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25-1148 Parker C. Myslow v. United States Armed Forces 2026-04-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-error courts-martial entry-of-judgment second-amendment uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after ent…
25-6941 Steven Ingalls, Jr. v. Keith Vinardi, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standards constitutional-error criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-instructions mandatory-presumptions Did the federal courts sow conflict in the 'debatability ' standard for a habeas corpus petitioner to appeal, where the bases for denying relief plain…
25-6891 Juanito Marshall v. George A. Frederick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-presentation habeas-corpus harmless-error manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default 1. Whether a federal court violates the "party presentation principle " and exceeds its authority under United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1…
25-6800 In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez 2026-02-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying, sua sponte, the existence of …
25-950 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment I Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district court's grant of the writ based on ineffective assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio…
25-6728 Shannon Day v. Texas Texas 2026-02-05 Pending IFP constitutional-error court-records due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-interest 1) Did denying petitioner a full and fair hearing on his merits of newly discovered evidence, that was unavailable to him in Court Records, deprived h…
25A850 Jeffrey Dale Busby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-28 Application confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony forensic-evidence smith-v-arizona technical-reviewer Question not identified.
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…
25-605 James Maharg v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu…
25-580 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending Amici (2)Relisted (5) appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence 1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t…
25-5971 Jeffrey Rivard v. Vermont Vermont 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-motion probation-modification I. Whether the Vermont Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's right to file a pro se motion to vacate and modify probation based on newly discovered e…
25-516 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") prevents federal courts from granting habeas petitions for constitutional violations regar…
25A441 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review Whether police conduct a Fourth Amendment search of a home (thus requiring consent or a warrant) when they use a drug-detection canine to sniff the do…
25-5851 Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b…
25-5771 Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois Illinois 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact 1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de…
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…
25-5664 In Re Amy Bishop Anderson 2025-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error habeas-corpus new-evidence procedural-default specific-intent steroid-psychosis 1. ) Statement of the Case and exhaustion of claims pursuant to 28USC section 2254(b)(1)(A) as delineated in S.Ct. Rule 20.4(a). Where, in my petition…
25A28 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-protocol habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25A16 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-07 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error-review jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5018 Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error judicial-review sentencing-error Petitioner Lakeith Lynn Washington was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) to 180 months of imprisonment, despite the fact that the i…
24A1239 Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-06-13 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
24-6888 Russell Wayne Driver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24-6815 Tanner Lance King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24-6775 Edward Thomas James v. Florida Florida 2025-03-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency non-unanimous-jury Petitioner Edward Thomas James is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on March 20, 2025, based on a non-unanimous jury sentencing verdict…
24-720 Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-strike 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in ignoring a Motion to Strike the affidavit of attorney Steven Brill when that affidavit was submitted contrary to fe…
24-5963 Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure I. DID THE LOWER - COURT CLEARLY MISAPPLY UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT IN A MANNER THAT DENIED FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE, WHEN IT USED A SUFFICIE…
24A457 Tony Lamons Gooch III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-11-06 Denied constitutional-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24-366 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether, as several circuits have held, all Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors and subject to the harmless-error test from Neder…
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…
24-5612 Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2024-09-23 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-error due-process jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether due process of law requires reversal where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the prosecutor who prosecuted the case no long…
24-124 Brent Brewbaker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This prohibition cannot be applied literally …
24-5047 Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error Was Defendant 'Prejudiced' And Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Appellate Counsel On [Direct-Appeal] For Failing To Rais…
24-23 Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) certiorari confrontation-clause constitutional-error error-based-approach guilt-based-approach harmless-error sixth-amendment I. On the important question of how courts are to decide whether constitutional error is harmless, this Court has, since 1967, given inconsistent and …
23A1152 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se Question not identified.
23A1135 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se Question not identified.
23A1069 Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Presumed Complete bruton-rule codefendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-error harmless-error sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-7467 Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the panel of the Eighth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, 1 to apply a 2023, decision (Howell v. State.) 2 case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi 's proc…
23-7341 Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error.
23-908 Woojin Cho v. New York New York 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error due-process harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-possibility standard-of-review trial-procedure witness-credibility I. Is it constitutional error for a prosecutor in summation to express her personal belief that the defendant lied on the stand? II. In reviewing sum…
23-6504 Tormu E. Prall v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-error denial-of-counsel due-process habeas-corpus inequitable judicial-review lower-federal-courts rule-60(b) rule-60b 1. Is it a grievous wrong when the lower federal courts demonstrably misread and reshape a habeas corpus claim? 2. Is it time for the U.S. Supreme Co…
23A654 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Acting Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary Tenth Circuit 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial sentencing-review Question not identified.
23A613 Michael Jonathon Carlson v. Arizona Arizona 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error criminal-procedure fair-trial postconviction-relief supreme-court-review Question not identified.
23A591 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-ii circuit-split constitutional-error guilty-plea maritime-drug-law subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23A572 Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6301 Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing (1). Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res judicata to "Petition In Error" because Petitioner raised Constitutional error…
23-650 Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis of constitutional alternative theory error in jury instructions must decline to find the erro…
23-631 Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error Petitioners were charged with fraud offenses, all of which had as an element "intent to defraud" and most of which also had as an element "scheme to d…
23-6106 Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence To determine whether a criminal trial was unfair because of cumulative errors, does a court review whether the aggregate errors—both preserved and for…
23-6101 Kevin E. Chace v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards-of-review trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO CERTIORARI REVIEW BASED ON MULTIPLE ERRORS OF TRIAL COUNSEL THAT OCCURRED WHILE LITIGATING PETTIONER'S CASE
23-5996 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Relisted (9)IFP aedpa capital-sentencing constitutional-error death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance jury-argument jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence Lyndon Pace was convicted of four counts of malice murder in an Atlanta, Georgia trial. Thereafter, the prosecutor asked jurors to sentence him to dea…
23-5993 Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial …
23-5973 Richard C. Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cronic-standard due-process due-process-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-test strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic 1.) Has the Supreme Court overruled United States v. Cronic, eliminating the presumption that an accused has suffered Constitutional error without the…
23-5899 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error double-jeopardy fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense manifest-constitutional-error sanabria-rule sanabria-v-united-states trial-termination After the Government Concedes To Actual Innocence With Jeopardy Attached, and The District Court Terminates Jeopardy In the Substantive Offense Over D…
23-313 Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida, Board of Trustees, et al. Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process ex-post-facto injunction-order small-claims standing standing-to-appeal statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant (1) Whether an Injunction Order rendered under Florida Vexatious Litigant Law, Florida Statute § 68.093(2)(a), requires reversal where it is: (a) ap…
23-266 Javaar Yavonnie Kalem Watkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error The Constitution requires the Government to persuade a jury "beyond reasonable doubt" in order to sustain a conviction. Over Watkins' objection, the r…
23-5156 Markerrion D'Shon Allison v. Texas Texas 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony informant out-of-court-statement personal-knowledge testimonial-evidence witness-confrontation Whether a police officer's testimony relating an unidentified informant's outof-court statement regarding the meaning of the phrase "pulling a Carlos"…
22-7784 Demarcus Donte Ivey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine evidentiary-errors harmless-error standard-of-review When, on direct appeal from a conviction in a federal criminal trial, an appellate court identifies multiple evidentiary errors, should each of those …
22-7512 Eric Scott Kindley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2412 causation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence government-agents judicial-review jury-unanimity (1) whether the yuo vecds to be ua mous, tv Fide on elemats that are the causation oF de PAWATIOn UNVEZ IDUSC 2412, and where spect catly wetructinie …
22-7214 Miguel Angel Bacilio v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (a) Whether the trial court was legally convened and constitu ted with the provisions of the constitution and statute to remain a "Court of Competen…
22-7037 Mario Albert Villegas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 advisory-sentencing-guidelines constitutional-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington u-s-c-section-851 Whether defense counsel's failure to advise a client of increased sentencing exposure under 21 U.S.C. § 851, and failure to correctly calculate the ad…
22-6898 John L. Love v. Daniel F. Martuscello, III, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-error discretionary-review due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct relation-back strickland-standard unreasonable-application 1. Did the District court abuse its discretion under "unreasonable application" when petitioner Love's proposed amendment did "relate back" to the ori…
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…
22-710 James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling merits summary reversal where the court found constitutional error but deemed it harmless under the far less sea…
22-6546 Arty Marcel v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error fair-trial improper-amendment-of-bill-of-information ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Marcel was denied his right to a fair and impartial trial when the Court erred in allowing other crimes…
22-6534 Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review (1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the Fir…
22-6528 Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure 1. Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and 2.) Does th…
22-6491 Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification Due process prohibits any "suggestive and unnecessary identification procedure" that does not possess "sufficient aspects of reliability." Manson v. B…
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…
22-511 Thomas Dixon v. Texas Texas 2022-12-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause constitutional-error courtroom-closure crawford-doctrine crawford-v-washington due-process hearsay-confession hearsay-exception hemphill-v-new-york recantations sufficiency-of-the-evidence QUESTION ONE: Should Crawford be a one-way street? Contrary to Hemphill v. New York, __ U.S. __, 142 S. Ct. 681, 692-93, 211 L.Ed.2d 534 (2022), the t…
22-488 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo…
22-5871 Timothy Steel v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied IFP anders-v-california constitutional-error direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari 1. IS THE PETITIONER ENTITLED TO BE PROVIDED THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF SUCCESSOR COUNSEL IN ACCORD WITH DUE PROCESS OF LAW, THEREBY OVERCOMING THE O…
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement 1). If the record in this case contains two "written waivers" of counsel, and one request to proceed pro se by counsel, prior to voir dire. But, the r…
21-1585 Richard Arnold, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-error constructive-discharge due-process free-speech judicial-review navy-chaplaincy promotion-procedures religious-speech res-judicata retaliation retaliation-claims 1. Did the Court of Appeals commit constitutional error in holding that In re Navy Chaplaincy's denial of Petitioners' systemic challenges to the Navy…
21-8066 Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS V. DAYIS , 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 20…
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Magnitude by Not Considering petitioner Body Cam evidence which under Mive the case against petitioner, andanswers petitioners Sole resened aplWhhe n …
21-7811 Kushawn Miles-El, aka Kushawn S. Miles v. Michigan Michigan 2022-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-error constitutional-errors court-transcripts due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal structural-errors transcripts WHETHER PETITIONER S DIRECT APPEAL AS OF RIGHT SHOULD RE REINSTATED BECAUSE HIS DIRECT APPEAL WAS NOT ADJUDICATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DUE PROCESS…
21-7696 In Re Stephen Harmon 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights 1.) (?)- The Ninith Circuit Court of Appeals "lost" the Subject Matter Jurisdiction "Authority" and "resulting in" the Court "lacking of Subject Matte…
21-7694 Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme…
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment QUESTION #1). Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealibility where the record holds a clear showing…
21-1090 James Calvert v. Texas Texas 2022-02-07 Denied capital-trial constitutional-error due-process ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief presumption-of-innocence shock-cuff state-appeal Where a state's highest criminal court finds constitutional error but holds the record on direct appeal is insufficient to require reversal, does due …
21-6859 Jaquirro T. Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review plea-bargaining procedural-standard standing I. Whether acceptance of a guilty plea without establishing a crime against the United States constitutes a structural error that voids the subsequent…
21-6802 Tarvis Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-representation constitutional-error due-process fraud-practice fraud-upon-court fundamental-error judicial-misconduct manifest-injustice misrepresentation plea-change show-cause-order 1. Is it fraud practice upon the Court when an Assistant State Attorney misrepresents the facts of a Petitioner's Motion in their Response to a show c…
21-6772 Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire QUESTION NUMBER ONE: The Fifth Circuit has announced a newly created rule under the principle of "interpretati logica," and dclared: "Once a panelist…
21-6664 Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire First Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana In light of this Court's holding in Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275 (1993); and, Massaro v. United States, 123 S.Ct. 1690 (2003; as well as United…
21-6138 Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision Should the Court hold this petition pending disposition of Brown v. Davenport, No. 20-826, which will likely address how 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) and Brecht…
21-183 Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-09 Denied appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause, which in relevant part prohibits conspiracies "to defraud the United States," reaches any conspiracy whos…
21-5094 Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-13 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
20-8353 Russell Armfield v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP bruton-rule bruton-violation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-claim (1) If a ruling must be contrary to established Federal Law for A Defendant to receive relief, When there is no established Federal Law or Precedent t…
20-8286 Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1. Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent, where…
20-8075 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony This Court ruled that, before a federal constitutional error can be deemed harmless, the prosecution must establish by proof beyond a reasonable doubt…
20-8063 Darius Theriot v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP case-by-case-review constitutional-error federal-constitutional-error federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error state-court-ruling unpreserved-claim Whether a state court's ruling that an unpreserved claim of federal constitutional error does not meet the requirements of the "plain error" standard …
20-7787 Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling Jurisdiction for federal habeas? Why Appellant Constitutional error should be cognizable in a petition for Habeas Corpus? Whether errors by courts i…
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)…
20-7424 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-error due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari I. The Relief Sought - Reverse and Settle Personal Injury [ 9th Circuit FRAP 21(a)(2)(B)(i)] II. The issues (The Questions Presented for Review) [9th…
20-7229 Wanda Tubbs v. Jeff Long, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process litigation-rights motion-to-suppress standing tennessee-courts 1.Did the Tennessee courts violate due process by failing to let Wanda Tubbs litigate a motion to suppress in an asset forfeiture case?
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,…
20-6862 Montecarlos Gant v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers…
20-6714 Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers…
20-826 Mike Brown, Acting Warden v. Ervine Davenport Sixth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (3) 28-usc-2254(d)(1) brecht-test chapman-standard chapman-test constitutional-error federal-habeas-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-adjudication In Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), the Court held that the test for determining whether a constitutional error was harmless on habeas revie…
20-697 Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination When Petitioner, a Black man, was sentenced to death in a Texas federal courtroom after the prosecution struck four out of five Black prospective juro…
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. …
20-6171 Kenneth Emanuel Baptiste v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP capital-murder capitol-murder constitutional-error due-process fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions reconsideration severance-motion stolen-property trial-procedure Was instructing the Jury with CALJIC No. 2.15 in error.and denied the Petit ioner "Due Process" of Federal Constitutional Demensions .Because he was b…
20-5844 Horacio Santamaria, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT…
20-5748 Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court 1. Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports crimina…
20-5699 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex'Parte Motion "F…
20-5453 Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t…
20-5231 S. T., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Vermont 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare constitutional-error due-process family-law harmless-error parental-rights termination May the State of Vermont, along with a minority of other states, apply the "reasonable probability" harmless error standard in assessing due process e…
20-89 Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i), a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application must be dismissed before a hearing on the me…
20-5157 Denard Stokeling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th…
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.
20-5003 Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8581 Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an …
19-8440 Katherine O'Neal v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment In determining whether constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless, should a reviewing court focus on whether the error contributed …
19-8388 Terrence Jamal Williams v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied IFP constitutional-error courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment waiver-doctrine weaver-v-massachusetts Whether counsel's failure to object to the closure of the courtroom because he did not want to draw attention to his conduct meets the Weaver v Massac…
19-8360 Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland Ninth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony Is it lawful to have a witness testify in a case where they have NO Direct knowledge of the facts? Can a State Court Joinder of Dissimilar charges, w…
19-8331 Jose A. Rodriguez v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP constitutional-error constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felony-offense grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance penal-law right-to-counsel 1. Whether the State Court constructively amended the indictment which charged petitioner on September 1, 2009 through September 1, 2010, before the N…
19-8267 Jon Cascella v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony 1. Whether permitting a blanket claim of Fifth Amendment privilege and total exclusion of a confidential informant's testimony without independent inq…
19-7850 Bobby Drew Autry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-error due-process false-imprisonment final-judgment habeas-corpus plea-bargain statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Does the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996; one year statute of limitations as quoted in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) ".final…
19-7779 Freddy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2020-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review A jury convicted Freddy Garcia for a felony arising from a different incident than the one for which he was indicted. The State gave no pretrial notic…
19-7603 Mark D. Jensen v. William Pollard Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-error constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy retrial trial-rights The federal courts found that his wife's voice-from-the-grave letter violated Jensen's confrontation right and granted his habeas petition, ordering t…
19-7480 David Paul Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error when it focused its harmless error analysis solely on the weight of the u…
19-7353 Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied IFP brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions Whether Petitioner filed "a second or successive " application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or…
19-6907 Robert Hendricks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c…
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Under the Laws and Rules of Res Judicata, ole if an issue was been litigated on and decided by the Court, would the Wish Court be departing from the e…
19-6857 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP brady-and-progeny brady-claim brady-claims-review constitutional-error due-process fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus judicial-duty pervasive-effect-of-errors prejudice-analysis preservation preservation-doctrine preservation-of-issues totality-of-evidence totality-of-the-evidence An utterly corrupt law enforcement officer tainted the guilt and sentencing stages of Mr. Goode's trial. The courts have never fully evaluated Goode's…
19-573 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe…
19-449 In Re Arthur Edward Ezor 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment writ-of-mandate 1. Was it was a denial of procedural and substantive due process for the lower Court to not order dismissal of the subject criminal case with prejudic…
19-5810 Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship Mr. Dejesus alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury instruction that effectively aided the state to surpass the…
19-5686 Ronnie L. Payne v. United States District of Columbia 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt WAS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVELY UNREASONABLE WHEN HE DID NOT OBJECT TO THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAULTY REASONABLE-DOUBT INSTRUCTION DIRECTING THE…
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Appellate count committed a manifest of Constitutional error by failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article il subsecti…
19-5262 Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth…
19-5274 Anthony James Hill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth…
18-9834 Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge 1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac…
18-1571 Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas Kansas 2019-06-24 Denied Response Waived automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Kansas Supreme Court Who Affirmed the Remand Court's Analysis and Findings on Moyer'sCounsel's Effectiveness under Strickland v. Washingto…
18-9416 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether the District Court judges order of denial, denying petitioner's habeas petition and grounds, to the Honorable Robert L. Windle aforementioned …
18-9382 Joshua Wofford v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review Whether the federal court of appeals, while determining whether potential constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt pursuant to the …
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment The State expert witness Dr. Emile Laga testified before the grand jury concerning his findings of the autopsy of the murder victim and the state secu…
18-8997 Troy Williams v. Florida Florida 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief The Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon a "Brady…
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…
18-8889 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process initial-appearance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic The question of whether an initial appearance can be a critical stage is a case of first impression on this Court. Criminal defendants from every Stat…
18-8877 Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if the District Court committed a Constitutional error by dismissing Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus as …
18-8855 Eric A. Hicks v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding…
18-8652 Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated when the Nevada Supreme Court incorr…
18-8565 Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas Texas 2019-03-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington IF A TRIAL ATTORNEY'S FAILURE TO OBJECT TO THE OMMISION OF A REQUIRED INSTRUCTION FROM THE JURY CHARGE RAISES THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON DIRECT APPEAL, WH…
18-8132 Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence During Petitioner Anthony D. Phillips state appellate court proceedings., the appellate panel addressed several constitutional errors and determined t…
18-7774 Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington I WHETHER PETITIONER BOYETT WAS DENIED EFFECTINEASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL UNDER THE SIXTA AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE CNRLUIT OPINION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY EST…
18-7679 Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol…
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 …
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1. Are the sentencino proceedinos that was found to be urconstitutionel made to be invalid? 2. Did the 'trial court ebuse its discretion by refusinn …
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du…
18-7337 Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue GROUND ONE: Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia "abuse its discretion" and commit 'clear err…
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Where there exists intra and inter-circuit splits among the federal courts of appeals on a question of exceptional importance concerning "structural e…
18-6882 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a…
18-6851 Steven Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing appeal-waiver constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Can an appeal waiver executed at the time of a defendant's plea waive the right to appeal constitutional error occurring at sentencing months after ex…
18-6240 Darryl Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c…
18-6046 Michael Skillern v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud DID THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER PROHIBITING DEFENDANT SKILLERN, FROM CONFERRING WITH TRIAL COUNSEL DURING AN OVERNIGHT RECESS, REGARDING DEFENDANT SKIL…
18-343 Raiden J. Andrews v. United States Armed Forces 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments.
18-5938 Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence 1.) Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with…
18-298 Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard I. Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Ca…
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…
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
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…
18-5447 David V. Rock v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error due-process enhancement evidence habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1.) O.R.C.2901.45(A)..every person accused of an offense is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and the burden of proof i…
18-5230 John Parker Murphy v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,…
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-11 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL ERROR THAT CONFLICTS WITH UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS WHERE STATE COURTS FOUND A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING STATUTE …
18-50 Linda Carty v. Texas Texas 2018-07-09 Denied Amici (3) brady-violation brady-violations capital-case capital-murder constitutional-error constitutional-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process habeas-review heightened-scrutiny strickland-standard strickland-violation 1. Whether the Constitution requires a court on habeas review in a capital case to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional…
18-5079 Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California California 2018-07-03 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Did the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violate the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth, …