| 24-5184 |
Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability.
Whether this court's ruling in … |
| 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… |
| 24-5014 |
Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Sixth Circuit deliberately applied a more demanding standard for showing prejudice for ineffective assistance of counsel than the standard establi… |
| 23-1329 |
Francisco De Aragon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
This case arises from a habeas petition brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment … |
| 23-7764 |
Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
bad-acts ballistics-evidence capital-case criminal-evidence criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance other-crimes-evidence postconviction-review prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether in a case with no direct evidence connecting the defendant to the crime except the introduction of evidence of other crimes or bad acts, the S… |
| 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… |
| 23-1194 |
Erik Hentzen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Can Strickland v. Washington's "prejudice prong," be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level "… |
| 23-7185 |
Lawrence Northern v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden |
Wisconsin |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-of-choice direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-v-machner strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Is State v. Machner Unconstitutional? Subsumed within this question is a subsidiary question: Have Alabama, Texas, Wisconsin and the Eleventh Circu… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 23-6894 |
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… |
| 23-6888 |
Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
aspd brain-damage capital-punishment capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice prejudice-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The jury that sentenced Mr. Frederick to death did not hear from a single live defense witness during the penalty phase of his capital trial. Despite … |
| 23-6833 |
Jason Matthew Karr v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appointment-of-counsel clearly-established-federal-law colorado-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-law-application ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Colorado Supreme Court held the Petitioner to a standard for pleading deficient performance and prejudice in his claims of Ineffective Ass… |
| 23-6822 |
Robert P. Brozenick v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule brady-violation deprivation-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-advocacy judicial-misconduct maleng-v-cook strickland-v-washington wrongful-conviction |
Would this honorable court allow any caselaw that would irresponsibly assists
in the wrongful conviction of any U.S.Citizen convicted by Judicial adv… |
| 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… |
| 23-6524 |
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… |
| 23-6469 |
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… |
| 23-6436 |
Luis Manso v. Patricia McGill, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation court-of-appeals evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington strong-evidence |
1. Does Strickland v. Washington allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss the defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on "strong eviden… |
| 23-6343 |
Patrick Bowie v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authentication confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington |
1. Is the right to confrontation violated when inculpatory letters,
turned over to the People by a non-testifying witness, admitted
into evidence wit… |
| 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… |
| 23-604 |
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 … |
| 23-6160 |
Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause |
1. Is Consistent with the Supremacy Clause, may a state refuse to follow this Court's holdings and permit indictment for a capital crime by a grand ju… |
| 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… |
| 23-6141 |
Arthur Grady v. Charles Truitt, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions special-verdict strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-powell |
During Petitioner Arthur Grady's murder trial, the State pursued a single theory of guilt: Grady shot and killed the victim. The jury explicitly rejec… |
| 23-5973 |
Richard C. Duerson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cronic-standard due-process due-process-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-test strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic |
1.) Has the Supreme Court overruled United States v. Cronic, eliminating the presumption that an accused has suffered Constitutional error without the… |
| 23-5959 |
Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law by approving as reasonable a state court prejudice an… |
| 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… |
| 23-5906 |
Carey Ackies v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance procedural-prerequisites sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. WHETHER ACKIES HAS SATISFIED ALL PROCEDURAL PREREQUISITES NECESSARY TO FILE COA?
2. WHETHER ACKIES HAS SATISFIED THE STANDARDS OF STRICKLAND V. WA… |
| 23-444 |
Steven Lee Moss v. Gary Miniard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
6th-amendment counsel-denial cronic-exception effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment state-action strickland-standard strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic |
The question presented is whether, when counsel is physically present, state action is required before a court may find a complete denial of counsel u… |
| 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… |
| 23-5807 |
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, … |
| 23-5802 |
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 (… |
| 23A312 |
Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability jury-recommendation strickland-v-washington |
Whether a jury's eleven-to-one recommendation of a life sentence weighs heavily in favor of a finding of prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466… |
| 23-5644 |
Robert Timothy Blake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Did Trial Counsel Fail to Adequately inform Defendant
of the Consequences of Accepting the Plea Bargain?
2. Was the Strickland V. Washington stan… |
| 23-5620 |
Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit flouted this Court's relevant decisions and precedent by declining to even grant a certificate of appealability regard… |
| 23-5522 |
Javier Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Given the case's specifics, was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing t… |
| 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… |
| 23-121 |
Patrick Shin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error |
1. Whether a district court may require
an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of
coram nobis in a criminal case, and, if so, whether
the … |
| 23-5295 |
Custodio Carrasco-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal 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 (… |
| 23-5277 |
Sergio Ochoa v. Oak Smith, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
background-investigation capital-punishment capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence neuropsychological-deficits post-traumatic-stress post-traumatic-stress-disorder strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor |
In Ochoa v. Davis, the Ninth Circuit endorsed trial counsel's presentation of a "family sympathy" defense at the penalty phase of Sergio Ochoa's capit… |
| 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 … |
| 23-5180 |
Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden |
First Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Where there was evidence of a history of the defendant's mental health issues and mental health hospitalization and trial counsel failed to even initi… |
| 23A37 |
Patrick Bowie v. William Lee, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7877 |
Corey Coggins v. Murray Tatum, Warden |
Georgia |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-defense-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Is it ineffective assistance of counsel (guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution) for a client's court-appointed attorn… |
| 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… |
| 22-7809 |
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… |
| 22-7803 |
Aaron Joel Oliphant v. Montana |
Montana |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-consultation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
A jury convicted Oliphant of assaulting his infant son based solely on a medical diagnosis of abusive head trauma ("AHT"). His trial counsel failed to… |
| 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… |
| 22-1114 |
James Harris, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disabil… |
| 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… |
| 22-7419 |
Cronie Lloyd v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding-of-law presumption-of-competence reasonable-trial-strategy state-federal-court-split strickland-v-washington |
When this Court established a presumption of competence and reasonable trial strategy in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.… |
| 22-7405 |
Earl C. Handfield, II v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland counsel-performance due-process federal-courts legal-burden prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington |
1. DOES BRADY V MARYLAND LAW WARRANT CLARIFICATION DUE TO FEDERAL COURTS ADDING A COUNSEL PERFORMANCE' PRONG TO THE BRADY ANALYSIS WHICH CONFUSES THE … |
| 22-7310 |
Antonio Minnis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
This Court in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668, 80 L.Ed.2d 674, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984), laid the foundation for the gauging of ineffective assis… |
| 22-997 |
Andrew Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 22-7037 |
Mario Albert Villegas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 advisory-sentencing-guidelines constitutional-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington u-s-c-section-851 |
Whether defense counsel's failure to advise a client of increased sentencing exposure under 21 U.S.C. § 851, and failure to correctly calculate the ad… |
| 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… |
| 22-841 |
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… |
| 22-6868 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-performance due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-strategy 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… |
| 22-6811 |
A. B. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation |
Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte… |
| 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… |
| 22-6671 |
Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington |
I. Does trial counsel render ineffective assistance when counsel fails to request a mid-trial Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978) hearing when the… |
| 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… |
| 22-6645 |
Kimberlee Szewczyk v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard 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… |
| 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 … |
| 22-6613 |
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). |
| 22-6570 |
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… |
| 22-6546 |
Arty Marcel v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-error fair-trial improper-amendment-of-bill-of-information ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Marcel was denied his right to a fair and impartial trial when the Court erred in allowing other crimes… |
| 22-613 |
Robert S. Schwartzberg v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-privilege cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington work-product-doctrine |
This case arises from a domestic dispute involving Petitioner, Robert S. Schwartzberg. The alleged victim claimed that he attacked and sexually assaul… |
| 22-6402 |
Jesse Johnson, III v. California |
California |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When a defendant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to properly advise him regarding the consequences of rejecting a plea offe… |
| 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… |
| 22-6280 |
Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has made the standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 20… |
| 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… |
| 22-6242 |
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… |
| 22-5891 |
Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's
failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a c… |
| 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 … |
| 22-5718 |
Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden |
Georgia |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)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 … |
| 22-5676 |
Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of
Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where … |
| 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.… |
| 22-5442 |
Powell Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process due-process-expert expert-witness fifth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. 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… |
| 22-5413 |
Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington |
WHETHER MISS. CODE ANN. 99-39 21 WAS UNREASONABLY USED THE BAR TO PETITIONER 'S FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF SEVERE IMPORTANCE THAT WHICH REVOLVES AROUND FED… |
| 22-5416 |
James Montell Chappell v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage prejudice prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When trial counsel in a capital case presents anecdotal evidence of prenatal exposure to alcohol and evidence of learning disability but not expert te… |
| 22-5403 |
Paul Frederick Stover v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense second-degree-assault sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether trial counsel's failure to request a lesser-included offense instruction as an alternative to second degree as… |
| 22-5383 |
Lynn M. Giovanni v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense diminished-capacity guilty-plea ineffective-assistance insanity-defense psychiatric-evaluation sentencing sentencing-mitigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington withdrawal |
DOES THE ACTION/INACTION OF DEFENSE COUNSEL, IN FAILING TO UTILIZE OR UNDER-UTILIZING THE FAVORABLE PSYCHATRIC REPORTS COMPILED FOR THE DEFENSE IN ASS… |
| 22-5364 |
Quartavious Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel Sixth-Amendment Strickland-v-Washington |
Does a criminal defense attorney provide prejudicially ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to initiate plea negotiations with the prosecutors… |
| 22-5210 |
Travis Louis Shaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial reasonable-doubt strickland-v-washington us-constitution |
L Whether Petitioner should be granted a Certificate of Appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2253 on the issue of whether
(A) Petitioner was denied hi… |
| 22-5091 |
Tyre Bradbury v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-or-nothing-strategy criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-consultation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy lesser-included-offenses performance-deficiency strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Is the decision not to tender available lesser included offense instructions in order to instead pursue an "all or nothing " strategy an "important de… |
| 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… |
| 21-1579 |
Stephen Alexander v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
courtroom-closure fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When Defense Counsel errs by not objecting to an improper courtroom closure, should reviewing courts apply a "fundamental unfairness" test, or the tra… |
| 21-8200 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance kimmelman-v-morrison privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure standing strickland-v-washington warrant-particularity |
WHETHER COUNSEL PROVIDED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO FILE A MERITORIOUS MOTION TO SUPPRESS
WHETHER SHERIFF LECLERE'S AFFIDAVIT SHOWED SUFFI… |
| 21-7903 |
Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington |
1) Is it unconstitutional for state appellate courts to hinder petitioner's
post collateral proceeding by holding petition pass the 1-year federal
l… |
| 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… |
| 21-7771 |
James Lamar Strickland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals improperly applied the prejudice standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), to … |
| 21-7766 |
Jacory Brown v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claims prima-facie-case sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Counsel under the sixth Amendment, Does Making a
Showing under defient perfrmance and prejudice
establish a prina facie case?
2.Does a District court… |
| 21-7660 |
Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-habeas cumulative-errors expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness opening-statement prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
In this Missouri capital habeas case, Scott McLaughlin's trial counsel failed to investigate the background and credibility of Dr. Keith Caruso who wa… |
| 21-7606 |
Michael La Donte Scott v. Robert W. Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington time-barred-charges |
Petitioners WS Provided EAC Under Strickland W. WASHinGTon CLA84) Ube U-S. GELB, By Hic Coonsel's incompetest Ravice To Plead No Contest "To "Time -Ba… |
| 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… |
| 21-7449 |
Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-trial closing-argument ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan mccoy-v-louisiana nixon-v-florida sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the decision to forego a closing argument in the penalty phase of a capital murder trial is a tactical decision for trial counsel to make o… |
| 21-7437 |
Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
1. Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), be presumed for an claim based on counsel's failure to object to unconstituti… |
| 21-7358 |
Joseph Elliott v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-case certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause ineffective-assistance jury-selection out-of-court-statements right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-preparation |
1. Whether, in accordance with Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327
(2003), Petitioner made a showing that reasonable jurists would debate
whether… |
| 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… |
| 21-7171 |
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… |
| 21-7154 |
John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Mr. Walters lost an opportunity for a favorable plea because his counsel failed to tell him about it. As a result, Mr. Walters entered a guilty plea t… |
| 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… |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
| 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… |
| 21-6681 |
Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: does the Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington… |
| 21-6673 |
John Beatty v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel smith-v-murray strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Is the standards set forth in Smith v. Murray, 536 (1986) and Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396 (1985) the appropriate test for appellate counsel's p… |
| 21-6606 |
Akil Tymes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-communication criminal-procedure duty-to-communicate favorable-plea-offer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1) Does counsel perform deficiently in duties/responsibility, to fully
inform a defendant during the plea bargaining process, per Missouri v.
Frve. 13… |
| 21-6597 |
Jason Whren v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
d-c-code-23-110 exceptional-circumstances hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia failed to apply the applicable standards in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
| 21-6441 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attorney-performance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington warrantless-search |
Was counsel's refusal to file a meritorious, dispositive motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search unreasonable under Strickland v. Washin… |
| 21-6346 |
Jason W. Reed v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Question One: Whether, counsel's admitted misadvice with respect to Petitioner's designation, its direct result of imposition of "specialized supervis… |
| 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… |
| 21-6203 |
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(… |
| 21-619 |
Hugo Reyes-Morales v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
If "the deportation consequences of a particular plea are unclear or uncertain…a criminal defense attorney need do no more than advise a noncitizen cl… |
| 21-6082 |
Craig D. Miller v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review fundamental-fairness illinois-post-conviction-statute indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reliability-of-proceedings sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether Illinois courts' mechanical, outcome-based approach to the Strickland standard, which routinely requires affirmative proof of a different outc… |
| 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 … |
| 21-538 |
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… |
| 21-5753 |
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… |
| 21-5582 |
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… |
| 21-5567 |
Damond Dean v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
corroborating-evidence criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-investigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington therapist-testimony trial-counsel witness-credibility |
Question Number One:
Counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to
K.H.'s (Complainant) therapist's testimony when she told the jur… |
| 21-5572 |
Kamau Alan Israel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for… |
| 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… |
| 21-5420 |
Naim Rasool Muhammad v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice preponderance-of-the-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
1. Whether a habeas court violates Strickland and decades of this Court's precedent by imposing a "preponderance of the evidence" standard for prejudi… |
| 21-5278 |
Kevin T. Heard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony fair-trial sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-107 |
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… |
| 21-5127 |
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 … |
| 21-5091 |
Brian Dunkley v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision
in conflict with decisions of another United States court of
Appeals on the same i… |
| 20-8462 |
Roderick Napoleon Harris v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
-habeas-corpus -ineffective-assistance -prejudice-standard -professional-norms -sixth-amendment #NAME? capital-case mitigation-evidence prejudice professional-standards sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether a habeas court must articulate and apply prevailing professional norms in order to determine whether trial counsel's representation was ine… |
| 20-8269 |
Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Whether the decision of the state court that failed to apply the correct
standard of "reasonableness " to assess trial counsel 's conduct under
St… |
| 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… |
| 20-8088 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington |
QUESTION ONE: WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN THE DENIAL
OF APPELLANTS MOTION TO VACATE THE JUNE 15, 2018, NOVEMBER 29,
2018, AND FEBRUARY 05, 2019… |
| 20-8091 |
Steven Zapata v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Does the constructive denial of counsel standard under Cronic v. United States or the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Strickland v… |
| 20-7928 |
Brandon Robinson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-proceedings brady-violation discovery-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-record |
1. Was counsel.ineffetiye. within the meaning of Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present
a Martinez claim irfthe'petitioner's appellate proce… |
| 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… |
| 20-7877 |
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 |
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| 20-7850 |
Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ST.CHARLES COUNTY MISSO- I.
URI, THE MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICK, AND
THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT,… |
| 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. … |
| 20-7389 |
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… |
| 20-7378 |
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… |
| 20-7309 |
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 … |
| 20-7221 |
William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-prejudice criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's judicial precedence of not reviewing multiple ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the cumulative effect and aggr… |
| 20-1134 |
John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-7185 |
John Anthony Esposito v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 capital-case habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers |
1. The state habeas court in Petitioner's case issued a reasoned decision denying relief, which the Georgia Supreme Court summarily affirmed. In Wilso… |
| 20-1080 |
Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demons… |
| 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. |
| 20-7060 |
Charles Lee Mosier, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-proceedings constitutional-review constitutional-standards due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DOES A STATE'S INITIAL-REVIEW POST-CONVICTION COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS MEET CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS WHEN THOSE PROCEEDINGS FAIL TO PROVIDE A PRISONER T… |
| 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… |
| 20-6891 |
Ronald Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defense capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-investigation postconviction-relief prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether trial counsel has an obligation to conduct a comprehensive mitigation investigation when clear red flags suggest compelling mitigation, inc… |
| 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… |
| 20-6676 |
Hernandez Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
alibi alibi-defense brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-procedure criminal-appeal due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression strickland-v-washington |
Whether suppression of (some) evidence is sufficient according to the procedures mandated by Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 S. Ct. 1194, 10 L. Ed. 2d(… |
| 20-6634 |
In Re Karen Denise Chades |
|
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-proceedings constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-v-washington teague-v-lane trial-counsel |
1. This case necessitates an answer to a question of constitutional first law left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722 (1991), and again in Mart… |
| 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… |
| 20-6584 |
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… |
| 20-6530 |
Jamel Mobley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-preservation appellate-process constitutional-ineffectiveness fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Whether trial counsel can be constitutionally ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) for failing to preserve an issue for … |
| 20-6422 |
Nazariy Kmet v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-regulations hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process plea-bargaining strickland-v-washington supervisory-powers u.s-v-lee |
Question I—Whether the 3rd Circuit's denial of the Petitioner's 2255 Motion directly violate this Court's decisions in the U.S. v. Lee, Hinton v. Alab… |
| 20-721 |
Katie Garding v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment accident-reconstruction effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether trial counsel's failure to consult and call an expert witness in the field of accident reconstruction was objectively unreasonable under preva… |
| 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… |
| 20-6309 |
Emilio Urena-Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-law counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kimmelman-v-morrison motion-to-suppress strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. WHETHER APPOINTED COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE, FOR FAILURE TO
FILE VIABLE MOTION TO SUPPRESS PURSUANT TO FOURTH AMENDMENT
CLAIM UNDER: KIMMELMAN v. M… |
| 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 … |
| 20-6210 |
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… |
| 20-507 |
Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (4) |
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… |
| 20-5961 |
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… |
| 20-436 |
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 … |
| 20-5856 |
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… |
| 20-5782 |
Harold Warren v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standard-of-review stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' precedent published in Warren v. State, 2020 Ind. App. LEXIS 143 (Ind. Ct. App. 2020) addressing Warren's Ineffe… |
| 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… |
| 20-5729 |
Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
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… |
| 20-5712 |
Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal "apply " the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioners)… |
| 20-5721 |
Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr… |
| 20-5674 |
In Re James Ward |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance … |
| 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… |
| 20-5426 |
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… |
| 20-5250 |
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… |
| 20-5105 |
David Scott Temple v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea louisiana-constitution plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Temple was denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United St… |
| 20-34 |
Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr… |
| 19-8925 |
Robert T. Lundberg v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel katz-expectation-of-privacy katz-v-united-states police-interrogation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Should the decision in Lundberg v. State, 127 So.3d. 562 (Fla. 4" DCA 2012), be entitled to deference by the federal courts pursuant to the Anti-Terro… |
| 19-1473 |
Phillip Hartsfield v. Stepanie Dorethy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-certification contemporaneous-assertion contemporaneous-objection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard right-to-testify state-court-requirement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony |
1. Whether th e lower court err ed by holding that th e preju dice standard
applying to ineffective assi stance of counsel claims under Strickland v. … |
| 19-8904 |
William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington traumatic-brain-injury wiggins-v-smith williams-v-taylor |
1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion contravened Williams v. Taylor and Wiggins v. Smith by failing to find deficient performance where coun… |
| 19-8903 |
William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-claim criminal-appeal culyer-v-sullivan due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-proceedings public-defender strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in determining Gibson's conflict of interest claim should be analyzed under Strickland v. Washington rather th… |
| 19-8866 |
Yara Chum v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections |
First Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard sixth-amendment state-court-review state-law-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit err in holding that a state court decision was not contrary to federal law when, in deciding a Sixth Am… |
| 19-1424 |
Kevin LeBeau v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions materiality restitution seventh-circuit strickland strickland-claim strickland-v-washington |
1. Was the omission of the concept of materiality from the bank fraud elements instruction error requiring a new trial?
2. Did the Seventh Circuit er… |
| 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… |
| 19-8635 |
Kenneth Brown v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Should a court be allowed to deny the withdrawl of a defendant's guilty
plea,- when it is clear that the plea was not entered voluntarily, and
wi… |
| 19-8613 |
Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
1. Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified Immunity as set forth in Hudson v. McMillian … |
| 19-8584 |
Christopher Raynard Kidd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense due-process evidence-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation legal-standards prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to review all the evidence with Mr. Kidd prior to trial? |
| 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… |
| 19-8521 |
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 … |
| 19-8324 |
James William Hornsby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-process brain-injury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
(1) Whether the district courts denial of relief and determination
of whether a breakdown in the adversarial process was created
by the trial courts … |
| 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… |
| 19-8140 |
Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Ground I. Does Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel, Thomas Kurt Fuchel, Sr., Esq. when Co… |
| 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… |
| 19-7920 |
Iverylee Arashella Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unsworn-testimony |
Was Johnson's due process and Sixth Amendment confrontation clause protections violated by allowing Powell's unsworn testimony to be presented to the … |
| 19-7893 |
Nicholas Roos v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-case evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining psychological-evaluation red-flags strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel-performance |
1) Did Arkansas Supreme Court misapply this Court 's ruling of Strickland v. Washington ,
by finding it effective for the trial counsel of a capital c… |
| 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… |
| 19-7825 |
Gustavo Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-defense elements-of-offense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-test lafler-v-cooper legally-nonexistent-defense plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. How should a court apply the "reasonable probability" test for prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and Lafler v. Cooper,… |
| 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… |
| 19-1054 |
Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 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… |
| 19-7530 |
Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review |
1. Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny which establishes review of claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, ade… |
| 19-7503 |
Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-7407 |
Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel |
1. Whether, under Strickland, a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must it in… |
| 19-7375 |
Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-law contemporary-assessment criminal-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreseeability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether, Despite Strickland's Contemporary Assessment Rule, Strickland's Test For Determining Whether A Criminal Defendant's Counsel Was Ineffectiv… |
| 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. |
| 19-7297 |
Christopher J. Burton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment collateral-consequences criminal-justice criminal-procedure deportation due-process professional-assistance sexually-violent-predator strickland-v-washington voluntary-plea |
1) IN THIS CASE OF FIRST IMPRESSION, I ASK THIS COURT TO FINALLY DECIDE WHETHER THE NATURE OF CIVIL COMMITMENT, ITS PROCEDURAL SIMILARITY TO DEPORTATI… |
| 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… |
| 19-7055 |
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… |
| 19-6918 |
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 … |
| 19-6828 |
Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion.
2. Can the i… |
| 19-6727 |
Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL… |
| 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… |
| 19-6701 |
Carl Labat v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
exhaustion-of-state-remedies fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-remedies strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supervisory-writs |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on Appeal for: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; … |
| 19-645 |
Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz |
Arizona |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien |
1. Whether Respondent is categorically barred from establishing Strickland prejudice for a Padilla/Lee claim because, as an unauthorized alien, he is … |
| 19-617 |
Nekebwe Superville v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.… |
| 19-6627 |
Andre Williamson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Will the Supreme Court just step aside or now step in for the current and future generation of mental health defendants that desperately need this cou… |
| 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'… |
| 19-6558 |
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… |
| 19-6429 |
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? |
| 19-6444 |
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… |
| 19-569 |
Carlos Manuel Ayestas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
|
capital-case capital-case-mitigation-evidence ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation professional-norms rompilla-v-beard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington substance-abuse wiggins-v-smith |
This Court has found constitutionally deficient performance of counsel based on "prevailing professional norms" that precede the Court's own decisions… |
| 19-6349 |
Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DECISIONS BELOW CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND STATE APPELLATE COURTS, AND MISAPPLY THIS COURT'S DECISIONS IN… |
| 19-6346 |
Paul Malone v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aedpa aedpa-deference attorney-perjury due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disorders perjury plea-voluntariness strickland-v-washington trial-attorney-perjury |
1. Does deference provided from AEDPA and Strickland v Washington, 466 US 668 (1984) apply when there is evidence of trial attorney perjury before the… |
| 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… |
| 19-491 |
Nilesh Bharatkumar Kumar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-resident plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
To establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a defendant who has pleaded guilty based on deficient advice from his atto… |
| 19-6166 |
Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey |
Whether the executive system lien has able to come the decision of the presume and mittence as polygraph evidence conflict with or departs from accept… |
| 19-6192 |
Lagenza Junious v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication involuntary-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. PETITIONER, LAGENZA JUNIOUS, ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RAISE A DIMINISHED CAPACITY DEFENSE TO FIRST DEGREE MURD… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6111 |
Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights district-court-orders due-process exculpatory-evidence extraterritorial-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-witnesses out-of-country-witnesses strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony |
1. Does the failure of defense trial counsel to follow specific orders from the District Court, as to how to preserve testimony of material witnesses … |
| 19-6110 |
Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York |
New York |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived … |
| 19-6072 |
Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington |
Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1), Indecency with a Child, and 22.011(a)(2), Sexual Assault of a Child, two statutory rape offenses that criminalize … |
| 19-6069 |
Kevin Dewitt Skaggs v. Ron Baker, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sixth-amendment cumulative-analysis evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overwhelming-evidence pre-trial-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Whether defense counsel performs unreasonably under the Sixth Amendment if their pre-trial and trial investigations and strategies are based on their … |
| 19-6061 |
Phillip Jones v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether, pursuant to Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and its progeny, trial counsel is ineffective in a capital case when counsel conduc… |
| 19-6030 |
Craig Elias v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim due-process evidence evidence-promise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Does Strickland apply to ineffectiveness claims vis-avis trial counsel's broken promise to produce evidence? |
| 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… |
| 19-5918 |
Brandon Kyle Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal idaho-v-garza ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-rule prejudice-standard presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
After trial and again after sentencing, Brandon Thomas requested that his attorney appeal the criminal judgment. Counsel's advice consisted of "if you… |
| 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… |
| 19-5847 |
Dennis White v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland v. Washing… |
| 19-5836 |
Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5814 |
Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington |
Twelve days after Mr. Mesta's appellate brief was filed, the Oregon Supreme Court took review of a legal principle that was at issue in Mr. Mesta's ca… |
| 19-5690 |
Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by ruling DiSanto's lawyer was not ineffective by failing to bring to the attention of the trial c… |
| 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 … |
| 19-227 |
Adnan Syed v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury, … |
| 19-5536 |
Gabriel Vashon Seay v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel investigation legal-investigation plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Where Strickland v. Washington, serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there … |
| 19-183 |
Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome |
In considering whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance was prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is all… |
| 19-5428 |
Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1) Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel under STRICKLAND v. WASHING… |
| 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… |
| 19-5354 |
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… |
| 19-5266 |
Clarence E. Scott, Jr. v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the district court ruling that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel, due process of the law and right… |
| 19-105 |
Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ("Court of Appeals") on the grounds that the showi… |
| 19-5255 |
Frank Lobacz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S… |
| 19-87 |
Jerome Burgess v. Phil Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-appeal exculpatory-evidence georgia-supreme-court ineffective-assistance mental-competency plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Did the Georgia Supreme Court err in failing to find
that Petitioner's appellate counsel provided ineffective
assistance by failing to argue on a… |
| 18-9770 |
Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD REVISIT THE CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS WHEN COUNSEL FAILS TO DISCUSS THE PROS… |
| 18-1571 |
Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kansas Supreme Court Who Affirmed the Remand Court's Analysis and Findings on Moyer'sCounsel's Effectiveness under Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 18-9744 |
Landon Quinn v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-verdict nonunanimous-verdict prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the fact that a criminal conviction was returned by a nonunanimous verdict is relevant to a court's consideration of the prejudice prong of St… |
| 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… |
| 18-9609 |
Charles L. v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-acts collateral-acts-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense limiting-instruction sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Does the failure of trial counsel to request a limiting instruction related to unindicted
collateral acts evidence constitute ineffective assistance … |
| 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… |
| 18-9525 |
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… |
| 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… |
| 18-9509 |
Robert Lehmann v. Scott Kernan, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith-exception brady-v-maryland due-process evidence evidence-preservation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence scientific-testing strickland-v-washington |
With the advancement of scientific testing methods of biological evidence, is the "bad faith" exception to the failure to preserve evidence carved out… |
| 18-9440 |
Earl Lee Dixie v. Kenneth Harrington, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication-defense mental-health-defense mental-health-evidence specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Dixie was convicted of evading pursuing police officers based on an incident where he fled from police during a high speed vehicle chase. At trial, Di… |
| 18-9352 |
Donald C. Ridley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting Bullcoming-v-New-Mexico confrontation-clause Crawford-v-Washington due-process griffin-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions rosemond-v-united-states strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington yates-v-united-states |
Does a lower Court's admission that a aiding and abetting jury instruction was erroneous in light of this Court decision in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 18-9279 |
Regina M. Preetorius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Honorable Appellate Court err when it determined that trial counsel's
failure to advise his client that she should accept the government's ple… |
| 18-9241 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan due-process prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel strickland-v-washington structural-error |
Should lower courts review the conflict under Cuyler v. Sullivan or Strickland v. Washington? |
| 18-9065 |
Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington |
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Courtof
Appeals decision
failed to
the Us Supreme Courthrogt SH
action under recsonableness
review Counsels
before the court found
d… |
| 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… |
| 18-9002 |
David Curtis Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa de-novo-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Petitioner was prejudiced under the Sixth Amendment due to trial counsel's failure to object to a concededly erroneous jury instruction an… |
| 18-8912 |
Cirilo Flores v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prejudice strickland-v-washington voluntary-and-intelligent-choice voluntary-plea |
(1) WHETHER OR NOT THE GUILTY PLEA ENTERED WAS LEGAL WHENPETITIONER DID NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND, KNOW OR INTELLIGENTLY ACCEPT VOLUNTARY THE GUILTY PLEA A… |
| 18-8857 |
Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor |
1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance e… |
| 18-8802 |
Eli Vernon, III, aka Eli Mims v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
counsel-objection criminal-procedure due-process duren-analysis duren-v-missouri equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges strickland-standard strickland-v-washington systematic-exclusion |
DOES THE FIRST PRONG IN DUREN V MISSOURI, 439 U.S. 357, 364, 99 5.Ct.664, 668, 58 L.E.cf.2c1 579 (1979), IF MET ESTABLISH A SYSTEMATIC EXCLUSION FOR C… |
| 18-8712 |
John Hummel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-and-record death-penalty future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. In Skipper v. South Carolina, 476 U.S. 1 (1986), the trial court ruled as irrelevant the testimony of two jailers and a "regular visitor" that Skip… |
| 18-1273 |
Alma Caldavado v. New York |
New York |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense expert-testimony harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence presumption-of-ineffective-assistance shaken-baby-syndrome strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. In an SBS prosecution, where defense counsel neither calls, nor consults with, an SBS expert to counter the prosecution's expert testimony on the "… |
| 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… |
| 18-8587 |
In Re Christopher Stegawski |
|
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony |
Was the trial fair when:
- prosecution took 5 days of testimonies and defense none
- key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial
- court deni… |
| 18-8570 |
Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
THE QUESTIONS PRESENTED WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS THREE JUDGE PANEL, MADE A PRECEDENTIAL DECISION, THAT THE PETITI… |
| 18-8565 |
Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
IF A TRIAL ATTORNEY'S FAILURE TO OBJECT TO THE OMMISION OF A REQUIRED INSTRUCTION FROM THE JURY CHARGE RAISES THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON DIRECT APPEAL, WH… |
| 18-8522 |
Edwin Fernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Arizona-v-Gant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stages ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Montejo-v-Louisiana presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report right-to-counsel search-and-seizure search-doctrine Strickland-v-Washington |
In Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 80 l.ed.2d 674, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984) this court explained the standard of review for an ineffective assist… |
| 18-8433 |
Emond Durea Logan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-proceedings effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a defendant may be entitled, at least under some circumstances, to relief as a result of an attorney's ineffective assistance, even if another… |
| 18-8405 |
Mohammed Suleiman Roble v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney-ineffectiveness due-process exculpatory-evidence government-evidence ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings reasonableness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
DOES STRICKLAND v. WASHINGTON, 466 US 668, 80 L Ed Qd 674, 104 S Ct 2052 REQUIRE THE GOVERNMENT'S EVIDENCE TO BE WEAK TO FIND A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTOR… |
| 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… |
| 18-8378 |
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… |
| 18-8374 |
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… |
| 18-8337 |
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… |
| 18-8295 |
Raymond Lumsden v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trialcourt's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defenses DNA Expert to testify at trial… |
| 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… |
| 18-8282 |
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… |
| 18-8226 |
James Craig Bird v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole plea-bargaining prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) as to erron… |
| 18-8131 |
Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
I. WHETHER PETITIONER RECEIVED THE EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF TRIAL COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATE THE CASE AND THE SIXTH CIRCUI… |
| 18-8075 |
Godwin Oriakhi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington |
Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi… |
| 18-8003 |
Anthony J. Dannolfo v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper north-carolina-v-alford plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DID DANNOLFO'S PROTESTATION OF INNOCENCE FORECLOSE HIS ABILITY OF PROVING STRICKLAND PREJUDICE UNDER LAFLER V. COOPER, OR DID THE COURTS FAIL TO GIVE … |
| 18-7958 |
John Lohmeier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was Petitioner's plea of guilty knowingly and voluntarily entered where counsel's failure to inform petitioner that all offenses charged in the indict… |
| 18-7947 |
Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty did Garden have t… |
| 18-7927 |
Tyrone Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke |
Petitioner presents the question whether his 'trial counsel provided ineffective .assistance of: counsel as required by 'the Sixth Amendment to' the C… |
| 18-7888 |
Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony |
WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONDUCT ANY PRETRIAL INVESTIGATIONS TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW POTENTIAL WITNESSES THAT COULD HAVE SUPPORTED P… |
| 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… |
| 18-7774 |
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… |
| 18-7693 |
Dustin Dressner v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-damage ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage penalty-phase prejudice-standard sears-v-upton sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether it violates the Sixth Amendment and this Court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668, 104 S. Ct 2052 (1984) and Sears v. Upton,… |
| 18-7545 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-01-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198… |
| 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"… |
| 18-798 |
Joanna Joy Blauch v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error evidentiary-standards exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington waiver-of-rights |
There is a growing sinkhole-sized need for some things to be simply clearer.
Does ruliltg the substantive nature of materially relevant documentary e… |
| 18-742 |
Brandon Washington v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors |
Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea… |
| 18-6938 |
Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the lower courts denial is contrary to this Honorable Supreme Court's holding in Boykin v. Alabama in the Plea matter.
Whether the lower cour… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6560 |
Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states |
Does Wheat v. United States, 486 U.S. 153 (1988) clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a crim… |
| 18-6447 |
Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did Counsel ' Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 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… |
| 18-6183 |
Reginald Lynch v. Hilton Hall, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington dying-declaration hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DOES PETITIONER RECEIVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
WHEN TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO OBJECT TO TESTIMONY FROM A WITNESS
REPEATING THE STATEMENTS OF A… |
| 18-6174 |
Edward Lang v. David Bobby, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
deficient-performance due-process false-evidence false-theory ineffective-assistance juror-tampering presumption-of-prejudice reasonable-strategy reasonable-trial-strategy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
A. Can the presentation of false evidence, in support of a false theory, that trial counsel knew or should have known was false, ever constitute a rea… |
| 18-6070 |
Carlos Cornwell v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bracy-v-gramley expert-testimony forensic-evidence hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error |
This Court has recognized there are cases that turn on scientific or technical evidence where "the only reasonable and available defense strategy requ… |
| 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… |
| 18-6023 |
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… |
| 18-287 |
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 … |
| 18-5786 |
Donell A. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object … |
| 18-5659 |
David Edward Cavalieri v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cumulative-review evitts-v-lucey first-amendment-right-of-appeal mathews-v-eldridge procedural-due-process strickland-v-washington adversarial-trial cumulative-review evitts-v-lucey fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington |
On an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim the State Habeas court have a Us Constitutional Review of allasserted errors andomissions, and thereby t… |
| 18-5640 |
Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi… |
| 18-185 |
Connecticut v. Michael Skakel |
Connecticut |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Under the first prong of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must a court evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a s… |
| 18-5348 |
Gary Clack v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance … |
| 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 … |
| 18-5289 |
Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that h… |
| 18-5231 |
Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-07-17 |
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. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5103 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a lesser included alternative defense and faili… |
| 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… |
| 18-14 |
Carlos Donjuan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in review, sustained the Federal District Court Judge's (FDDJ) denial of Petitioner's Petition for Wr… |
| 18-5048 |
John W. Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery attempted-murder criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
WHETHER TAYLOR WAS DENIEO HIS RIGUT TO EFFECTIVE ASSITANCE EP TRIAL COUNSEL GURANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENOMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITNTZON? WHETHE… |
| 18-5006 |
Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment |
Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable… |