habeas-corpus-review

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24-5163 Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard (1) Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and inst…
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-6686 Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-5524 Tong Lor v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa evidence-presented-in-state-court federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-procedure presumption-of-correctness state-court-finding-of-fact state-court-findings unreasonable-determination-of-facts DOES THE ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1996 (AEDPA) REQUIRE THE PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS TO BE APPLIED TO THE STATE COURT'S FINDI…
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether The District Court And Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability Where. The Pet…
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i…
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review On the basis of a § 2254, a claim of fraud upon the court will have been reviewed by state courts prior to the Federal District Court level. However, …
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination 1) DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO…
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis WHETHER OR NOT THE U.S. DISTRICT AND APPELLATE COURTS VIOLATED CASTRO V. UNITED STATES, 124 S.CT., BY REFUSING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY…
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser…
18-7081 Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment 1. Whether Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a prisoner to challenge a di…
18-6872 Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence 1. Post-AEDPA, can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct, where the Commonwealth suppressed arguabl…
18-6795 Darrell Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case whereas the petition creates an important first impression of the merits, which will ha…
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent At Petitioner's murder trial, the State's only fact witness testified the victim was shot once at one location and his body moved and dumped at anothe…
18-6032 D. L. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP does-wisconsin's-sentencing-scheme-apply-to-juveni federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence martinez-trevino-doctrine martinez-v-ryan miller-v-alabama procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings trevino-v-thaler (1) Can the exceptions excusing procedural default of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in the Martinez/Trevino doctrine apply to State H…
18-6013 Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2…
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser…
18-5147 Edward Nathan Wing v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity timeliness 1. Whether Mr. Wing's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely because it was…