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25A894 George Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency Question not identified.
25-6686 Ricardo Nellons v. Thomas Gee, Superintendent, Cayuga Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP darden-hearing due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel probable-cause warrant-requirements The New York Courts ' requirements for establishing probable cause are not adhered to in the case at bar. When probable cause is totally reliant on …
25-6362 Dan Ioan Belc v. Florida Florida 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Six (6) District Anems of Prosecution Misconduct Alleged [Cumulative Effect Amount to Fundamentally Undermine Possibility of Getting a Fair Trial in W…
25-6377 Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Did the Sixth Circuits denial of a COA decide the important federal question related to sufficiency of the evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doub…
25-624 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard 1. Where the court that presided over a defendant's trial and post-conviction evidentiary hearing finds the defendant suffered prejudice under Strickl…
25-6236 Jesse Alan Walker v. William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County, Florida Florida 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pretrial-proceedings sixth-amendment Does the United Constitution of the Constitution of Florida permit the petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be decided based on the facts and retur…
25-6162 Terrell Onterial Lobley v. Don Harris, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-interpretation state-law trial-procedure Are the Courts (state and otherwise) required to uphold Laws that are in violation of State and Federal Constitutions? Is an individual, incarcerated…
25-5874 Bruce S. Myles v. New York New York 2025-10-14 Denied IFP competency due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutor-testimony sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE COURT VIOLATED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE PROSECUTOR WAS ALLOWED TO ACT AS AN UNSWORN WITNESS? 2. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN VIOLATI…
25A390 John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mandate-rule resentencing withdrawal Question not identified.
25-5669 Stanislav Steven Yelizarov v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver ineffective-counsel miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement resentencing When a criminal defendant is resentenced after a conviction is vacated because he is actually innocent of the charge, does an appeal waiver in the ple…
25-5335 In Re Xena Ames 2025-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination ineffective-counsel mandamus writ-of-certiorari 1. ) Whether the issuance of a writ of mandamus is the proper procedure to correct a clear abuse of discretion by the trial court, due to erroneous is…
25-10 Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals this Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even criminal context.
24-7383 In Re Robert Timothy Blake 2025-06-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Were the constitutional rights of Robert Timothy Blake violated when his Trial Attorney failed to notice/ dispute/or Challenge the validity of the Sea…
24-7136 DeWayne Lee Waldrup v. Texas Texas 2025-05-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel self-representation trial-procedure Question not identified.
24-6714 David C. Lettieri v. Joel L. Daniels, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Dismissed IFP class-of-one constitutional-claim disability-discrimination ineffective-counsel section-1985 title-42 How does a "class of one" apply? 2. Does private have more of an element to be under Title 42 United States Code 1985(3)? 3. Is disability a class a…
24-6687 Jason Jayavarman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-procedure duplicitous-indictment ineffective-counsel plea-offer rule-8a 1. Is indictment duplicitous when it charges two or more offenses in a single count? 2. Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(a) prohibit the cha…
24-6643 Mark Douglas Huber v. Randy Valley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
24-6522 Samuel Carl Neyhart v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel martinez-review ninth-circuit procedural-default 1) Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error, and/or so far depart from the Supreme Court of the United States processes and precedents, by failin…
24-6438 Iran Dwayne Ketchup v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-injustice rule-60 section-2255 Did Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 60 allow the lower courts (1) to re-open the 28 P.S.C. S 2255 proceedings, pursuant to Gonzalez v. Crosby ,…
24-6258 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-bias sentencing-errors 1. A defendant who was not defended by attorney in a criminal proceeding in every legal sense projection in his trial T4 but proforma and reluctant de…
24-6106 In Re Freeman William Stanton 2024-12-10 Denied IFP concurrent-sentences guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mental-disability plea-agreement resentencing 1. WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO BE RESENTENCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT THAT IN VOLVES A "QUID PRO QUO" AND …
24-6093 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel 1. Does South Dakota 's position, in its statutory required appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings (SDCL § 21-27-4) there…
24A495 Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas Texas 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure diplomatic-intervention foreign-national ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief texas-criminal-law Question not identified.
24-5855 Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-appeal ineffective-counsel legal-procedure trial-court Question not identified.
24-5824 Oscar Alvarado v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-counsel rule-60b1 sixth-amendment DID THE COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT LEGAL ERROR IN DENYING PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY STATING THAT NO JURIST OF REASON WOULD NOT DEBATE THE…
24-5691 Antoine Edwards v. Bradley Scott, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act 1) What is the remedy for Speedy Trial Act violation; Deprivation 18 U.S.C.A § 3161 et seq.; 6 Amendment U.S. Constitutional Eight? 2) Is Barker v. W…
24-5554 Harry Lee Goldsboro v. Florida Florida 2024-09-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-review procedural-error Question not identified.
24-5538 John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel self-incrimination 1. Did the United States District Court for the District of Kansas err when it failed to find in Mr. Stenberg's favor regarding the suppression issue …
24A196 Michael Scott Hoover v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit ineffective-counsel procedural-due-process writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A187 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Presumed Complete dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata Question not identified.
24-5344 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied IFP circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors 1. Whether this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 (1984), requires reviewing courts to consider the cumulative effect of cou…
24-5212 Clarence Wyatt Holland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP circuit-court due-process fundamental-justice harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-law Did the Circuit Court reach its holding, after applying incorrect harmless-error standard and disregarding the compelling record evidence of prejudi…
23-7840 Douglas Lemon v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation disclosure-of-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence-disclosure fitness-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment (1), He was not given a fair Fitness Evaluation Nor Hearing, Due Process Right, U.S. Constitution, Amendment, 14th, ILL. Const. ( 1970 ) Art; 1 § 2; d…
23-7737 Raul Gardea, Jr. v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exhaustion ineffective-counsel jurisdictional-statement prosecution-costs state-habeas statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Petitioner Raised Two Claims Of Ineffectiveness Of Trial Counsel For His Performance In Failing Ask A Pivotal Question And Not Providing Corrected Wit…
23A876 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied capital-case conflict-of-interest effective-assistance flat-fee-contract ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment Whether, where appointed counsel in a capital case had a flat-fee contract and failed to investigate or challenge a capital murder charge to the clien…
23A803 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement Question not identified.
23-6669 S.C., et vir, v. Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services Texas 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appointed-counsel asfa-compliance dismissal-date due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel parental-rights procedural-fairness texas-family-code venue-transfer Whether the denial of appointed counsel for parents found to be indigent in the trial court despite multiple requests for an attorney to protect their…
23-6497 Alex Marquez v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-confession miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Alex Marquez made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to an inadequate Miranda warning …
23A472 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia Question not identified.
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability? 2. Shoul…
23-5734 Lawrence Flack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waivers constitutional-rights double-jeopardy guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plain-error plea-agreement Whether Appellant counsel Anders brief was inadequate were evidence exist that Appellant Constitutional rights were violated, double jeopardy rightsI.…
23-5664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2023-09-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Question not identified.
23-312 Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and re sentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convi…
23-5609 Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. ) Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right by allowing the lower court to allow the Petitioner to tes…
23-5608 George Butler v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-09-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel intervening-decision sentencing-error (1) The Conviction and/or Sentence was in violation of the United States Constitution, Mississippi Constitution, and Laws of Mississippi. (2) The Con…
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Question not identified.
23-5353 Chandra Modugumudi v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel language-barrier plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment-rights Relief under appeal, the jurisdiction is ready for appeal as she applied for appeal within 14 days of sentencing she was sentenced on 06-24-2022. It i…
23-5336 Maurice Walker v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt 1) In this case the Uniform (Iowa) Jury Instructions were used and presented to the Jury, where Felony Murder-Rule was applied. The Jury convicted W…
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the Unless Se.ocW and Se^re ft VioUhon of my ^ ^ ^Q-P h&brU&C'/ /c///9 <?f?| (4/nendtn€o-f-S fi^htS > uihAUr r'3^s" uihAUr r'3^s" rnyvoku °P …
23-5205 Steven Lesane v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea where 1) there was an insufficient…
23-5199 Duron B. Peoples v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel murder-conspiracy witness-testimony witness-unavailability 1. IS FEDERAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED UNDER THE "COMPULSORY PROCESS" WHERE A FEDERAL COURT CONCLUDES THAT A PETITIONER'S COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE CLAIM LACKS …
23-5136 Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing Question not identified.
22-7688 Avery Smartt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process human-trafficking ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct speedy-trial standing X£^ aXBX^&mL^AL Law.eD to Drop off % Leave. A___ BMQkLL^„XU^Pmijn&nr_A lnor AT A Reslnenca^ 77>:AfecSaty XH pJ THe A&enT Sl&ieS fo Howe (roUen ARtPor…
22-7529 Storm N. Rivera v. New York New York 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel juror-bias jury-selection mode-of-proceedings mode-of-proceedings-error rape-prosecution sexual-abuse Whether a juror who failed to disclose during jury selection that she was a victim of sexual abuse should have been disqualified after she revealed th…
22-7330 Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial…
22-7265 Allen Franks v. Florida Florida 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3.850-motion civil-procedure due-process government-fraud ineffective-counsel mental-capacity mental-disability plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief standing WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN TRIAL COURT FAILED TO ALLOW THE PETITIONER AN OPPORTUNITY TO FILE A REPLY TO STATE'S RESPONSE ON PETITI…
22-7189 Amos Gabriel Hicks v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-reporter court-transcripts due-process first-amendment ineffective-counsel right-to-records transcript-destruction (1) Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Right of Due Process and First Amendment Right to all Records violated when the Courts destroyed Petitioner's …
22-7174 James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony 1. Was I deprived of my (14th) Fourteenth Amendment of due process of a fair trial, when I pleaded with my trial attorney and the Judge Meagan Bilik-D…
22-7103 George Lincoln Stanley, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction kidnapping kidnapping-charges sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence The following questions are exceptional circumstances that warrants the exercise of the court's discretionafcyvpowers and adequate relief cannot be ob…
22-7070 Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-03-22 Denied IFP 6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure 1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition…
22-6978 Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws 1. Under the RICO Laws, can a conviction stand without the existence of a "Enterprise", a group of people associated in fact? Or without corrupt acts …
22-6924 Gerald Drummond v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt-instruction state-courts structural-error trial-procedure IS THE PENNSYLVANIA COURTS INAPPROPRIATELY DENYING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS OF THE PETITIONER RIGHTS IN THEIR DENIAL OF RELIEF TO …
22-6668 Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1. Petitionee has presented that key state witness 10:45 using cellphone while testifying against petitioner at trial. Petitioner was convicted solely…
22-6504 Donald Herrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process free-speech grand-jury-fraud ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-framework Petitioner offers these questions in hopes that all, one, or part of a question will be heard. QUESTION ONE: Did the Commonwealth of Virginia adopt a…
22-6460 Davonte DeJean v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible? Was…
22-6426 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial strickland-standard The Right to Counsel. The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal I. defendant 's the right to effective assistance of counsel. Medina 's counsel failed t…
22-6174 Porfirio Duarte-Herrera v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-severance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instructions ninth-circuit-review severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Mr. Duarte-Herrera made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the inability to present…
22-5976 Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2022-11-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment Under the Constructive Amendment, any substantial amendment, direct or indirect, of an indictment must be resubmitted to the grand jury. Pendleton new…
22-5840 Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights do to trial court err by: A…
22-5813 Katherine Elizabeth Langhorst v. Texas Texas 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining search-and-seizure trial-procedure Was the evidence seized in this cause/case "Fruits of The Poisonous Tree"? Was this conviction obtained by way of illegal search and seizure? Did Tr…
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may …
22-5467 Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk ERR in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its face and then file it into the ap…
22-5256 In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan 2022-08-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error Q: Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue? The petitioner is incarcerated despite Structural Error, Viola…
22-5080 Jacky Cardale Mayfield v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-07-12 Denied IFP confidential-witness due-process Fourth-Amendment Fourth-Amendment-search In-camera-hearing ineffective-counsel Probable-cause search-warrant Shackling Witness-testimony P/ff^OSihovi Search ujarfarti ISSu-eJ f,tarCf w/lPPe-llosiJs Pham ujas Qf.ne.rd m toalufe cmal lheJe. far~t unlawful m UiolafhW o( 1h£ faurih AlyienAm…
22-5032 Steven Louis Barnes v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether denial of an evidentiary hearing viol collateral-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedy IS THERE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN REMEDIES IN RAISING INEFFECTIVENESS OF CONSTITUTIONAL COUNSEL ON DIRECT APPEAL, WHERE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNSEL IS ALLOWED…
21-8204 Reginald Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture ineffective-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10, a review is warranted as this case present an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, s…
21-8173 Vincent Raymond Rios v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel language-barrier language-rights plea-bargaining Should the Ninth Circuit have vacated Mr. Rios's guilty plea for lack of a knowing and voluntary waiver of his constitutional rights, for these reason…
21-7998 Lamar Daniel Ron Wilson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP charging-instrument constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-information indictment ineffective-counsel plea-agreement 1. Is a plea agreement, the statement of the accused, "I did it.", the sole piece of information necessary to convict? Specifically, is felony informa…
21-7768 Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia Virginia 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial • Were my rights to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and Section 1 of the Eighth Amendment prejudiced when the Circuit Court for the City …
21-7651 Manuel Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy 1) If a DNA Exculpatory Wearing the-Release Cause-Tested 4th right he had Be-To /e PM iMiAe^e^ o-f fAii /vtvlur^ . W<aA kjo hlAMUr ok/ the DfV/1 £v/D£…
21-7370 Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony I) If there is a critical discrepancy within the record Is die transcript complete? And a new trial; permitted? Pg 26 2. A witness allowed to give a…
21-7339 Robert Donald Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing 1. Did the United States and lower courts act outside of their Constitutionally limited subject matter and/or territorial jurisdictions by adjudicatin…
21-7198 Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the S…
21-6877 Alisha Dawn Aldridge v. Texas Texas 2022-01-14 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process independent-investigation ineffective-counsel witness-testimony Question not identified.
21-6714 In Re Rafael Verdejo-Ruiz 2021-12-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel military-appellate-review speedy-trial standing takings ucmj-jurisdiction I. APPELLATE COURT LACKED JURISDICTION. IS PETITIONER'S APPEAL LEGALLY ADEQUATE? DUE PROCESS VIOLATION. IN LIGHT OF IN RE BUBER, 62 MJ 227 (CAAF 2015)…
21-6407 Roy Thomas Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process ineffective-counsel liberal-reading merits plea-proceedings plea-stage pro-se pro-se-petitioners 1. The factual determination for denying the certificate of appealability was wrong and reversal is warranted. 2. Pro-se petitioners are to be given …
21-6357 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a…
21-6363 Diane Arellano v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-effect-of-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment I. ft go against Krr USiCcKfr. Amend. \Z£rr'ght tc> 3. Speedy trial > that- 3-fi exiting d/>^ <Lcu t 8hi'm*?s t© r«^«ste>n£i v/iolafe h?c 7 0c« her re…
21-6184 Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing I. Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (Eighth Circuit) granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then den…
21-6017 Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Why Dod the majority below err in applying this Courts deeisias W Schlup Vv, Dela and Kyles v. Lihitley 4 held that Poti Foner's compelling New evicle…
21-5968 Timothy Stemen v. Florida Florida 2021-10-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Did law enforcement violate the petitioners due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings. Did law enforcement violate the pet…
21-5887 Miguel Neil v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-law constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default Question One: Whether a lower federal court violates due process when it ignores a petitioner's appropriately cited case law in support that appellate…
21-5860 Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction 1. Though completely forsaken by the protections of the Sixth Amendment by the time ive at the federal appellate courts, does either the Eighth or sta…
21-5851 Daniel Bryan Kelly, Jr. v. California California 2021-10-04 Denied IFP child-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial gang-related-crime ineffective-counsel trial-rights witness • WM UaSn4 x allowed 4o -fixce. mw accuser or cross- examine. Won a\ final ? * WhW cJoulclo4 /AW A\4omeV5/ MarK S-taPlefioo . Trai/i S S4roud and Ste…
21-5817 James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan, 378 US 1, 10, 12 LEd2d 653, 84 SCt 1489 (1964) require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or inef…
21-5724 Devin Lee Rintye v. California California 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation Does a State Court Violate a defendant's due process rights, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court …
21-5646 Peter Klah v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-contacts due-process ineffective-counsel jurisdiction-analysis online-interactions personal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing Trial Court Erred in Denyng motion to Suppress hear case Prosecutor's comments During his opening statement nAhmeony he Co Deat Hoe Asserted his Seven…
21-5589 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing 1. whether the United States District Court or not has jurisdiction to grant Habeas Corpus relief for WNH pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 2. whether or no…
21-5552 Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure 1. Whether the eleventh circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial /When the police officer who investigated Greens …
21-250 Khamraj Lall v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brady-material constitutional-rights due-process indictment-transfer ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-testify simultaneous-indictments speedy-trial 1. Whether or not the Trial Judge erred in not having an on-the-record colloquy with the defendant outside the presence of the jury to enquire if the …
21-5452 Elliot Joseph v. Daniel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel miranda-v-arizona strickland-v-washington Whether the lower courts incorrectly found petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus failed to demonstrate a substantial showing of the denial o…
21-5450 Richard K. Cook v. Todd Wasmer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accomplice-instruction amendment-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-planting ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error The Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) in this case eventually went to prison for planting DNA evidence in another murder case, as he's alleged to have pl…
21-5431 Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR…
21-5438 Noe Gerardo Morin v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-disclosure confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington fundamental-fairness hearsay hearsay-statement ineffective-counsel non-testimonial prejudice right-to-confront testimonial Mr.Morin alleges that the district court erred by mischaracterizing • statements from a non-testifying witness, resulting in severe prejudice agains…
21-5262 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2021-07-29 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination /- 771 e /cjJfr Federal Courts Jef rived tii5 Petitioner of his congressional right to Full round oF his initial Federal habeas review ly dismissing …
21-5118 Michael D. Dyers v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-court-dismissal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript-evidence Question not identified.
21-5063 Sammy Cano v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony 1. Whether or not the State failed to prove Sammy Cano guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only witness to the crime directly contradicted her …
20-1765 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli…
20-8244 Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief 1) Was error Committed by the Appellate Division when it neglected to consider Appellant 's Pro- Se Supplemental Brief, or to file said brief conside…
20-8240 Carl Edmond Yancy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fact-witnesses false-imprisonment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-evidence medical-experts pre-trial-investigation sexual-assault sexual-assault-experts virgin-examination 1. At Petitioner's trial why did my lawyer not Conduct a pre-Trial investigation, my (Petitioner), CM EbMObtb HH/ty's Case! 2. Why d'd Petitioner's L…
20-8209 Dennis J. Edwards v. Kim Larson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-8164 Michael Mosley v. John Rich, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-counsel schlup-v-delo sixth-amendment In this wholly circumstantial case where the Petitioner has alibi, and after trial presents: 1) substantial new exculpatory witnesses and evidence sho…
20-8087 William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment A) Is petitioner entitled to a constitutional review and his court on his presented claims at the appeal level regarding his Effective Assistance of C…
20-8040 Michael N. Kelsey v. New York New York 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-neutrality plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing trial-rights 1: Are New York State's procedural rules insufficiently hospitable to a Petitioner's constitutional claims such as here where the Petitioner was deeme…
20-7985 Taji Jemal Lee v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct IS a DEFENDANTS 6TH and 14TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS VIOLATED by THE PROSECUTIONS INTENTIONAL CONCEALMENT of MATERIAL EVIDENCE? And if so, is i…
20-7915 Larry Marcel Vaughn v. Texas Texas 2021-05-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel right-to-appeal sixth-amendment WHETHER THE FAILURE OF APPOINTED COUNSEL TO ADVISE PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL AND/OR THE ASSESSED PUNISHMENT IN THIS CASE DENIED PETITIONER HIS…
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth 2021-04-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Question not identified.
20-1449 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan rule-60b section-2255 trevino-rule trevino-v-thaler Whether under Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler a Petitioner May Use Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to Reopen a Proceeding Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the B…
20-7782 Ronald W. Greer v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan doyle-v-ohio doyle-violation harmless-error ineffective-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona newly-discovered-evidence state-court-deference I. HAS A PETITIONER SUBSTANTIALLY SHOWN THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT WARRANTING ISSUANCE OF A COA WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT AFFORDS DEFERENCE …
20-7735 DeAndre Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2021-04-14 Denied IFP advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion I. Did the trial court's questioning of multiple witnesses that essentially advocated strengthen the prosecution's and pierce the veil of Case judicia…
20-7740 Jason Robert Vickers v. Kenneth Diggs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether a Criminal defendant is indicted in order to charge and/or convict with a harsher Crime, if a Criminal defendant is indicted with a particular…
20-7514 Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they…
20-7313 Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r…
20-7295 Isidro Sauceda v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence ineffective-counsel lesser-included-offense ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists willits-instruction I. Whether Review Is Warranted Because The Ninth Circuit Utilized An Unduly Burdensome Certificate Of Appealability Standard That Contravenes This Cou…
20-7202 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour…
20-7151 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Clifton Harrold, Sheriff, Lane County, Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP bail civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel speedy-trial state-court-review Did the V.S. Coust of Appeals for the Ninth Grcuit err when it denied the certificate of appealibility whereas there were in-set before the istrict co…
20-6850 Ronald Eugene Weems v. Alabama Alabama 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-supreme-court attorney-representation constitutional-rights court-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-representation post-conviction sixth-amendment I) Does the Supreme Court of the United States have authority to represent a client in a post conviction petition when the Supreme Court's representat…
20-6384 Owen McCants v. Steven Silva First Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review #1 : WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT, APPEALS COURT, AND SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION? #2: WHETHER THE EXCLUSION OF THE DEFENDANT FROM TH…
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Warrantless Arrest was not…
20-5986 Romeo Wilson v. Debra Sue Gabites, et al. Michigan 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel legal-representation standing witness-testimony DO I HAVE ANY RIGHTS/THE LIGHT WAS BLINKING! DO I HAVE ANY RIGHT/I HAD TWO LAWYER, MR.JESSIE A.NASH (7946 5) ANfe^iJARED 1,3HOUEY ( 75877) WAS MIR TO…
20-5963 Daniel Edward Murray v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-time-calculation hipaa hipaa-restrictions ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel medical-records medical-records-disclosure plea-agreement plea-agreements pro-se pro-se-litigation 1) If there is a set of plea agreements taken at the same time and the court of appeals reverses a part of the appealed agreeemnt does this, A) Start …
20-5898 Roy Eugene Ussery v. Texas Texas 2020-10-02 Denied IFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights defense-theory extraneous-offense-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice speedy-trial witness-prejudice 1) When giving weight to the prejudice factor in a 'Barker' test & the complained of prejudice is the death of a DEFENSIVE witness, but the Court erro…
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th 'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex Parte Motion F…
20-5699 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex'Parte Motion "F…
20-5682 Simon F. Ranteesi v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fair-trial ineffective-counsel jury-instructions medical-malpractice mental-state prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Was Petitioner denied his Human and Civil Rights Under the First, fifth, sixth, eight, and fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,…
20-5626 Monte Whitehead v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-09-09 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-vs-federal-law New Mexice's anti-waiver statute void? If so! 2. I's the decision by the New Mexico District Court contory te New Mexico's anti-wai ver statute and t…
20-5466 John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel When a petitioner supplements his Constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence that was not raised in his habeas petit…
20-5419 Michael D. Dyer v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. Georgia 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Question not identified.
20-5250 Oscar Armando Avila-Jaimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 andrus-precedent evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fifth Circuit 's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this co…
20-5095 Jethro L. Clairvoyant v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel jury-instructions martinez-claim reversals similarly-situated-defendants state-court 1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW BY THE STATE COURT'S REFUSAL TO RESERVE THE CONVICTIONS FROM THE STATE CO…
20-5084 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment Was Ellis Prejudicied when NONE of her concerns were considered in her Initial Appeal 17-12737? Was Ellis Prejudiced per 6th Amendment when Attorney …
20-5050 Ezra Leslie v. New York New York 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reversal sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Petitioner, [Ezra Leslie], was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his paramour. Leslie maintained his innocence and informed his cou…
19-8696 Frank DiTomasso v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing ,and there is not even an attempt to sked for,e.g.pictures or video, 2 get any picturer or videos? .There is a bold lie Tald to the grand jury in firs…
19-8386 David L. Culverhouse v. Texas Texas 2020-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion standing May the Court of Appeals of Texas circumvent attorney of any actually innocent Petitioner error motion before to file original Application for writ of…
19-8204 Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause, and has the government, District Court, or the Sixth Ci…
19-8186 Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU…
19-8103 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim. 2. Whether the Fifth Circuit…
19-8091 Vernon Wayne Officer v. Washington Washington 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure D IS iT NOT TRUE ON OCT 12 2O1A, I WAS DENIED RE-ADONTMENT OF COUNSEL, DURING JURY TRIAL, NOT BECAUSE OF DELAY IN TRIAL? BOT BECAUSE I SIQNED RE-APPOI…
19-7703 Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing Does the 5th Amendment Release from illegal detention Convicted Against Double Jeopardy 5TH Amendment Petitioner WAS Counse/ Ineffective in Violation …
19-7617 Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement I. Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily …
19-7578 Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? Did T…
19-7395 Jean Crump v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination 1. This is my second trial. At least five federal attorneys advised my new new attorney Dana Cephas, that Judge William Keller was a racist and he esp…
19-7360 Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-substance federal-constitutional-substance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Ground I. Did a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in denying Mr. Simonton a Certificate of Appealability by statin…
19-7290 Tamarkqua Garland v. New York New York 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Defendant challenge and "impugned the integrity," of the denial of his CPL § 30.30 speedy trial consitutional rights, which includes 409 days in ex…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Q1. What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affe…
19-6899 Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States, Require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering;…
19-6780 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-box-rule ohio-appellate-rules sixth-amendment time-limitation time-limits A) Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated when appellate counsel failed to: 1) Notify Petitioner (of his appellate rights) in a timely mann…
19-6775 James Marione Butchee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on…
19-6632 Samier Patrick Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjective to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the course of his criminal prosecution? Was petitioner subjective to …
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4): 42 Pa G.S. §0542; 42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);…
19-6606 Ryan T. Root v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION? II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED…
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule (1). Whether this Court should exercise its discretionary certiorari jurisdiction and grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case…
19-6419 Scott Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING WILSON'S HABEAS CLAIM(S) ALLEGING COUNSEL'S UNREASONABLE FAILU…
19-6237 Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Respondent Daniel Redington, Warden, Northeast Correctional Center through counsel of record have been untruthful, in all the courts > denying Petitio…
19-6004 Lynn Taylor v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion affidavit civil-procedure court-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion standing 1. Did the Northern District. Amarillo Division, abuse it's descretion in not forwardinn the total "discovery' of "unanswered admission, affidavit" to…
19-5914 Lena Lasher v. Roger Stavis, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence best-evidence-rule civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-defense due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-malpractice 1. Should a civil action be granted to proceed to correct the District Court's error where they misrepresented a precedent, Hoffenberg v. Meyers, and …
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…
19-273 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud In mail and wire fraud cases, the government does not have to prove a victim actually lost money or property, but it does have to prove a scheme desig…
19-5536 Gabriel Vashon Seay v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel investigation legal-investigation plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where Strickland v. Washington, serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there …
19-5547 Ronny Lee Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP abandonment-of-claim abandonment-of-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-statement-of-guilt counsel-statements criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel right-to-autonomy right-to-counsel Whether COA should have been granted based on petitioner's right tocautonomy uhen his cousel abandoned petitioner's claim of hot guilty uhen cousel …
19-5514 In Re Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa 2019-08-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction public-defender wrongful-conviction 1. Whother this Entine Cake hat resulted in a Wongu Lack of Knci ledge and underAanding g The Law, facts, Meles and Aatute constitute a centigy questi…
19-5319 William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York New York 2019-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure ONE Having Found That Significant Grounds Existed to Believe That The Defendant Was an Incapacitated Person, Did The County Court Deprive The Petitio…
19-5131 Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations The question of whether the District Court properly applied the statue of limitations to Rackley's habeas petition in Respondent's first order by th…
19-5066 Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation 1) IF Your OriqNAl IndiCtmeNt is lAte ANd dismissed UNder 18 USC 316/A) qrantina the Ends oF Justice . Wher You Get A Second Irdictment When the First…
18-9834 Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge 1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac…
18-9754 Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. DNA, NEW EVIDENCE a. Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict? b. Is the discovery of flaws …
18-9742 Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
18A1303 Dolores R. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete child-custody discrimination due-process ineffective-counsel juvenile-court procedural-fairness Question not identified.
18-9652 Cedric McDonald v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO DISTRICT COURT'S USE OF A VIDEO IN VOIR DIRE, WHICH WAS DESINGED TO GET JUR…
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…
18-9481 Jerry Eugene Shrubb v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeal cerebellar-degeneration constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel miranda-violation petition-for-allowance-of-appeal sixth-amendment warrantless-search Has the Appellant been denied Due Process of Law in that no Court has reasonably observed the actual claims raised by the Appellant? Has the warrantl…
18-9435 Steven Jacob Seibert v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Georgia 2019-05-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel interstate-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge restraining-order retroactivity. stalking-statute standing Whether the Georgia courts violated petitioner's constitutional rights by convicting and sentencing him for Aggravated Stalking based on conduct occur…
18-9405 John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial (I) INEFFELTIVE OF TLIAL COUNSE/: COUNSEL FAILEO TO SECURE AN OBSECTION TO SWABS BEING AOMITTEO IWTO EVIDENCE WHEN THE STATE DED NOT PAODUCE TANGIBLE …
18-9392 Brent Edward Lovett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel Petitioner Brent Edward Lovett (Prisoner in Custody of BOP, RRC) moves this Court to remand the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, for t…
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief 1. Whether the Petitioner's Direct Appeal, warrants the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus to compel action by the Court. 2. Whether the Petitioner shoul…
18-9380 Miguel Daniel Leal v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel marital-communications-privilege marital-privilege ninth-circuit-review sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights state-courts supervisory-power supreme-court-dicta Is United States Supreme Court dicta which interprets the U.S. Constitution authoritative and controlling on Federal and State Courts, or may Federal …
18-9379 Paul A. Light v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines I. Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines, on a man whose crime was viewing pornography alone in his home,…
18-9288 In Re Sherman Lamont Fields 2019-05-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Under Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. (1988) 486 U.S. 847, 100 L..Ed .2d 855, 108 S.Ct. 2194 ( A Judge(s) refusal to disqualify himself…
18-9199 Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-09 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing DID THE TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING MR. PEREZ RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT WHERE HE WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN IMPARTIAL JURY B…
18-9149 John David Brookins v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct [I] THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE LOWER STATE AND FEDERAL COURT DENIED …
18-9065 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington 1orwnether the us Courtof Appeals decision failed to the Us Supreme Courthrogt SH action under recsonableness review Counsels before the court found d…
18-9028 Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Seventeen (17) Constitutional Violations of gross structural errors? Did…
18-9022 Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrue meritorious unresolved fac…
18-8811 Antonio Darset King, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment standing voir-dire 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Erred in failing to Grant Petitioner King relief As to the denial of Suppress the search warrant Execute…
18-1286 Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-10 Denied Response Waived castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force 1. Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an issue in this case since two Judges have made rulings concerning the Constitutional Rights of the Pet…
18-8645 David Dean Harris v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP appeal-procedure constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent victim-identification witness-testimony WAS THE STATES USE OF THE COMPLAINING WITNESSES NAME SPECIFICALLY AS THE VICTIM A VIOLATION OF PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT, UNIT…
18-8587 In Re Christopher Stegawski 2019-03-27 Denied IFP 21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony Was the trial fair when: - prosecution took 5 days of testimonies and defense none - key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial - court deni…
18-8139 Louis A. Hardison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order 1. UNDER MISSOURI STATUTE RSMO 513.647 WHICH REQUIRES A TURNOVER ORDER OF SEIZED PROPERTY TO FEDERAL CONTROL EVEN BY STATE ACTOR'S WHO ARE DEPUTIZE AS…
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…
18-8119 Walter Douglas Jenkins v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing waiver Question not identified.
18-8063 Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied IFP aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment In Texas, a person who commits aggravated assault - family violence by causing serious bodily injury to his girlfriend with a deadly weapon is subject…
18-8053 Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines WHETHER at the time of evidentiary hearing was granted to challenge the ineffective counsel's failure to file a Notice of Appeal per Petitioner's requ…
18-7933 Keith Charleston v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-miranda due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights premeditated-murder probable-cause self-defense self-incrimination warrantless-arrest I. PETITIONER'S STATEMENT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OBTAINED AS HIS INTOXICATION AND LACK OF SLEEP PREVENTED A KNOWING AND INTELLIGENT WAIVER OF HIS MIRA…
18-7873 Troy Sierra v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-counsel rights-advisement sixth-amendment Why did the U.S. government allow Del. Deluca to arrest and detain Petitioner at the Orlando County Jail on December 30. 2007 without counsel? Why was…
18-7769 Demetrius Hill v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial? Did the district court err in failing to determine t…
18-7782 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges Reasonable jurists would conclude that the State obtained Mr. Masons with insufficient evidence. Jurists of reason would determine that Mr. Mason was…
18-7628 Anthony Brian Bevan v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-misconduct ineffective-counsel spoilage-of-evidence stare-decisis usc-242 Was the Petitioner denied Due Process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, and/or in violation of U.S.0 Code # 242. and/or in…
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether it can be presumed given the fact that (1) the USSC in Blackledge clearly stated that guilty plea cases were cognizable for federal review?; W…
18-7174 Shawndell Everson v. New York New York 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process effective-assistance ineffective-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights Shawndell Everson was 32 years old when he was sentenced to 143 years (the equivalent of a life sentence ), for allegations of running a "looseknit" o…
18-6633 Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the 22nd Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange for a guilty plea? Whether Counsel for the Petitioner was in…
18-6631 David Hollenback, Jr. v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction state-court-jurisdiction Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals commit error by denying the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability, regarding the United States Middle Distr…
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…
18-6571 Mark Jervis v. Richard Brown, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process e-filing-system habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standing The District Court mandates that all prisoner communications to and from the court be transmitted via the E-Filing system. Per policy, prisoners canno…
18-6421 Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Whether District Court erred in imposing overbroad conditions of Supervised Release, limiting Petitioner's access to the Internet, for the term of sai…
18-6390 Valiant White v. Michigan Michigan 2018-10-19 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree impeachment-of-jury-verdict independent-finding-of-guilt ineffective-counsel jury-acquitted-conduct jury-trial jury-trial-right reasonable-suspicion WHETHER, CONTRARY TO UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENTS, THE TRIAL COURT, MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS, MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT ARBITRARILY DENIED PET…
18-6326 Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS RULINGS' DIRECTLY CONFLICT WITH THE HOLDINGS IN (1) McQUIGGIN V. PERKINS; (2) CRONIC V. UNITED STATES, AND (3) CUYLER V. SULL…
18-6240 Darryl Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c…
18-357 Dragomir Taskov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and all the violations of his constitutional rights are barred simply as untimely and because of t…
18-5724 Juan Concepcion v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP brown-vs-board case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-judgment due-process Equal-protection Gideon-v-wainwright gideon-vs-wainwright ineffective-counsel legal-petition Self-representation speedy-trial statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Did the court of common pleas acquire jurisdiction ab initio? Did the state provide purported representation resulting in gross ineffective counsel? …
18-5559 Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER THE STATE OF OREGON'S IMPOSITION OF A TRUE LIFE SENTENCE UNDER A THREE STRIKES SENTENCING RECIDIVIST ENHANCEMENT STATUTE IS A MISCARRIAGE OF J…
18-5556 Joseph D. Barnes v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-acts bad-acts-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel other-crimes-evidence quadruple-offender speedy-trial state-court-discretion statute-of-limitations 1. Whether reasonable jurists would have found that the district court denied Mr. Barnes a fair trial when It allowed other crimes evidence and/or bad…
18-5432 Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure UNLAWFULLY ESSIVE, FORCE, FALSE ARREST, SEARCH PROBABLE CAUSE, URE, FALSE ARREST WiTHOU CONSENT FALSE ARREST, IDID Nol CONSENT IDiD SEIDURE, FuL AND O…
18-5324 Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Has the Fifth Circuit erred and its decision is in conflict with this Court's holding in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d …
18-5289 Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error 1. Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that h…
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O…