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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5932 | Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2025-10-22 | Denied | IFP | choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an error of the most fundamental character, properly before t… |
| 25-5786 | Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-10-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review | I. Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and then rigidly applying a post-conviction custody re… |
| 25-85 | Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver | 1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec… |
| 25-5008 | Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines | 1. DESPITE THE RECORD SHOWING THAT PETITIONER IS FACTUALLY INNOCENT OF DISTRIBUTING MORPHINE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT C… |
| 24-7393 | Walter Aceituno v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis effective-assistance-counsel immigration-consequences padilla-standard permanent-ban sixth-amendment | 1) Mr. Aceituno, a lawful permanent resident, was advised by his attorney that as a result of his guilty pleas to aggravated felonies in a drug case, … |
| 24-7114 | Daniel Flint v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy | 1. Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is "in custody," even though no other statutory remedy is available … |
| 24-1037 | Antoine Douglass Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | confidentiality-statute coram-nobis judicial-review personal-jurisdiction records-disclosure statutory-immunity | If a program or person holding the records invokes the Confidentiality or records statute (42 U.S.C. § 290dd-2), by presenting evidence under 42 C.F.R… |
| 24-957 | William Stenger v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Amici (1) | article-three circuit-conflict coram-nobis jurisdictional-inquiry restitution-order statutory-jurisdiction | Article III requires federal courts to confirm their jurisdiction over a case before adjudicating its merits, whether that jurisdiction is "constituti… |
| 24-6191 | David Godwin Frank v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review coram-nobis ineffective-assistance judicial-precedent procedural-delay writ-of-error | Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling, affirming the district court's decision denying Mr. Frank's petition for writ of error coram nobis on the ground t… |
| 24-544 | Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error | 1. Whether, in conflict with the opinion of this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has improperly limited the post-conv… |
| 24-5108 | Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error | 1. Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a 'civil disability'— that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, … |
| 23-7752 | Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit | The Sixth Circuit violated Mr. Brown's due process rights by concluding that his right to file a coram nobis petition fell within the scope of his app… |
| 23-1309 | Karnail Singh v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-plea-agreement coram-nobis corum-nobis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement relief sixth-amendment | Whether the denial of corum nobis relief was erroneous given that Petitioner suffered ineffective assistance of counsel. Whether the facts constitute… |
| 23-6640 | Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata | Did South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion, affirming South Dakota Fourth Judicial Circuit Court 's dismissal of Petitioner 's Petition For W… |
| 23-121 | Patrick Shin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error | 1. Whether a district court may require an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of coram nobis in a criminal case, and, if so, whether the … |
| 22-7745 | James William Walker v. Montana | Montana | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan | Did the Judicial Branch of Montana in denying Petitioner the opportunity for relief under Precedent Holding United States v. Morgan, 346 US 502, (19… |
| 22-1124 | Christian Gilbert Tony Nadal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights coram-nobis declaratory-judgment due-process federal-question fraud habeas-corpus machine-gun-regulation machine-guns second-amendment silencers | 1. Are catalogues given to Petitioner ie: Global Sales Limited and Shotgun News fraudulently advertising for sale illegal machinegun and silencer kits… |
| 22-7543 | Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment | Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes valid reasons … |
| 22-6980 | In Re Michael Blodgett | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amg-v-ftc coram-nobis criminal-conviction due-process frap-rule-21 judicial-error mandamus mandamus-relief restitution stare-decisis vertical-stare-decisis | Where the record reveals uncontested facts that the Eighth Circuit ("Circuit ") finally dismissed a Writ of Mandamus on April 7, 2022 that documented… | |
| 22-485 | Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v… |
| 21-8166 | Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | A federal ex-prisoner, has the right to present a "fundamental error" byway of a writ of coram nobis, involving newly discovered evidence, pursuing wi… |
| 21-7373 | Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis | 1. Whether or not Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system when his post-conviction efforts were summarily denie… |
| 21-7143 | Johnny Brett Gregory v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1651 constitutional-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge petition-rights post-conviction-relief supervised-release writ-of-certiorari | Does a former federal prisoner serving a term of supervised release have a Constitutional right to avail themselves of a Writ of Coram nobis remedy un… |
| 21-7125 | William F. Kaetz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure coram-nobis criminal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 writ-of-coram-nobis | 1. Federal rules of civil procedure Rule 60 and a Writ of Coram Nobis both can be used to set aside a judgment, one is for civil cases, and one is for… |
| 21-5806 | Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt | 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram nobis relief should remain unresolved. 2. Whether the test used by the 1st circui… |
| 21-5785 | Gregory Albert Darst v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights coram-nobis due-process irs-records judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing | Question 1. Does a pattern and practice exist whereby appellate courts refuse to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of unrepresented litig… |
| 20-1710 | Zafar Bakhramovich Yadigarov v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-writ appellate-procedure coram-nobis delay due-process judicial-discretion legal-diligence legal-standards procedural-standard sound-reasons writ-of-error | As petitions for writs of error corum nobis are not subject to any formal deadlines nor any statutes of limitations, the nation's courts generally den… |
| 20-1656 | Carmen Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release | May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis? |
| 20-1528 | Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment | 1. Whether The Court Of Appeals In A Coram Nobis Proceeding Denies A Criminal Defendant Due Process Under The Fifth Amendment To The United States Con… |
| 20-1301 | Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief | 1. Whether, and to what extent, United States v. Morgan, 346 U.S. 502 (1954) fashioned the writ of coram nobis to incorporate the former federal equit… |
| 20-7007 | Vernon Allen Collins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing | I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ADOPTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COURT DISPOSITIVE PROCEDURAL CONCLUSIONS ERRED IN HOLDING COLONS HAD FAILED TO PROVE ARTICLE … |
| 20-6395 | Howard Griffith v. New York | New York | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification | Doe v Pataki, 3 F.Supp.2d 456 (SD NY 1998) provides that the People carry the burden of proving the facts to support the recommended registration clas… |
| 20-6076 | Harold Pena v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis due-process indictment-defect jurisdiction-errors jurisdictional-error marpol-violation material-evidence material-evidence-suppression summary-affirmance | 1.- What is the appropriate standard of review, when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal improperly and controversy, Grants the Government's Motion f… |
| 20-5225 | Dion Alexander v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver clearly-erroneous coram-nobis garza-v-idaho plea-agreement type-c-plea | Attorneys and judges often misunderstand Type-C plea agreements. When the parties agree to a sentence under Rule 11(c)(1)(C), their agreement is not e… |
| 19-7534 | Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct | WHETHER THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT'S REFUSAL TO REINVEST JURISDICTION IN THE TRIAL COURT T TO CONSIDER PETITIONER SCOTT'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF ERROR C… |
| 19-7269 | James Patton Robertson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process federal-law frivolous frivolous-claim judicial-review statute-of-limitations summary-disposition transactional-immunity | 1. A petition for the ancient writ of Coram nobis calls for an adjudication of the facts as well as the law. The District court dismissed the action a… |
| 19-848 | Patrick Shin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1001 coram-nobis decisionmaker-influence escobar-clarification false-statements fraud fraud-prosecution materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar | The federal False Statements statute expressly applies only to a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry. The Circuits disagree… |
| 19-7008 | Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis | WHETHER DEPORTATION AUTHOMATICALLY ENDS AN IMMIGRANTS IMPOSED SUPERVISED RELEASE? IF COURT WAIVES COURT SUPERVISION UPON DEPORATION IS ALIEN "IN CU… |
| 19-6886 | Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief | Q.1 DOES COMMONWEALTH V. DESCARDES, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) VIOLATE FEDERAL PREEMPTION IN FOREIGN POLICY AND IMMIGRATION LAW? Q2. ARE THE FOLLOWING P… |
| 19-664 | Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis | 1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi… |
| 19-6572 | Derrick Hills v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-proceeding coram-nobis criminal-matter federal-criminal-matter federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge united-states-v-morgan | Whether Rule 12(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is applicable to coram nobis civil proceedings that challenge jurisdiction in a feder… |
| 19-6461 | Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors | (0). TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT A WRIT OF ERROR CORAM NOBIS PETITION CAN BE BARRED UNDER THE TWO PRONG TEST UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF A LACHES DEFENSE TH… |
| 19-6049 | Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment | Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted for the following Claims/Issues : 1, Whether fact of an Actual Loss Amount, which sets the m… |
| 19-130 | In Re Randolph George | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus | In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti… | |
| 19-5287 | Robert Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli… |
| 18-9783 | Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining | 1-Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appea… |
| 18-9517 | Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure | Sam Pope, as elected prosecutor for Arkansas's Tenth Judicial District, brought charges against Kenneth Isom three times in the span of 13 months. Iso… |
| 18-9454 | Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-05-31 | Denied | IFP | aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA… |
| 18-9260 | Frederick E. Braxton v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause eyewitness perjury trial-judge witness-credibility | Is Due Process and/or Equal Protection Clauses of the XIVth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violated when the sole eyewitness to a crime is the vic… |
| 18-1385 | Ruben Delhorno v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis | In Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment imposes on attorneys representing non-citizen criminal defendant… |
| 18-9124 | Garland D. Miller v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 | DOES JURISDICTION EXIST TO CORRECT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AT ANY TIME. |
| 18-8382 | Guy Ennis Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez, 132 S. Ct. 2357 (2012), which found the false speech and writing subsection of the Stolen V… |
| 18-6846 | Luis A. Pena v. Maryland | Maryland | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness | I. Whether The Maryland Appellate Courts In Concluding Pena Failed To Sustain His Burden Of Proving He Did Not Voluntarily And Knowingly Enter A Guilt… |
| 18-417 | W. Scott Harkonen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents "compelling" new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the … |
| 18-253 | Michael Felix v. New York | New York | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis | I. Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment? Whether a cou… |
| 18-5701 | Stephen Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis | DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL WHEN ITS DISMISSAL RESTS ON A BOILERPLATE ORDER STATING ONLY THAT 'PETITIONER'S APPEAL LA… |
| 18-144 | Keith Byron Baranski v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility | After being released from custody following a conspiracy conviction, Keith Baranski challenged his conviction by filing a petition for writ of error c… |
| 18-30 | Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis | In an application for a writ of error coram nobis should it be denied based on an unintentional time delay (where laches was not an issue) and the del… |
| 18-5100 | Ras Rahim v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme | Is Heflin, 358U.S. 415, 3 L. Ed. 2d. 407, 79 S. Ct. 451 (1959), still the controlling precedent? Herein, this court held that the text of 28 U.S.C. 22… |
| 18-14 | Carlos Donjuan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness | The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in review, sustained the Federal District Court Judge's (FDDJ) denial of Petitioner's Petition for Wr… |