pardon

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5179 Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court A Louisiana Executive Pardon of a felony sentence erases the criminal history and restores civil rights and liberties to a party. An Executive Commuta…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 In 1994, this Court held that an individual convicted of a crime may not bring a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim unless "the conviction or sentence has been re…
21-1440 Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Missouri 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution permit an attorney to be sanctioned …
21-5369 Michael Alexander Rivera v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process executive-power pardon separation-of-powers standing Question not identified.
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to be ada…
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign - specifically the federal government - lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when they release an inmate who is serving their…
18-8011 Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing 1. AS CONSISTENT WITH THE ACTUAL INNOCENCE OF ONE INDIVISIBLE NATION, TO WIT: THE HIGHER-SELF PARDONING OF THIS PETITIONER'S DEIFIC LIFE-RIGHT TO "THE…