| 23-7839 |
Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime |
Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co… |
| 19-1105 |
Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review |
1. In holding that the OCCA made an "unreasonable determination of the facts," did the Tenth Circuit contravene this Court's repeated admonition that … |
| 19-5862 |
Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
In state habeas proceedings, Ramirez alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate for, develop and present evidence in su… |