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25-6808 William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2026-02-13 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement pro-se-pleading sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether a state court judge must adhere to the principle that a pro se pleading must be construed liberally? 2. Whether the trial judge misconstru…
25-6577 Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida Florida 2026-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre…
25-6561 Joshua Demien Magee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto mississippi-supreme-court procedural-standards 1) Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may ignore the ex post facto clause by applying new decision rendered in Howell v. State, 358 So. 3d 613, 615…
25-6541 Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines 1. whether a state 's application ano enforcement of its Procedural Bars via its highest appellate Court in Certain Cases resultin annihilation Ano …
25-676 In Re John A. Shepardson 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s…
25-6278 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-argument ex-post-facto fifth-circuit peugh-v-united-states subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-booker Did the fifth Circuit have subject matter jurisdiction on direct appeal to consider an ex post facto constitutional argument that was never raised. D…
25A642 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit Question not identified.
25-5842 Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-5625 Fred Krug v. New Jersey State Parole Board New Jersey 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto parole-law retroactive-application sentencing-benefit Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause protects against the retroactive removal of a substantial sentencing benefit that is conferred after the date of offe…
25-5605 David Joseph Pittman v. Florida Florida 2025-09-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Phillips v. State , 299 So.3d 1013 (Fla. 2020) , denying some capital defendants the retroactive effec…
25A188 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete bank-fraud constitutional-interpretation ex-post-facto financial-institution prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-5271 Soleiman Mobarak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-law ex-post-facto presumption-of-innocence subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Novel Issue : Is the Actual Innocence Exception to a procedural bar limited t cases where petitioners are convicted, but actually innocent of crime…
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing (1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,…
24-7505 Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) DID THE COURT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIA REFUSING TO GRANT PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE TO WHE…
24-7498 Dasahn Crowder v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto second-amendment In 2012, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) upheld the constitutionality of a statutory scheme in which licensure was an affirmative defen…
24-7474 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-20 Denied IFP arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti…
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground 1. Defense Counsel was ineffective for failing to request a pretrial immunity hearing based on erroneous reasoning that Appellant was not entitled to …
24-6967 Robert Lee Crider v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims ex-post-facto felony-conviction habitual-criminal subject-matter-jurisdiction Question # 1: When Crider showed the district court that his 1990 convictions were not defined as authorized elements of the instant offense within th…
24-6793 Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. Kentucky 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility I. Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as "a matter of grace or gift to persons deemed eligibl e" exempt rules relating to the timing of Kentuck…
24-912 Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida Florida 2025-02-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto removal-provision sex-offender-registration state-courts Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split: is it a violation of constitutional ex post facto princi…
24-6509 Antonio Alejandro Charlemagne, aka Antonio Gutierrez-Farah, aka Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-rules constitutional-violations due-process ex-post-facto interim-hearing parole-board Did the Parole Board retroactively applied the wrong administrative rules and parole standards when determining not to grant petitioner a parole Inter…
24-6374 James Clifford Goodwin, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion congressional-intent constitutional-challenge ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance restitution Whether it is an abuse of discretion and/or an usurpation of power to impose a judgment that does not adhere to the congressional mandates and/or requ…
24-6242 Kent Booher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights I. Did the Court of Appeals err when it failed to address the issues raised by the appellant after his appellate counsel filed an Anders brief and mov…
24-482 Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause.
24-458 Laurie Weinlein v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legislative-extension restitution retroactive-application victim-compensation Whether the retroactive enlargement of a restitution liability period violates the Ex Post Facto Clause.
24A338 Joseph Blea v. Hector Rios, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application statute-of-limitations vested-rights Question not identified.
24-395 William Edward Neilly v. Michigan Michigan 2024-10-09 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (8) constitutional-law criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legal-interpretation punishment restitution Whether restitution ordered as part of a criminal sentence is punishment for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause.
24-5496 Jose Manuel Galan v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jury-instructions penal-code 1. Did the admission of evidence of child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome ("CSAAS") violated Petitioner's due process rights? 2. Did the trial co…
24-5447 Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation (1) Whether a public interest is at stake with Petitioner's Ex Post Facto Clause violation issue of Oklahoma by Repeal law forbid female and male pris…
24-5410 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation Whether the decision in Jones v Hendrix, 143 S. Ct. 1857 (2023) can be applied retroactively "rescinding habeas Corpus review of Statutory Interpretat…
24A77 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete career-offender collateral-review ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix sentencing-enhancement Question not identified.
23-7639 Louis C. Bouie v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Pennsylvania 2024-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP drug-treatment-program due-process ex-post-facto executive-branch judicial-review sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers stare-decisis statutory-construction Did the Pennsylvania High Court unconstitutionally permit the statutory construct at 61 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105 to grant the executive branch carte blanche s…
23A1044 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct Question not identified.
23-7494 Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Ohio 2024-05-17 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness 1. Is it repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States to convict and incarcerate a United States citizen, and deprive him of…
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel 1A He appeal of the duial fa 28 e224 Pebtion t>/ Raeary ee lo "MMer-El v Cockrell 37 VS 322" the US PRES Guei * 9 "case Govern He vance of aX Ca Oe Go…
23-7284 Neal Merrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement (1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro…
23-6935 Dennis James Gaede v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto excessive-punishment grand-jury north-dakota 1. Whether Gaede's 8th and 14th Amendment Rights to Due Process and to be Free from Excessive Punishment were Violated when the State of North Dakota …
23-6903 Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat…
23-951 Gordon Blake v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto notice statute-of-limitations substantial-sexual-conduct vagueness 1. Whether Ex Post Facto protections were denied by the extension of the state statute of limitations by an unforeseeable judicial interpretation of a…
23-6620 Bruce A. Quarles v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights diligence-requirement due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60 rule-60(d)(1) timely-filing IS AN IMPOSITION OF A DILIGENCE REQUIREMENT UPON A TIMELY FILED FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 60(d)(1) MOTION A VIOLATION OF THE RULE? DOES AN EX …
23-6539 In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction 1.) Should this Court use the power to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his Compelling claims…
23-6432 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
23-6205 Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri…
23-6070 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core.
23A362 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2023-10-23 Denied constitutional-violation ex-post-facto habitual-criminal prior-conviction retroactive-law sentencing-enhancement Question not identified.
23-5753 Ben J. Latham v. Alaska Alaska 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp, 2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te 2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin…
23-313 Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida, Board of Trustees, et al. Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process ex-post-facto injunction-order small-claims standing standing-to-appeal statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant (1) Whether an Injunction Order rendered under Florida Vexatious Litigant Law, Florida Statute § 68.093(2)(a), requires reversal where it is: (a) ap…
23-5531 Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Oregon 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing 1. Is the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article 6 of the United States Constitution violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date impo…
23-5373 Ronald Barnett v. Florida Florida 2023-08-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers sexual-predator statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL AND FLORIDA SUPREME COURT VIOLATED THE LAWS GOVERNING THE SEPARATION OF POWER BY CREATING AN UNWRITTEN EX P…
22-7680 Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec…
22-7678 Gary E. Peel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-pornography due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel takings-clause 1. Whether, contrary to Supreme Court precedent [Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002)], the government can criminalize the possession…
22-7532 In Re Rex Gard 2023-05-11 Denied IFP criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred? 2. Is the South Dakota Supreme Court's overturning of their own precede…
22-7326 Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT THE U S UNREASONABLY DENIED PETITIONER, DUE PROCESS OF DUE PROCESS CLAUSE RIGHTS OF THE U.S. AMENDS V AND XIV…
22-7295 Saleem D. Williams v. Annettia Toby, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit ex-post-facto full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-denial standing 1. Can the Eleventh Circuit docket a case without proper jurisdiction, under its own authority, and adopt that to stay and? 2. Does Full Court extend…
22-7071 Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction Question One Preface: The Indiana Supreme Court ruled petitioner had a state required due process right to a unanimous jury verdict; then acquiesced h…
22-7000 Nickless Whitson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I- fj/l/l. UJHTrf^Aj Cd//r£/vX>5 '7'MA'T t/e /<l€C€i-v<~o 7A£Ff£errve. A5S7 s7AAC f o p CauAJsec Du/txbQ {~pzs 7^/to Afcode^cn&jci xA OJftecH Vep&z'…
22-6913 In Re Robert B. Read, Jr. 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus rules-of-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Did the United States Constitution allow the trial court implied subject-matter jurisdiction to try Petitioner for the indicted Felony One Offense?…
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the "verdict form " agreed upon by the jury failure to specify I. "GUILTY " as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of G…
22-6403 Marco D. Martin v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel electronic-monitoring ex-post-facto lifetime-electronic-monitoring plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Whether the trial court denied Petitioner his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, where the state injected issues broader than the Petition…
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Question not identified.
22-6196 Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing (1) WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S EX POST FACTO CLAIM? (2) WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTR…
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER AN ATTORNEY'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE AND …
22-6021 George Guo v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error 1. Under the Jackson standard and per Garrett v. U.S. 471 U.S. 779,1791, is this conviction of Texas Penalty code §19.03 (a) (2) capital murder a "Vo…
22-6010 Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity I feel railroaded And why was my Question 1 Counsel filed to ASK when vof A MIStNAl my verdict WAS Shanged 4ovt $13 Guilty Not 2f 4
22-413 Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law 1. Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1?
22-5824 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings Question not identified.
22-5747 Demmerick Eric Brown v. Karen D. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ex-post-facto good-time-credit good-time-credits mandatory-parole parole parole-board-policy retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sentencing-modification Petitioner committed several offenses in the 1980s. He received lengthy consecutive sentences, began serving them, and earned credit for good behavior…
22-5443 Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation Reason For Question #1 There exist a ConFliat Among United States Circuit Counts On Whether the Immenent Danger oF 28 U.S.C. 3 1915(g) aPPly to at the…
22-168 Ryan James Deroo v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process evidence evidence-rule ex-post-facto hearsay hearsay-exception medical-records retroactive-modification state-rule Whether a retroactive modification of a state rule of evidence allowing certain medical records to be admitted as admissible hearsay which was previou…
22-113 Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas Texas 2022-08-04 Denied Response Waived common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law when it retroactively applied a newly announced and judicially cr…
22-5151 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS HELD.THAT A STATE LAW'S REVIVAL OF AN EXPIRED LIMITATION PERIOD UNDER ITS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS VIOLATES THE EX POST FACT…
22-5073 Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law The Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits retroactive increases in criminal punishment. When Mr. McGill committed the crime for which he was convicted, Arizo…
21-8189 Serge Francois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law ex-post-facto fraud managed-care network-application pharmacist-fraud pharmacy utilization-review Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power over the Courts of the United States where the Eleventh Circuit reversibly erred in affirming…
21-8184 Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality 1. WHETHER The United States Court of Appeals in The Eighth Circuit ERR IN NOT FINDING THAT KELLY HAD A RIGHT TO HAVE THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF POST…
21-8077 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements 1. Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay under Iowa Code 910 at the time of his convi…
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana properly conclude …
21-7905 Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-18 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit I. UkdrKw ^iako^aCcartoftrUUal Appeals useof a mud W-rdr 0CLCik^ kfiUnus -Sub^ecf^affar jafisdhftoa dal mis UvalfJ &£ d-A Lx tost Facto Mklatka © P …
21-7897 Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings interpretation and application of an ex post facto violation within the context of parole eligibility statutes, such as in initial parole eligibility,…
21-7792 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness whetheR the Application of M.C.A. 97-3-2 IAs Applred] eRentes A" Slgnificant Risk of prolonging The petitioneR's StAYin pRison. whetheR the RetroActi…
21-1377 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-04-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived cover-up due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause punitive-damages retroactive-legislation sexual-abuse-claims statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause allows retroactive legislation that was enacted with an avowedly punitive purpose, imposes additional punitive lia…
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review 1. CAN CONVICTIONS OF AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY BE SUSTAINED WHEN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE FAILED TO PROVE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME AS DESCRI…
21-7436 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely I. WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING PLAINTIFF FAILED TO STATE A CLAIM REGARDING ENCROA…
21-7379 Patrick Joseph Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto native-american native-american-rights post-conviction-proceedings procedural-bar standing state-court-review terry-v-oklahoma 1. "Did the State of Oklahoma 's refusal to provide the relief directed by this Court in Terry v Oklahoma, 141 S, Ct. 191 (2020), rise to the level …
21-1254 Allen Bregman v. Florida Florida 2022-03-16 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco 1. Whether United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984) departed from the two-tier test for determining a due process violation established by United…
21-7362 Kyle Kurtz v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt rules-of-court self-defense Are the rules promulgated by the United States Supreme Court not being enforced by the judges representing the Kingdom of Judah or are the law enforce…
21-7197 Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas Kansas 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su…
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh…
21-6774 Brandon Shane Harris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-post-facto IN JANUARY 2021, PETITIONER WAS SENTENCED TO TWENTY-SEVEN (27) YEARS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR TRAFFICKING PURSUANT…
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration 1. Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a state to retroactively impose registration obligations on a person who was adjudicated of…
21-6226 K. Jeffery Knapp v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-shift constitutional-scrutiny ex-post-facto restoration-statutes rights-restoration unconditional-discharge Petitioner K. Jeffery Knapp is man who owned and operated a successful Montana business. He is a man who had a past, having served prison time for Col…
21-5930 Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa 1) Is the VWPA the controlling law regarding payment of the Order of Restitution in the underlying criminal action and is the Ex Post Facto Clause of …
21-160 Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied when the issues presented plainly meet the standards articulated by …
21-62 Paul Poupart v. Louisiana, et al. Louisiana 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court retrospective state-collateral-review Has the State of Louisiana and its Judicial Officers created and/or imposed an ex post facto law violating the Petitioner's federal due process rights…
20-8380 David Simmons v. Earl Houser, Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure constitutional-claim dna-registration due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application state-supreme-court WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO GIVE DEFERENCE TO THE STATE SUPREME,COURT'S DETERMINATION THAT PETITIONER'S ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES …
20-8344 Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment and presented to a grand jury in th…
20-8224 Don Wayne Basey v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-division criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto WILL THE "SANCTION" PENDING HINDER PETITIONER FROM "EXERCISING" PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS PRISON OFFICIALS INCLUDED HAVE PLACED PETITIONER AG…
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-06-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery (negro, black,colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act reinstates such persons as chattel propertv and reopens the institution o…
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appel late courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of juris diction over a previous ly exempt juvenile for capital murder …
20-7977 Bobby Carl Terrick v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto sentence-enhancement sentencing CAN PLEADINGS FROM UNDISTURBED CONVICTION BE CHALLENGED POST ID TIME WITH "NEW JUDGMENT"? CAN A TRIBUNAL DECISION MAKING TO RETROACTIVELY APPLY A STA…
20-7931 Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity Is vidlation of the ex past Lacte clause of the 0.5, _ | Constitukion harm ess if the sogefic definition of 2x | DoS CackO Was done by the Coote
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release But for the errors of the trial court which allowed modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements, defendant would not have…
20-7831 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights controlled-substances-act defective-indictment drug-definition ex-post-facto food-drug-cosmetics-act indictment-defect lack-of-physical-evidence I. Did the Appellate Court denied the Plaintiff her constitutional right by denying her Appeal 18-2693 (L) without addressing the District Court 's vi…
20-7748 Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida Florida 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration Whether the designation of Petitioner as a Sexual offender Persuant to Florida 8tatutes 3943.0435 is illegal as pertained to this Petitioner.
20-7732 Tina LaSonya Brown v. Florida Florida 2021-04-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto jury-finding jury-findings sixth-amendment ONE: Petitioner Tina Brown sought state postconviction relief from a 2012 death sentence imposed under the procedure subsequently held unconstitutiona…
20-7715 In Re Richard DeCaro 2021-04-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated where petitioner was sentenced to the amended statute, first degree murder, mandatory life, rather tha…
20-1409 Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity 1. May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely…
20-7637 Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing Can A Stale Corrections Arbitrarily Change A Defendant 's Prison Sentence Nearly Two Decades Later, Even After Having Initionaliy Structured Said Cou…
20-1325 Wesley Perkins v. John Lipscombe, Judge, County Court at Law No. 3, Travis County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration consent-doctrine due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation transportation-code Statutory Challenge 1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional, " as applied? / Pleading standard 2. Was dismissal abusive? Compelled Arbitration …
20-7517 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-03-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments denationalization due-process ex-post-facto genocide jurisdiction slave-labels slavery A) What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act …
20-7366 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2021-03-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition 1. Due to the fact that the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners in custody and now seek to file successive habeas corpus within 1-year-from…
20-7338 Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ' Judgment, that affirmed an illegal mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner by the ar…
20-6994 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-02-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law denationalization due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto slavery slavery-labels A) What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act …
20-6904 Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme In Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84, 105 (2003), this Court found that Alaska's sex offender registration statute was a "civil regulatory scheme" which was "…
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall because the Supremacy Clause, as held in Montgom…
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review. Whether the extended preemptive "review" or "scr…
20-497 Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner ("Azeez "), a colored citizen, knowing that he was falsely arrested and indicted…
20-5677 In Re Jimmy Wren 2020-09-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus 1. Whether 28, §2244, U.S.C. deprives similar situated litigants of due process of law? 2. Whether the enforcement of 28, §2244, U.S.C., subjects sim…
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether, Federal Law Renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Legal Error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committed Legal Error by failin…
20-5454 Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings F Whhe specifeS.7-1steE Reveinnane Consider a actuall produ of a Mandted litial Individulized Parle Considerdon heingo R ab a ubsuenb ProlCnsloheaing…
20-5176 Nicholas Harris v. California California 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 ("the Reform Act"), as interpreted by California's Supreme Court, violate the Ex Post Facto Clause …
19-8837 Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi…
19-8636 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it …
19-8357 Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana Montana 2020-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing Question not identified.
19-8279 Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi…
19-8260 Alvin Fulton v. New York New York 2020-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses 1. the usages and principles of law Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts w…
19-8258 Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional where (1) the Michigan Parole Board failed to proceed with a recommendation for commutation i…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe…
19-7147 In Re Khayree Smith 2020-01-03 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment chattel-property chattel-slavery civil-rights constitutional-rights denationalization due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge racial-classification slavery slavery-abolition status A) What branch of law authorized States to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, Colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act …
19-7141 Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction When the legislature has met spoken in law eluent that is clear and definite and has at fixed the punishment for a offense duly and without ambiguity,…
19-6915 Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Ulvi is IL feneivj vita IL SMe* lre<J\ if" cuJ jioSC Lre^cLs Jirecilj eJS®!' fL. PU Ar^rieoy <fyvd |>n>c€S^S€A3eo6e, ^■ffcTSTW^e/N U Sb-W j^seJ Qrs c,…
19-6824 Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue 1. Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SOR…
19-6660 Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law When Opinion reflects Appellate Court relies on States Findings, ..and Litigant has asserted, States Findings are not entitled to deference because, p…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, …
19-412 Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. Maine 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law Whether, when an appellate court overturns its own controlling precedent, constitutional guarantees of due process require remand to the trial court f…
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts …
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION, Art. 1, Sec. 9, cl. 3, IS VIOLATED WHEN A NEWLY MODIFIED STATE PAROLE REGULATION IS APPLIED. II…
19-374 Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2019-09-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y…
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career …
19-5858 Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator Did The United States Court Of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit fail to address an issue of first impression involving an ex post facto violation of Th…
19-298 Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court …
19-5739 Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine The U.S. Supreme Court's recent affirmation of the "separate sovereigns" , 139 S.Ct. 1960 (2019), raises U.S. doctrine in Gamble v. U.S. , a number of…
19-5690 Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by ruling DiSanto's lawyer was not ineffective by failing to bring to the attention of the trial c…
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power 1. By what authority did you base your actions on when having the Petitioner confined at Texas Civil Commitment Center? 2. What evidence was relied u…
19-141 Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana Indiana 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness 1. Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity evi…
19-5110 Barry Bays v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont…
19-5041 Matthew Jamison v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review conflict-with-other-states constitutional-law due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto federal-constitutional-rights federal-question retroactive-application vested-rights Did S.C. Supreme Court decide on an important federal question in ways conflicting with decision of other state? Did S.C. Supreme Court and U.S. Cour…
18-9794 Paul Vallejo v. Texas Texas 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-fairness state-action statute-of-limitations Does the ex post facto clause and 'fundamental fairness' prohibit the state from removing a potential statute of limitations defense?
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines WHETHER THE HONORABLE JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY JAMES BOHLING UTILIZE TWO-INAPPLICABLE STATUTORY ENHANCEMENTS ENACTED BY THE UNITED S…
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-1525 Jose Andrade v. City of Hammond, Indiana, et al. Indiana 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel ineffective-representation property-rights sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue - without determining the effect of ex post facto law, which affected petitioner's property and due…
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-29 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Nine years ago, the State of Arizona in reaction to its becoming aware of an unrelated investigation of petitioner Giuseppe Viola, involving his autom…
18-9378 In Re Tae Hon Chon 2019-05-22 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio…
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco…
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Violate Peritioner's Substantive Due $43 when it Convicted and Resentenced Htim For a Non-Existent Codified or Backed By …
18-9060 Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 This Court provides that the Ex Post Facto Clause applies to any change in the law that creates a significant risk of a higher sentence, including cha…
18-8975 Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation 1) WAS PETITIONER SMILEY WRONGFULLY CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED WITH BREAKING A SPECIFIED STATUTE, (PC:607, GCD)), WHICH CHANGED THE LEGAL CONSEQ…
18-8887 Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex post facto clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due process at …
18-8779 Yamura D. Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant WHETHER THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURTS MUST SUPPRESS THE FRUITS OF THE ADMITTED TO ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE, WHICH OCCURED OUTSIDE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE. -JU…
18-8446 Patrick J. Werner v. City of Green Bay, Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process due-process,ex-post-facto,residency-restrictions,s ex-post-facto public-outrage residency-restrictions sexual-offender Whether Respondent's Ordinance conformed with Due Process or is this Petitioner denied this based on his original offense, which was committed about 2…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis 1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho…
18-1111 James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. Wisconsin 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders The State of Wisconsin (like several other states) enacted their lifetime GPS monitoring law for sex offenders in 2008 and made that law retroactive t…
18-7941 Trevor Little v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation the lower Courts, Fourth Circuit. Violated The Petitioner's st Facto Clause of The Cluted States Constituton, Artice, on 9 Clause 3, When It Still Enf…
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-7856 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act commutation-and-reduction-of-sentence due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue parole-revocation sentence-expiration successive-writ suspension-clause time-sensitive 1. Since, in the drafting of the AEDPA, the U.S. Congress omitted successive-writ exceptions for a prisoner in state custody seeking federal habeas co…
18-7827 Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti…
18-7744 Corey Clark v. Alabama Alabama 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity 1- DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMAS ACT 2OIY-IGS VIOLATE THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE TEVO PURPOSE'S. 2) DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMA'S ACT 2OIY-I6S THAT R…
18-927 Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness 1. Whether the government's expert's afterthe-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretatio…
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…
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth? Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th…
18-7351 Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r…
18-7315 James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination L. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WITN OBLINK AGENC ___ MS. TENNTE ROWEN, DENTED P TONER HIS DUE PROCESS OF LAV On [UTIONAL RIGHTS AY R NG TO ALLOW HIM AN I…
18-7134 Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and…
18-6981 Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of…
18-6906 David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights (1) When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed …
18-6579 In Re Patricia Ann McQuarry 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointment-affidavit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-irregularity constitutional-law constitutional-result due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedies remedy secret-grand-jury standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unsigned-indictment vague-statutes Petitioner challenges jurisdiction of the district court, in this instant case. When a person, challenges jurisdiction, the burden of proof shifts to …
18-6572 Douglas Wayne Thompson v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Eighth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment buck-v-davis civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6-relief trial-tactics No.1 -- Whether or not because this case was filed pursuant to this Court's rulings in Buck v Davis, Martinez, and Trevino for Rule 60(b)(6) relief, i…
18-522 Michael Ishee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio Governmental regulation of First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech and expression, draws close constitutional scrutiny since these righ…
18-6289 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2018-10-12 Denied IFP and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing Wan thee of rill canal igh Eyal application of ano pu Fac bos th enhance my KentenceS Ween te sale of Hoda: deny oem consTrchond]. {to freedoon ,li…
18-454 Derek L. Dinger v. United States Armed Forces 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can…
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…
18-386 Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings Whether, as the court below held, the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction—such as maintaining a …
18-5991 Johnny Ray Bennett v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detention WOULD THE 2002 ENACTMENTS VIOLATE THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSES OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, IF ITS RETROACTIVITY DID NOT CURE THE DEFECTS OF CH…
18-5947 Stevie Andre Roberson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations texas-supreme-court 1.) WHETHER DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION AS BARRED BY STATUTE OF LIMITATION OF THE ANT-TERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH…
18-308 Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of…
18-5767 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-27 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/ Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus v…
18-5764 Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga…
18-5750 Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing May a cart convict and sentence a defendant fetitioner or any aceused for statatay sexud offense statuter based on accusations and eidentiary facts tr…
18-5737 Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation The Court of Appeals has adopted and applied a "Fifth Circuit Principle" that "changes in the discretionary. ules, affecting. parole suitability canno…
18-194 Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-08-14 Denied community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution?
18-5498 Willie Beasley Curtis v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus habitual-offender plea-bargain plea-bargain-standards retroactive-sentencing standing sua-sponte unprecedented-error Question # 1. MY CLAIM OF ERROR IS UNPRECEDENTED IN ANY U.S. COURT TO DATE. IS IT NOT THE SUPREME COURT'S DUTY TO CONSIDER UNPRECEDENTED ERRORS THAT A…
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light …
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity 1, Given that the elements of capital murder which were identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State will be applied to determine if Jame…
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death…
18-5284 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2018-07-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat…
18-5261 Vester L. Patterson v. California California 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
18-5257 Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-07-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso…
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-11 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL ERROR THAT CONFLICTS WITH UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS WHERE STATE COURTS FOUND A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING STATUTE …
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings 1. Given the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homici…
18-5139 Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing i May t pe Ct hon in this matter? 2) May the nde ont he men appliction ild on 02-04-2014. No.4:4-42 in h U.S.D.C.S.ATX. was timly,and setifies the t…
18-39 Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington Washington 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola…
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE RELIEF, INCLUDING MANDAMUS, FROM THIS COURT FOR A CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE WITH REGARD TO DOUBLE EX POST FACTO VI…