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25-6774 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest state-procedural-rule Where a state has created liberty interests that give death-sentenced prisoners with credible claims of innocence vehicles for proving their innocence…
25-6768 In Re Mark Anthony Morris 2026-02-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol…
25-6616 Okechukwu Desmond Amadi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling governmental-intervention statute-of-limitations Whether the dismissal of an out-of-time appeal upon the government raising a statute of limitations defense, without providing defendant a full and fa…
25-6611 James E. Frantz v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations constitutional-error habeas-corpus judicial-discretion substantive-claim 1) Did the District Court error by failing to recognizing substantive claims as cognizable under habeas corpus and failing to exercise its equitable a…
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
25A752 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-12-29 Application actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review Question not identified.
25-664 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden…
25A653 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-04 Application actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min…
25-6229 Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner WHETHER PETITIONER QUALIFIES FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING DUE TO INABILITY TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ON THE MERITS OF BEING ACTUALLY INNO…
25-5987 Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the district court and the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Ground One, actual-innocence claim as to hi…
25-5969 James Logan Diez v. Texas Texas 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review cross-examination due-process judicial-discretion transcript-error 1] Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abuse its discretion when it refused Review after Petitioner discovered approx. 20-25 min. of Cross-Examina…
25-5806 Ricky Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the district court abused its discretion and the Eleventh Circuit affirmance of the lower court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing as…
25A368 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard Question not identified.
25-5756 In Re Jody M. Johnson 2025-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony habeas-corpus 1) Should Writ's D.S. Supreme Court grant Writ of Habeas Corpus petition, where the U.S Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner'…
25-5682 Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-09-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-error jury-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct 1. whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting confessed constitutional errors under Brady and Napue and giving not weight to t…
25-324 Richard William Kleinhammer v. California California 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment Self representation for a postconviction collateral appeal was denied applying People v. Scott as a policy which is at loggerheads with actual innocen…
25-5669 Stanislav Steven Yelizarov v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver ineffective-counsel miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement resentencing When a criminal defendant is resentenced after a conviction is vacated because he is actually innocent of the charge, does an appeal waiver in the ple…
25A263 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention Question not identified.
25-5484 Corey Blaine Coggins v. Eric Cox, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance joint-defense-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did Coggins ' Public Defender 's (Weber) entering into a joint defense agreement with Coggins ' co-defendant 's (Tabor) lawyer without Coggins ' …
25-5452 In Re Andrew James Johnston 2025-08-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-privilege filing-restrictions habeas-corpus merits-determination section-2255 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including issuance of a writ of habeas corpus from this Court, to protect the privilege of habeas corpu…
25-5403 In Re Michael Jay Harris 2025-08-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Question No. 1 Should Mr. Harris be permitted to raise his claims of prosecutorial misconduct based on newly obtained and never before presented evid…
25A187 Simon Hessler v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the circumstances present in this case present an extraordinary circumstances sufficient to extend the…
25-5271 Soleiman Mobarak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-law ex-post-facto presumption-of-innocence subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Novel Issue : Is the Actual Innocence Exception to a procedural bar limited t cases where petitioners are convicted, but actually innocent of crime…
25-85 Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver 1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec…
25-5174 James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation WHTHER THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE ISSUED AND/OR GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (C0A) FROM THE DISTRICT COURT'S DETERMINATION THAT THE …
25-5099 Franklin Ray v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver due-process plea-agreement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation After this Court re-interpreted the Aggravated Identity Theft statute in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 132 (2023), Petitioner was factually in…
25-5085 Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-07-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction 1. Questia (9) /ReseuTeD - wien, on Nor THE SUPREME CounT OF RD Can Procedyfa lly Barked By ICTUAL TANCE Clzagse, ON TNR Z D625, 0) Spal PezeTEosser's…
25-5065 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence REffiritenfs WflV'F tefilioN&tJfJ COMl^V^LAMof^CoiJ^ifoMoF^ Utifeb CeuRfUftS ToRiSblClioiU Mteiu REfrfion/EA SEEK^AiJEublCATfBfJo^TffS Mer/1s QFUM Pe…
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar The Petitioner, Mr. Phillip White, was wrongfully convicted in the State of Georgia for a crime he did not commit. His wrongful conviction was marred …
24-7424 Wilberto Arellano v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-tolling WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING BASED ON HIS CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE.
24-7224 Devon Delehoy v. South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus kidnapping procedural-default 1. Is a person who gets into a car voluntary, held against their will? 2. Is a person who exits a car and returns without concern, held against their…
24-7040 Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Does Jones v Hendrix , 599 U.S. 465 (2023), a recent Supreme Court holding which only addresses "[] a prisoner asserting an intervening change in…
24-7017 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Texas Texas 2025-04-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus Question No. 1: Can a State allow a Judgment & Sentence of Conviction stand when under the probative facts and Jury Charged instructed the jury to con…
24-6954 John Stephen Routt v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-petition (1) Did the Court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability by merging Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2254 (d)(1) and (2) with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (c)…
24-6896 In Re Nicholas Lee Blair 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b 1. What is the proper statutory definition of the terms "lascivious exhibition", "engaging in", and "sexually explicit", as written in 18 U.S.C. § 22…
24-6834 Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Tami J. Schult Seventh Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default DlA -Hie PeUiooer^ WiW <xDeta<»<r Cotn\ey*) $We & claim in h»s CowJ^'^ s'Votf'V ft«A fWn ■ S^WenV sUnj +U- fts ft finder +Lf jfe VJftS +o He?? Fel-l …
24A274 Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-03-18 Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24-6680 Victor Charles Rogers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus 1. Is it right for a Circuit Court to deny a COA on a procedural default when filing actual innocence? 2. Is it right also to not look at the merits …
24-6513 Tavon Johnathon Magee v. Michigan Michigan 2025-02-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-standard habeas-relief sixth-amendment I. HAS PETITIONER MAGEE MADE A PROPER SHOWING OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE TO HAVE HIS CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS ADDRESSED ON THE MERITS? II. WHETHER THE SUPREME …
24-816 Phillip Joshua Yellin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability credibility-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit In Miller-El1, this Court held of the relatively low level of showing necessary from a habeas Petitioner like Phillip J. Yellin to be entitled to a …
24-6328 Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance Whether when a factual basis supporting a conviction pursuant to a criminal statute is verifiably false the defendant can still be convicted without a…
24-6272 In Re Benjamin Shipley 2025-01-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S., 144 S. Ct. 1840, 219 L. Ed. 2d 451 (2024), retroactively opens the affirmative …
24-6228 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandate-recall 1. Should a court of appeals recall its mandate to revisit the merits of its prior decision where a petitioner's recall motion demonstrates a credible…
24-6195 Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review Where Petitioner presented substantial new evidence that not only shows he is innocent of murder, but further reveals the identity of the actual kille…
24-6180 Carl Hubbard v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court gateway-claim habeas-corpus judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. DID THE MAJORITY BELOW ERROR IN NOT APPLYING THIS COURT'S DECISION IN SCHULP V. DELO, TO HOLD THAT PETITIONER COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE, THAT PRESENT…
24-6132 In Re David Charles Thatcher 2024-12-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit successive-petition 1. Whether Mr. Thatcher's actual innocence and the constitutional violations taking place at his trial require the vacatur of his petition. 2. Whethe…
24-5940 Charlton Beasley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-conviction actual-innocence davis-decision procedural-default section-2255 statute-of-limitations § 2255 within one 1) Did Beasley overcome procedural default when he filed year of the Supreme Court decision in Davis which was a new rule of law and…
24-500 Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar Whether the actual innocence/miscarriage of justice exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by …
24A429 Earl Francis Hart v. Charles Daniels, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete actual-innocence criminal-conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus savings-clause section-2241 Question not identified.
24-5753 Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas Texas 2024-10-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts a…
24-5707 Gary E. Peel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-conviction supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in violation of Supreme Court precedents 1 erred by affirming federal convictions for non-criminal co…
24-5673 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Within THE LOW? COVATS OUTRIGHT DENY HABEAS PETITIONERS RiGNT To SHOW ACTVAL INNOCENCE IN THE DISTRICT COVAT 64 FAILING TO ADJVDICA% THE SCHLUP V, DEL…
24-5644 Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson Ninth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence 1. Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to someone who is legally or statutory innocent, in where an indiv…
24-5532 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion Nearly all federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. In many of those pleas, the defendant signs an agreement promising not to file a future 28 U.S…
24-5517 Charles Bonner v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights heck-v-humphrey judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct post-trial-judgment After the jury found Petitioner guilty of one offense, Did Petitioner's prosecution end without a conviction after the judge affirmately exonerated Pe…
24-5494 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 In Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), this Court held that when an individual who pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) offense later challenges th…
24-5493 Francisco Jose Lopez v. California California 2024-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-estoppel dna-testing due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief There has NEVER been a case where two different persons were convicted in two separate trials -- with inconsistant evidence -- of both pulling the s…
24-5259 Isiah Williams v. Raymond Shanley Second Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing gateway-claim rule-52 Did the Court of Appeals exceed its authority under Rule 52(a) F.R.C.P., in holding that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of denial of a …
24-5239 John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure Question not identified.
24-5183 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup 1. What constitutes as 'new' evidence, and whether the state prisoner made a proper showing of actual innocence under Schlup? 2. Whether the Virgini…
24-5108 Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error 1. Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a 'civil disability'— that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, …
24-5079 John W. Patton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript 1. What defense tools are Louisiana pro-se defendants entitled to when they choose to represent themselves pro-se at trial? a. Does it Violate Due Pro…
24-5083 Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations trial-by-jury Whether prosecutors and Petitioner's pretrial sheriff's department Custodians violation of a Scheduled trial by jury, which in all likelihood may have…
23-7840 Douglas Lemon v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation disclosure-of-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence-disclosure fitness-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment (1), He was not given a fair Fitness Evaluation Nor Hearing, Due Process Right, U.S. Constitution, Amendment, 14th, ILL. Const. ( 1970 ) Art; 1 § 2; d…
23-7796 Stewart Bitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction whereas, although the Petitioner actually committed, the acts stipulated in…
23-7789 In Re Glenn A. Holder 2024-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error 1) HAS THE PETITIONER BEEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED, DUE TO STRUCTURAL ERROR 8S AT TRIAL, WHICH VIOLATE) EVERY UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HE HAD A…
23-1288 Nicholas Newman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with anothe…
23-7614 Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim 1. When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly r…
23-7545 Bobby Tatum v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-victim-testimony civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel video-evidence 1) Whether it's Proper For the District court to Tawed and Cove ANd CaiWote-to Growed Pex Alors 40 Goppgrts Me Chem & GAC Facroul Lonocences and déry …
23-7447 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Maryland 2024-05-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing writ-of-error Did the lower Court abuse its discretion by denying Petitioner's Petition for writ of actual innocence without looking back at the trial, or assessing…
23A953 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete actual-innocence administrative-error filing-deadline habeas-corpus pro-se time-bar Question not identified.
23-7199 In Re Joseph R. Dickey 2024-04-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence federal-prisoners habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. 2241(b)(1)'s requirement that "a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under 2254 [28 U.S.C. 2254] that w…
23-7180 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2024-04-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-package state-law-ground WHETHER TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL'S IS APPLYING SEC. 4 [TCCP ART.11.07] —AS ADEQUATE & INDEPENDENT STATE LAW GROUND IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT HOLD…
23-7148 Arnold Ancrum v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process federal-magistrate-act habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (1) WHETHER PETITIONER'S 6th AND 14th AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED UNDER THE FEDERAL MAGISTRATE ACT OF 1979. WHEN A REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION FROM T…
23-7064 Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 1. Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective for purposes of § 2255 only when a Petitioner (1) Makes A Claim of Actual Innocence and (2…
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claims that: A) The district court violated Petitioner's D…
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and excul…
23-6924 Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error QUESTION No. 1: Does &U£.ederal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v.…
23-6915 Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice In Bousiew v. United u.s. WA ty%> i)$ Sxt iuom , mo ued £dJea8(i<WX4his murt held -Hw "Actual Innocence^ Is more -Bw a mere legal insufficiency., 11- …
23-6735 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability change-in-law conflict-of-interest fraudulent-conduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall new-evidence 1. Should the Court of appeals recall its mandate denying Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA) when Petitioner has demons…
23-6709 Martin Akerman v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard, appointed under 44 U.S.C. § 3520, with standing under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1) and (c)(2), and det…
23-6684 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court 1. Did the U.S. district Court contravene the requirement of Act 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) and jdt? 2. When a State Prisoner failed to use available State …
23-6644 Matthew Lane Durham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief trial-review In Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), this Court held that there is no free-standing claim of actual innocence under the Constitution available …
23-6529 In Re Raymond Ramirez 2024-01-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence scientific-evidence successive-petition Whether the court of appeals clearly abused its discretion and deprived the Petitioner of his constitutional rights to Due Process under the 14TH Amen…
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition? Whether exculpatory scientific evidence, that was exclude…
23-6293 Shallon Hawkins v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Did the United States District Court error, by denying my Claims for procedural defaultier tl rue thon, under Nociner, Glenn furstamental Fcnesy Vewly…
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence I. Whether the Sixth Circuit, after applying a blanket rule of deference, erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings when reviewin…
23-6265 Timothy Dean Stone v. Texas Texas 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review schlup-standard state-procedural-ground state-procedural-grounds texas-criminal-procedure texas-law writ-application Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals', holding that Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 11.07 section 4 (a) (2) precluded consideration…
23-6241 Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the Proposed Recusal - Adv. Ookten cack; ercscad 6 Cen mre inn Giece. of erence hel of Uahtdn S0kFii ne. prSena face ar Ment tabPon Ceqwire ne…
23-6236 Joseph R. Dickey v. Warden, FCI Marianna Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions constitutional-challenge federal-prisoner felker-v-turpin habeas-corpus successive-petition In light of the plain language contained in 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1), which requires any claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus "applicat…
23-6203 Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Petitioner ask this Honorable Court to resolve the Circuit split, whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establish…
23-6183 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing Question not identified.
23-6171 Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction Veterans, to include active duty service members and family members that are stationed in the continental United States at installations garrisoned by…
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § …
23-6001 Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Question not identified.
23-5970 Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal Procedural default bars a state inmate from obtaining federal habeas based on an issue not presented to the state courts. Schlup v. Delo recognized a …
23-5945 Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus relief, where he raised a claim of actual innocence, and numerous claims of ineffectiveness of trial cou…
23-5864 Alfred Starling v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute constitutional-violations equitable-tolling gateway-claim habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the lower courts erred in holding that reasonable jurists would not debate whether Petitioner's First Federal Habeas Corpus petition was un…
23-5736 In Re Travis J. Guttu 2023-10-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-innocence 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
23-5712 Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Relisted (3)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal Question not identified.
23-346 Torriano Walpool v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review trial-court-findings In Texas law, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals considers the trial court the "eyes and ears" of the Court in making findings to aid the Court in de…
23-5611 David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2023-09-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts 1. In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evid…
23-5590 In Re Jamar L. Williams 2023-09-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings Question not identified.
23A236 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-relief texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Question not identified.
23-5549 Hope White v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right 1. Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-create…
23-5542 Stephen James Hood v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation In Virginia, anyone who was convicted of a felony has the right to demonstrate their innocence with new evidence through a petition for a writ of actu…
23-5447 Antonio Chimney v. Texas Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence common-law constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence great-writ habeas-corpus laches writ-of-right 1. May Laches be used to deny an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus that is based on Actual and Factual Innocence? 2. May the Common Law Doctrine …
23A132 Jerry S. Wilson v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete actual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default reasonable-doubt 1. This case presents an important and recurring question concerning the legal standard for showing actual innocence sufficiently to overcome procedur…
23-5146 Santos Rosales Martinez v. Iowa Iowa 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rule habeas-corpus iowa-constitution iowa-courts judicial-discretion new-rule-of-law schlup-test schlup-v-delo schmidt-v-state 1. Whether the Iowa Courts have failed to properly adjudicate the Petitioner's actual innocence claims as currently explained in Schlup v. Delo 513 U…
22-7895 Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certiorari-appeal civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing l,, Whevs +V\e CooH cxtsc A-Yolo A c&oitset Kt\e**a AHc dltso-cX dew\«tf\cledi -W\e.vj re&jSedl Vvw\ -\V\oA 01^4 * ckcA +We Caor-V loCLve a_ cAlA^ *V…
22-7860 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents regarding fundamental miscarriage of justi…
22-7790 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP active-duty-service-members actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forensic-pathology medical-examiners military-jurisdiction state-medical-examiners veterans Active duty service members, i.e., Airmen, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Space Force alike, with civilian dependents stationed in the continental Un…
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Question not identified.
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-7678 Gary E. Peel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-pornography due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel takings-clause 1. Whether, contrary to Supreme Court precedent [Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002)], the government can criminalize the possession…
22-7639 Hulon Verser v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility I. The Post-Lowviction Court Mawifestly Erred By Denying Hulow Versers Posh-Lonviction Pedition ASter Aw Evidentiary Hearing, Where fl, Lamphell's Tes…
22-7573 Donald Lee Kissner v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus standing tee dxstaxs Tabuse xts x>xsc .ee7X&A 7»B s-xtbp Puix Po(bAx> ape tZOtPX.ti TO fcCffXl) A/VP PEAiyZBIB Relief - AS EPTXMELy.DXP JZT/V C-tfA/JGZA/G2>…
22-7555 Tyrell Rakeem Mobley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus manifest-injustice standing Question not identified.
22-7548 Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions 1) Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, under Section 1.5.1 (Overview of Procedural Due Process) considere…
22-7546 Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (5)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome (1) Does a conviction, based on a causation theory presented to a jury as scientific fact and used to establish that a homicide occurred, violate due …
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction The miscarriage-of-justice gateway excuses a habeas petitioner from complying with certain procedural hurdles like AEDPA's statute of limitations if, …
22-7382 Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas Texas 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona 1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the e…
22-7368 Parnell R. May v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation due-process forensic-testimony new-scientific-evidence reasonable-doubt Question not identified.
22-7351 Leonard Scaggs v. A. Ciolli, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence habeas-corpus jury-instructions rosemond-decision savings-clause section-2241 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-rosemond Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Rosemond was available to petitioner in a motion filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 under the "savin…
22-7270 Lamont McKoy v. Todd Ishee, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process federal-court-deference federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-findings Section 2254(e)(1) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ('"AEDPA") requires federal courts to presume that state court factual…
22-7230 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal Question not identified.
22-7226 Travis J. Guttu v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline due-process ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice no-trial plea-agreement procedural-innocence record sixth-amendment-right 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
22-7169 Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence? Should this court grant habeas litigants the abi…
22-7139 Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden First Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER OR NOT MR. RICHARDSON'S SPECIAL PLEA TO THE LOWER COURTS LACK OF FACTUAL DEDICATE THUS DECISION PURSUANT TO WARS UNOPPOSED FED P. CH /, P 12(b…
22-7080 James A. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-rights malicious-prosecution state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether actually, factually, truthfully, innocent Petitioner should be granted relief when State convicted against all exonerating evidence with malic…
22-7042 Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction when it proceeded to trial upon filin…
22-7041 Deandre Markee King v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity The vast majority of federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. And in many of those pleas, the defendant promises not to file a future 28 U.S.C. § …
22-7036 Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make …
22-7032 Scott Lynn Fishbein v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability defense-counsel due-process false-information guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Should a certificate of appealability have been issued by the court of appeals for review of an appeal of the denial of a 28 U.S.C. §2255 which presen…
22-7021 Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling QUESTION No. 1 Wnether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the dis…
22-6923 In Re Jesse Brown 2023-03-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim defense-theory evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel legal-default post-conviction-relief standard-of-review trial-counsel I. Is the Petitioner entitled to a AC defense theory? II. Is the Petitioner entitled to AN standard of review of his claims on the merits? III. Is t…
22-6886 Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-standard brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-error federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois postconviction-discovery schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations The Antiterrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) codified at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A), contains a one-year statute of limitations fo…
22-6713 Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center Missouri 2023-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence In light of the foregoing facts, this petition presents the following questions: 1. Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cogni…
22-6697 Ervin Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aggravated-assault borden-precedent borden-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process forcible-assault sentencing-review supreme-court Whether Petitioner is actually innocent of his aggravated and forcible assault offense, in light of Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)?
22-6604 In Re Daniel Sheehan 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation The Third Circuit has reduced the 2241 Gateway to qualify via 2255(e) to an impassable size through abuses of discretion in the creation of Dicta, tha…
22-6474 Cody Jay Riley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process hiv incarceration penological-interests scientific-evidence 1. Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests? 2. When…
22-6449 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas Texas 2023-01-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure Oh may 03/2015 atio.xH mi cuus tape u to SfniTP County Tail in Ty/erjTexus at , on Floy^Q.od.6 1 my Blood uas dracon without a searChurarraot Or Count…
22-607 Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh Sixth Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue…
22-581 Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable Ninth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession 1. Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c), like Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3)(B), allows admission of an out-of-court statement against penal intere…
22-6370 Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT VIOLATED PRECEDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCED IN MILLER-EL V. COCKRELL 537 U.S. 3…
22-6350 Raul Alvarez v. New York New York 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Must a client object in open court to invoke their Sixth Amendment right to maintain actual innocence as the objective of their defense?
22-569 In Re Christopher Dunn 2022-12-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) actual-innocence clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process freestanding-actual-innocence habeas-corpus lincoln-v-cassady missouri post-conviction-relief 1. Is it cruel and unusual punishment and a substantive due process violation for an innocent man to remain in prison? 2. Is the claim of freestandin…
22-6320 Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. Maryland 2022-12-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition ko (c^V '+U*L lo<*J £v' Courts & rr& r >/o dfc/ oo^- noe.ei'-t* ie burcJe, 7 oy: e£-fc,bhsh '"^ -ffae nesponcU^)-$ cLt-uh£r*\L£ fnd((^-C&ren {&- /-? …
22-6252 In Re James E. Hitchcock 2022-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus 1. Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims after he received a new judgment and sentence amounted to a …
22-6219 Bruce Wood v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability coa conflict-with-court-precedent due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60 rule-60-motion 1. When Petitioner's exculpatory evidence infers an innocent man is imprisoned, did the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court endorse a Fundamental…
22-512 Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p…
22-6159 Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional right to present a defense in conviction challenges and entitlement …
22-6103 Serdar Tatar v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b I. Whether or not the district court's denial of Mr. Tatar's. Motion for relief under Rule 60(d)$3) , (b)(3), and (b)(6), for fraud, and or fraud upo…
22-5756 Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application Does the Schlup v Delo/ 513 US 298 (1995)/ actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the pro ce…
22-5742 Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti Second Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits 1) Petitioner respectfully request that this Honorable Court revisit it's holding in Martinez v Court of Appeal of California Fourth Appellate Dist. 5…
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Did the appellate court err in assessing the legal significance of the sworn Affidavits tending to exonerate the petitioner, and deny the petitioner h…
22-5596 Roberta Ronique Bell v. Warden, FCI Dublin Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2241-relief actual-innocence co-conspirator due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-due-process separate-proceedings WHETHER THE DENIAL OF AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING IN SUPPORT OF § 2241 RELIEF CAN BE BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RECORD DEVELOPED BY AN ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATOR…
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 1. Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitione…
22-5430 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION ERRED. PEPPER V. UNITED STATES, IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT PRECEDENT OF UNITED S 1108-111S(6T…
22-5434 Zane D. Crowder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence child-protection forensic-interview gateway-standard habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence mcquiggin-v-perkins new-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations Whether the new evidence relied upon by the Petitioner – which admi ttedl y is impeachment evidence – meets the gateway actual innocence standard set …
22-5432 Terence Valentine v. Florida Florida 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-development habeas-corpus jury-trial jury-verdict state-courts Whether, when deciding if it should allow a defendant an opportunity to present evidence of actual innocence, a state court must, in conformance with …
22-5360 Wayne Chin v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accused-autonomy actual-innocence attorney-client-relationship autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unwelcome-defense WHETHER A DEFENSE COUNSEL CAN OVERRIDE AN ACCUSED 'S FINAL AND INFORMED DECISION FOR AN ACTUAL INNOCENCE DEFENSE AND IMPOSE AN UNWELCOME DEFENSE UPON …
22-5294 Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing 1 [QUESTION ONE]: DOES THIS COURT HAVE [JURISDICTION & POWER]- TO GRANT CERTIORARI-EXCUSED LIMITION BAR AN CORRECT FUNDAMETAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE…
22-5284 Michael Duntae Fagans v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial 1) Whether Fagans is entitled te relief evidentiary hearing , uhere the Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District of the Eastern Distric…
22-5269 Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G…
22-5256 In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan 2022-08-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error Q: Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue? The petitioner is incarcerated despite Structural Error, Viola…
22-5206 Shain Duka v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction.
22-5195 C. Raymond Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations brady-violation brady-violations due-process herrera herrera-claim house-v-bell ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp 1. The Supreme Court should help decide in Federal & State Court Split,to review "Newly Reliable Evidence" under Herrera House Schulp type claims. Is …
22-32 John Hart v. County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence voiceprint-analysis Where a criminal defendant has compelling evidence of actual innocence in the form of exculpatory expert voiceprint analysis, does that defendant rece…
22-5066 John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment (1) Does a certificate of appealability ("COA") debatability review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) mean that the COA panel may deny debatability of…
22-5039 Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review 1. FOR PURPOSES OF RECEIVING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FROM THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, HAS A "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A REA…
21-8284 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-report habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus obstruction-of-justice writ-of-mandamus WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ISSUE THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO MANDATE THE LOWER COURT'S REVIEW OF A FORENSIC REPORT SURROUNDING PETITIONER'S SUBSTANT…
21-8207 Jamal A. Azeez v. Cedrick Robertson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-evidence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence judicial-conspiracy standing statute-of-limitations 1. Whether The Task Falls To The Federal Courts At Some Point In The Judicial Process, Even When A Was Person Convicted Of A Heinous Crime, Deserves A…
21-7982 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2022-05-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence deceptive-testimony excited-testimony excited-utterance forensic-evidence forensic-exposition fourth-amendment legal-relief miscarriage-of-justice perjury 1. Does the novel issue, Forensic Exposition, demonstrate deceptive testimony and establish actual innocence? 2. Does the novel issue, Excited Uttera…
21-7871 Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case Did the the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of A Appealability standard that…
21-7716 Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review vs eoWHerf 40 Relief oil ao -Etfideohe-c^ ^ \4beR6 *4*ve, 'UtaW Couxri- of ^Ws/^ r»AVi duzcu^ auq SI Uto liute# SUifes ~L>^(Zurf (iouftl kJmibQO 7).s…
21-7671 Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,…
21-7670 In Re Oscar Smith 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa capital-punishment constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus suspension-clause Question not identified.
21-7628 Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se 1. Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally fight dissemble avoid or neglect a pro se applicant's petition specifically identify adduce propos…
21-7592 Detrick Deroven v. Texas Texas 2022-04-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment…
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Question not identified.
21-7524 Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHT WAS FORECLOSED ON WHEN ON APPEAL FROM THE LOWER COURTS DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO …
21-7428 Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.…
21-7335 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2022-03-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus state-procedural-law 1. Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applica…
21-7284 Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to …
21-7314 William Jones v. Texas Texas 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution 1) Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, pr…
21-7214 Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review DOES AHA MELTER AUA" CLAL{OOF ACTUAL leholEWACE OURLEY AL ACL AMA ME ACTIAL lb byl CEWe LE Tht SAME STATED faked. . OF THE STATUTE: ACTUALLY Maio Ell …
21-7131 Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel WHETHER THE COURTS BELOW ERRED IN DENYING JONES A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO REVIEW THE COURTS ERRONEOUS AND CONTRARY APPLICATION OF THIS COURT'S…
21-7029 David Pedder v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus substantial-availability-test QUESTION No. 1: Whether a federal habeas petitioner is deprived of his constitutional rights to Due Process as implicated by the 14TH Amendment to the…
21-6886 Roberto Martinez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason plea-withdrawal presumption-of-innocence rule-11 Whether a defendant who enters a plea of guilty, but moves to withdraw such plea prior to sentencing, while at the same time properly articulating a p…
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition should this Court use its power to grant certiorari to a non-prisoner to raise a compelling claim of actual innocence Whether the Court of Appeals de…
21-6847 John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit When a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, there are various procedural bars that often preclude relief on the merits. …
21-6832 Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review 1) Has the Supreme Court overruled Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 holding that there was reversible error where the record did not disclose that the …
21-6823 Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether, when assessing a claim of actual innocence, the district court must determine as a matter of fact whether the new evidence is credible and re…
21-6795 Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe…
21-970 Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot Tenth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations In 1988, an Oklahoma jury convicted Karl Fontenot in the abduction and killing of Denice Haraway. The chief evidence against Fontenot was his own conf…
21-6733 Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability…
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
21-6554 Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review 1. A Federal Court may only entertain a federal prisoner's habeas corpus petition when a "remedy by motion [to vacate] is inadequate or ineffective to…
21-6500 Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. WHEN A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A SUSPECT IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR HOMICIDE, AND FIRST, AS A RESULT OF BADGERING AND PESTERING F…
21-780 Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause Ewin Oscar Martinez was convicted in 2000 of using and carrying a firearm during a "crime of violence" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), based upon …
21-6205 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni…
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(…
21-6036 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't properly grant a Certificate of Appealability to an improperly dismissed §2255 Motion/Case asserting Actual Inn…
21-6017 Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Why Dod the majority below err in applying this Courts deeisias W Schlup Vv, Dela and Kyles v. Lihitley 4 held that Poti Foner's compelling New evicle…
21-5920 In Re Jason Brooks 2021-10-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness (i) Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal …
21-5866 Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing courts decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence, not presented for review in prisone…
21-5859 Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations 1. Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right and that jurist of reason would find i…
21-5858 Enrique E. Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver Can a defendant who claims actual innocence after entering a plea agreement be barred from raising his actual innocence claim based on a Plea Agreemen…
21-5809 In Re Dwayne Stoutamire 2021-09-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing Does the constitution recognize free-standing claims of Actual inNoceNcy? the facts presented meet the standard Articulated in Schlop v.Dlo, 513 U.5.…
21-5812 Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review "WHETHER THE U.S. FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT APPELLANT CARLOS VELAZQUEZ-FONTANEZ IS "ACTUALLY INNOCENT" OF VIOLATING…
21-5769 Joseph R. Dickey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation 1. In light of the fact that actual innocence supported by newly discovered evidence acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus by applying 2244(b…
21-5722 Gregory Dew v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE COURTS FAIL TO REVIEW ALL RELEVANT EVIDENCE IN THE OVERALL, NEWLY SUPPLEMENTED RECORD FOR AN ACTUAL INNOCE…
21-5700 Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard Mr. Tilley alleged that he is actual innocent, and his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call expert witnesses as requested by Mr. Tilley, …
21-5699 Al-Kareem Rasool-Rachmaan Collier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation supreme-court ^■Mou) d_tfie6j'M' mcI -the petitioner? l\MMJlUm&„i4)A$LCmmitte4S- _ ^ _ ^J^^6-^ilsct^t £&4t ktiJ? ~0uhide_m£(uinceJmproi&JyJ r(,u4kU&„k^ p _ __ %-…
21-5638 Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE…
21-5600 Linda Hardison v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication CAN THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE APPEALS' COURT OVERLOOK A BLATANT ERROR OF LAW WHEN THE PETITIONER PRESENTED ALL DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND DECLARATIONS …
21-5516 In Re Freddy Perkins 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement 1. Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent" under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and …
21-5454 In Re Samuel L. Quinn 2021-08-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-discretion procedural-technicality statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
21-5435 In Re Antonio Crawford 2021-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus CAN A FEDeral Prisoner resort to a orginal writ OF habeas Corpus Pursuant to 2241(C)13) 8C a U.S.C 3 In her DIstrict OF Confinement 1 ChallenGING her …
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg…
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin…
21-5395 In Re Christopher Burgess 2021-08-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar 1. In the interest of justice, should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both "actial innocence " and in…
21-5403 Charles Edwin Tumlinson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-petition standing Questions concerning U.S. Court of Appeals decisions in conflict with the Supreme Court of the United States decisions and case law and the U.S. Court…
21-5285 In Re Ivar Voits 2021-08-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violations constitutional-claim due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct Does it appear that Petitioner Mr. Voits lacked an "adequate and effective " opportunity to test the validity of his constitutionally substantial actu…
21-5256 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2021-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady brady-disclosure circuit-split due-process impeachment-evidence newly-discovered-evidence newly-presented-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Mr. Harris' habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that have sharply divided the courts below. Eight out of twelve United States of Appeal…
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…
21-5148 Gregory Dew v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-21 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE COURTS FAIL TO REVIEW ALL RELEVANT EVIDENCE IN THE OVERALL, NEWLY SUPPLEMENTED RECORD FOR AN ACTUAL INNOCE…
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding.
21-5129 Gary E. Peel v. Barbara Zarrick Seventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review district-court due-process federal-criminal federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus non-capital standing writ-of-mandamus Whether a stand-alone (a/k/a free-standing) claim of "actual innocence " is cognizable in a federal non-capital criminal case.
21-5103 Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default 1. Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadl…
21-5026 Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure procedural-rights statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-8463 Luther Pete Haynes v. Mona D. Houston, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus illegal-extradition new-evidence 1 Did the ul.s. q+b Cir. Ct. place to high aburdan Denying COA when Hagnes merely had to show Jurists o f reason could Disagree with the Dist. Saurt r…
20-8448 Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, …
20-8360 Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WAS MILITARY APPELLATE COURT OBLIGATED TO ACCEPT PETITIONER'S LATE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIM WHERE IT WAS FILED BY APPELLATE COUNSEL…
20-8255 Kenneth Darnell Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel more-usual-remedy procedural-bar writ-of-error-coram-nobis 1. Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis where new evidence of defendant's innocence is discovered after se…
20-8205 In Re John L. McKenzie 2021-06-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner is illegally confined where confinement is due solely to the irrefutable fact that police fabricated the only evidence used to conv…
20-8164 Michael Mosley v. John Rich, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-counsel schlup-v-delo sixth-amendment In this wholly circumstantial case where the Petitioner has alibi, and after trial presents: 1) substantial new exculpatory witnesses and evidence sho…
20-8155 Frederick Wayne Smith v. California California 2021-05-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence autonomy civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie sixth-amendment successive-petitions Should, the. May 2, 1 995 0Kde.fi to Show Caute/PKlma Facie. cate; The W0I/ 05 201 8 SupeKloK CouKt WKlt of habeat coKput/PKlma facle showing of viol…
20-8090 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel larrison-v-united-states newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct recantations witness-recantation 1. Rulings Below: The District Court denied relief and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The federal constitutional claim presented on grounds consistent…
20-8088 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Denied 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…
20-8031 Major Hudson, III v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default rule-60 1. WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD FIND IT DEBATABLE THAT THERES AN EXTAORDINARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MISDEMEANOR VS. A FELONY, AND WHETHER A PERSON W…
20-8016 Rico Blackwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel…
20-7989 Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, AND/OR SANCTIONED A DEPART…
20-7962 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds a. Should courts Procedurally time-bar a pro se inmetes habeas Corpus then a priser official with a sericus health illness, such as COVTD ~ 19, is Tes…
20-7955 Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment I. Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection of the law, guaranteed by the 6th and 14th Amendments to …
20-7916 Shomas T. Winston v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-v-delo WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT SHOULD BE ABLE TO DENY A PETITIONER ACTUAL INNOCENCE AS A GATEWAY TO OTHERWISE BARRED CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS WITHOUT CONSIDERA…
20-7904 Bruce Simmons v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bousley-v-united-states constitutional-claim due-process federal-law mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice murray-v-carrier schlup-v-delo writ-of-error-coram-nobis 1. WHETHER THE PRINCIPLES OF DUE PROCESS ARE OFFENDED BY THE LOWER COURTS' APPLICATION OF AN INCORRECT LEGAL STANDARD IN ASSESSING THE PETITIONER'S AC…
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment 1. Whether The Court Of Appeals In A Coram Nobis Proceeding Denies A Criminal Defendant Due Process Under The Fifth Amendment To The United States Con…
20-7845 Oscar Minaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states 1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the…
20-7809 Julian J. Miller v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-of-court access-to-court actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-bar ineffective-assistance statute-of-limitations 1)Does @2244{d)(1)(A) apply to a Habeas Petitioner's Access of Court claim that is barred by Heck & can't accrue pursuant to Christopher v. Harbury un…
20-7769 James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
20-7763 Brian David Hill v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus indecent-exposure procedural-defect state-custody supervised-release Where the Virginia Supreme Court didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus should apply to the case of Brian David Hill being convicted…
20-7767 Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process enactment-of-2255 fair-trial resentencing ThIS CASE pRESENMPRtANt NATONWI SUESCONCERNiNg WhAtCONSESA UNDER 28 U.S. C.$2AS5. THEQUESTION, Of WhAT CONSTiTUTES "FUNCAMENTAL FAiRNESS" hAS GONE UN…
20-1439 Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus I. The district court denied Petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing because Petitioner's factual allegati…
20-7751 Efrain Lopez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial 1. Ih Petitioner's COA, Lopez challenged the U.S. District Court's adjudication of his claims that: -(l) he is actually innocent; (2) he did not recei…
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? D…
20-7692 Donald Violett v. John R. Grise Kentucky 2021-04-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence attorney-client-privilege civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus state-court-review void-judgment Based on new discovered evidence, can a State court convict and prison incarcerate Petitioner on dismissed and fabricated charges? Can the State cour…
20-7666 Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counse…
20-7653 Jeffrey Denton v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence procedural-gateway prosecutorial-misconduct trial-confidence Whether it can be presumed given the facts underlined in Schlup v Delo 513 US 298; 115 SC 851 (1995), Holland v Florida 560 US 631; 130 SC 2549 (2010)…
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DEFERRING TO THE DISTRICT COURT FINDING THAT PETITION ER ' SSCHLUP V DELO, "EXCEPTION" TO OVER COME THE PROCEDURAL BAR,…
20-7563 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution QUESTION ONE: WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE AN ORDER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND/OR STAY OF EXECUTION OF THE REMAINING UNLAWFUL SEN…
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim Titled Or Styled As: Ground Four - Argued as Ground Tw…
20-7470 Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure 1.) Whether a Brady/Giglio prosecutorial misconduct violation exists as a structural error, and if so, whether petitioner was denied a fundamentally f…
20-7439 Michael Luis Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o…
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…
20-7390 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni…
20-7392 James Jermaine Woodfork v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence appeals constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-claim oklahoma Did the Oklahoma Appeals Court violate Petitioner's 14th Amendment rule in a manner contrary to clearly established Court law by refusing to acknowled…
20-7395 Antonio E. Wills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den…
20-7328 Alberto Matias-Martinez v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan state-impediment statutory-limitations I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT Mr. MATIAS-MARTINEZ 'S § 2254 HABEAS APPLICATION WAS TIMELY FILED, OR IN THE ALTERNATE, THAT…
20-7330 James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error 1. Whether petitioners constitutional right to due process and his constitutional right to, "decide to proceed to trial or, plead guilty " was "denied…
20-7331 Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default Whether the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. United States. Whether petitioner's request for counsel was ineffe…
20-7322 Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions 1) Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 48, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery (Davis v. …
20-7279 Ong Vue v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to…
20-1121 James Saylor v. Taggart Boyd, Interim Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure due-process gateway-claim habeas-corpus standing summary-judgment 1. Whether summary judgment may be utilized to dispose of a federal habeas petition in light of AEDPA. 2. Whether a State's failure to address a gate…
20-7093 Noel Christopher Turner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins statutory-provisions 1. Are the lower Courts misinterpreting and applying the United States Supreme Courts decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924,…
20-7086 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it applied a death penalty sentencing Strickland review, in a non death penalty case, raising an actual innocence…
20-7030 Devaron Antoine Love v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual innocence to overcome a procedural default where he can show, based on a new decision from thi…
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas 2021-01-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution? If the criminal punishment of an i…
20-7000 Felix Brown v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim equity federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-default rule-60 1. In the context of a Habeas proceeding, does the United States Supreme Court require a showing of actual innocence in order to pursue an independant…
20-6919 Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion 1). Whether the court of criminal apeal's was invioaltion or not filing and ruling on all of this petitioner grounds of error that the Court of Grim…
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention…
20-6829 Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se 1. Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? 2. Whether the state-law procedures …
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Question not identified.
20-918 In Re Johnathon Kelly 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence ①. Does the petitioners "Wrongfully Excluded" actual innocence evidence allow the petitioner to gain review of his actual innocence claim under the Sc…
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Wktikar or got e latk) o courts *UM 17¢ 5ftvid ;101WA -crow iikip5114 avvi pro-i-gtkivi 4'1Q unctibiitu hand i wtpositiovi aid. ethei aloso (de. staii…
20-6581 Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable based on the standards for certificate of …
20-6547 David Franklin McNees, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURT'S ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN THEY MISAPPLIED THE LAW IN DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL AND GINTHER HEARI…
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co…
20-6448 Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden Third Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq…
20-6363 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and …
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.Does The State Lack Subject Matter Jurisdiction Under The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution? 2.Can The Petitioner Demonstrate …
20-628 Samuel Anstey v. Ralph Terry, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa arson-investigation due-process fire-science habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief summary-judgment Whether a petitioner whose conviction was based substantially on discredited arson investigation techniques can survive summary judgment under 28 U.S.…
20-597 Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error, such as a claim of ineffective- should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. …
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "C…
20-6048 David J. Godine, III v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification ninth-circuit pro-se-petition strickland-claim Petitioner David Godine sought leave in district court to amend his untimely pro se federal habeas petition with new claims. To excuse the untimelines…
20-497 Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner ("Azeez "), a colored citizen, knowing that he was falsely arrested and indicted…
20-6024 Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Defendant contend? that he i? being held on what what contend? to be a void judgement redured during a jury trial where the main witne?? who wa? al?o …
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise 2020-09-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a co…
20-5786 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause 1. Whether it amounts to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for the state courts to fail to consider claims from an individual with compelling …
20-5633 Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the district court committed error when it determined that newly presented evidence does not create for consideration under the Acosta factors…
20-5609 In Re Gary Wayne Barnes 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction can the claim of Actual innocence be reviwed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ans 22…
20-5496 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo Question not identified.
20-5518 Lewis J. Vance v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
20-5465 In Re Francisco Felix 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE, WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE CONSTRUCTI…
20-5451 Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution When Petitioning For Federal Habeas Relief a 2nd Time, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where "Conceding Guilt" Nevertheless Could Not Wa…
20-189 Robert Barnes v. Bill Stange, Warden Missouri 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gateway-claim habeas Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner had established a gate-way claim of actual innocence so that his defaulted constitution…
20-5387 Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-08-18 Denied IFP accessory-after-the-fact actual-innocence due-process guilty-verdict post-conviction-relief principal-crime Question not identified.
20-5342 Rigoberto Avila, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-standard conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony innocence post-trial-developments post-trial-review scientific-evidence 1. Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have prove…
20-5325 Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Where the State postconviction courts assessment of Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of counsel claim was "I guess the only potential issue would b…
20-5224 Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual …
20-5188 Adelso Barnes v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-exception criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-consultation miscarriage-of-justice plea-change right-to-counsel 1. Whether an affirmative statement that Mr. Barnes wished to remain in the county jail for the critical ten-day period entitles Mr. Barnes to the con…
20-5179 Alberto Guillen v. Patrick McTighe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-involuntariness witness-investigation 1) Is the complete failure to investigate potentially corroborating witness (the victim Roberto Guillen) be considered and accepted tactical decision,…
20-5163 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5127 Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
20-5060 Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act…
19-8656 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 1. Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated from the 10th Circuit's application of the actual innocence & miscarriage of justice st…
19-8483 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Does new evidence of actual innocence, discussed in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), require that it was not available at trial, as interpret…
19-8475 In Re Tarvares James Watson 2020-05-15 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTIONS RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT ? 2) WHETHER PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL RENDEREO INEFFECT…
19-8413 Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision Question not identified.
19-8346 Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding? 2. Does the…
19-8313 Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari In McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 393 (2013), the United States Supreme Court ruled: "a prisoner otherwise subject to defenses of abuse or succes…
19-8314 Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-8319 Tarvares James Watson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT?
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards The untrained pro se Appellant respectfully attempts to succinctly present from the trial record, compelling justiciable Constitutional reasons of err…
19-8206 Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment I. Should the State Courts be allowed to hide behind an alleged procedural bar when clearly the record of the case and the Petitioner's prima facie cl…
19-8207 In Re David Dwayne Brown 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review default-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-v-delo The issue(s) presented is based on a claim of actual innocence, supported by newly discovered evidence, the new evidence is not proffered as a "freest…
19-8186 Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU…
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar (1) When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursue…
19-8130 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction ISSUE ONE: CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO CORRECT SOUTH CAROLINA'S ERRONEOUS DENIAL OF EXTRAODINARY WRIT CHALLENGING THE SOUTH CAROLINA'S INADEQUATE POS…
19-8072 Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard 1. Whether it was at least debatable among jurists of reasons that petitioner established actual innocence, or at least warranted an evidentiary heari…
19-7913 Pooroushasb Parineh v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-remedies statutory-tolling (1) Pursuant to 28 USC 2244 & 2254 ? did the Petitioner file a timely (AEBPA ) Writ of Habeas Corpus/Pe tit ion from the State Court to Federal Cour…
19-7923 Barlow Smith v. Terry Kennedy Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process errors-made-by-court-of-appeals errors-made-by-district-court federal-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice no-evidence no-evidence-claim summary Under this Court's decisions is Petitioner actually innocent? When there is no evidence that a crime was committed, are conviction and sentence alone…
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
19-7861 Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering Whether the "actual innocence" gateway to federal habeas review applied in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 115 S. Ct. 851, 130 L. Ed. 2d 808 (1995), and…
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test (1) If Petitioner provided sufficient newly presented evidence for all reasonable jurors to conclude that he was "not guilty by reason of insanity"—wo…
19-7835 Miguel Rodriguez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc , 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the …
19-7792 In Re David Lopez 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE, WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE CONSTRUCTI…
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…
19-7710 George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings On the record in this case, the District Court erred in denying a writ of habeas corpus without a plenary hearing. When an application by a state pri…
19-7666 Donniel Woods v. Aaron Joyner, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holdin federal-habeas-relief herrera-v-collins independent-constitutional-violation newly-discovered-evidence state-criminal-proceeding actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-criminal-proceeding Has the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holding that claims of actual inno…
19-7562 Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation 1. b18-6662 (January 2019) 2. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016). 3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2…
19-946 William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of beyond all reasonable doubt and the innocence conviction occurred be…
19-7386 Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light …
19-7314 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied IFP acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses…
19-7316 Shawn R. Bough v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence corroborating-evidence due-process gateway-evidence precedent reasonable-juror self-preservation sixth-amendment timeliness I. Does the Sixth Circuit's failure to analyze the claim in consideration of the overwhelming corroborating innocence proof in Mr. Bough's case, in co…
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings New evidence establishes Petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust.
19-7274 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct wearry-v-cain witness-testimony I. Did the lower courts err in failing to properly review and conclude that the prosecution's withholding of exculpatory and impeachment evidence favo…
19-7256 Joseph Eugene Osborne v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute-of-limitations civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-predicate habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness 1. Do suspicions trigger AEDPA's statute of limitations even if they would be insufficient to state a factual predicate for a claim under AEDPA? 2. E…
19-7244 David Anson Alandt v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-01-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-claims constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding executive-clemency habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal According to Arkansas State Supreme Court Justice, Josephine L. Hart, There is no remedy in the Arkansas criminal court system which permits prisoners…
19-851 Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t…
19-7154 In Re Corey Devon Eaton 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve ISSUE I (A) WHETHER CONSTITUTIONAL, STATUTORY INFIRMITIES, AND VIOLATIONS OF RULE 11 MAY HAVE RENDERED COREY DEVON EATON'S PLEA AGREEMENT, AND HIS PL…
19-7155 Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation First Question: Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of authority, prohibits petitioner's 2…
19-7039 Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence belonging to the victim by the Respondent constitute a "Brady Violation" where…
19-7048 Bernardo Costa v. Missouri Missouri 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-criminal-procedure 1. Whether a defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of tr…
19-6987 Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo QUESTION ONE: Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis…
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was The Presiding Magistrate's Analysis So Flawed As To Warrent This Court To Reverse And Remand So That A Correct Legal Standard May Be Applied ? pg7…
19-6946 In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds 2019-12-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness 1) DOES Diruaya , 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), when the Petitioner was on Direct appeal of his 18 U.S.C. §I6(b) Unconstitutional and void argument under Vi…
19-6960 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution requires a person to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, only if he is presented or indicted by…
19-664 Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi…
19-6733 George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 Petitioner submits that this Honorable Court;s decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924, 185 L.Ed. 2d 1019 (2013) was a change i…
19-6708 Daniel Wert v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence administrative-remedy atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sandin-v-conners section-2241 standing A Writ of Certiorari should be granted to address the important and novel question of whether the district court had jurisdiction over the actual-inno…
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability after Petitioner made a substantia…
19-6566 Alexander Kates v. New York New York 2019-11-08 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-possession-of-a-weapon criminal-possession-of-weapon criminal-procedure due-process home-exception ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loaded-firearm penal-law penal-law-265.15(4) standing void-for-vagueness 1. tether New York State residents are always actually innocent of felony and attsipted felony criminal possession of a weapon offenses if they posses…
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Question number one of five Question number two of five Question number three of five Question number four of five Question number five of five
19-6441 In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default First Question: Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the "fundamental miscarriage of justice" exception under the C…
19-6251 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-fraud fraudulent-conviction habeas-corpus impeaching-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suborned-testimony witness-tampering wrongful-conviction Concealed impeaching evidence, 1" In Light oF ihe neuuly discovered Fraudulently exposing many Suborn Fraudulent" testimon admithd that Jurors wouldha…
19-6237 Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Respondent Daniel Redington, Warden, Northeast Correctional Center through counsel of record have been untruthful, in all the courts > denying Petitio…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one of the tried crime merely being in the quise a theory of crime of the Florida Statutes. and each are comple…
19-6123 Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error DOES THE FIFTH AMENDMENT COMPEL A COURT OF APPEALS TO REMEDY ITS INADVERTENT AFFIRMANCE OF UNRECOGNIZED STRUCTURAL ERROR THAT WAS APPARENT FROM THE RE…
19-6122 Jermaine Stevenson v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence presumption-of-innocence state-court-judgment void CAN A HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONER THAT IS PRESUMED GUILTY PURSUANT TO A STATE COURT JUDGMENT MAKE A SHOWING OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE WITH NEWLY DISCOVERED E…
19-6115 Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid…
19-5997 Robert Williams, Jr. v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-murder cause-of-death constitutional-rights death-certificate due-process forensic-evidence judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence skull-injury stab-wound x-ray Whether, in order to prove actual innocence, the cause of death, in a capitol murder case, had an affect on the judgment of the jury, and where Defend…
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing 1. Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appeal Is Jeffrey Harris entitled to a Pinholster Hearing to Drov „^ rhls ^ial Counsel, Robert S.…
19-5934 Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fyrfth Civeultr erred w affir ming the lewer tribunals ruling and denied petitroner 4 gateway tlaim ef a…
19-5912 Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO GRANT LEONS REQUEST FOR D.N.A, TESTiNG, BECAUSE DENIAL VIOLATES HISRIgHTTO DUE-PROCESS ANd EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE…
19-5914 Lena Lasher v. Roger Stavis, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence best-evidence-rule civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-defense due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-malpractice 1. Should a civil action be granted to proceed to correct the District Court's error where they misrepresented a precedent, Hoffenberg v. Meyers, and …
19-5911 Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does the "saving clause" of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a Congres…
19-5759 Travis Lavoy Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing and convicting District Court that cheried a constitutional right to trial, to a district to entertain/address, foreign the legal sufficieney of the c…
19-5729 Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel Flowers was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary based on an incident where two men robbed a massage parlor that had a history of prostitutio…
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent 1. Was DAVIS improperly included? (5th.Cir.) 2. Was PAXTON improperly dismissed? (W.D.Tex.) 3. Did PITMAN abuse discretion in disallowing Perkins's …
19-5659 Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution A federally funded, multi-jurisdictional Mortgage Fraud Task Force (Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant # 2009-SC-B9-0080) prosecuted 1,000 citizens, i…
19-5661 David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing 1. WHETHER THERE EXIST A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IN THIS CASE AND THE UNANIMOUS DE…
19-5667 John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; WH…
19-5569 Gary L. Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-review wrongful-conviction THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE. THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1998; (the jury found petitioner guilty 2 counts of murder in the first deg…
19-5551 Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest I. Is actual innocence of the crimes for which Petitioner was convicted and imprisoned a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? II. D…
19-5463 Jesse Dean v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley Whether the District Court had jurisdiction where Petitioner was indicted for acts which do not constitute a criminal offense? Whether Petitioner's c…
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction (LT) MISS isscppi, Colorado And Tuiinious All opanva thad ia Aa indeed men charg ing SEXsn| Battery , the Me Hod! of Achieving Serun] Penetratan is ir…
19-5433 In Re Steven Bleau 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment 1) Under circumstances involving a second collateral petition presenting an actual innocence claim; is Bleau deprived of his Constitutional Rights pro…
19-5375 Sean Daniels v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment WAS MR. DANIELS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL HAD TO BE REPEATEDLY REPRIMANDED BY THE TRIAL COURT FOR FAILING …
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules I. WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S HOLDING THAT THE PRO SE LITIGANT HAS ABANDONED ANY CLAIM(S) NOT RAISED IN AN APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL…
19-5321 John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules Does the "actual innocence" exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been…
19-5240 James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket. 2. Did the district court abuse its discretion by…
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings. II. The Petit…
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
19-5217 Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 GVR IFP ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY MAXIMUM…
19-5200 In Re Isidro Roman 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Was patitionar daniad affactiv3 assistanc3 of counsal balow th3 standard mandats of tha Unitad Statas Constitution Amandmant Six ? 2. Was patito…
19-5170 Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions FEPERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT EN VIOLATION OE THE U.S. CONSTZTUTION IF THAT CLAIM HAS NOT BEEN ADJUPICATEP BY THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT AND IS BESULTIN…
19-5131 Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations The question of whether the District Court properly applied the statue of limitations to Rackley's habeas petition in Respondent's first order by th…
19-5092 Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence court-of-appeals district-court gateway-claims habeas-corpus house-v-bell Did the district court and the court of appeals misapply this Court's holdings concerning habeas petitioners' gateway claims of actual innocence as de…
19-5051 Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus WAS ARIZONA ABSENT OF JURISDICTION OVER EVENTS THAT OCCURRED ON LANDS UNDER EXCLUSIVE FEDERAL AUTHORITY, AND INVESTIGATED EXCLUSIVELY BY AGENCIES UNDE…
19-5012 Frank Sarcona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-issues constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit err in relying on procedural bar instead of relying on the underlying constitu…
19-5007 Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility Question #1: The Northern District Court reasoned that because K.S. told ' other people (speculating what K.S. told other witnesses ), "there was ab…
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt 1. DOES THE WILLFUL AND SERIAL DENIAL OF ATTEMPIS TO DEMONSTRATE ACTVAL INNOCENCE, BY BOTH COURIS AND COUNSEL, PRESENT AT A MINIHUM, THE DEBATABLE QUA…
18-9846 Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
18-9822 Bryan K. Noel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a meaningful question presented actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidence-exclusion habeas-corpus penumbra wrongful-conviction wrongly-excluded-evidence Question One: Does the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus entail a penumbra of the Due Process of Law Protections when credible and reliable evidence …
18-9751 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa brady-violation castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman I-A-l) First Question ; Does the Appellate Court's obsecure Panel Denials, violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Prosess Question in Conflict…
18-9719 Jason M. Lund v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins ? And does the error warrant summary relief?
18-9690 Curt M. Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions Q1: Should a habeas petitioner's claims of actual innocence, supported by the face of the court record, be subject to deference of abusive or successi…
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims QUESTION 1 an extraordinary This Court holds that factual innocence equates to circumstance that overrides a statute of limitation. McQuiggin v. Perk…
18-9576 Alvin Weekly v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review 1. Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constit…
18-9540 Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year…
18-9481 Jerry Eugene Shrubb v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeal cerebellar-degeneration constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel miranda-violation petition-for-allowance-of-appeal sixth-amendment warrantless-search Has the Appellant been denied Due Process of Law in that no Court has reasonably observed the actual claims raised by the Appellant? Has the warrantl…
18-9475 Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual innocence claim establish cause to exc…
18-9278 In Re Edmond McClinton 2019-05-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct There was no probable cause for arrest. Petitioner has not been bound over for trial, thereforetrial court being without Jurisdiction for trial. Peti…
18-9289 In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike WHETHER PETITIONER IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR A THIRD-STRIKE SENTENCE UNDER 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)? WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCING WA…
18-9288 In Re Sherman Lamont Fields 2019-05-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Under Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. (1988) 486 U.S. 847, 100 L..Ed .2d 855, 108 S.Ct. 2194 ( A Judge(s) refusal to disqualify himself…
18-1433 Milton Balkany v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler In McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467, 111 S.Ct. 1454 (1991), the Supreme Court held that if a criminal defendant fails to raise a claim at a time when i…
18-9163 Phillip L. Horrell v. Michael D. Downey, Sheriff, Kankakee County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing voluntary-plea Question not identified.
18-9110 Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-05-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances WHAT SPECTRUM OF EVIDENCE IS REQUIRED TO PROVE ACTUAL INNOCENCE CLAIM? WHAT CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO A MISIDENTIFICATION IN AN ACTUAL INNOCENCE CLAI…
18-9076 Bobby Glenn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition herrera-v-collins mcguiggins-v-perkins mcquiggins-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar procedural-default Petitioner untimely first habeas petition for actual innocence claim is continue to be procedural barred to relief because petitioner discovered evide…
18-8993 Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence when a habeas petitioner serving li…
18-8972 Wardell Nelson Joiner, Jr. v. John Sutton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial false-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus schlup-standard schlup-v-delo time-of-death wrongful-conviction Did the courts below err in applying this Court's decision in Schiup v. Delo to hold that Petitioner's compelling new evidence, though presenting at t…
18-8967 In Re Larry L. Brinson 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence all-writ-jurisdiction all-writs constitutional-review constitutional-rights gate-keeping gate-keeping-order gatekeeping-order habeas-corpus jurisdiction successive-habeas-corpus successive-petition supreme-court-jurisdiction WHETHER THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS JURISDICTION UNDER HABEAS CORPUS AND ALL WRIT JURISDICTION TO REVIEW CIRCUIT COURT'S GATE KEEPING ORDER DE…
18-8872 In Re Samuel Lewis Surles 2019-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment I. PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FAILED TO RULE ON THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S APP…
18-8717 Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel DOES THE BLANKET DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUNCED IN SLACK V. MCDANIEL? DOES 28 U.S.C. § 224…
18-8705 In Re Keith Bryan Webb-el 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus human-rights illegal-confinement standing suspension-clause I. Whether, the Petitioner Webb-EL, a mentally ill Moorish-American Citizen, or any other State, or Federal Prisoner's, Title 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3) W…
18-8687 Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard (Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), does not require absolute cer…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE DECISION OF MCOUIGGIN V. PERKINS, 133 S.Ct. 1924 (2013) APPLIES RETROACTIVELY BECAUSE IT CHANGED DECISIONAL LAW AND WHETHER THE DECISION I…
18-8651 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…
18-8624 Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO MAKE A TIMELY OBJECTION OR FILE A PRETRIAL MOTION TO DISMISS A FATALLY FLAWED INDICTEMENT CANNOT VALIDATE A "CONSTITUTIONALLY…
18-8607 Johnnie Sterling v. Chuck Dwyer Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance manifest-injustice mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact procedural-due-process Should the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2642, where no reasonable Jurist would deny th…
18-8567 Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review Under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2), a state habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability ("COA") when he raises a "debatable" issue. Buck…
18-8546 Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD…
18-8449 Juan Bustos-Chavez v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi alibi-evidence due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review murray-v-carrier procedural-review Whether the actual innocence exception established by Murray v. Carrier, applies to alibi evidence; II. Whether, based on the alibi evidence submitte…
18-8356 In Re Steven Eason 2019-03-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions Cra the petitioner's Chan, that LAE conuretang aon JO have jucitdrctira ty prosedute him on count ¢ Of his indichaven? becauce the state dalaot charge…
18-8337 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…
18-8321 Noah Richard Lovell, III v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process free-standing-innocence-claim habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review signing-statement standing supreme-court teague-v-lane L SHOULD THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A FREE STANDING CLAIM OF INNOCENCE IS A CONSTITUTION…
18-8296 Keith Alexander v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-petition reasonable-doubt standing third-circuit-review Whether the Third Circuit was in error in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of Pro Se petitioner's arguments. Specifically, whe…
18-8252 Freddie Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mistrial structural-error Whether The United States District Court And The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Denied The Petitioner Relief Pursuant To The Issues Raised In A Petiti…
18-8182 Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and …
18-8155 Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed…
18-8100 Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions WheTher Senica Franklin's ConvicTion and Sentence should be reversed, and set asick based upon newly discovered evidence. SeDica FRanKlin's ConviCTiOn…
18-8022 Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation of the case, including discovery of the case, to discover that Commonwealth Attorney and …
18-1079 Javier Flores Gaytan v. Michael Hardee Fourth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-standard criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial summary-witness wire-recording May a State, consistent with due process, obtain a criminal conviction and 37-year prison sentence against a criminal defendant where the primary evid…
18-7821 Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSONS AND THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS CAUSE, IN ABSENCE OF A SIGNED FORMAL COMPLAINT? WHETHER M…
18-7747 Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability ("COA") articulated by this Court in such cases as Buck…
18-7731 Anthony Ciavone v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence competency-hearing court-jurisdiction due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defects supervisory-power 1. Whether Supervisory Power of this Court is necessary to investigate and correct an extrinsic fraud upon the lower courts where irrefutable evidence…
18-7681 In Re Erasmo Aguinaga 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court…
18-7578 Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings such as would represent deviation from the directives of t…
18-7581 Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 Question 1 The majority of the federal appeallate circuits conclude that § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to adjudicte a claim of actual innocence…
18-7495 Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952), were the Appellate Court has made 28 U.S.C…
18-940 Jamal Martinez Hancock v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence schlup-v-delo state-prisoner triggering-events Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial constitutes "new" evidence for purposes of the "actual-innocence" gateway that permits …
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT RAISING ISSUE OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE? DID COUNSEL LABOR UNDER A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a prisoner seeking to collaterally attack the legality of his sentence is required to do so in the district where the prisoner…
18-7373 Warren Ray Patton v. Texas Texas 2019-01-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief 1. Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected du…
18-7247 In Re Dennis Roger Bolze 2019-01-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining Question not identified.
18-7260 In Re Vernon Shawn Daniels, Jr. 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 4th-circuit actual-innocence due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause writ-of-certiorari Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court…
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment 1. Where a state trial judge summarily rejected, without a hearing, Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective because he induced Petitioner to w…
18-7200 Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo 1. Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense—even when no ne…
18-7188 Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation Ten years after Ian Davis was convicted of aggravated murder and felonious assault, the only alleged eyewitness to the crime admitted, in an unsolicit…
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent The only question in deciding whether to grant a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") is whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district c…
18-7060 Brian William Schumaker v. Hector Joyner, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process judicial-notice jury-instructions prudential-consideration theory-of-defense void-for-vagueness WHETHER the lower courts, hearing the petitioner's Constitutional claims of "actual innocence" and "theory of defense" instructions delivered to the t…
18-7028 Jameel Simpson v. James Erkerd, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction PETITIONER JAMEEL SIMPSON WAS DENIED HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE …
18-7022 Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder?
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether The Standard That Governs the AEDPA Provisions, 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(1), §2244(b)(2)(B)(ii), and §2244(b)(3)(A), is inapplicable To A Second Hab…
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Question 1. Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional …
18-6923 Donatos Sarras v. Unknown Party Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-motion suspension-clause I. IN A CASE INVOLVING two jury trials, a habeas record with multiple forensic and medical reports, and newly discovered evidence which in light of al…
18-6890 In Re Joseph C. Garcia 2018-11-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress 1. Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress …
18-6861 John Wilborn v. Kelly Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding probable-cause probable-cause-transcript prosecutorial-misconduct Where John Wilborn made an actual innocence claim, did the Commonwealth violate John Wilborn's rights by withholding the probable cause transcript fro…
18-6783 Gino Velez Scott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-giglio brady-violation due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-misconduct habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion Where a numerically-second § 2255 motion raises an actionable Brady/Giglio violation that (a) the government suppressed until after the conclusion of …
18-6769 Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center Missouri 2018-11-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief 1. Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourt…
18-6625 Darnell Bernard Blagmon v. Virginia Virginia 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitution recantation state-court state-court-procedure witness-recantation writ-of-innocence Virginia law provides for filing of a Petition for Writ of Actual Innocence (Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-327.10 (West)) in Virginia state court. Petitioner f…
18-6639 Stuart Dizak v. Brandon Smith, Superintendent, Mid-State Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy-charge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-notes perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct The 5tate court failed to return defendant to the courtroom upon receipt of two substantive jury notes; the second note requestiing the definition of …
18-6610 Mark Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition Question not identified.
18-6470 In Re Gary Malone 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions For the first time under the extraordinary rare facts of petitioner case where an district court Judge and a United States Circuit Judge both agree wi…
18-6511 In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy (1)WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXPAND THE FRAME-WORK DECIDED IN "UNITED STATES V. HAHN",IN THE TENTH CIRCUITS DETERMINATION OF A KNOWING AND VOLUNTARILY…
18-543 State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits …
18-6419 William L. Whipple v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct skinner-v-switzer Question not identified.
18-6397 Angel Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated and proceedings unfair considering that the Second Circuit granted both summary affirmance t…
18-6374 William Carl Welsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when…
18-6350 Zavien Brand v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts ALTHOUGH NOT ARGUED BY DEFENSE COUNSEL NOR NOTICED BY THE DISTRICT COURT DURING THE 28 U.S.C. §2255 PROCEEDING, WAS THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPE…
18-6332 Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding?
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents "compelling" new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits The criteria in 28 U.S.C.S. §2244(d)(1) is identical to 28 U.S.C.S. §2255(f). The former per this courts holding in MóQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383…
18-6146 Charles Neuman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause, …
18-6090 Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation DID THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT AND COMMON PLEAS COURT ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING WILLIAMS AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO REVIEW THE MERITS OF H…
18-6086 In Re Daniel Clate Acker 2018-09-24 Denied IFP 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the…
18-380 Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd Fifth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review 1. Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court. 2. W…
18-6054 In Re Michael Boone 2018-09-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe…
18-6033 Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-principles indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners ineffective-assistance post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-interference state-law-limits Through legislation. Tennessee Law makes it literally impossible for indigent non-capital petitioners to receive the effective assistance of post-conv…
18-357 Dragomir Taskov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and all the violations of his constitutional rights are barred simply as untimely and because of t…
18-5950 Artis Ryan Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-5971 Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62…
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction? Whether the withheld …
18-5888 Jared Morrison v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitation constitutional-violations deferred-adjudication due-process habeas-corpus mcquiggin-perkins mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice schlup-v-delo Question #1: Whether a Mcquiggin v. Perkins 133 s_ct 1924'(20,13) actual innocence gateway past the AEDPA 1-year limitation period default can be deni…
18-5867 Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review The United States Supreme Court distinguishes habeas petitions asserting claims of actual innocence as (a) cases where no constitutional error is alle…
18-5805 George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States err in Certificate of Appeal timely as untimely despite petitioner showing that extraor…
18-5785 In Re Clifford Winkles 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing WHETHER FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 22 IS APPLICABLE TO FEDERAL PRISONERS WHO ARE PROCEEDING UNDER STATUTES 28 U.S.C. § 2241 AND 28 U.S.C. § …
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Question No. 1: Dud the fifth Circuit Court of appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealibility ? Question No.…
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure 1. Was the federal Court required by Federal law to accept as true any of Petitioners factual allegations that were made and supported in federal cour…
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties 1. WHETHER THE STATE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER -42 PA. CONS. STAT.6501-6505, WHERE THE VALIDITY OF THE STATE STATUTES ON THE GROUNDS ITS BEING REPUG…
18-5507 Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing Is the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV6-2 (genital herpes) a medical, scienti…
18-5499 Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT FAILED TO HOLD AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON HABEAS CORPUS IF,AMONG OTHER FACTORS,TO DEVELOP THE FACTUAL BASIS FOR THE CLAIM IN ST…
18-5523 Chris Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-evidence false-testimony miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence new-reliable-evidence CAN A CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE GIVEN THAT THE STATE PRESENTED FALSE EVIDENCE AT TRIAL NAMELY PERJURED TESTIMONY FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND THA…
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Question not identified.
18-5472 In Re Alan James Hedrick 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013), permits a state court prisoner to rely on "actual innocence" as a gateway to pursue constitutional …
18-5392 Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United …
18-5356 Joaquin H. Ciria v. California Ninth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-procedure,fraud,rule-60(b),actual-innocence, fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-mechanism rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition timeliness IF A FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, RULE 60(b) MOTION ("Rule 60(b)") IS THE CORRECT PROCEDURE FOR RAISING CLAIMS OF FRAUD COMMITTED UPON THE COURT?…
18-5337 Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation Shawn Johnson was arrested inmg, in self-defense for shoot in grz jjYj a, k4 wccu#'$ He has credible evidence that he is actually innocent of this cri…
18-100 Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden Georgia 2018-07-23 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction 1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co…
18-5270 Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation Did the Fifth Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability (COA) because Deem fail…
18-5220 Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee an indigent Petitioner to the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of Counsel …
18-5215 Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings Did the 5th Cir. Ct. ignore that Det. Mends inferences identified petitioner as in co-possession of recent stolen property and thus implicated petitio…
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Question not identified.
18-5175 In Re Terrence Matthew Brown 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence exceptional-circumstances exculpatory-evidence false-information loan-application loan-applications mortgage-brokers mortgage-fraud subprime-lending subprime-mortgage underwriting-regulations underwriting-standards DOES PRESENT CASE DEMONSTRATE THAT SUBPRIME MORTGAGE LENDERS IN EARLY TO MID-2000'S SYSTEMATICALLY ABANDONED. UNDERWRITING REGULATIONS AND ENCOURAGED …
18-5157 In Re Jose Luis Arevalo 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED IN THE CASE OF AREVALO, BECAUSE HIS PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE…
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure 1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion …
18-5148 Marcus Blalock v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW; WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LAW OF THE CASE DOCTRINE FROM A PREVIOUS APPE…
18-30 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis In an application for a writ of error coram nobis should it be denied based on an unintentional time delay (where laches was not an issue) and the del…
18-5070 Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default THIS COURT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED THAT IN A NARROW CLASS OF CASES IMPLICATING A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE," (SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 298, 314-1…
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE RELIEF, INCLUDING MANDAMUS, FROM THIS COURT FOR A CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE WITH REGARD TO DOUBLE EX POST FACTO VI…
18-5059 David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when determining whether Certificate of Appealability should have been issued regarding th…
25A335 In Re Blaine Milam Denied actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science Question not identified.
24A349 Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas Texas Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment changed-science due-process forensic-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated Robert Leslie Roberson III's constitutional rights to due process and a meaningful opportunity to…