not have subject matter jurisdiction, pers…
18-5796 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence 1. Where multiple judges of a court of appeals consider an application for a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action, must the court gr…
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition…
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. § …
18-5769 Edward Smith v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-indigence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-proceed rule-60(b) sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review standing When a district court denies a state inmate's petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, the inmate may appeal only if the district or…
18-5772 Aurelio Fidencio Saldivar v. G. D. Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard tactical-rationales trial-counsel 1. Is a habeas corpus petitioner alleging a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel required to address and rebut hypothetica…
18-5773 Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which…
18-5781 Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER A FEDERAL PRISONER CAN RAISE A SENTENCING ISSUE UNDER 28 U.S.…
18-5782 Michael Lynn Cook v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-remedies procedural-timeliness state-misconduct state-waiver statute-of-limitations Under U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 14: 1. Does the "Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision on Which Review Is Sought Conflict with a decision of the …
18-5778 Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay WHETHER PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES AGAINST HIM WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR PROVIDED TESTIMONIAL HEARSAY STATEMENTS…
18-5764 Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga…
18-5757 Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing I. THIS COURT SHOUID CONSIDER WHETHER PETONER FARLY PRESENTED HIS CLAIMS AT EACH LEVEL OF THE STAIE'S COURS FOR FEDERAL REVEW. A.PETITIONER HAS CEARLY…
18-5756 Shondolyn Rochelle Blevins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-instructions I) Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's 2 USC. 2255 Motion without an Evidentiary hearing? Has the denial of a…
18-5754 Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED…
18-5744 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Walter Berry, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus indictment indictment-insufficiency ineffective-assistance procedural-bar procedural-default Why do the fed.District Courts and the 11th Cir. Court of Appeals apparently agree that I have only stated that petitioner's indictment is simply "Fla…
18-5742 Solomon David Roberts v. Florida Florida 2018-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing Whether CAJ NEw Rule oF Lonsttitonal law by the Supreme Lourt to the Dnited states Made [RJe troactive to the statEs is Subsect Previsus filings.? Pe…
18-5739 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the…
18-5738 Bill Paul Marquardt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction capital-collateral-regional-counsel collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-claims self-representation Whether the three collateral-order-doctrine conditions are satisfied and the U.S. Court of Appeals can take jurisdiction on in pro se claims, where th…
18-5730 Terrence Denmark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,statutory-interpretation,retroa retroactivity statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-confinement 1) Should there be a two-part test for the 28 U.s.C. § 224l instead of a Five-part test, and should the test be based on (l) illegal unconstitutional …
18-5687 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar 1.) Whether ding he tiaevieoce gertd by federal proedural and substantive de proces of law preseribed particubarly by the 7rotected liberty interest i…
18-5716 Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP 5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law Ray had a claim that was "reasonably debatable" by "jurists of reason Sineee a reasonable legal argument could have been made. The district court and …
18-5721 Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling To get tolling of the one-year deadline for filing a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must prove, inter alia, that he h…
18-5727 Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell I. Whether Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012) requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context, such that it alters thi…
18-5728 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Should DNA evidence exonerating the lower Courts deny use of because (blood and hair) simply is the DNA donor third-party Unknown to allow? Will cour…
18-5735 Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-23 Denied IFP apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane Pursuant to the intervening Constitutional rule announced in Montgomery v Louisiana, 577 US ; 136 S Ct 718 (2016), which clarified the retroactivity j…
18-5709 Paul Allen Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 WHETHER AN APPEAL WAIVER CAN BE ENFORCED IN A TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 2255 PROCEEDING WHEN PETITIONER HAS BASED HIS CLAIMS ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUN…
18-5707 Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-22 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines (1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his § 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1…
18-5704 Robert Austin v. District Attorney of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice rule-60b6-motion DOES THE DISTRICT COURT COMMIT ERROR IN DENYING A RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION FOR NOT SHOWING A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION WHEN THE UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION …
18-5701 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL WHEN ITS DISMISSAL RESTS ON A BOILERPLATE ORDER STATING ONLY THAT 'PETITIONER'S APPEAL LA…
18-5694 Taumu James v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court clearly-established-federal-law due-process fair-application federal-law habeas-corpus identification-evidence state-suggestion 1. In Perry v. New Hampshire , 565 U.S. 228 (2012), this Court held that the right to due process is generally not denied by identification evidence u…
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…
18-5689 George Bridgette v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-requirements right-to-counsel substitute-counsel 1. whethes district count failuse to nppoint substitute Counsc to Continve t repcesent Petitonerin the evideatinyharing aftes ceming the assign Counse…
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…
18-5677 Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure Question not identified.
18-5674 Roger Clay Swain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness Did Mr. Swain file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which "h…
18-5672 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, ALL OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, FEDEE…
18-5671 In Re Kenneth Simpson 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release which is unconstitutional for any reason, can a Court refuse to address that claim under conditions available at revocation hearings under Johnson v U…
18-5666 Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO STATE PRISONER ARTHUR DENNISON TO CHALLENGE THE DENIAL OF HIS …
18-5645 Eric E. Johnson v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the is Court of Appeal the Ciruit knowingly denied aciinal deudnt a Constiutioal right to appeal anuulaufulcriminal conviction, on a petition …
18-5643 Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search fourth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant schneckloth-v-bustamonte stone-v-powell When pro-se litigant's 4th amendment consent search claim is misunderstood and misstated, can Stone v. Powell 428 U.S. 465,494 (1976) standard of ille…
18-5635 Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court-proceedings strickland-standard [1] DID THE DISTRICT COURT SIDE STEP THE COA DETERMINATION UNDER §2253(c) WHEN IT DENIED JACKSONS APPEAL AND HIS COA AND JUSTIFIED IT'S DENIAL OF HIS …
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Is the decision announced in State v. Ronald-Smith, a new susbtantive rule of law that the Federal Constitution requires to be applied retroactively t…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration, that the State Courts' decision was dependent on their failure to apply the holding in Murphy v. Florida by accept…
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Question No. 1: Dud the fifth Circuit Court of appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealibility ? Question No.…
18-5620 Mario Zuniga v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime I. Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.…
18-5608 Andres Mata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination procedural-review state-appeals state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals' determination that a habeas petitioner failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional righ…
18-5599 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing (1) Is the risk-of-force/residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague in the light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 332 U.S. 584, 138 S.…
18-5594 Cory Devon Washington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Question 1: Whether The Court Erred Finding Claim One - Three where not Exhausted To The State's Highest Court In Violation Of The Fourteenth Questio…
18-5582 Donald Lee Kissner v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus introduction jurisdiction opinions-below standing state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Question not identified.
18-5574 Christina Jay Acker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing #1- SHOUZD THE ASSISTANT AHDRMLYS GLUERAL OF ARIZDWA .. i.E. MICHAEL CDTTERIED ANS KELLY MDRRISSEY BE ALADWED TO DSE CAANBE BF DENUE FROM STATE TO FEL…
18-5572 John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-power jury-trial res-judicata state-court-record void-judgment QUESTION 1: Does a Federal Court of Appeals deny Due Process by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability where the Petitioner's claims exceed …
18-5569 Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar 1) Does the Classification made by this Court in Coley d. Sattald Jan 8.64. 3134 constitute the Circuit Court as being contrary to Clearly established…
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties 1. WHETHER THE STATE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER -42 PA. CONS. STAT.6501-6505, WHERE THE VALIDITY OF THE STATE STATUTES ON THE GROUNDS ITS BEING REPUG…
18-5559 Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER THE STATE OF OREGON'S IMPOSITION OF A TRUE LIFE SENTENCE UNDER A THREE STRIKES SENTENCING RECIDIVIST ENHANCEMENT STATUTE IS A MISCARRIAGE OF J…
18-5558 Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS GUARANTEED RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WHEN IT PERMITTED THE PROSECUTION TO INTRODUCE TO THE TRIAL JURY A BUNCH…
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…
18-5499 Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT FAILED TO HOLD AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON HABEAS CORPUS IF,AMONG OTHER FACTORS,TO DEVELOP THE FACTUAL BASIS FOR THE CLAIM IN ST…
18-5500 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-framework statute-of-limitations Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) should have been granted to consider whether a federal prisoner's failure to file a timely amended 2255 m…
18-5507 Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing Is the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV6-2 (genital herpes) a medical, scienti…
18-5543 In Re Andre David Leffebre 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Question not identified.
18-5522 Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition whether the United Stater District Court of Northern California abused ito discretion by construing Pettioners Federal Rules of Civ.l Procedure Rule 6…
18-5492 In Re David Louis Colson 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court 1. Is case which the State was party to, there was a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction in the superior court of Arizona who usurped the power of the…
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Question not identified.
18-5484 William N. Washington v. California California 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO RECALCULATE ALL DAYS OF CUSTODY FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL JUDGMENT, AND ONLY AWARDED CUSTODY CREDITS FROM …
18-5485 William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding, by the …
18-5488 Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review Does the Lower Court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer…
18-5491 Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing (1) Ground 1: The evidence was not sufficient to prove the State charged the offense of an irrelevant and constitutionality of the conviction, duly as…
18-5505 Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. When Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012) was decided during the pendency of a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, is the petiti…
18-5493 Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims Whether the sixth circuit had warrant to assume jurisdiction and consider petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction, where…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. …
18-5498 Willie Beasley Curtis v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus habitual-offender plea-bargain plea-bargain-standards retroactive-sentencing standing sua-sponte unprecedented-error Question # 1. MY CLAIM OF ERROR IS UNPRECEDENTED IN ANY U.S. COURT TO DATE. IS IT NOT THE SUPREME COURT'S DUTY TO CONSIDER UNPRECEDENTED ERRORS THAT A…
18-5486 Celestino Quintana v. Matthew Hansen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP coleman-v-thompson due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default state-created-right state-created-rights trevino-v-thaler Whether violation of Colorado's limited State-created right to postconviction counsel can constitute "cause" excusing procedural default in a 28 U.S.C…
18-5483 Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all …
18-5479 Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty 1) When a State Trial Court neglects it's duty to make findings after controverted and unresloved issues have been shown, is it resonable when conside…
18-5475 Johnaton Sampson George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-eligibility johnson-v-united-states procedural-eligibility procedural-requirements residual-clause substantive-eligibility substantive-requirements To establish both procedural and substantive eligibility for habeas relief under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), a petitioner must s…
18-5472 In Re Alan James Hedrick 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013), permits a state court prisoner to rely on "actual innocence" as a gateway to pursue constitutional …
18-5450 Amilcar Rivas-Rivera v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule standing state-law timeliness WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA LOWER COURT AND APPELLATE COURTS DECISION DISMISSING PETITIONER'S SECOND PRO SE PCRA PETITION AS UNTIMELY IS CONTRARY TO PENN…
18-5447 David V. Rock v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error due-process enhancement evidence habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1.) O.R.C.2901.45(A)..every person accused of an offense is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and the burden of proof i…
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.
18-5457 Michael Allyn Kennedy v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-trial notice sixth-amendment trial The trial Couat had no Chorge OR offense no Reading without a dofe to impose a Conviction 247 Could convict Indctment and no JuRd of an wifhout a date…
18-154 Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO PERMIT…
18-5425 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. New York 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing 1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272 2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out…
18-5432 Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure UNLAWFULLY ESSIVE, FORCE, FALSE ARREST, SEARCH PROBABLE CAUSE, URE, FALSE ARREST WiTHOU CONSENT FALSE ARREST, IDID Nol CONSENT IDiD SEIDURE, FuL AND O…
18-5462 Alfonso V. Senior, Jr. v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP discretionary-review exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition right-to-counsel state-court-remedies Has a habeas corpus petitioner who was unrepresented in his state post conviction proceedings, in a state which refuses to appoint counsel for such pr…
18-5400 In Re Wilma Pennington-Thurman 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incarceration pro-se standing unlawful-detention writ-of-right In re to Wilma Pennington-Thurman, can I file "The Great Writ" a Writ of Habeas Corpus when I am not physically incarcerated, but mentally incarcerate…
18-5409 In Re Daniel Riley 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A 1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione…
18-5413 Clarence D. Lewis v. Johnny Hedgemon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargain self-incrimination voluntary-plea Is A PLEA BARGAIN, VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY, IF A PETITIONER INVOKES HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINST SELF-INCRIMINATION BEFORE THE PLEA IS INDUCED? …
18-5428 Restituto D. Barraquias v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Question not identified.
18-130 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-conflict summary-denial trevino-v-thaler Whether the Indiana Supreme Court correctly concluded that Indiana's procedures governing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised on …
18-5404 Craig Cooper v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey stare-decisis (1.) UNDER ThE DOCtRINE Of STARE dECISS All TRIbUNAl EXERCISINg iNFERIOR juRiSdiCTiON ARE REQUIiREd tO fOLlOW dECISION of COURTS EXERCISINg SUpERIOR j…
18-5420 Tyler T. Heagy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process filing-restrictions habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-as-applied Was 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9543 (a)(1)(i) unconstitutional as applied to Petitioners case? Were 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9545 (b) and (c) unconstitutional as applied to …
18-5387 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2018-07-30 Denied IFP brady-violations civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution standing (1) Cana State intertionally fail to vires hostility State of its scienter of fraud, yet procead against MS sans-jurisdictional aothority to falsely o…
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 …
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant If a defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense of a higher level charge, does the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit retrying…
18-5379 Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel Whether reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived appellant of due process and a fair trial? Whether trial or appellate counsel rende…
18-5364 Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DENIAL OF AUSTIN'S PETITION UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2254 FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPU…
18-5367 Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings Question not identified.
18-5337 Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation Shawn Johnson was arrested inmg, in self-defense for shoot in grz jjYj a, k4 wccu#'$ He has credible evidence that he is actually innocent of this cri…
18-5339 Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Strickland doctrine, as applied by the Tenth Circuit, requires retroactive application to convictions that became final before Strickland …
18-5343 Roger Wilson v. McKeesport Police Department, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified.
18-5350 Carroll Erman Crider v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment indictment-notice jurisdiction notice standing statutory-violation #1 .Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err when it didn't determine that Crider was entitled to relief to vacate the judgment when the statute of Virgi…
18-5351 Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Under the modest standard for a certificate of appealability, is it at least debatable that the state court unreasonably ignored both Borhan's jus…
18-5310 Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness 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…
18-5325 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights 1. Once a prisoner requests relief under Motion 2255, must a District Court grant an evidentiary hearing on the prisoner's claims? 2. If the evidenti…
18-5333 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
18-5334 Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result.
18-100 Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden Georgia 2018-07-23 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction 1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability when Evidence Exsists Clearly Ineffective For Failure To Exculpatory Evidence and /oDisclose Appellant Evid…
18-5283 David McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus releif on an unlitig…
18-5284 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2018-07-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat…
18-5287 Luis Salas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) APPLICATION BASED ON …
18-5297 Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-5305 Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served 1. commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate? 2. May a state's primary jurisdiction over an inmate only be …
18-5270 Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation Did the Fifth Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability (COA) because Deem fail…
18-5277 Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 Whether the Executive Office of the President is required, as an agency of the Federal Government to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved…
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 …
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework 1. Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an where (1) the state has removed ce…
18-5220 Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee an indigent Petitioner to the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of Counsel …
18-5226 Richard Lugo v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Appellate Counsel's ineffectiveness deprived petitioner of his right to his direct appeal.
18-5215 Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings Did the 5th Cir. Ct. ignore that Det. Mends inferences identified petitioner as in co-possession of recent stolen property and thus implicated petitio…
18-5222 Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions 1. Whether a Petitioner Who Was Sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Which was Enhanced By Two Later Invalidated State Convictions, Ma…
18-5224 Frank Costelon v. New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction Whether the District Court err in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because Petitioner herein was no longer in in the custody of the judgme…
18-5203 Khalif Abdul Qawi Mujahid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure-rules due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing The United SHAHES APpEaLS For The Cour of FOurth Z Cirauit ENE WhEN H! P3N3HNB B ERISION in CONFLiC dEiSiON OF YN other PHND SHHES Cout ADDEaLS ON the…
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Question not identified.
18-5208 In Re Gregory Bartunek 2018-07-11 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights detention-order due-process habeas-corpus speedy-trial standing Question not identified.
18-62 Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S. C. §2254 where the child is suffering a s…
18-56 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill Sixth Circuit 2018-07-10 GVR Relisted (9) aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c…
18-5159 Allen Golden v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 aedpa suspension-clause aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus non-violent-crime non-violent-crimes suspension-clause DO THE ORDER ENTERED BY THE ELEVETH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ON AUGUST 29, 2017 AND MAGISTRATE JUDGE'S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION SO ORDERED AND REPORT…
18-5172 Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding 1. This Court in Brumfield granted federal habeas corpus relief, despite a lack of clearly established federal law, because the state-court decision r…
18-5067 Clark L. Stuhr v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights documentary-evidence due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus prison-discipline prisoner-rights right-to-evidence Is a Criminal Defendant Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability When it is Demonstrated that a Substantial Showing of the Denial of Constitutional …
18-5139 Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing i May t pe Ct hon in this matter? 2) May the nde ont he men appliction ild on 02-04-2014. No.4:4-42 in h U.S.D.C.S.ATX. was timly,and setifies the t…
18-5163 Kai Uwe Thier v. Florida Florida 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP consular-relations consular-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaties international-treaty law-enforcement miranda-rights vienna-convention vienna-convention-on-consular-relations WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE OR A NEW TRIAL BASED ON A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AS CODIFIED IN THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON CONS…
18-5166 Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when…
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering THE HALL COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CONTACTED THE GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (HEREIN AFTER G.B.I.) AND TOLD THEM NOT TO RELEASE MITIGATION…
18-5115 Stanley Lee Hayward v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection essential-elements habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines statute WHETHER THE LOWER TRIBUNAL ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT F TO DUE PROCESS EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW IN HOLDING THAT HIS PRIOR 1…
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987)(holding that on direct review a new constitut…
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…
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules PURSUANT TO USCS RULE 10(a) AND (c), HAS THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN DAY v. M…
18-5135 Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling WAS HONISH'S FIRST STATE HABEAS WRIT "APPLICATION" PROPERLY FILED WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), AND REQUIRED TO BE TOLLED? DID THE FIF…
18-5140 M. P. F. v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment Dues Your Petitioner have a Constitutional Right to his Guilty Plea Hearing transcripts to perfect an appeal ? Does a Circuit Court Clerk have a cons…
18-5098 Thaddeus Williams v. Cindi S. Curtin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability district-court-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-tolling WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT PETITIONER'S HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WAS. UNTIMELY; WHETHER THE BLANKET DENIAL OF. HIS MOTION FOR …
18-5102 Scooter L. Robinson v. Frank Shaw, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure standing Whether the denial of a speedy trial was not a constitutional right afforded by the state and to LD speedy trial fourteenth amendments to the United S…
18-5104 Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex…
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court IS THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN CONFLICT WITH OR …
18-5044 Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred when it denied Petitioner's petition for issuance of a certificate of appealability to …
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE RELIEF, INCLUDING MANDAMUS, FROM THIS COURT FOR A CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE WITH REGARD TO DOUBLE EX POST FACTO VI…
18-5068 Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Does defense counsel in a second degree depraved indifference murder case violate the requirements of Strickland v. Washington by failing to investiga…
18-5070 Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default THIS COURT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED THAT IN A NARROW CLASS OF CASES IMPLICATING A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE," (SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 298, 314-1…
18-5087 Peter Wilson v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing state-prisoners statute-of-limitations united states court of Appeals For The Ninth. circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of the united states court of Appeals For t…
18-5090 Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, IN LIGHT OF THE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED HOLDINGS OF OFFUTT V. UNITED STATES, 348 U.S. 11, 13 (1954), AND UNGAR V. SARAFITE, 376…
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations 1. In 198 7 petitioner Guy Rowland was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the State of California . In 1994 he exhausted his state remedies…
18-5046 Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court …
18-5049 Leroy Lamont Wells v. Collette Peters, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction opinions standing takings 1) In USCA9 NO. 17-35696, Wells v. ReteRS, etal DOeS ORDER FILOD MAY25, 2018 and ORDOR FILED JanvaRy 24, 2018 comply with FedeRal Rulas of Appellate P…
18-5057 James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagbys' claims…
18-5059 David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when determining whether Certificate of Appealability should have been issued regarding th…
18-5063 Charles Byers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP class-decision counsel-notification criminal-procedure-appeal-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall profitt-v-united-states recall-mandate right-to-appeal supreme-court-review wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states Whether the Fourth Circuit erred In denying Petitioner's Motion To Recall Mandate When Counsel Failed to Notify Him of his Right to seek review from t…
18-8 Samuel Cohen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
18-5002 John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ…
18-5015 Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure A. Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure rule when the highest…
18-5030 Shawn Williams v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP congress constitutional-rule due-process evidence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt supervisory-authority ThESE questions suggest to this Court, its interpretation of Abuse of the writ doctrine should not be contined to HAbeAS Corpus prOcEdures void on its…
18-5032 Ramon Vasquez v. City of Reading, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-06-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process filing-deadlines habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-discretion nunc-pro-tunc prisoner-filing pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal The Supreme Courts' precedent set forth in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988) dictates that a document is considered filed with the court at th…
24A753 Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas Texas Denied adequate-independent-state-ground certiorari habeas-corpus lethal-injection post-conviction supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24A391 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default Question not identified.
24A419 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit Denied criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court Question not identified.
24A307 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar Question not identified.
24A302 Garcia Glen White v. Texas Texas Denied atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Question not identified.
24A294 In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson Denied bail-pending-appeal bank-robbery equal-protection federal-crime habeas-corpus tenth-amendment Question not identified.
24A255 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Denied circuit-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus petition-routing procedural-irregularity state-court Question not identified.
24A1109 Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied conflict-of-interest federal-habeas-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b stay-of-execution Question not identified.
24A1029 In Re Stanley Howard Solvey Denied due-process-violation fundamental-jurisdiction habeas-corpus three-strikes-law unlawful-detention wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
24A1077 Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana Indiana Denied fetal-alcohol-syndrome habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar successive-postconviction-petition 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…
25A174 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied aedpa chevron-doctrine constitutional-review federal-judiciary habeas-corpus supreme-court-deference Question not identified.
18A1200 Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay habeas-corpus Question not identified.