| 22-7382 |
Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona |
1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and
Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the
e… |
| 22-5225 |
Craig Anthony Ross v. Ron Bloomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aider-and-abettor aiding-and-abetting cabana-v-bullock death-penalty enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-first-degree ninth-circuit-review shared-intent |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err under Title 28, United States Code, Section 2254(d)(1) in affirming that the jury instructions given by the California Su… |
| 19-7481 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona |
Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is … |
| 18-9676 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona |
In light of these decisions, the Fifth Circuit's denial of Randy Halprin's motion for a COA gives rise to the following questions:
1. Has the Fifth C… |
| 18-8561 |
Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona |
Jeffery Wood is on death row in Texas despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. Mr. Wood was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death un… |
| 18-6670 |
Richard Allen Barker v. California |
California |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-liability constitutional-law constitutional-proportionate-punishment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida in-re-butler in-re-rodriguez individual-culpability proportionate-punishment |
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION - EIGHTH AMENDMENT
CONSTITUTIONAL PROPORTIONATE PUNISHMENT - INDIVIDUAL CULPABILITY
IF, IN 1978, THE CALIFORNIA PAROLE AUT… |
| 18-100 |
Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Georgia |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction |
1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co… |