credibility-findings

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence I. Whether the Sixth Circuit, after applying a blanket rule of deference, erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings when reviewin…
22-982 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Danny Lee Jones Ninth Circuit 2023-04-10 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (9) capital-case capital-punishment credibility-findings district-court district-court-deference habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review strickland strickland-standard Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the dis…