| 25-5876 |
William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision |
Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer… |
| 23-6022 |
Kevin Liu v. Marcus Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
choice-of-counsel constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel state-law state-procedural-bar |
Kevin Liu appeals from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming the dismissal of his extra record federal constitutional claim on habeas … |
| 22-6629 |
Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference federal-constitutional-claim habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision state-court-review state-law-evidentiary-rule strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (""AEDPA")
provides that habeas relief "shall not be granted with respect to any claim that … |
| 20-1613 |
John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application |
1. Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a… |
| 19-5653 |
Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review |
1. When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim his claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by fe… |
| 19-5292 |
Franky Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim judicial-integrity leblanc leblanc-v-virginia merits-adjudication state-v-michel state-vs-michel supreme-court-interpretation |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's contrary and broad reading of LeBlanc infringe upon Petitioner's Constitutional right to have a meaningful review of … |