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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6340 | Robert Knickerbocker v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-12-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review | I. Did A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATION OCCUR WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 29B … |
| 25-6249 | Robert Bell v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | IFP | dna-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sexual-assault sixth-amendment | I. IS THE RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILS TO INVESTIGATE, AND SEEK TO OBTAIN AN EXPERT IN OBVIOUS … |
| 25-5887 | Dorice Moore v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence | 1. Why was the DNA allowed to be down played by the state without defense providing proof of its importance at the crime scene? 2. If the state did n… |
| 25A394 | Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Presumed Complete | dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5740 | Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt | Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily… |
| 25-5688 | Linda Kay Twigg v. Allan Lee Twigg | Maryland | 2025-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | divorce-proceedings dna-evidence evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct property-division retirement-benefits | 1) Why did Judge Michael Twigg at Allegany Court House make the false accusation that our thirty-five-year-old daughter is the product of infidelity … |
| 25-5524 | Wesley Brian Earnest v. Kemsey Bowles, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19 dna-evidence habeas-corpus legal-research pro-se procedural-time-bar | Should pre se, incaccecated Habeas Corpus petitioners be Procedural ly time-bacced when The multi- yeac COVID-19 Pandemic created "Extenocdinary Cireu… |
| 25A224 | Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 25A160 | Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder dna-evidence due-process prosecutorial-misconduct | 1) whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may hold that Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claims and Brady-related prosecutorial claims are time an… | |
| 25-5183 | Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation dna-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence | IS DNA DIFFERENT FOR BRADY CLAIMS? The State prosecutors suppressed DNA evidence of a third-party contributor which their own expert had labeled ''im… |
| 25A52 | Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-11 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder dna-evidence due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6426 | Carlin U. Powell v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation dna-evidence evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance interstate-detainer perjury | GROUND ONE: It is unconstitutional to allow state witnesses to commit perjury, as well as the State prosecutors to commit subornation of perjury, and … |
| 24-5800 | Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-claim dna-evidence gateway-innocence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt scientific-testimony | In Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), this Court recognized and endorsed a miscarriage of justice exception to the general principle that defaulted … |
| 23-6938 | Frank Garcia v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | IFP | accused-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exoneration harmless-error post-conviction | Can the might have reasonable possibility Harmless error doctrine be applied to DNA, that has the sole trifecta ability, to either: 1. Clear the Accu… |
| 23-6890 | Lamar Larue White v. California | California | 2024-03-05 | Denied | IFP | brady-material constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment | in this matter is it legally permissible to 1.) Wherefore . co.nvict the accused on erroneous jury instructions that do not prove guilt beyond a reas… |
| 23-934 | Areli Escobar v. Texas | Texas | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence | 1. Whether due process of law requires reversal, where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the State no longer seeks to defend it. 2… |
| 23-6626 | Michael Gibson v. Mariejosee King, Acting Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law dna-evidence due-process federal-law frye-hearing habeas-corpus lcn-dna scientific-evidence | A writ of certiorari is requested to review the Summary Order of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the decision of the United States Distr… |
| 23-6506 | Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona | Arizona | 2024-01-18 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process false-evidence miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct | Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, … |
| 23A640 | Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth | Second Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction | To deny reversals: why are the lower Courts quick to claim Harmless error, to evidence that unrefutably has the sole power, to either: a). clear the a… | |
| 23A566 | Areli Escobar v. Texas | Texas | 2023-12-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process forensic-science scientific-reliability | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5916 | Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony frye-standard frye-test ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation right-to-counsel | 1. Was Petitioner prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to move for adversarial testing of the State's novel DNA testing and statistics under Frye v. … |
| 23-429 | Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations | I. Whether this case should be remanded for consideration in light of Reed v. Goertz, _ _U.S._ _ (April 19, 2023) to consider l) Petitioner 's 1983 ac… |
| 23-5474 | Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center | First Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine | Given that petitioner is from Palestine, His English has always been poor, his second language is Spanish his history with mental health in years lead… |
| 23-5284 | John Wesley Lee, Jr. v. Maryland | Maryland | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation dna-evidence dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant video-recording | 1. Whether an Indigent Pro Se Petitioner Entitled to counsel; where DNA Testing Results and Video Recording exist; but, never given to the trial attor… |
| 23-5278 | Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application | 1. Whether the District Gourts' denial:of/appealability of COA was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law? 2. Whether the Di… |
| 23-5127 | Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-07-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure | (1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P… |
| 22-7828 | John C. Russell v. Patrick Covello, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility generally-accepted novel-methodology pre-trial-hearing reliability scientific-methodology scientific-reliability | 1. DNA evidence play ed a central role in this 44 y ear-old murder case in two way s: the presence of a "match" between petitioner's profile and the m… |
| 22-7787 | Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure | 1. IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL 'S DNA BUCCAL SWABS TAKEN IN NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019, FEDERAL EXPRESSED TO FLORIDA, AND FLORIDA, RECEI… |
| 22-866 | John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel | Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside… | |
| 22-6668 | Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing | 1. Petitionee has presented that key state witness 10:45 using cellphone while testifying against petitioner at trial. Petitioner was convicted solely… |
| 22-6399 | Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review | 1. Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice? 2. Manifest Weight of the Evidence. 3. Can a "Juris… |
| 22-6331 | Lance Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether Green's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation was violated by the procedures utilize… |
| 22-5428 | Norman Lafonte Pryor, aka Nc LaFonse Pryor v. Ronald Erdos, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel | Question not identified. |
| 21-1601 | Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas | Texas | 2022-06-28 | GVR | Amici (3)Relisted (7) | capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court | Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict… |
| 21-7713 | William Neely v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County | California | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-tampering due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-trial-discovery | Do the safegards provided by the 14th Amendment apply to the state's unreasonable denial of post-trial criminal discovery where Petitioner, with newly… |
| 21-1371 | Patricia Morrison v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedures administrative-procedures-act civil-rights dna-act dna-evidence due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment hiv-testing innocence-protection-act | For two years, Petitioner has sought access to HIV/DNA testing on newly discovered biological evidence, that could prove TOMMY "THE DUKE" MORRISON, ak… |
| 21-7670 | In Re Oscar Smith | 2022-04-21 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence aedpa capital-punishment constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus suspension-clause | Question not identified. | |
| 21-7651 | Manuel Martinez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy | 1) If a DNA Exculpatory Wearing the-Release Cause-Tested 4th right he had Be-To /e PM iMiAe^e^ o-f fAii /vtvlur^ . W<aA kjo hlAMUr ok/ the DfV/1 £v/D£… |
| 21-6653 | Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision | Second Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause when the regularly con… |
| 21-5976 | Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant | The Fairfax County Police seized trash from in front of Jude Lovchik's home. The items seized were then submitted to the Virginia Department of Forens… |
| 21-5861 | Bradley Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-legal-materials constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-standards incarceration-rights jury-selection legal-access perjury procedural-protections standards-of-proof | THE QUSTION IS NOT MERELY THE WEIGHT OF LIBERTY OF PROPERTY WITHOUT LANGUAGE OF THE 14th AMENDMENT.. ONCE IT IS DETERMIND THAT DUE PROCESS APPLIES THE… |
| 21-5751 | Charles Elmer Kovary v. Willis Chapman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alibi-witness constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief trial-counsel witness-testimony | 1) Was Appellate Counsel ineffective for failing to raise trial counsels ineffectiveness for failing to fully investigate Alibi witness, and help Alib… |
| 21-5705 | Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett | First Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva | Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al… |
| 21-5450 | Richard K. Cook v. Todd Wasmer, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | accomplice-instruction amendment-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-planting ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | The Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) in this case eventually went to prison for planting DNA evidence in another murder case, as he's alleged to have pl… |
| 21-5380 | Luke Edward Fleming v. Florida | Florida | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence cold-case constitutional-law criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence murder sexual-battery | Whether the Petitioner's convictions for murder and sexual battery violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because the eviden… |
| 21-5338 | Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure | PETTIONER'S INTERNET FALEBOOK PAGE AND SEEING HIS TAN AND WHITE OG WHEN THE PROSECUTOR RECEIVED THE DNA REPORT ON H/D/AOL ONE WEEK BEFORE FILING AFFID… |
| 21-5276 | William H. Bransford v. Dan Winkelski, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa-standard appellate-counsel civil-commitment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining | 1. Should pre-A-EDP-A standard of a 2.8 4-.§2254 petition apply when an indigent defendant has been U.S.C. constructively abandoned by appointed appel… |
| 21-5225 | Raymond Lumsden v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-27 | Denied | IFP | ake-v-oklahoma dna-evidence dna-expert due-process expert-witness-fees fair-trial indigent-funds ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Did the trial court deny Petitioner a fair trial by refusing indigent funds for a DNA expert to assist the defense and testify at trial under Ake… |
| 20-8467 | Cyrus Casby v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-standards criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-contamination expert-qualification expert-testimony scientific-procedure testing-guidelines | WHETHER THE ACCUSED DNA REPORT AND RAW DATA (SCIENTIFIC PROOF) CONTAMINATED (UPLIFTING EVIDENCE WAS MISUSED TO CONVICT ME, TO DISMISS MY INDICTMENT/OV… |
| 20-8430 | Samuel Gayden v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-06-24 | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification | I Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook C… |
| 20-8086 | Jack E. Allen v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exoneration fair-trial false-imprisonment federal-crimes fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction | I) DOES THE PETITIONER DESERVE ANOTHER TRIAL BASED UPON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS? 2) DOES THE PETITIONER CLAIM HIS TOTAL INNOCENCE BASED UPON… |
| 20-7962 | Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds | a. Should courts Procedurally time-bar a pro se inmetes habeas Corpus then a priser official with a sericus health illness, such as COVTD ~ 19, is Tes… |
| 20-7833 | In Re Demarcus Wright | 2021-04-22 | Denied | IFP | dna-evidence dna-match due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus inconclusive-evidence judicial-review perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Question: Has prejudice been shown where the prosecuting attorney, whether intentional or unintentional, allowed false evidence and inaccurate inf… | |
| 20-7397 | William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct | Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur… |
| 20-1240 | Francisco Javier Palillero v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure discovery-sanctions dna-evidence expert-testimony right-to-defense right-to-present-defense rule-16 sixth-amendment | Whether precluding a criminal defendant's DNA rebuttal expert testimony as a Rule 16(d)(2) sanction for a non-willful violation is compatible with the… |
| 20-6799 | Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-08 | Denied | IFP | bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness | Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence… |
| 20-6273 | Jerome Sidney Barrett v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief pro-se-appeal standing state-appellate-procedure | Whether a state prisoner has the right to file his own appeal Pro Se under certain conditions after the denial of his ProSe petition for post convicti… |
| 20-5764 | Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Granted | IFP | counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion | Did the Ninth Circuit error by finding no basis for Interlocutory Appeal, (at 9th Cir. No. 02-80106) And after judgment refusing to allow petitioner t… |
| 20-317 | Dakai Chavis v. Delaware | Delaware | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant… |
| 20-5609 | In Re Gary Wayne Barnes | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction | can the claim of Actual innocence be reviwed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ans 22… | |
| 20-5607 | In Re Billie J. Allen | 2020-09-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief | 1. Whether it is unconstitutional for defense counsel to admit an accused's guilt to the jury over the accused's express objection? | |
| 20-5425 | Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York | New York | 2020-08-20 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct | I. WAS DEFENSE COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR CONSENTING TO THE PROSECUTOR'S EXTREMELY UNTIMELY REQUEST FOR A DNA SAMPLE —A MOVE THAT THE APPELLATE DIVISI… |
| 20-5233 | Michael R. Burns v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-fabrication due-process evidence fingerprint-fabrication habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief | 1. Appoint Counsel And Recall A Mandate 2. When Appeals Court Have Jurisdiction Summary Cases, Where A Rule 33 Is Filed Under US v. CRONIC? |
| 20-5186 | John Edward Butler v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 19-8746 | Scott A. Group v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-18 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant capital-punishment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-trial trial-court | 1. Does a state court deprive a capital defendant due process of law when it denies the defendant's request to present new evidence to challenge the c… |
| 19-8323 | William George Coodey v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-04-21 | Denied | IFP | consent criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process factual-innocence jackson-v-virginia rape sixth-amendment | 1. Whether DNA testing that would undermine an alleged rape victim's testimony denying consent to sexual intercourse would create sufficient uncertain… |
| 19-8064 | Rubin Rurie Weeks v. Stan Payne, Warden, et al. | Missouri | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process forcible-rape habeas-corpus kidnapping prosecutorial-misconduct void-judgment | (1) In this case the defendant factual guilt of Forcible Rape and Kidnapping has never been established in any fashion permitted by the Due Process Cl… |
| 19-7946 | Dirk Greineder v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing expert-testimony laboratory-analysis scientific-evidence sixth-amendment substitute-analyst substitute-analysts targeted-accusation | Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit an expert prosecution witness from testifying at a jury trial to the results of DNA tests comparing the petitio… |
| 19-7687 | Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede As Ne… |
| 19-7475 | Douglas Edwin Ball, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment appeal civil-rights conviction dna-evidence due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury jury-instructions unanimous-verdict | % - '^eTxTXctJEE' ? Dkt T&cceiz? iZx&Hvz uvfrsF- The Tv\>FTetoJTH 4^fwMiSvr hbf'E\ZXoC4TtO B>ECAr 1/5£T -Z~5 -2^W (p<s>5'5jr&^£' TO TAETFRM^tj & IaJH… |
| 19-7270 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault | 1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Saved with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence teste… |
| 19-843 | Daniel K. Holtzclaw v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-01-06 | Denied | defense-counsel-exclusion dna-evidence due-process ex-parte-hearing exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fair-trial forensic-expert in-camera-hearing materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. DNA evidence played a central role in this sexual assault case, in the form of a "match" between DNA from a complaining witness and the major contr… | |
| 19-7039 | Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute | Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence belonging to the victim by the Respondent constitute a "Brady Violation" where… |
| 19-541 | Michael Lambert v. Estate of Kevin Brown, by its Successor in Interest Rebecca Brown, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | cold-case criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence exigent-circumstances false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violations murder-case probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant third-party | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by failing to address whether a reasonable officer in Detective Lambert's position would have objectively believed his co… | |
| 19-6294 | Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure | Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,… |
| 19-6283 | Daryl Scott v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fair-trial government-misconduct judicial-integrity mesarosh-v-united-states military-justice post-conviction-relief post-trial-discovery witness-credibility | Is the widespread fabrication and destruction of false DNA evidence by a government chemist for use at trial against U.S. servicemembers, and the fail… |
| 19-6077 | Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Fs c on my be half, as the relevant testimont of my First EYewitness of the facts of my case,Ruhen Machado R. x of te BNA R wasSu RTN S R Ma SAN 884… |
| 19-5802 | Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification | I. In a case where the identity of the person who brandished a gun is central to the case, is the choice of whether to ask for DNA testing of the gun,… |
| 19-5569 | Gary L. Brown v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-review wrongful-conviction | THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE. THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1998; (the jury found petitioner guilty 2 counts of murder in the first deg… |
| 19-5254 | Jose Arroyo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-07-19 | Denied | IFP | corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement | I. Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of … |
| 18-9754 | Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. DNA, NEW EVIDENCE a. Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict? b. Is the discovery of flaws … |
| 18A1243 | Douglas Prade v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-05-30 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure dna-evidence double-jeopardy ohio-supreme-court post-conviction retrial | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9477 | Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court | Illinois | 2019-05-30 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney | Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constiutional 14th Amendment? Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violat… |
| 18A1223 | Keith Jerome Wright v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | dna-evidence due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure | Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to provide petitioner due process by failing to consider either explicitly or implicitly his rights in fa… | |
| 18-8569 | Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | In 1988, before DNA was widely available as a forensic tool, Melvin Bonnell was convicted and sentenced to death. Trial testimony established that blo… |
| 18-8448 | Edward Bishop v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | 1.Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized as "any evidence (including, all photos, videos, and/or o… |
| 18-8022 | Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation of the case, including discovery of the case, to discover that Commonwealth Attorney and … |
| 18-7786 | Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure | Did The lower Courts abuse their discretion in denying Petitioner relief on the grounds that evidence was suppressed from his home and person be frivo… |
| 18-7757 | William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification | I. Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples. II. Whether trial courts abuse of discretion violated Applicant… |
| 18-7423 | Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations | A. tha Ga counk OF Aoviple Vecisind 12 CooMict wir heer US. Cova o& PAQuns Weses Vrak naz simian mud Slike | pael Meo One Vwrked Sates Supreme eouck w… |
| 18-6438 | Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler | California | 2018-10-26 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment | Question 1. The Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront and Cross-Examine His Accussers. Scientific Evidence … |
| 18-6287 | Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3599 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-claim criminal-procedure-18-usc-3599 dna-evidence expert-services habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-necessity | (1) Whether establishing that requested expert services are reasonably necessary to the representation under 18 U.S.C. § 3599 requires articulation of… |
| 18-444 | Montana v. Ronald Dwight Tipton | Montana | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | calder-v-bull criminal-prosecution dna-evidence ex-post-facto sex-crimes statute-of-limitations stogner-v-california | In Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), this Court held that a California statute that revived timebarred prosecutions for sex-related child ab… |
| 18-5650 | Carl Javon Ross v. Maryland | Maryland | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | appeals civil-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process innocence standing | wI 1 U41/Y 2jrcI CQ&Ar voJaF'o' )njve oVerhtd7 tid t'i- deCi ~,'lyl Of 4/9(' vio)ql-e de d,/t11- r9bis W:5 MA edn 4-f--s4- rad fl 9C4+VE enough 1'Ver5… |
| 18-5511 | Michael John Tarvin v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence false-imprisonment innocence-claim standing successive-petition | INtRodUCtION Of The Mississiapi CRime Lab, ShaRt OfINAResutS FiRMed , JON INCONCUSIVE RESUtS IN. The ple SsG- Female Rectal Swab PN eRolcoicalCxamiNat… |
| 18-5070 | Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default | THIS COURT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED THAT IN A NARROW CLASS OF CASES IMPLICATING A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE," (SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 298, 314-1… |
| 18-5006 | Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment | Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable… |
| 24A302 | Garcia Glen White v. Texas | Texas | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability | Question not identified. |