| 24-6793 |
Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. |
Kentucky |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility |
I. Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as "a matter of grace or gift to persons deemed eligibl e" exempt rules relating to the timing of Kentuck… |
| 24-5833 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny |
A. Did the substantive component of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments ' Due
Process Clauses require the United States Court of Appeals for the Four… |
| 24-5444 |
Delano Medina v. Jennifer Murphy, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
detention-challenge habeas-corpus judicial-remedy parole-eligibility section-1983 sentence-miscalculation |
In 1973, this Court announced an exception to the broad language of § 1983
when it held that a prisoner must bring a suit for equitable relief that ch… |
| 23-692 |
Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal |
Petitioner, Zachariah M. Minix (Minix), appeals as a matter of right from an Adair County Circuit Court Judgment and Sentence on Plea of Guilty that i… |
| 23-6300 |
Richard Paiva v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-protection due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration parole parole-eligibility sentence sentencing-procedure statutory-rights |
Are the protections of the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause triggered, when an incarcerated person has a statutory right to be parole-eligible during… |
| 23-6076 |
Timothy Ricardo Pedraza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility statutory-interpretation texas |
1. The question is whether a .State or US Court of Appeals abused
its discretion and/or committed plain error for a misapplication
of state law (stat… |
| 22-7280 |
Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's allegations of violation, abridgment and denial of his constitutional rights by the named defendants' ignoring and violating t… |
| 22-7229 |
Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand this case, as it did with six similarly situated petitioners in Burns v. … |
| 21-7052 |
Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether, given the rarity of the grant of parole in Florida and Florida's failure to take a juvenile offender's maturity and rehabilitation adequately… |
| 21-6695 |
John Scott Cramer v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-consequences counsel-advice criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole parole-eligibility sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment protects criminal defendants who rely on defective advice from counsel regarding critical, non-deportation collateral cons… |
| 21-6479 |
Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole |
Missouri |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process |
1) WHETHER THE MISSOURI BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BY APPLYING A NEW PAROLE STATUTE, SECTION 5… |
| 21-225 |
Ashley Mere Howard v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
credibility-determinations criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal |
I. Does the state court's decision that petitioner cannot challenge her murder conviction based on her original counsel's failure to inform her of the… |
| 20-1304 |
In Re Rexford Tweed |
|
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
|
conflict-with-constitution constitutional-violation due-process florida-sentencing-statute habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence indeterminate-sentence parole-eligibility sixth-amendment |
There exists exceptional circumstances of a United States Constitutional magnitude, wherein, based on substantive United States Supreme and other Fede… |
| 20-34 |
Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr… |
| 19-1358 |
Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders |
Michigan |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
In Michigan's "indeterminate" sentencing scheme, judgments of sentence contain two numbers: the minimum number of years the defendant will have to ser… |
| 19-8355 |
Lancey Darnell Ray v. Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-grants federal-statute parole parole-eligibility prisoners-rights private-prisons sentencing-rules state-corrections truth-in-sentencing |
PREFACE TO QUESTIONS PRESENTED: Prisoners, by the very nature of their
circumstances, are more than merely similarly situated; they are exactly situat… |
| 19-8303 |
Wadress Metoyer, Jr. v. Delynn Fudge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range truth-in-sentencing |
Did the 1997 Oklahoma Legislature mandate in its statutory language, phrases provisions, design, purpose and intent in House Bill 1213 effective date … |
| 19-1100 |
Leroy D. Cropper v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-eligibility parole-ineligibility simmons-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment |
Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons v. South … |
| 19-6518 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme |
Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t… |
| 19-6358 |
In Re Morris J. Warren |
|
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation |
DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, … |
| 19-6254 |
Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility |
1. Does a juvenile life sentence, with parole eligibility after a lengthy term for years, in a state with no guarantee that the mitigating qualities o… |
| 19-5859 |
Edward Wesby v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-standard miller-v-alabama parole parole-eligibility |
Whether Florida's current parole system provides a meaningful opportunity for release to juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with eligib… |
| 19-91 |
Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen |
Missouri |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
|
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility |
Under the Eighth Amendment, may a State sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison und… |
| 19-5127 |
William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)--"old law"
— parole statute 18 USC §42.06(d) mandating federal prisoners'
lease on parole absent certain… |
| 18-9626 |
In Re Rexford Tweed |
|
2019-06-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute |
IS PETITIONER'S FLORIDA CAPITAL LIFE PRISON SENTENCE WITH A 25 YEAR MINIMUM MANDATORY FOLLOWWED BY ELIGIBILITY FOR PAROLE UNDER FLORIDA STATUTE §775.0… |
| 18-9525 |
Mark A. Harris v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Extending Strickland v. Washington's general prejudice standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims to ineffective assistance of counsel stem… |
| 18-8922 |
In Re Efrain Campos |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution, By The With Holding Of Information By The Assistant Distric… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruet… |
| 18-1267 |
Angela Rene Leeman v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama non-homicide-offenses parole-eligibility parole-restriction proportionality proportionality-review |
1. Whether Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), applies with the equal force to consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that work in the agg… |
| 18-8116 |
Budry Michel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts |
1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this
Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that… |
| 18-7955 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT "NON-VIOLENT" OFFENDERS, SO STIPULATE EARINGS, AN PAROLE CONSIDERATION FOR WHO RECIEVE A DETERMINATE SENTENCE, DO NOT NEED A … |
| 18-7917 |
Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony |
Petitioner was sentenced to 45-100 years concurrent to 10-40 years for second-degree murder and perjury committed when he was under the age of 18 whic… |
| 18-7827 |
Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti… |
| 18-7803 |
Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Is It Time to Extend the Eighth Amendment Protections Enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to Late Adolescent Homicide Offenders Like Hegstrom (i.e., 18 to… |
| 18-7075 |
Patrick Martinez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment |
Texas courts found no ineffective assistance of counsel in this criminal case where the Petitioner, Sergeant Patrick Martinez, rejected a pretrial ple… |
| 18-680 |
Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether it is clearly established federal law, as is required to grant relief in a federal habeas case, that the Sixth Amendment jury right applies… |
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida whom all are equally situated under the statutory schemes and criteria's of… |
| 18-5737 |
Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation |
The Court of Appeals has adopted and applied a "Fifth Circuit Principle" that "changes in the discretionary. ules, affecting. parole suitability canno… |