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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A877 Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Application criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus Question not identified.
25A868 Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-6512 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2026-01-07 Pending IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-rights ineffective-assistance post-conviction 1. Does a state violate this Court's precedent and the Due Process clause when it penalizes the request for the appointment of conflict-free counsel? …
25A775 Cosea Bell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-01-05 Application collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application Question not identified.
25-6414 Matthew R. Davis v. Maine First Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending IFP constitutional-rights expert-testimony eye-witness-identification ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel, under the Sixth Amendment, by failing to timely disclose an expert report on eye-witness …
25A670 Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default Question not identified.
25A625 Louisiana, ex rel. Darrell J. Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2025-11-26 Application brady-violation exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25-6238 Gregory Webb v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights incarceration ineffective-assistance legal-procedure post-conviction pro-se Question not identified.
25-6133 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-17 Denied IFP clemency constitutional-law due-process federal-rights post-conviction supremacy-clause 1. Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of a…
25A533 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-07 Application capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-public-defender habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
25-6043 In Re Alex Smith 2025-11-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus miranda-violations post-conviction supervisory-control 1. Was it a violation of a postconviction petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, for the dis…
25-5956 In Re Santos Cuevas 2025-10-24 Dismissed IFP constitutional-remedy double-jeopardy judicial-estoppel post-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. May the Sixth Amendment in retroactive by the state allow remedy to initial and successive post-conviction proceedings, if so, may the right to ef…
25A475 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-10-24 Application certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court Question not identified.
24-7499 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance Did the lower courts err in applying the standard for determining whether a certificate of appealability should issue in a post-conviction proceeding,…
24A1268 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
24A1253 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel Question not identified.
24A1201 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan post-conviction state-proceedings Question not identified.
24-7169 Glen Edward Rogers v. Florida Florida 2025-05-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection post-conviction procedural-rules Glen Edward Rogers is currently facing execution in Florida while suffering from the effects of Porphyria disease, a blood disorder. The state courts …
24-7156 Michael S. Main v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP defendant-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal post-conviction preliminary-hearing procedural-due-process Nantel rs rereed va G Caw, what-73. thedeahp oo thetcourt may j vest cohe..7 to. the claim———done veda mitsal of Heclajme)——_ LL Rs there Some bent oo…
24A858 Tiante Dion Scott v. Jason Schultz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction Question not identified.
24-6519 Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus post-conviction texas-procedure Has the Jawenslecs of this Nahon w rope zah the di Gad surrem agin TAL PEOPLE the arpa REOPLE 6 Whe Unred Syorte ok Amerson?
24A767 Jacob Brown v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-relief eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole post-conviction Question not identified.
24A763 Kayle B. Bates v. Florida Florida 2025-02-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty juror-interview post-conviction rule-3.575 Question not identified.
24A742 Jose Lewis Bosquez v. Arizona Arizona 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review arizona-courts certiorari criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction Question not identified.
24-6383 Christian Ricker v. Indiana Indiana 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Was a State Appellate Courts Finding that the States Prosecutorial Misconduct and Conditioning during Voir Dire was waived by Failure to Raise thes…
24A700 Caed Brawner v. Florida Florida 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance Whether it is a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual …
24A691 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension Question not identified.
24A695 Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida Florida 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction Whether it is a violation of constitutional ex post facto principles to apply the current version of Florida's registry statute (and its removal provi…
24-6303 Javarus T. Leach v. Illinois Illinois 2025-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did the Gourt violate defendant rights vhen the Gourt granted money to subpoena, in order to prqnare a defense that vas not. 2. Did the Cburt viol…
24A704 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-01-01 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24A634 Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Georgia 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete aggravated-assault alford-plea constitutional-challenge first-offender habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
24A616 Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari circuit-split federal-defender legal-complexity post-conviction Question not identified.
24A597 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Question not identified.
24-6150 Reginold Cavoy Steed v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure electronic-docket judicial-review post-conviction presentence-report 1.) Was Te. AS840-35~-209 vinloted Yarough out the Odjudication of this Case? 2) Ts the Content of the Presentence report ascertainable, Without it b…
24A565 William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6011 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2024-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement post-conviction Question not identified.
24A379 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A355 James Cobb Hutto v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction successive-petition supreme-court-review Question not identified.
24-5728 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Denied IFP appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court final-judgment post-conviction procedural-rules In my case I timely submitted my original post-conviction application and the trial Judge along with the state's attorney unreasonably created an impe…
24A320 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction procedural-rules Question not identified.
24-5563 Eloy Vela, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2024-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection mitigating-factors newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction 1. Whether newly discovered evidence containing both mitigating and aggravating factors can be simply concluded in state post-conviction proceedings…
24A217 Tyron Felder v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-appeal habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se Question not identified.
24A192 Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-circuit innocence-project post-conviction writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A135 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Question not identified.
24A114 Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance law-library post-conviction pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
24A115 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction right-to-counsel Question not identified.
23A1164 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
23-7799 Esther Martin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the trial of incompetent persons, and the Sixth Amendment entitles criminal defen…
23A1137 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23-7755 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court due-process due-process,civil-procedure,post-conviction,appeal final-judgment impediment post-conviction post-conviction-procedure procedural-rules 1. Is it an abuse of discretion and are these contrary act(s) of federal law and treaty by the lower court a negligence of "natural law" resulting in …
23-7722 Christopher Harry West v. Brian Emig, Warden Delaware 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation carter-v-illinois constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harrington-v-richter post-conviction post-conviction-review second-challenges state-law-procedural-requirement suppression-requirement J<bo/eJ Wk<2r€ SUta £ouf4 poJ-f-cqAv/ic-fi ' v/<VV\^u+ <* kzy S4<t-fe- pro<-^Jor<\] r^^uirQmznf <vjJ 4/,e S-/a4u>fe vl<x$ fnow^fVH/ c tank'd vifh no…
23-7635 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Nathan Hoffman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction postconviction-proceedings standing state-court WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S SUA SPONTE STAY OF HABEAS CORPUS PETITION PENDING RESOLUTION OF POSTCONVICTION PROCEEDING IN STATE COURT IS APPEALABLE AFTE…
23A1079 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-03 Presumed Complete appeal-standard constitutional-right district-court federal-prisoner post-conviction section-2255 Question not identified.
23A976 Michael Edwin Harding v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete collateral-review federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance post-conviction pro-se section-2255 Question not identified.
23-7333 Thomas Arnold v. Florida Florida 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protections inability-to-afford-attorney post-conviction right-to-appeal state-constitution Whether State Post Conviction Appellant's are denied access to the court violating due process of law and equal protections of the law under the 14th …
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
23A926 Keith Hager v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete certiorari-deadline federal-prisoner judicial-extension post-conviction pro-se section-2255 Question not identified.
23A921 Carmen Difilippantonio v. Arizona Arizona 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-court-review Question not identified.
23A914 William Ted Holliday v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-appellate habeas-corpus mandate-recall post-conviction prisoner-rights Question not identified.
23-1092 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc pro tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's choice…
23A878 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-03 Denied capital-murder confession corroboration due-process false-testimony post-conviction 1. Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due proce…
23-7094 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the …
23A864 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete capital-case death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase post-conviction Question not identified.
23-7068 Jabari J. Johnson v. Jill Brady, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-counsel post-conviction right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
23-6938 Frank Garcia v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP accused-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exoneration harmless-error post-conviction Can the might have reasonable possibility Harmless error doctrine be applied to DNA, that has the sole trifecta ability, to either: 1. Clear the Accu…
23A812 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process post-conviction summary-denial Question not identified.
23-6883 Shawn David McMinn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-01 Denied IFP certiorari constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea indian-law judicial-review post-conviction preemption supreme-court Question not identified.
23-6865 Justus Onyiego v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel I. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REQUEST LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE OFFENSE OF AGGRAVATED RAPE CAUSING BODILY INJURY?…
23-6843 Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida Florida 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Does a trial court's "tender and accept" procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fa…
23-6791 Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2024-02-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a…
23-6658 Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing PV-ST-S l Ch hSfb\ £ /^~T (Of Ei^RqR. Loas de^hSicA fpfw- +o Pf\\rf KellQCjgj \/«.-Slna^nnAkp 4-C? F* 3d. £03? teVOCPftibti \)£&h/p <L)l\kJg.h, fHolr…
23A660 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 Question not identified.
23-6487 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marbury-v-madison martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez state-procedural-rules Do the Shinn v. Ramirez, 142 S. Ct. 1718, 596 U.S. 1. (2022), and Martinez v. Ryan, line of cases require the State to provide a post-conviction petit…
23A657 Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial post-conviction sentencing-claim Question not identified.
23A640 Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth Second Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction To deny reversals: why are the lower Courts quick to claim Harmless error, to evidence that unrefutably has the sole power, to either: a). clear the a…
23-6292 Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard Whether the State court's resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for bail at a capital offense preliminary hearing under 42 U…
23A563 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se rule-59e rule-60b Question not identified.
23-6249 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2023-12-13 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition. Whether Pe…
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § …
23A389 Guillermo Borboa aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
23-5744 In Re Jimmy Wheeler 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collusion constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fraud habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Question not identified.
23-5611 David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2023-09-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts 1. In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evid…
23-5577 Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires judges to disclose and disqualify at all stages of a criminal proceeding, including collateral appellate pro…
23-234 Nicholas Crystal v. Calvin Johnson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-deficiency ninth-circuit post-conviction Did the Ninth Circuit, in a post-conviction appeal by a sentenced Nevada State prisoner, commit reversible error in its pro forma, non-reasoned blanke…
23-5549 Hope White v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right 1. Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-create…
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Question not identified.
23-5054 Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison U/frthT /S> P/XOpB/2 uJtTBM SPATE- cl*0<u*LFs AlBPtS£/~Af<5 TO tr&A-R- CLASS njtfSOJE A McecJpf Ceoc/MTY Or/L/HJd \Tcy/2^/ ppPc/spp TO /Mb7cT~ p&ri t…
23-5032 L. Brian Whitfield v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pro-se standing state-prisoner Question not identified.
23-5018 Richard P. Spaulding v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-03 Denied IFP appeal appeal-rights court-order court-orders covid-quarantine due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-notice post-conviction During post-conviction proceedings in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Petitioner was deprived of right to appeal or challenge numerous orders of the court and…
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Question not identified.
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…
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts After trying for many years, Willie Manning was finally given access to biological evidence, including hairs that were introduced at trial and used ag…
22-1113 Merril Leroy Jessop v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing I. Whether the Texas courts' refusal to conduct an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's substantial constitutional claim of ineffective assistance of c…
22-7408 Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction The Wisconsin Supreme Court Should Not Have EX PARTE discriminatively continued with the 2018-ongoing DENIALS OF the UNHEARD PETITIONS FILED FOR JUDIC…
22-7245 Paul DiBiase v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal due-process plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony waiver-of-rights Petitioner was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACC) over his protests that he did not have three prior violent felony convictions as required f…
22-981 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-of-access right-of-access-to-court The Minnesota Court of Appeals concluded that the scope of Chapter §590 does not permit or allow a Defendant to raise - right of access to court - ass…
22-6943 Travis Thurston v. Florida Florida 2023-03-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing florida-law legal-representation post-conviction postconviction-relief WHETHER THE STATE COURT'S DECISION TO DEPRIVE PETITIONER OF POSTCONVICTION EVIDENTIARY HEARING COUNSEL VIOLATED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCES…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
22-6633 Edward R. Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-25 Denied IFP amendment-14 amendment-opportunity civil-procedure claim-denial constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion post-conviction postconviction-motion standing (1) Does A Trial Judge Abuse its discretion when it fails to properly rule on A property filed Postconviction motion in which A motion gets denied as …
22-6486 Atiq Weston v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process extraordinary-relief false-evidence false-testimony guilty-plea new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
22-6465 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony AjW A Uer -xUe. csAA^- c<pop4" -£ L^u3 uMzr -\Ue~ Ao<2__ ^roeeSLS ' Clause- c& AUg- LaA-VA S\a\-<^s C^ l\sVA o-VA( s-i\ as V° l-5 AAAs r0 (^por-WA--…
22-6440 Damian Thomas v. Delaware Delaware 2023-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and …
22-6383 James T. Woo v. Colorado Colorado 2022-12-22 Denied IFP case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order whether The district court improperly misused a projective order to deprive Woo, a pro se defendant of access to terabytes of discovery in his case fi…
22-6252 In Re James E. Hitchcock 2022-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus 1. Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims after he received a new judgment and sentence amounted to a …
22-6159 Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional right to present a defense in conviction challenges and entitlement …
22-6032 Nicholas Sterling Little v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant other-suspect other-suspect-evidence person-a person-b post-conviction post-conviction-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Does it violate a criminal defendant's Constitutional Rights if Prosecutors use "Other Suspect" evidence to convict "Person A" of a crime "Person B" i…
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure n/mWA' s We \\me\h foe Orcieto^9\ oV^ ok\ Z% VjSiC, ZZ5^ viaVof Kcv\D |2JpiS Cor^^S f lf3v>^ c\eo^vhi-a^ WsSicyvKs^ "Yo YncvWkSONi AJiqW^ oW ©2 STOPS'…
22-5661 Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appeal-status bail-funding bail-funding-appeal certiorari due-process jurisdiction motions-for-new-trial non-trial-motions post-conviction post-conviction-records 1). Ratords rolatieg to bail punding apptal and 8.24, lhaarin 3 ot Pau Subse Ap ~ 2), Records relakin Ling Xo ind AGL atatus on "Sy. Reeords rolatin…
22-5478 Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings Did the Ninth Circuit depart from the fourth, accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding when it ruled that clear and convincing evidence (in th…
22-5495 Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
22-5269 Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G…
21-8091 Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did our Third Circoit Court oF Appeal Make a Mistake when a constitutinal rght was volated and they did not grant a C.o.A.for Prosecutr ue oia or Pant…
21-8002 Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript Question not identified.
21-7972 Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana Indiana 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal DID I HAVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF DIRECT APPELLATE COUNSEL WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL FAILED TO TIMELY NOTIFY ME OF THE DID THE INDUANA COURT OF APPEA…
21-7903 Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington 1) Is it unconstitutional for state appellate courts to hinder petitioner's post collateral proceeding by holding petition pass the 1-year federal l…
21-7504 Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing Why wasn't Exhibits B.1, B.d to stand as Jurisdiction? Order denying my motion asking for adjudication legal or illegal strategy App B.1 dealing with…
21-7456 Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r…
21-7426 Eric Jason Spears v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standards ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
21-7388 Amos Joseph Wells, III v. Texas Texas 2022-03-16 Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process fact-finding ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief racial-animus sixth-amendment When a state provides a mandatory procedure for fact-finding in post-conviction death penalty cases where a constitutional violation is pleaded, does …
21-7373 Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Whether or not Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system when his post-conviction efforts were summarily denie…
21-7300 LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error Should prejudice in an ineffective assistance of counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural error co…
21-7292 James E. Walker v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16 Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco…
21-7012 Jessica Ewing v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP burden-of-proof counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction Ms. Ewing asserts that the previcis court erred when it did not grant a C.O.A. despite the debatability of the District Court's opinion by a reasonabl…
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it Constitute Ineffective Assistance of Counsel to Fail to object to a statement From the state's Chief Witness who claimed that a Non-Testifying…
21-6680 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced. 2. Can a stat…
21-6496 Christopher Wood v. Florida Florida 2021-12-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-information due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction pro-se standing supreme-court A. Did The State Court Violate The 14th, 5th and other Amendments To The United States Constitution as well as clearly Established federal law when it…
21-6442 Armando Cardon-Cortez, aka Vatto v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction Question not identified.
21-6380 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. William Hamilton, Warden Florida 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts article-one-section-nine castro-v-united-states civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction writ-of-court QUESTION ONE Whether Habeas Corpus Court Violated Gibbs ' right to due process and access to the court under Castro v United States 540 U.S 375 by …
21-6353 Stephen Allwine v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts court-funding due-process equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief 1) Did the Trial Court err in denying In Forma Pauperis funding for post-conviction services based upon Petitioner's financial status at the beginning…
21-6262 Guadalupe Padilla v. Texas Texas 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-review dna-mixture-analysis dna-testing due-process governmental-body governmental-immunity judicial-oversight post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing statutory-requirements IS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION, ID HO IS ACTING AS A GOVERNMENTAL BODY TO REVIEW CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS INVOLVING THE RE-CALCULATION, RE-ANALYSIS AND/OR RE…
21-5783 Brian D. Smith v. Montana Montana 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a "critical Stage" requiring the assistance of counsel for a person "too poor" to hire one at the follo…
21-5573 Richard M. Miller v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction standing writ-of-certiorari Did 'Ihe Intermediate Appellate Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland Err When Denying Petitioner His Absolute Constitutional Right To An Appeal Or Bel…
21-5288 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-review standing writ-of-certiorari CoRnelius L.Jones, PetitioneR- Appllant, APPeAls fm A file A successive post-Conviction Petition. An isse is Raised concerning the sufficiency of the…
21-5152 Lewis R. Fox v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-question criminal-defense criminal-procedure expert-witness expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief res-judicata 1) Whether a trial counsel is to be considered incompetent when s/he fails to consult with their client (the criminal defendant) about their financial…
21-5015 Reginald Franklin v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurists trial-counsel Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Franklin's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find it deba…
21-5003 Don Edward Carter v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-corpus federal-question habeas-corpus mental-incompetence post-conviction sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, or has decidedwas…
20-8235 Kory Christian Pedersen v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-review self-defense sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Mr. Pedersen denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, when his trial counsel failed to understand the applica…
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm…
20-8109 Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court Question not identified.
20-8088 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington QUESTION ONE: WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN THE DENIAL OF APPELLANTS MOTION TO VACATE THE JUNE 15, 2018, NOVEMBER 29, 2018, AND FEBRUARY 05, 2019…
20-1608 North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best North Carolina 2021-05-18 Denied alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review Does an appellate court violate the core princ ipals of Brady in post -conviction review where in its materiality analysis it disregards both evidence…
20-7828 Kevin Norris Mitchell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 attorney-death attorney-performance civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling federal-tolling ineffective-assistance judicial-opinions legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief TIME FRAME UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (d)(2)? TOLLING TIMES UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2254?
20-7774 Kevin Johnson v. Texas Texas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction Did the trial an%or appeal court err by allowing the testisying "erperts" to use statements of unadijucated witnesses as bisis for their opinion and p…
20-7737 Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t…
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) ruled correctly on the Petition for Writ of Mandamus, MA-2020-930, to the correct Petition in th…
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida 2021-04-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence 1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? 2) Are capital defendants confined to …
20-7620 Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ 1. Does a criminal conviction halt or defeat a pending pretrial Habeas Corpus Action? 2. Does the successive-writ doctrine bar a Petitioner from fili…
20-7589 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-state-court strickland-analysis 1. Can a federal habeas court conducting a penalty phase Strickland analysis ignore post-conviction mitigating evidence that is materially different i…
20-7569 Deidre M. Hunt v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-claim post-conviction procedural-dismissal standing state-court substantive-validity PuurouOJrL do tiajnes \J. Hornet, t+°'+ ^ C«tp) sivcib prfSGtet> mcUy crri / pro( soI J-s dr\ ■crM-Hid. -io <sdrhc posd- tomvitbt cm dcum prcmis^f on…
20-7463 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-03-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process post-conviction standing Question not identified.
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas 2021-03-12 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire DOES A STATE'S INITIAL-REVIEW PDST-CONVICTIDN COLLATERAL PROCEDURES MEET CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS WHEN THOSE PROCEDURES FAIL TO PROVIDE PRISONERS THE …
20-7367 Sherwood Laran Bostic v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel state-court-proceedings state-proceeding DID THE U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERR WHEN IT DENIED (COA) S B B P B B B Y PS WHEN IT SUSTAINED THAT PETITIONER HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUN…
20-7316 Jose Luis Morales v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review district-court-discretion effective-counsel first-appeal post-conviction post-judgment-appeal sixth-amendment state-statutory-right statutory-right 1. Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel on appeal apply to when the appeal takes place years after conviction and the defendant had a s…
20-7202 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour…
20-7130 Kareem J. Cobbins v. Cherryle Hinthorne, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus illinois post-conviction standing 'Ibis Untied Sbshtf Supreme, Courf should kwer courte <hS +o bout much is expected °X tortshtufwrwl' ohm, AjiernJJvcb * CsOurT be Confident dnotdh . P…
20-6850 Ronald Eugene Weems v. Alabama Alabama 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-supreme-court attorney-representation constitutional-rights court-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-representation post-conviction sixth-amendment I) Does the Supreme Court of the United States have authority to represent a client in a post conviction petition when the Supreme Court's representat…
20-6793 Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error (1) After Weaver, can a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error demonstrate prejudice by showing…
20-6718 Jason J. Johnson v. California California 2020-12-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure 1. Under the "newly discovered evidence rule" does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as evidence the movant could not have possibly disc…
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler COUNSEL ON AN INITIAL STATE POST-CONVICTION HABEAS CORPUS APPLICATION, CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT OF MARTINEZ v. RYAN, 56…
20-6502 Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim 1. Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise un…
20-6479 Genaro Garcia v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct I. Is State Appellate Court's unexplained to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for Post-Conviction reliet under Rule I(zz) and Post-Con…
20-6393 Todd C. Hughes v. Florida Florida 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde…
20-6324 Michael Christopher Laird v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mental-competency mental-deficiencies post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings procedural-fairness real-and-substantial-doubt WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BECAUSE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS, DURING POST-CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS, PETITI…
20-6273 Jerome Sidney Barrett v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief pro-se-appeal standing state-appellate-procedure Whether a state prisoner has the right to file his own appeal Pro Se under certain conditions after the denial of his ProSe petition for post convicti…
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel The question presented in this case is whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) found in the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates …
20-5802 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied IFP due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi…
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court A. Is a petitioner deried a fair trial when a juror B Is counsel ineffective if he does not raise the fact that A Petitioner was dheried a fair trail…
20-5460 Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation Quastin of greatpabli mportance: Das Sction 22A .' of the A E D P A of lgb) stating that" The Antiterrorism and Effaitive Death Penalty Act requires a…
20-5383 Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su…
20-145 Carl Skidmore v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error de-novo-review district-court evidentiary-hearing fact-finding habeas-corpus post-conviction speculative I. Whether a certificate of appealability should have issued to address the question whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition as "sp…
20-26 Wesley Ira Purkey v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied capital-punishment collateral-review federal-capital-prisoners federal-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-default trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel Whether and by what procedural mechanism federal capital prisoners who are in the analogous position of the state prisoners in Martinez and Trevino—i.…
19-8392 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2020-05-04 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-procedures In a death penalty case, where a state provides a post-conviction procedure for challenging the unresolved constitutional violations that occurred at …
19-8205 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2020-04-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review WHETHER MR. BRUNSON'S RIGHT TO DISCOVER EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE IS STILL ENFORCEABLE (Id. AT 41)? WHETHER THE STATE GOVERNMENT STILL HAS THE OBLIGATION …
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
19-7840 Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental Evaluation an…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel extend to the Appellate process? Whether the effective assistance of Counsel when Petitioner are to they re…
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY 2. OID THE UNTITEO S…
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-6815 Blake Wingate v. New York New York 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-application pro-se pro-se-representation WHERE THE RIGHT TO PROCEED PRO SE IS CONSTITUTIONAL# EVEN ON APPEAL OR A POST CONVICTION APPLICATION , IS IT A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS AND OR THE EQ…
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4): 42 Pa G.S. §0542; 42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);…
19-6550 Christian James Gieseke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 raises claims which, if true, would entitle him to relief, does the fact that movant d…
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not applying the Davis ruling to Mr Williams firearm habeas corpus petition towards his firearm co…
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-10-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights 1. What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found hi…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
19-5968 Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler 1. By operation of Oklahoma law, indigent defendants in Tulsa and Oklahoma Counties (the State's two most populous counties) are required to be repres…
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Petitioner Questions whether Discrimination of Equal Opportunity Because of Social Economic To Defend Petitioner Right to Appeal. Petitioner Question…
19-5912 Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO GRANT LEONS REQUEST FOR D.N.A, TESTiNG, BECAUSE DENIAL VIOLATES HISRIgHTTO DUE-PROCESS ANd EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE…
19-5711 Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon…
19-5704 In Re James Larry 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review ISSUE I Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as pr…
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing (1.) DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (ERRED) BY DENYING APPELLANT'S MOTION TO STAY (DOCKET ENTRY NO. 4) (2.) DID THE UNI…
19-5592 Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio Ohio 2019-08-15 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making 1. Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions? …
19-5580 In Re Sebastian Eccleston 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos…
19-5470 Spencer Tracy Holloway v. Michigan Michigan 2019-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process federal-question liberty-interest michigan-state-law post-conviction prosecutorial-disclosure sixth-judicial-circuit state-law supreme-court-rule-10 I WHETHER THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT FOR OAKLAND COUNTY DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE DECISION OF BR…
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Question not identified.
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether, Arizona Supreme Court abuse it's discretion by dismissing the Petition For Special action and Motion For Stay? Whether, the Superior court w…
19-5323 Edwardo De Juan v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHEN POSTCONVICTION MOTION WHERE CASE ELEMENTS FILED OR EXIST8 AND (B) CONFLICT EXISTS IN DEC…
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings. II. The Petit…
19-5160 Jamie D. Geer v. Florida Florida 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal appeal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prison-officials prisoner-rights WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS, EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND RIGHT TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS WHEN PRISON OFFICIALS MISHANDLED HIS APPEAL P…
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction (1) Should Hendershott have been barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when he turned his docs over to prison Authorities to mail Feb. 2014 months before his …
18-9844 Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel The trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 1930 days after assuring…
18-9580 Bobby Ray Devers v. Iowa Iowa 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-procedure post-conviction-relief pro-se-claims procedural-due-process state-public-defender-system statutory-rights summary-judgment uniform-procedure Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process are violated by the denial of participation in the statutory right to a uniform post …
18-9503 Donald M. Boswell v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-created-impediments statute-of-limitations Boswell contends that, due to several errors by the state court officials in processing his post-conviction filings, his §2254 petition hsould be cons…
18A1243 Douglas Prade v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure dna-evidence double-jeopardy ohio-supreme-court post-conviction retrial Question not identified.
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction 1.Under the AEDPA of Title 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), should Petitioner's State Nunc Pro Tunc Request be considered as "other collateral review with resp…
18-9116 Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts I). "Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Det…
18-8655 Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel Mr. Holloway alleges that his post-conviction counsel's ineffectiveness prejudiced the defense when he failed to seek suppression of incriminating evi…
18-8546 Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD…
18-8529 Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ…
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields a prosecutor's unconstitutional handling of post-conviction DNA testing under Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976…
18-8338 Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-08 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction Is the Illinois Statute effecting Post-Conviction relief to conduct an evidentiary hearing for the facts a unconstitutional denial Due Process under t…
18-8354 Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad…
18-8337 David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable…
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena (1) This Court should recognize that no meaningful county decision has shielded the evidence made considered newly disclosed by virtue of appellate re…
18-8189 Martin Tovar v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction Ground One: Whether (a) The Indiana Southern District Court erred in ruling Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was time barred and (b) Seventh Circuit…
18-8151 Loren Williamson, III v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254a 28-usc-2254d conflict-of-interest due-process due-process-equal-protection-disparity equal-protection parties-to-the-proceeding post-conviction post-conviction-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issule below to allowthe Ninth Circuit to determine whether. Lowrence v.Florida, 549 0.5.3.27, 33y(2007,…
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7658 Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment 1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d…
18-6959 Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure 1.If arbitrary government intrusion violates the fourth amendment by means of unlawful detention with out probable cause, can thgt intrusion be used t…
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Question not identified.
18-6783 Gino Velez Scott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-giglio brady-violation due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-misconduct habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion Where a numerically-second § 2255 motion raises an actionable Brady/Giglio violation that (a) the government suppressed until after the conclusion of …
18-6673 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-bargaining post-conviction post-conviction-review wrongful-conviction WHETHER, AS HERE, TENNESSEE'S REFUSAL TO EXTEND DNA POSTCONVICTION PROTECTIONS TO THOSE WHO PLED GUILTY VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AS PR…
18-6578 Elebert Fox v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Question not identified.
18-6586 Bruce Wood v. Delaware Delaware 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-rules judicial-review new-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief privileges-and-immunities Does Delaware's "Amended" Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 (post-conviction motion) and/or Delaware State Courts' decisions, make or enforce Laws/Rules…
18-6230 Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte Question not identified.
18-6227 DeWayne L. Wester v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause cause-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions post-conviction post-conviction-petition res-judicata successive-petition Where a State Court fail to adjudicate an issue properly raised and argued in a post conviction petition and on appeal, can the absence of a res judic…
18-5909 Barry Soldridge v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief waiver Whether the district court erred in failing to find that the state court entered a decision that was unreasonable in light of the full record, and whe…
18-5628 John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standards post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent 2. Did Arizona State Reviewing Courts refuse to determine trial court's intentional Plain Error abuses of discretion to be perjurous ruling proved by …
18-5396 Calvin McMillan v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-30 Denied IFP appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction An Alabama jury voted to sentence Petitioner Calvin McMillan to life in prison for capital murder. Circuit Judge John Bush overrode the jury's decisio…
18-5289 Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error 1. Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that h…
18-5220 Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee an indigent Petitioner to the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of Counsel …
24A753 Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas Texas Denied adequate-independent-state-ground certiorari habeas-corpus lethal-injection post-conviction supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.