| 25-6447 |
Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety |
1. How isn't an official being responsible for an inmate 's death not a basis for suing them??
2. If it is possible to hypothesize a set of facts cons… |
| 25-6230 |
McKinley Kelly v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure |
Whether the sentencing procedure mandated by Indiana Code Sec. 35-38-l-7.1(A) and utilized by the state trial court in imposing Kelly 's sentence, whi… |
| 25-6120 |
In Re Steven Michael Backstrom |
|
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
1- a) Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be
material facts and/or witnesses, constitute federally defined
ineffective assistanc… |
| 25-5370 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty ineffective-assistance neuropsychological-evidence sentencing-procedure |
After a questionable conviction, Kayle Bates has twice been sentenced to death. His first death sentence was reversed on collateral review for ineffec… |
| 25-5129 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency |
Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common … |
| 24-7259 |
In Re Kenja Omari Deangelo Carmichael |
|
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health-examination prisoner-rights |
1.Is it unconstitutional for a prisoner or detainee to recieve creel unsual punishment by staff 24 hours aday everyday being tortured and harrassed ,b… |
| 24-6803 |
Vincent Giattino v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment due-process plea-deal sentencing-relief sixth-amendment trial-penalty |
The novel question of national significance in criminal cases presented to this Court is:
1. Whether the lower courts erred in not finding that an "e… |
| 24-6748 |
Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing |
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual pu… |
| 24-928 |
Zackery Terrell v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suggestion-of-reconsideration |
I. Whether the denial of the Applicant's Suggestion of Reconsideration violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment i… |
| 24-6356 |
RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles |
1. Whether sentencing RonAllen Hardy to life without parole, despite his
being 18 years and 5 months old at the time of the offense and developmental… |
| 24-167 |
Tim Makoto Nukida v. California |
California |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment csaas-testimony due-process eighth-amendment expert-witness |
1. State courts of last resort are intractably divided over the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS). Should certiorari … |
| 24-74 |
In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey |
|
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court |
Since birth, Alphonza L. P. Thomas-Bey has been held hostage in an unfair, unjust, social, economic, and legal system. And all questions raised and lo… |
| 23-7500 |
Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute |
Whether and to what extent Virginia's "not guilty by reason of insanity" (NGRI) statutes, I.
Va. Code § 19.2-182.2, et seq., are facially unconstituti… |
| 23-5571 |
Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines |
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY TRIAL DUE TO HIS CONVICTION BASED ON A HUNG JURY.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED … |
| 23-5485 |
Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity |
Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1, is unconstitutional to the rule of law. Whether the State of Louisiana and its legislative and judicial branch created and/… |
| 22-7618 |
Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE SENTENCE OF 138 MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED ON A FIRST-TIME OFFENDER VIOLATED THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL … |
| 22-7366 |
Donald Joshua Smith v. Omoniyi Akintola |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence toxic-exposure |
1. Being the primary care provier, why was not Akintola held medical responsible for examining, diagnose, and treating plaintiff's Smith for the sickn… |
| 22-6937 |
Robert L. Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress |
Question & oue
PoC. S A L't F-e-f-i'vne. 8 Cl vi TO CO Ur 4s LivtUcr IS? U-S. C,
%ltis(9) U^kss Owe. Pco/5 In- FTU Due. Process
V?oIcttimg Tke. 1st Av… |
| 22-6907 |
Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion |
I. WAS MR. CUMBIE DENIED DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW WHEN THE COURT CONSIDERED EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE RECORD IN ASSESSING THE SENTENCE?
II. DID THE TRIAL CO… |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
WAS THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MR. HILL GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE? DOES THE LIFE SE… |
| 22-5687 |
Michael G. Peters v. Mital K. Brammbatt |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-slapp civil-rights cruel-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-conspiracy prison-mail-misappropriations racketeering rico rico-anti-slapp selective-prosecution standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7512 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement |
1) WHETHER PETITIONER GIVE DEFENDANTS PATQ OTICE OF WHAT THE CLAIMS ARE AND THE GROUND UPON WHICH IT RESTS?
2) WHERE OFFICERS VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUN… |
| 21-6531 |
Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment |
1) Whether the lower courts were wrong for not seeking out, or for not causing the medical doctor, defendant, to seek out the cause for my Central Dia… |
| 21-6206 |
Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5407 |
Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO… |
| 21-62 |
Paul Poupart v. Louisiana, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
collateral-review constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court retrospective state-collateral-review |
Has the State of Louisiana and its Judicial Officers created and/or imposed an ex post facto law violating the Petitioner's federal due process rights… |
| 20-7127 |
Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing |
1. Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US_
137 S Ct
198 L Ed 2d
290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under
Bivens, apply to a Federal Prisoner held … |
| 20-6393 |
Todd C. Hughes v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator |
Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde… |
| 20-6240 |
Kyle Brandon Richards v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aspergers-syndrome cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health self-representation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality |
(1) MR RICHARDS WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO SELF REPRESENTATION BY THE TRIAL COURTS SUMMARY DENIAL OF HIS TIMELY REQUEST TO GO PRO SE… |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 20-5845 |
Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation |
1. If the A.D.C. authorizes a prisoner to have his personal property in Isolation Confinement by giving to him on his 48hr relief after he served 30 d… |
| 19-8600 |
Marco E. Torres, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection media-campaign referendum |
I. Whether the successful media campaign and referendum culminating in affirmance of Mr. Torres' death sentences qualify as cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 19-8447 |
Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process |
1. Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishnent when she excessively sprayed me with Chemical Agent directly in t^e eyes while … |
| 19-6830 |
Don Emmery Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner subjective to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel
in a criminal matter?1)
Was petitioner subjective to cruel and unusual p… |
| 19-6545 |
Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture |
1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture?
2. Am I able to pursue relief under … |
| 19-443 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant |
A Bivens case allows a private individual to seek damages from an individual federal officer for unconstitutional conduct (e.g. 8th Amendment). Ziglar… |
| 19-5587 |
In Re Levar Lee Spence |
|
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights |
1.) Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?… |
| 19-5525 |
Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law |
Is this case presenting issues of importance beyond the particuler falts and parties inudved? well does a case of judicia consinyad malie o overt Hhe … |
| 19-5508 |
Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect |
(I) Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County
Correctional Center et al., violate Plaintiff-Appellant
Carlin U. Powell 's VIII, XIV Amendments to … |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum Life Sentence for one who is convicted under The Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9396 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT MR. LONG WAS NOT ENTITLED TO A STAY BECAUSE OF INEXCUSABLE DELAY IN BRINGING HIS L… |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill … |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
2. Do… |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-6238 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy |
1. Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain an… |
| 18-6167 |
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence |
1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… |
| 18-5495 |
In Re Billy Ray Irick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment … |