no-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7188 Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson vs. Virginia, sufficiency of evidence standard, abrogated Thompson v. City of Louisvil…
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…
19-7284 Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien…