| 25-5647 |
Kolby Reshaad Moore v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency murder-conviction reasonable-doubt |
WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED … |
| 25A125 |
Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions murder-conviction sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7136 |
Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony |
Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process … |
| 22-7639 |
Hulon Verser v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility |
I. The Post-Lowviction Court Mawifestly Erred By Denying
Hulow Versers Posh-Lonviction Pedition ASter Aw Evidentiary
Hearing, Where fl, Lamphell's Tes… |
| 22-6936 |
Edson Gelin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-504 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opin… |
| 20-7971 |
Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-… |
| 19-8536 |
In Re Robert P. Russell |
|
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions |
Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell ("Russell"), convicted of first degree murder under 18
U.S.C. Section 1, retains a federal constitutional righ… |
| 19-1303 |
Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California |
California |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… |
| 19-6107 |
Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges?
And
2. Whether a… |
| 19-5020 |
Khaleefa Lambert v. Darren Settles, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder-conviction prejudice premeditated-murder reasonable-jury sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel's performance was so deficient as to prejudice the outcome of the trial… |
| 18-1421 |
Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) |
aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street |
1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the deferential review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) by setting aside a state murder conviction based on its… |
| 18-8858 |
Aspen Warren v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
IN A MURDER CASE WHERE UNDER STATE STATUTES A JURY NEED NOT BE UNANIMOUS AS TO MANNER AND MEANS AND ARE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE FROM THREE SEPARATE MANNER A… |
| 18-6697 |
Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where… |
| 18-6663 |
Esau Escobar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence |
I. The Appellate Court holding the Petitioner a bar ce ae =e led To 4 Secinos Provocation lastcvetion tio. Becanse He Tstified that He Anted cust Opoc… |
| 18-5031 |
Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment |
THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O… |