diligence

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24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation 1. Does the two-factor equitable tolling test supplied by this Court in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649 (2010) apply to all federal equitable to…
24-5651 Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default In his petition for writ of habeas corpus before the district court, Petitioner Michael McLaughlin raised the claim that his trial counsel ineffective…
23-6273 Eugene Lucas v. J. N. Ottinger, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure diligence due-process judicial-discretion legal-filing mailbox-rule prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-rights procedural-diligence Can a district Court negate the Prison mailbox rule by finding A prisoner did not show diligence in Following up on his filing to prison Authorities?
22-5984 Kenneth Wilbert Brown v. Brad Adams, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-communication civil-procedure court-delays diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances legal-diligence pandemic-impact related-cases 1) How can a defendant be deemed not to have "Been pursuing his rights dilligently ," when he is actively litigating 3 cases simultaneously that are a…
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did thh Fifth Circuit erred in adapting to the district court finding that petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently and…
22-5049 Percy Love, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation Whether an extension to file a 2255 petition is "properly filed" under Artuz v. Bennet? Where petitioner was pursuing his rights diligently during th…
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether, in pursuit of his first federal habeas corpus petition, Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling during the d…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Absent relief from this Court, James North will forfeit federal appellate review of his conviction and life sentence because his lawyers forgot to put…
19-6604 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence In this capital case, Ray Jefferson Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death as the man who shot a store clerk, Richard Slysz. …
19-6001 Gregory Leroy Packer v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-duty counsel-representation court-docket court-procedure diligence diligence-appeal due-process legal-diligence pennsylvania-statute prejudicial-delay related-case-law standing statutory-interpretation unprecedent-case 1. WERE THE APPELLATE COURTS RULINGS UNPRECEDENT FOR THIS CASE? 2. DID THE COURTS DISREGARD PETITIONER'S COURT DOCKET IN THEIR RULING? 3. DID THE CO…
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations three monthsextraordinary Circumstance if counsel filed AEdP^' s limitations period expired? duoare Of the AtoP Als lima motion,1s it an after the …
18-8000 Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing QUESTION ONE: WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT IN DODDS V. UNITED STATES AND ATKINS V. UNITED STATES, DENYING EQUITABLE TOLLING…
18-7661 Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely This case presents two questions pertaining to the "proper filing" requirement that were left open by Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408 (2005) and tha…
18-6450 Justen Russell v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal appellate-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-health-confinement mental-illness right-to-appeal state-created-impediment I. DOES THE COMPLETE FAILURE TO ADVISE OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL AND THE FAILURE OF A DEFENDANT "STATE IMPEDIMENT" SUFFICIENT TIME PERIOD IN WHICH TO TOL…
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review (1) In a federal habeas corpus proceeding where the state court did not hold a hearing or receive evidence to adjudicate facts on a claim, has the hab…
18-5721 Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling To get tolling of the one-year deadline for filing a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must prove, inter alia, that he h…