| 25-5317 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who… |
| 24-7157 |
Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule post-conviction-relief state-court-procedure |
I. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court Is Violating Due Process by foreclosing both State and Federal Review by failing to allow the development of an i… |
| 24-7144 |
Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
1. Does the narrow, equitable authorities announced by this Court in Marchietti v. Rye Silos S.E. prints to establish "cause" for purposes of executin… |
| 24-6549 |
Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance jury-selection martinez-rule strickland-standard |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's truncated no-prejudice analysis on Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective during jury selection violated th… |
| 24-5651 |
Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default |
In his petition for writ of habeas corpus before the district court, Petitioner Michael McLaughlin raised the claim that his trial counsel ineffective… |
| 23-6564 |
Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-rule habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan state-procedural-framework tennessee |
1. Did the decision in Martinez v Ryan 132 SCT 1309 require claims to be raised beyond the initial collateral proceeding for exhaustions purposes in T… |
| 22-5802 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler |
/QUESTION # ONE: The sixth circuit is in direct conflict with marfcinez
V RYAN 566 U.S.413 and TREVINO V THALER 569 U.S.l. Is a petioner
Precluded -f… |
| 21-7799 |
Sam Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus irwin-v-dept-of-veterans-affairs martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan statutory-limitations statutory-tolling trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler |
QUESTION ONE : DID THE DISTRICT COURT AND FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN
REFUSING TO EQUITABLY TOLL PETITIONER'S UNTIMELY REFILED §2254
HABEAS WHICH WAS ORI… |
| 21-6698 |
In Re Carlton West II |
|
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent |
EXACTLY HOW, WHEN AND WHERE ARE PRISONERS TO USE THE NEW EQUITABLE RULE ANNOUNCED IN MARTINEZ V. RYAN 566 U.S. 1 (2012) AND TREVINO V. THALER 569 U.S.… |
| 21-6202 |
Charles Gregory Clark v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan shackling shackling-claim specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The trial court required Charles Gregory Clark to be visibly restrained during his entire capital murder trial, without a hearing and making no requis… |
| 21-5476 |
In Re William Barret Slade, II |
|
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether or not during evaluations, decisions, and judgments, the Alabama Trial, State Courts, are in complete contradiction to this United States Supr… |
| 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… |
| 20-1009 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry v. David Martinez Ramirez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
aedpa evidentiary-development federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
Does application of the equitable rule this Court announced in Martinez v. Ryan render 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) inapplicable to a federal court's merits… |
| 20-6772 |
Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel |
When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court s intervening decision in Martines v. Ryan, 566 U.S. … |
| 20-6502 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim |
1. Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise un… |
| 20-6370 |
David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction |
1. Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability by sanctioning… |
| 20-6016 |
George A. Christian v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial |
Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in… |
| 20-5570 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review |
In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and "adjudicated on the merits" by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder… |
| 19-8454 |
Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress |
1. Whether the circuit court erred by denying a certificate of appealabilit
y for an ineffective assistance claim because the
omitted evidence was ina… |
| 19-8345 |
In Re Steven Ciotta |
|
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel |
Yielding to a ends of justice inquire in regards to a federal application for writ of habeas corpus, should review be granted in the spirit of correct… |
| 19-5968 |
Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler |
1. By operation of Oklahoma law, indigent defendants in Tulsa and Oklahoma Counties (the State's two most populous counties) are required to be repres… |
| 18-9438 |
Nathaniel Woods v. Cynthia Stewart, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,ma ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining plea-negotiations trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler |
Could reasonable jurists disagree with the district court's rejection of Mr. Woods' claim that Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Tha… |
| 18-1132 |
Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
|
cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler |
Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to IATC claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went wholly unsubstantiated due to the … |
| 18-7631 |
Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler |
1. Mr. Haley, acting prose, filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, therefore, appealing the order United States … |
| 18-6944 |
Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel |
1. Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of in… |
| 18-6525 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
edwards-v-carpenter federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockett-v-ohio martinez-rule martinez-v-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Under Edwards v. Carpenter, 529 U.S. 446 (2000), may a federal habeas corpus petitioner invoke the rule of Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) to show… |
| 18-5462 |
Alfonso V. Senior, Jr. v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretionary-review exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition right-to-counsel state-court-remedies |
Has a habeas corpus petitioner who was unrepresented in his state post conviction proceedings, in a state which refuses to appoint counsel for such pr… |