| 25-7126 |
In Re Tremayne Silas |
|
2026-04-01 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus-2255 involuntary-plea mandamus |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissal of the mandamus when it applies to a claim that Silas's guil… |
| 25-5257 |
Eric Sean Roloson v. Washington |
Washington |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-alternative |
Whether the State's misrepresentation that the victims would support a SSOSA rendered Petitioner's plea involuntary, in violation of the Due Process C… |
| 23-6836 |
Ruixue Shi, aka Serena Shi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining right-to-counsel trial-preparation voluntariness |
Whether Petitioner's guilty plea was involuntary because she decided to plead guilty based upon her attorney's advice that it was in her interest to d… |
| 23-6774 |
Tremayne Silas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl… |
| 22-7459 |
Joseph Church v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing |
I. Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law when a judgment of conviction is entered without pro… |
| 22-7318 |
Shannon Miles Lancaster v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidence-suppression fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance involuntary-plea plea-involuntariness south-carolina-homeland-security-act strickland strickland-standard suppression-motion |
Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Petitioner a certificate of appealability, where the St… |
| 22-7057 |
Raymond Pniewski, Jr. v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights court-advisement due-process guilty-plea involuntary-plea judicial-procedure people-v-jaworski |
(1) Do THE RULINGS OF BOYKIN v_ ALABAMA, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), AND PEOPLE v JAWORSKI, 387 MI 21 (1972), VIOLATE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL AND DUE PRO… |
| 22-6992 |
Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time |
IS IT LEGAL TO START A PRISON SENTENCE, THEN STOP IT AND THEN RE START IT BY ADDING MORE YEARS?
IS IT LEGAL TO REVOKE STREET TIME ON PAROLE WHEN IT C… |
| 22-6838 |
Demetri D. Beachem, aka Demetrius D. Beachem v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a court can take into account exceptions binding it to accord precedent over objections to a prior court's authority to decide.
Whether a cou… |
| 21-5031 |
Luis Pitt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated when the Court of Appeals failed to remedy the District Court's improper acceptance of Petitione… |
| 20-8170 |
Ronnie Ray Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-standard due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea judicial-discretion recusal statute-of-limitations |
Whether the state's adjudication - or lack thereof- of Petitioner's Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) Motion, Tennessee Rules of Criminal … |
| 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… |
| 20-5453 |
Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review |
Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5292 |
Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-7770 |
In Re Marcus Williams |
|
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation constitutional-violations deception-by-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-agreement pre-trial-acts-and-omissions pre-trial-counsel structural-error |
(1)
WHETHER THE PRE-TRIAL ACTS AND OMISSIONS MADE BY MARCUS WILLIAMS' COUNSEL, ALLIED WITH FAILURE
TO OBJECT ON THE RECORD, TO PRE-ARRAIGNMENT ERRORS… |
| 19-6192 |
Lagenza Junious v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication involuntary-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. PETITIONER, LAGENZA JUNIOUS, ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RAISE A DIMINISHED CAPACITY DEFENSE TO FIRST DEGREE MURD… |
| 19-5118 |
Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness |
1. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court
imposes a condition that requires a defendant to "successfully
complete" a treatme… |
| 18-9823 |
Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI… |
| 18-9255 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-9097 |
Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S
SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF
COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN
PETITI… |
| 18-7078 |
Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver |
The petitioner (criminal defendant below) claimed that his plea was involuntary, so therefore his appellate waiver was involuntary. The District Court… |
| 18-5705 |
George Easterly v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea |
Question #1: Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Courts precedent when it upheld summary denial of a postconviction claim a… |
| 18-5499 |
Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred |
WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT FAILED TO HOLD AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON HABEAS CORPUS IF,AMONG OTHER FACTORS,TO DEVELOP THE FACTUAL BASIS FOR THE CLAIM IN ST… |
| 18-5318 |
Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial |
Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability when Evidence Exsists Clearly Ineffective For Failure To Exculpatory Evidence and /oDisclose Appellant Evid… |