| 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… |