| 25-6023 |
Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry |
Whether the lower courts violated this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), by collapsing the certificate-of-appealability… |
| 24-6635 |
Jory Leedy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus plea-voluntariness speedy-trial-clause |
1) Does the Sixth Circuit's holding in Ramos v. Rogers, 170 F.3d 560 (6th Cir.1999) making a plea unasailable "so long as the judge follows the proper… |
| 21-6832 |
Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review |
1) Has the Supreme Court overruled Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 holding that there was reversible error where the record did not disclose that the … |
| 20-8247 |
Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver |
1. Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing.
2.… |
| 20-8068 |
Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey |
This case presents several issues of fundamental importance to the legitimacy of the United States' court system and the right of its citizens to be h… |
| 20-7870 |
Scott Raymond Tignor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense guilty-plea plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review united-states-v-gary |
When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of… |
| 20-6162 |
Frank Trujillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-courts guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review |
When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of… |
| 20-5489 |
Rodney Lavalais v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error |
1. When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic reversa… |
| 20-5317 |
Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diagnostic-uncertainty due-process gender-dysphoria medical-evidence mental-health plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief procedural-bar |
1. Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of a… |
| 19-6767 |
Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review |
1) Was the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability based upon an adjudication of the underlying m… |
| 19-6346 |
Paul Malone v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aedpa aedpa-deference attorney-perjury due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disorders perjury plea-voluntariness strickland-v-washington trial-attorney-perjury |
1. Does deference provided from AEDPA and Strickland v Washington, 466 US 668 (1984) apply when there is evidence of trial attorney perjury before the… |
| 18-9084 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
I. Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegat… |
| 18-7078 |
Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver |
The petitioner (criminal defendant below) claimed that his plea was involuntary, so therefore his appellate waiver was involuntary. The District Court… |
| 18-5705 |
George Easterly v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea |
Question #1: Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Courts precedent when it upheld summary denial of a postconviction claim a… |
| 18-66 |
Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
This Court has jurisdiction to determine federal constitutional issues that have been incorrectly decided by State courts of last resort. Mr. Ross rai… |
| 18-5156 |
D'Angelo Battis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety.
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of… |