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25-6860 Corey Myrick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure Garza-v-Idaho miscarriage-of-justice This Court has recognized that "no appeal waiver serves as an absolute bar to all appellate claims." Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 232, 238 (2019). But the…
25-6411 Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and…
25-6385 Johnathan Morrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se…
25-5986 Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c…
25-5866 Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-10 Pending IFP miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal 1. DOES ENFORCEMENT OF APPELLANT'S WAIVER OF APPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE MOTION OF MR. BECKFORD'S SENTENCE CONSITUTE A MISCARRIAGE …
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…
25-5408 Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-review judicial-discretion legal-error miscarriage-of-justice procedural-standard statutory-interpretation aC Uxe ^resevAeX evidences?.V^beAker V>oV^5 0.ouvAk ciV>u£>e \Vs AisereVinn bnseA _As_ Vultvxo^ on on erroneous \/ieuJ oQ \o.ui AmaunA - in~CohArov££S…
24-1200 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-law judicial-dicta legislative-history miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers student-loan 1. Separation of Powers and Miscarriage of Justice: Does a federal judge's reliance on non-binding judicial dicta from United Student Aid Funds v. Esp…
24-7174 In Re Babubhai Patel 2025-05-12 Dismissed IFP 2255-application appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-fraud miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit committed judicial fraud upon the court when the Appellate Court denied Patel's Second or Successive 2255 Application on Jun…
24-7122 Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing 1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent…
24-6928 In Re Stanley Howard Solvey 2025-04-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights discretionary-review exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice state-court-exhaustion (1) Whether Petitioner is situated in a position, whereupon, "circumstances exist that render such process (State Court Exhaustion) ineffective to p…
24-6543 Devin Chaney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-error Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and…
24-6265 Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-verdict miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony video-evidence weight-of-evidence 1. Whether video evidence refuting police testimony that a defendant personally held a gun required reversal of a guilty verdict as sufficiently again…
24-6195 Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review Where Petitioner presented substantial new evidence that not only shows he is innocent of murder, but further reveals the identity of the actual kille…
24-500 Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar Whether the actual innocence/miscarriage of justice exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by …
24-5666 Lidia M. Orrego v. Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice The Due Process Clause provides that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process requires notice, …
24-5252 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default Does the ACTUAL INNOCENCE OF SENTENCE EXCEPTION to the PROCEDURAL CCR rule EXTEND to the FLORIDA RESENTENCING CONTEXT? Is the FORT INNOCENCE CONSTITU…
24-5164 Joel Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
24-5138 Gina Russomanno v. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-25 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure curative-amendment due-process due-process-relief judicial-remedy miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-plaintiff rule-12b6-dismissal standing void-judgment 1. Whether the related-case. OPINION -decision. DCNJ 13;19-cv- 059451. [DKT. 611. which is boldly "absent adequate remedy of law." per judicial law re…
24-5102 Alexi Hinojosa Matos v. Texas Texas 2024-07-18 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel writ-application Due to the gross nature of trial counsel's errors, and the miscarriage of justice due to prosecutor's misconduct, should the Court of Criminal Appeals…
23-7838 Davit Davitashvili v. United States Third Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment mental-health-disclosure miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Were there violations of the 5th and 6th Amendments? 2. Was Prosecutor Zalesky's lies and slander of my character and other misconduct a miscarria…
23-7740 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift…
23-7752 Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit The Sixth Circuit violated Mr. Brown's due process rights by concluding that his right to file a coram nobis petition fell within the scope of his app…
23A940 Norma Ortiz Fernandez v. La Clinica California 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process legal-extension miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-review pro-per Question not identified.
23-7273 Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit The Due Process Clause provides that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process requires notice, …
23-7226 Michael Lee Villamonte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's request to recognize a miscarriage of justice exception to the appellate waiver doctrine conflict …
23-7180 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2024-04-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-package state-law-ground WHETHER TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL'S IS APPLYING SEC. 4 [TCCP ART.11.07] —AS ADEQUATE & INDEPENDENT STATE LAW GROUND IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT HOLD…
23-7002 Ayoob Wali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal Should the court of appeals below recognize a fundamental-miscarriage of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision of a federal criminal defen…
23-6915 Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice In Bousiew v. United u.s. WA ty%> i)$ Sxt iuom , mo ued £dJea8(i<WX4his murt held -Hw "Actual Innocence^ Is more -Bw a mere legal insufficiency., 11- …
23-6754 Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a "miscarr…
23-6544 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2024-01-23 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process emotional-harm enhancement-factor miscarriage-of-justice prejudicial-variance sentencing-guidelines third-party-harm 1. DOES THE MINNESOTA SENTENCING GUIDELINES ENHANCEMENT FACTOR 'PARTICULAR CRUELTY' IN RELYING ON EMOTIONAL HARM TO THIRD PARTIES INSTEAD OF CONDUCT E…
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition? Whether exculpatory scientific evidence, that was exclude…
23-6311 David Clum, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process judicial-review manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice supervisory-powers writ-of-certiorari SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE IT IS SHOWN FROM THE RECORD THAT THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AN…
23-6125 Walter Lancaster v. Beats Electronics LLC, et al. California 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-review stare-decisis With herein evidenced incompetence that cannot be ascribed to any agency view or expertise coupled with Fraud on the Court in collusion spanning from …
23-458 Thomas De Cola v. Starke County Council, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights civil-tort comity due-process miscarriage-of-justice state-federal-review Whether the comity of state and federal court reviews of Petitioner, Tom A. DeCola's respective administrative appeal and concurrent 42 U.S.C. § 1983 …
23-5768 Frank Nathan Escalante v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-rights standing 1. Was Petitioner's due Process Violated at any time through Judicial Proceedings? 2. Was Petitioner's Trial "fundamentally unfair"? 3. Has Petition…
23-5378 Frank J. Capozzi v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation fourth-amendment franks-hearing fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause search-warrant I. Was the State search warrant obtained based on fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, and omitted statements that Magistrate Judge Richard Cronauer r…
23-53 Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's independent action on the basis of collateral estoppel and…
23-5159 Juan Jabari Hollis v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substance-offenses criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines waiver-of-appeal Despite waiving his right to appeal his sentence except under limited circumstances, did the calculation of his advisory guideline range, which influe…
23-5157 In Re Tracy Whitaker 2023-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-authority Mr. Whitaker alleges the County of Dealware, Pennsylvania, District Attorney's Office violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to the Un…
23-5047 Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings 1. Whether Court op Appeals A&useo rrs discretion cuhtre ^senior . Circuit judees uuwo mle mem Be Us ofthe originally assigned diuision hearing a cas…
22-7860 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents regarding fundamental miscarriage of justi…
22-7531 Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element based on what it believ…
22-7361 Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain and implied exception for miscarriage of justice.
22-7300 James D. Sullivan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-abandonment counsel-misconduct federal-bench habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice plea-withdrawal pro-se pro-se-representation standing 1. Will this Court remand with a certificate of appealability in a case where a district court perverted the habeas corpus process by ignoring specifi…
22-7226 Travis J. Guttu v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline due-process ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice no-trial plea-agreement procedural-innocence record sixth-amendment-right 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
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…
22-738 Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences; and Whether the…
22-6712 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity Question not identified.
22-6656 Randy Lee Stapleton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice motion-to-withdraw After learning of the objective evidence (body camera video footage) documenting an unlawful warrantless search and seizure, the defendant moved to wi…
22-6572 Christian Dior Womack v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing The notion of miscarriage of justice prohibits a court from disregarding the fact that its opinion rest solely on criminal offenses that a defendant n…
22-536 Eliezer Alberto Jimenez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice unconstitutional-conditions waiver-of-rights This case presents a recurring constitutional question of exceptional importance. The Court has said in a variety of contexts that "the government may…
22-5890 Ronald William Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 Whether the boilerplate waiver of Petitioner's appellate and post-conviction rights contained within his plea agreement bars his claim under 28 U.S.C.…
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 1. Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitione…
22-5407 In Re James R. Austin 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent miscarriage-of-justice procedural-mechanism rule-60b-motion standing supreme-court supreme-court-holding 1. WHETHER THE HIGH COURT'S HOLDING IN GONZALEZ VS. CROSBY, 545 U.S. 524,528,125 S.Ct. 2641,162 L.Ed.2d 480 (2005) CONTROLS AND IS MANDATED TO BE FOLL…
22-5375 Nathaniel Waugh v. A. Ralph, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-principles court-procedure due-process evidence-application judicial-review legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice standing Court proceeded (l auordt^ -}o Justice" Or deprived p^frfioner o-f0) whiMitr lower '■S^Ws-farrtW rights? CX) k ^editr Congress J * ^ o4^ [auf Conducte…
22-5294 Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing 1 [QUESTION ONE]: DOES THIS COURT HAVE [JURISDICTION & POWER]- TO GRANT CERTIORARI-EXCUSED LIMITION BAR AN CORRECT FUNDAMETAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE…
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
22-5107 Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines SHOULD STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREE…
22-5035 Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit District Court deemed petitioner's due process of law under the Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by to issue a certific…
21-8002 Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript Question not identified.
21-7982 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2022-05-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence deceptive-testimony excited-testimony excited-utterance forensic-evidence forensic-exposition fourth-amendment legal-relief miscarriage-of-justice perjury 1. Does the novel issue, Forensic Exposition, demonstrate deceptive testimony and establish actual innocence? 2. Does the novel issue, Excited Uttera…
21-7979 Robert Allen Stanford, aka Sir Allen Stanford, aka Allen Stanford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-transmission jurisdictional-element miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers wire-fraud (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, as properly interpreted, can be used to charge, prosecute and punish, a wire communication…
21-7825 Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift…
21-7666 Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding …
21-7436 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely I. WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING PLAINTIFF FAILED TO STATE A CLAIM REGARDING ENCROA…
21-7260 George K. Mackie v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt A. DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT THE ERROR-LADEN CLOSING ARGUMENT BY THE PROSECUTER, TAKEN IN ITS TOTALITY, CREATE A SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A…
21-7219 Lorenzo Suttles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation I. Whether a pre-FSA (First Step Act) defendant's circumstances, changed by Congress's clarification of §924(c), and the resultant disparity thereof…
21-7173 Herman J. Snell, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-22 Denied IFP collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice fundamental-rights jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. WAS VISGTAT V. OKLAHOMA, 140 S.CT. [CITATION], A COLLATERAL PROCEEDING? DID THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ENTER A NEW PROCEDURAL RULE OF LAW IN O…
21-7125 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure coram-nobis criminal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Federal rules of civil procedure Rule 60 and a Writ of Coram Nobis both can be used to set aside a judgment, one is for civil cases, and one is for…
21-6987 Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-…
21-6643 Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o…
21-6552 Keith Carr v. Steve Kallis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.-2241 due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-851 sentencing-enhancement title-21-enhancement 1. WHETHER AN UNLAWFUL APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT PURSUANT TO TITLE 21 U.S.C. 851 AMOUNT'S TO A FUNDAMENTAL MISSCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. WHEREAS THE PE…
21-6428 Danny Lee Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (18)IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnoses federal-review habeas-corpus historical-evidence intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice present-functioning state-court-review I. Whether it constitutes an unreasonable determination of the facts under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) when a state court decision rejecting an Atkins v. V…
21-6402 Nyambui Joe Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements?
21-6298 Ronald David McCalister, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal I. Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements?
21-6043 Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida Florida 2021-10-25 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite Where information so vague, indistinct, and indefinite it resulted in due process violation, Brady v Maryland violation, and a Fundamental Miscarriage…
21-5977 In Re Rigoberto Melero Aguirre 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings miscarriage-of-justice plain-error-standard standard-of-review WHETHER THE CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL DURING MELERO AGUIRRE'S JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, COUPLED WITH THE WHOLESALE ADOPTION BY THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, OF …
21-5866 Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing courts decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence, not presented for review in prisone…
21-5857 Justin P. Stahmer v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) Question not identified.
21-5801 Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a "miscarriage of justice" allowing appellate review even if th…
21-5635 Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT NO SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE RESULTED FROM OFFICER PAGAN'S ERRONEOUS TESTIMONY ABOUT HAIR…
21-5517 Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-30 Dismissed IFP 44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. WHETHER PETITIONER'S CLAIMS SHOULD BE HEARD ON THE MERITS UNDER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO A…
21-5447 Nicholas Edwards v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEAL ERROR IN NOT FINDING PETITIONER WAS NOT PREJUDICED BY TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO CALL WITNESSES P/O OFFICER WHO WO…
20-8226 In Re Francis Boyd 2021-06-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure 1). CAN A TRIAL JUDGE INSTRUCT A JURY DURING A JURY CHARGE , THAT THEY CANNOT FIND PETITIONER GUILTY OF A CERTAIN DEGREE OF MURDER AFTER ENTERTAINING …
20-8205 In Re John L. McKenzie 2021-06-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner is illegally confined where confinement is due solely to the irrefutable fact that police fabricated the only evidence used to conv…
20-8165 Mitchell N. Nicholas v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule federal-investigation fourth-amendment grand-jury miscarriage-of-justice standing unreasonable-searches Question not identified.
20-1644 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion, as eleven …
20-7904 Bruce Simmons v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bousley-v-united-states constitutional-claim due-process federal-law mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice murray-v-carrier schlup-v-delo writ-of-error-coram-nobis 1. WHETHER THE PRINCIPLES OF DUE PROCESS ARE OFFENDED BY THE LOWER COURTS' APPLICATION OF AN INCORRECT LEGAL STANDARD IN ASSESSING THE PETITIONER'S AC…
20-7551 Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman Sixth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction QUESTION ONE: When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings…
20-7179 Nelson Viera v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice procedural-review rule-60 supreme-court Whether the lower Courts are properly interpreting and implementing the Supreme Court decree about jurisdiction and fraud upon the Court under Rule …
20-7058 Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice Was it a "Miscarriage of Justice " and a violation of the "Clean Hand(s) Doctrine " when Petitioner orally moved the Court to dismiss charge(s) agains…
20-6571 Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits where his misclassification as a career of…
20-6120 Johnny Tippins v. NWI-1, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit standing state-law statute-of-limitations successor-liability Should this Court of hopes wucall its Noweber 21: 2017 mandah in otder Ib prtat a miscarnage, of whee are (i)-the Sixth Cucuit aplid the thee year Sha…
20-6118 Ramon Wall v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice misconduct plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Did Trial Counsel's serial ineffectiveness prejudice Petitioner/ creating a miscarriage of justice, that demands his conviction be vacated? Did the h…
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "C…
20-6078 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process exhaustion fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 PREFACE: Denial of certiorari means Petitioner will die in a Colorado prison for a crime a jury found him not guilty of - Petitioner was forced to tri…
20-447 Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender, which increased his sentence from 135…
20-5771 Taveon Nixon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENC…
20-5630 Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee…
20-164 Roosevelt Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-14 Denied access-to-court claim-forfeiture due-process manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice postconviction-counsel pro-se-action procedural-default Whether a defendant is denied due process and access to the court when appointed postconviction counsel refuses to adopt a meritorious claim and Flori…
20-5188 Adelso Barnes v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-exception criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-consultation miscarriage-of-justice plea-change right-to-counsel 1. Whether an affirmative statement that Mr. Barnes wished to remain in the county jail for the critical ten-day period entitles Mr. Barnes to the con…
20-57 Maurice McGinnis, By His Conservator Derrick K. Jones v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-rights competency consent-order due-process equitable-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem miscarriage-of-justice procedural-deadline Whether strict application of procedural deadlines by an Arbitrator under the guidelines of the Consent Order in Pigford v. Glickman, 185 F.R.D. 82 (D…
19-8687 Hamidreza Ghazavi v. Virginia Virginia 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice speedy-trial trespass-statute The circuit court& upper courts: 1/ followed CORRUPT federal agents to make a CONSPIRACY case& violate my entire US& YA Constitutional Rights& destro…
19-8656 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 1. Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated from the 10th Circuit's application of the actual innocence & miscarriage of justice st…
19-8339 Juan M. Santiago v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver WHETHER AN ESTABLISHED BOOKER ERROR (MANDATORY APPLICATION OF THE USSG) CAN BE CONSIDERED PER SE A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE EXCEPTION THAT IS NOT WAIVED…
19-8313 Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari In McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 393 (2013), the United States Supreme Court ruled: "a prisoner otherwise subject to defenses of abuse or succes…
19-7963 Yehowshua Yisrael v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution jurisdiction manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Did the trial Court and State of Florida Prosecutor invoked a miscarriage of Justice and manifest Injustice as to wair their conduct did not compor…
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief WHETHER A STATE CREATED DELAY OF UNINFORMED NOTIFICATION THAT A SECOND AMENDED (CORRECTED SENTENCING)JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION HAD BECOME FINAL AND RIPE …
19-7923 Barlow Smith v. Terry Kennedy Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process errors-made-by-court-of-appeals errors-made-by-district-court federal-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice no-evidence no-evidence-claim summary Under this Court's decisions is Petitioner actually innocent? When there is no evidence that a crime was committed, are conviction and sentence alone…
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Court of Appeals decide an important federal question -- whether a "mere modicum" of evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction -- in a …
19-7240 Damon S. Allen-Bey v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2020-01-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-rules constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice prisoner-funds restitution standard-of-review Whether the trial Court violated the defendants protected constitutional rights by abusing its discretion where in parsing out Appellant's arguement i…
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th…
19-6712 Adam Scott Caward v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline…
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…
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Question number one of five Question number two of five Question number three of five Question number four of five Question number five of five
19-6295 Antonio Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a broad appeal waiver included in a plea agreement between a defendant and the United States preclude appellate review of the district court's fi…
19-6132 Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision in a plea…
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing 1. Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appeal Is Jeffrey Harris entitled to a Pinholster Hearing to Drov „^ rhls ^ial Counsel, Robert S.…
19-5746 Howard Griffith v. New York New York 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review 1) Procedural Default is the failure to follow state appellate procedures which bars federal review of the case in the absence of showing cause for an…
19-5692 Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction Congress conshained orgivenflexibility Has U.S.ofA'S for U.S.A Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of juicesurfd wtnts reac to be codanexa…
19-5385 Darlene Rodgers v. Taura McDaniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP calumnious-decision civil-monetary-penalties civil-rights civil-rights,qualified-immunity,civil-procedure,du compensatory-settlement court-errors due-process judicial-misconduct legal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice qualified-immunity vicarious-liability (1) . In Rodgers, the Appellant 's case, "Whether " 8th Circuit Court is vicariously liable for dishonest conduct, withholding the Federal District C…
19-5371 In Re Mary Capri 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release Under this Court's precedent in Mary Capri Vs. US Attorney Financial Litigation Unit. The Petitioner was Released from Probation in 4/2016 WITHOUT Vio…
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Question one: Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner 's 6th & 14th Amendment rights —when t…
18-9846 Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Question not identified.
18-9701 Antoine Gause v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a mis- carriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence …
18-9632 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance laches liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Where a procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel and where the sixth amendment requires that responsibility for the defau…
18-9540 Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year…
18-9494 Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing 1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce…
18-9412 Amin A. Rashid v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-act criminal-act-concealment due-process evidentiary-hearing exoneration fundamental-defect judicial-misconduct mail-fraud miscarriage-of-justice neutral-judge section-2255 standing Whether Undisputed Evidence Suggesting That The Trial Judge Was Acting To Conceal A Criminal Act Committed By Prior Judges In The Case Which Act If Ad…
18-9278 In Re Edmond McClinton 2019-05-17 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct There was no probable cause for arrest. Petitioner has not been bound over for trial, thereforetrial court being without Jurisdiction for trial. Peti…
18-1433 Milton Balkany v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler In McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467, 111 S.Ct. 1454 (1991), the Supreme Court held that if a criminal defendant fails to raise a claim at a time when i…
18-9289 In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike WHETHER PETITIONER IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR A THIRD-STRIKE SENTENCE UNDER 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)? WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCING WA…
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…
18-9276 In Re Jesus Avila 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure miscarriage-of-justice motion-recharacterization rule-60 rule-60(b)(6) standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE RE-CHARACTERIZATION OF JESUS AVILA'S PROPERLY FILED RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION CONSTITUTES AN IMPERMISSIBLE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
18-8863 Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process GROUND ONE Whether State's highest court errs by refusing to remedy a Prisoner's Miscarriage of Justice claim, abuse of discretion and cause of willfu…
18-8619 In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241 TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18.
18-8312 Dayomashell David Aguilar v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-procedure first-degree-murder jury-instructions mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Aguilar's claim that the jury instructions relieved the State of the b…
18-8182 Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and …
18-8159 Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts …
18-8033 Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony ISSUE #1: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PETITIONER WAS UNREASONABLY SUGGESTIVE CAUSING PLAIN ERROR PP. 5-12 ISSUE 42: THERE WAS PLAIN ERROR WHEN THE PROS…
18-7931 Michael Keith Henley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure compelled-speech content-neutrality due-process fraudulent-plea-agreement free-speech government-regulation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice private-property public-forum standing 1). Whether, the United States Appeal Court and District Court incorrectly decide the facts? (YES) What Facts? Qa))Whether the U.S Appeal Court and D…
18-7626 Gregory Haynes v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial when the trial court made multiple comments that reflected…
18-7624 Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal sentence under federal law and represent a manifest injustice calling in question the integrity of …
18-7623 James Goolsby v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING TO RECALL THE MANDATE ON THE DIRECT APPEAL TO PREVENT A MISCARRIAGE O…
18-7498 Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision…
18-940 Jamal Martinez Hancock v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence schlup-v-delo state-prisoner triggering-events Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial constitutes "new" evidence for purposes of the "actual-innocence" gateway that permits …
18-7462 William Anthony Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-discretion due-process finality finality-principle fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-discretion legal-finality mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice recall-mandate statutory-provisions WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BASED ON ELEVATING THE PRINCIPLE OF FINALITY TO BE TH…
18-7178 David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark THE CIRCUIT COURT SHOULD HAVE GRANTED MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BECAUSE THE COURT ERRED IN THEIR PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATUTE IN THE UNITED STA…
18-6911 Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo…
18-6788 Rhett Bean v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice presumption-of-innocence FOR the purpose of U.s.c.A 2253(c), is it debatable that wrongly excluded evidence MAy be used to Rebut the presumption of guilt for A cRimivial convi…
18-6763 Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL…
18-6685 Bruce Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice right-to-be-present standing statute-of-limitations trial-in-absentia trial-rights Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Can and individual Overcome this limitation, Under the Miscarriage of Justice Exception, By S…
18-6680 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review Given that Petitioner Moreno Ramos requested the circuit court recall its mandate solely to address a defect in the integrity of his habeas proceeding…
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…
18-6470 In Re Gary Malone 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions For the first time under the extraordinary rare facts of petitioner case where an district court Judge and a United States Circuit Judge both agree wi…
18-6298 Robert Alan Fratta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-amendment due-process fatal-variance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-review miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standing sufficiency-of-evidence *** CAPITAL CASE IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR A U.S. COURT OF APPEALS TO ACCEPT, SANCTION OR MAKE DECISIONS THAT: ALLOW STATE COURTS 110 REFUSE TO. ACCE…
18-6212 Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e IF A DEFENDANT DID TRY TO PERSUADE THE COURT OF APPEALS TO CHANGE ITS BINDING PRECEDENT BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, WOULD THE DEFENDANT BE ABLE TO SEEK RELI…
18-6075 Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas Texas 2018-09-21 Denied IFP adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a S…
18-5888 Jared Morrison v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitation constitutional-violations deferred-adjudication due-process habeas-corpus mcquiggin-perkins mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice schlup-v-delo Question #1: Whether a Mcquiggin v. Perkins 133 s_ct 1924'(20,13) actual innocence gateway past the AEDPA 1-year limitation period default can be deni…
18-5794 Ronnie Keith Davis v. Benjamin Maddie Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-procedure civil-rights-proceeding evidentiary-hearing first-national-bank-v-lustig fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass inherent-power miscarriage-of-justice rozier-v-ford-motor rule-60(b)(3) rule-60b3 sanctions summary-judgment Whether a Motion to vacate the judgment pursuant to Rule 60(b)(3) timely filed within the one-year period is governed by the grave miscarriage of just…
18-5704 Robert Austin v. District Attorney of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice rule-60b6-motion DOES THE DISTRICT COURT COMMIT ERROR IN DENYING A RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION FOR NOT SHOWING A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION WHEN THE UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION …
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties 1. WHETHER THE STATE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER -42 PA. CONS. STAT.6501-6505, WHERE THE VALIDITY OF THE STATE STATUTES ON THE GROUNDS ITS BEING REPUG…
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…
18-5523 Chris Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-evidence false-testimony miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence new-reliable-evidence CAN A CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE GIVEN THAT THE STATE PRESENTED FALSE EVIDENCE AT TRIAL NAMELY PERJURED TESTIMONY FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND THA…
18-5483 Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all …