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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7338 Justin Panus v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-findings substantive-claims 1. Whether Petitioner was entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the grounds that the lower court failed to conduct an "Unreasonable Determinat…
21-1053 Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber Seventh Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference During Danny Wilber's jury trial in 2005 for fatally shooting a man at a party, Wilber became increasingly belligerent with the Milwaukee County Circu…
21-5582 Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the state court unreasonably applied this Court's precedents when it concluded that Evans's trial counsel was not co…
21-5138 In Re Willie S. Smith 2021-07-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal aedpa-review exceptional-circumstances finality-of-verdict habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review jury-verdict non-capital-case statutory-interpretation Whether transfer to the District Court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional non-capita…
20-988 Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson Third Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review Under Pennsylvania law it is well-settled that to be found guilty of First Degree Murder as an accomplice, a defendant must have the specific intent t…
19-8272 Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-04-16 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review capital-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court's reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel's p…
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard 1. Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doublydeferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis? 2. May a …
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is a state court objectively unreasonable, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), when it concludes that a capital defendant was not prejudiced by hi…