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25-51 Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Granted Relisted (11) aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of "nuance" and "exhausti…
24-6798 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an…
24-797 Scott Speer, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. v. Jeffrey Weller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived aedpa-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-review state-court-adjudication 1. Whether the state courts adjudicated the merits of the claim for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when the state courts expressly cited to this Cour…
24A618 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-prisoner Question not identified.
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…
24-5018 Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct QUESTION ONE: Every federal judge reviewing Maureen McDermott's prosecutorial misconduct claim (four judges, including the district court and each ju…
23A970 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining Question not identified.
23-5637 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions Question #1: Did the fifth Circuit err by denying a COA for failure to properly consider the F.R.C.P.60(b)(6)under the framework in which successive p…
22-600 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-standard brady-claim brady-rule exculpatory-evidence gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus napue-claim napue-rule panetti-v-quarterman Is the stringent second-and-successive gatekeeping standard under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b), which some circuits have applied to after-acquired Brady/Napue …
22-6160 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony This case involves an unprecedented public-trial violation claim like no other brought before this Court. The record here reflects, that during a jury…
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of the Second and Ninth Circuits, when it held that this Court's decision in United St…
21-6101 Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent (1) When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition based upon an inproper standard of review; (Harrington v. Richter…
21-5276 William H. Bransford v. Dan Winkelski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard appellate-counsel civil-commitment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining 1. Should pre-A-EDP-A standard of a 2.8 4-.§2254 petition apply when an indigent defendant has been U.S.C. constructively abandoned by appointed appel…
20-8170 Ronnie Ray Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea judicial-discretion recusal statute-of-limitations Whether the state's adjudication - or lack thereof- of Petitioner's Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) Motion, Tennessee Rules of Criminal …
20-7813 Richard Allen Benson v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-21 Dismissed IFP aedpa aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence prima-facie state-law 1. When a federal habeas court examines for reasonableness a silent state court habeas denial pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (AEDPA) and Harrington v…
20-1084 Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (8) aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court.
20-5956 Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the…
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-5986 Brian Whitaker v. Florida Florida 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa aedpa-standard arbitrary-governmental-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief procedural-bar Do the guarantees of equal protection and due process of law, per the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution; extend to ind…
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is a state court objectively unreasonable, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), when it concludes that a capital defendant was not prejudiced by hi…
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b 1. Does this Court's decision in Gonzalez v. Crosby completely foreclose a habeas petitioner from obtaining Rule 60(b) relief arising from a demonstra…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Dismissed 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…
18-1181 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Relisted (2) aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent At Ahmad Issa's 1998 trial, two witnesses described statements that their friend (and Issa's accomplice) made to them about Issa's involvement in a mu…
18-7792 Anthony Donato v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-violation brady-violation-disclosure circuit-court-split constitutional-disclosure constitutional-due-process due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit-decision second-or-successive successive-habeas-petition Whether The Second Circuit's Decision That Petitioner's Second-In Time Brady Claim Is Successive Conflicts With Applicable Decisions Of This Court? W…
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel…