| 24-5127 |
Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with t… |
| 24-5024 |
Timothy John Miers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o… |
| 23-7141 |
Keith Martin Molineaux v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 brady-material certificate-of-appealability confession-fabrication false-confession habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell |
Under Miller-El v. Cockrell 537 U.S. 322 (2003), should the Petitioner's novel claim that his confession was fabricated be encouraged to proceed furth… |
| 23-6713 |
Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st… |
| 23-805 |
Christopher Paul George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t… |
| 23-5689 |
Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's… |
| 22-6501 |
Michael A. Hagar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial |
QUESTION ONE
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it did not
issue a Certificate of Appealability as the Petitioner
met the requirement und… |
| 22-507 |
Tyson Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonabl-jurists-debate reasonable-jurists |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claim (i.… |
| 22-6153 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review |
1. What is the correct mechanism and procedure which would allow
a petitioner to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court pursuant
to Miller … |
| 22-5024 |
Jerod Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell mistrial postconviction-relief prejudice-prong reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
1. Whether the prejudice prong set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is established if a petitioner/defendant can demonstrate th… |
| 21-8137 |
David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation |
1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his ineffe… |
| 21-7652 |
Damian Scott Olvera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability as dictated by §2253(c)(2) and this C… |
| 21-6585 |
Freddy Crespo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic… |
| 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… |
| 20-8476 |
Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations |
Whether a state of appellants' responsibility should issue where the district court failed to adequately review of the portions of the Report and Reco… |
| 20-7136 |
James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default |
1. IN REQUESTING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, DOES THE REQUISITE "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING" REQUIRE PRO SE LITIGANTS TO RE-SUBMIT SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS T… |
| 20-191 |
Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and co… |
| 19-1075 |
Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the
District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate
of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review whe… |
| 19-6808 |
Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst… |
| 19-6562 |
Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se |
Petitioner alleged that his conviction and death sentence were caused by per se ineffective assistance under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (19… |
| 19-6352 |
James Byron Coon v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability exhaustion expert-opinion expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-postconviction vasquez-v-hillery |
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198… |
| 19-5321 |
John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules |
Does the "actual innocence" exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been… |
| 19-5074 |
Forge Dennis Mileham v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery |
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198… |
| 18-9695 |
Robert A. Wagner v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-representation expert-testimony eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-probability trial-outcome |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of
appealability conflicts with the "debatable" standard from Miller-El u.
Cockrell, 537 U.S.… |
| 18-9443 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
I.
The Sixth Circuit conmitted plain error, contrary to Buck v. Davis,
137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) and Miller-E1 v.
v
Cockre11, 537 U.S. 322 (2003).
because … |
| 18-9044 |
Troy Latrial Ramsey v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell per-se-rule reasonable-jurist sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of
appealability conflicts with this Court's ruling in Miller-El v. Cochrell,
537 U.S. 322, 3… |
| 18-8527 |
Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida apply an inc… |
| 18-8336 |
London Ettione Dunbar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis |
SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THIS PETITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S REFUSAL TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IS AT CONFLICT WITH THIS … |
| 18-6235 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review |
Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El. v. GockreU. 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), it is sufficient for purp… |
| 18-6010 |
Babubhai Patel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep [the COA] process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application by first deciding the merits of an ap… |
| 18-5727 |
Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell |
I. Whether Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012) requires
importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context, such that it
alters thi… |