| 24-460 |
Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power |
Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou… |
| 23-1364 |
Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power |
Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou… |
| 23-6713 |
Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st… |
| 23-805 |
Christopher Paul George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t… |
| 22-834 |
Harshad Shah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel |
In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 580 U.S. 206 (2017), this Court again condemned the use of racial animus in the sexual assault trial of a Mexican man, … |
| 22-6153 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review |
1. What is the correct mechanism and procedure which would allow
a petitioner to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court pursuant
to Miller … |
| 22-5736 |
Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
I.
Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying
Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order
to compel discovery wh… |
| 22-5259 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent |
1. Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") in disregard of the rule announced in Buck v Dav… |
| 21-7837 |
Cedric D. Burns v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing |
1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding
the merit of an appeal not properly before the court
to justify the denial of a certificate of … |
| 21-7262 |
Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas-proceeding federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-60(b) |
Davis / 1: Whether this Court's decision in Buck v. QUESTION No.
137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) foreclosed the Petitioner's argument that
a COA is not required… |
| 21-6585 |
Freddy Crespo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic… |
| 21-527 |
Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
|
aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute |
1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States Abandoned its own precedent in Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886),… |
| 20-644 |
Terrence Pendergrass v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal |
I. Contrary to the holding in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of app… |
| 20-6184 |
I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit |
I. WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATED BUCK V. DAVIS, 580 U.S.__, 137 S.CT. 759, 197 L.ED.2D 1 (2017) WHEN IT DENIED A CERTIFICATE OF … |
| 19-8291 |
Willis J. Yazzie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the merits of… |
| 19-7503 |
Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-6934 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) moti… |
| 19-6106 |
Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order |
Whether a 1½-page order that su mmarily denies a certificate of appealability
without any analysis of the facts and the law in a murder case satisfies… |
| 19-5711 |
Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings |
Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon… |
| 19-5171 |
Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
At M r. Sal daño's first death penalty trial, in 1996, a n expert for th e State of
Texas testified that Mr. Sa ldaño wa s more likely to present a fu… |
| 19-5069 |
Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOLLOWED THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN BUCK V. DAVIS, EXPLAINING THAT THE COA STAGE IS NOT COEXTENSIVE WITH A … |
| 18-9453 |
Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciottas appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct.… |
| 18-9443 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
I.
The Sixth Circuit conmitted plain error, contrary to Buck v. Davis,
137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) and Miller-E1 v.
v
Cockre11, 537 U.S. 322 (2003).
because … |
| 18-9264 |
Robert Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence |
DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER. |
| 18-8935 |
Scott B. Miserendino, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law bribery-conviction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act question-not-identified section-2255-petition standing takings |
Does the Fourth Circuit's Local Rule 34(b) and Preliminary Briefing Order, which require COA applicants to file a brief that will become the merits-br… |
| 18-8891 |
Warner Bernard Crider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit |
Crider Filed Under § 2255 fostering several issues warranting a certificate of appealability. To Crider's dismay the Sixth Circuit denied all of issue… |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8259 |
Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Gty Was Initially represented by counsel when he filed his § 2255, and application for a certificate of appealability The Court below along with the t… |
| 18-7809 |
James Were v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc… |
| 18-7741 |
Robert Sills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability ("COA") wasimproper where it sidestepped the CO… |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7… |
| 18-7048 |
Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY FAILING TO ASSES THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES PRESEN… |
| 18-6572 |
Douglas Wayne Thompson v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment buck-v-davis civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6-relief trial-tactics |
No.1 -- Whether or not because this case was filed pursuant to this Court's rulings in Buck v Davis, Martinez, and Trevino for Rule 60(b)(6) relief, i… |
| 18-6235 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review |
Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El. v. GockreU. 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), it is sufficient for purp… |
| 18-6024 |
Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit |
(1) Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contrevene Buck. v. Davis,85 U. S.L.WI 4037,2017 BL :54115 (U.s.2/22/17) because the 3rd Circuit … |
| 18-6010 |
Babubhai Patel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep [the COA] process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application by first deciding the merits of an ap… |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-5871 |
Samuel Posa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process eleventh-circuit self-representation tharpe-v-sellers |
1.) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability relying on incorrect facts offered by the… |
| 18-5727 |
Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell |
I. Whether Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012) requires
importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context, such that it
alters thi… |
| 18-5716 |
Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law |
Ray had a claim that was "reasonably debatable" by "jurists of reason Sineee a reasonable legal argument could have been made. The district court and … |
| 18-5597 |
David E. Miller v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis capital-punishment civil-rights due-process federal-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan rule-60b6 trevino-v-thaler |
Under Buell v. Davis, does the change in law announced in Martinez and Trevino, when coupled with a particularly substantial deprivation of a capital … |
| 18-5522 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition |
whether the United Stater District Court of Northern California abused ito discretion by construing Pettioners Federal Rules of Civ.l Procedure Rule 6… |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. … |