direct-review
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6472 | Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2026-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-offense direct-review due-process felony-murder retroactive-application substantive-change | Roberto Lopez -Ortiz is serving life in prison for an offense that no longer exist s. He fully preserve d his challenge to second -degree felony -murd… |
| 25-562 | Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Rehearing | Relisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend… |
| 25-5078 | Lawrence J. Turner v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2025-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | counsel-performance direct-review ineffective-assistance issue-preservation legal-standard reasonableness-test | Whether, in assessing direct-review counsel's performance based upon the omission of a preserved issue, lower courts should either apply the clearly s… |
| 24-6428 | Marc Anthony Hill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure cert-petition constitutional-adjudication direct-review judicial-mandate supreme-court-rule | Whether or not a petyirule announced by the Supreme Cpurt; applies to.petionter ,who N is currently on direct preview ayd ^ertioari, 'and where .-the… |
| 24-5529 | Jose Muyet v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | IFP | 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction | I. The judge-made "concurrent sentence doctrine" allows a federal court to decline review of a prisoner's challenge to his sentence on one count of co… |
| 23-7742 | Clifton William Batts v. North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure direct-review due-process finality habeas-corpus | Question not identified. |
| 23-7266 | Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings | it4 V- VOMisiAHfv / THIS Covet \i$u> that The 6|/th Amendment to the Vt^TEp STATED C^H6rVrroT\cn , 6/TENDEP To THE STATED £>y wAy OpTUe FoOpTeENTH A… |
| 23-6255 | David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | IFP | aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause | Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of "direct … |
| 23-6067 | Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata | IF LEGAL CLAIMS PRESERVED BY A STATE COURT DURING DIRECT REVIEW, SHARE THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS AS THE RIGHT TO AN APPEAL FROM A FINAL JUDG… |
| 23-5712 | Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal | Question not identified. |
| 23-307 | Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity | Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding… |
| 22-7215 | Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction | Subsequent Petitioner's conviction/ while his case was under direct review, State High-Court held in an unrelated case—Stukes [1]—that the trial court… |
| 22-6512 | Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court | WHETHER THE LOWER FLORIDA STATE COURT'S ERROR IN FAILING TO CORRECTLY CALCULATE THE DATE THAT PETITIONER'S DIRECT REVIEW OF HIS CASE BECAME "FINAL" IN… |
| 22-5973 | Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment | 1. Can Ineffectiveness Or Incompetence Of counsel on Direct review Result In a sixth Amendment violation OF THE ARIZONA And United States Constitution… |
| 21-5934 | Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations | The issue is whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are a part of the "direct review" process under 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-5268 | Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution | 1. WHETHER ALL NEWLY DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLY RETROSPECTIVELY TO JUDGMENTS OF CONVICTIONS NOT YET FINAL AND PENDING … |
| 20-7523 | Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-03-22 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v… |
| 20-6787 | Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6113 | Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court | When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a "new judgment" pursuant to th… |
| 20-6099 | Malcolm Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 19-6602 | Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance | I. Whether a cell phone, when used by law enforcement to obtain "precise location information," is a "tracking device" under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b). II.… |
| 19-5989 | Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity | 1. Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve… |
| 18-9072 | Dewey Lee McBride v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights direct-review due-process judicial-bias legal-claims ninth-circuit standing unbiased-judge | A. WHETHER MR. McBRIDE'S "DIRECT REVIEW" CONTINUED UNTIL HIS CLAIMS WERE DECIDED BY AN UNBIASED JUDGE B. WHETHER DUE PROCESS REQUIRES STATES TO PROVI… |
| 18-7657 | Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial | WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO CALL CRITICAL… |
| 18-7510 | Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | 42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | As a matter of first impression - Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process pursuant to 42 Pa. C.S.A. 721, 726 constitute… |
| 18-7310 | Kadeem Thomas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity | I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea… |
| 18-5117 | Glendrict Frazier v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity | Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987)(holding that on direct review a new constitut… |