post-conviction-counsel

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25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who…
20-1009 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry v. David Martinez Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) aedpa evidentiary-development federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Does application of the equitable rule this Court announced in Martinez v. Ryan render 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) inapplicable to a federal court's merits…
20-6275 William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel 1. WOULD JURIST OF REASON DISAGREE AND FIND DEBATABLE THE CORRECTNESS OF THE SIXTH AND DISTRICT COURTS' FINDING OF EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHE…
19-979 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality 1. This Court has well settled that use of "fabricated evidence" by a State "virtually" voids a criminal judgment ab initio. But what effect does th…
19-7013 Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report. Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro…
19-5291 Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of…
18-9533 Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction If Martinez V. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 132 S Ct 1309, allows for a case to be over-turned if the Plaintiff can show, had it not been for ineffective assista…
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…
18-8527 Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida apply an inc…
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler 1. Mr. Haley, acting prose, filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, therefore, appealing the order United States …
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court David Riley filed a pro se state post-conviction petition because, unlike every other state, Alabama does not provide counsel to death-sentenced inmat…
18-6454 Charles Nash v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler TEENAGER CHARLES NASH WAS SUBJECT TO TALK FIRST INTERROGATION TACTICS YET DEFENSE COUNSEL SOUGHT SUPPRESSION OF HIS SIATEMENT ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS HAVI…
18-6033 Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-principles indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners ineffective-assistance post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-interference state-law-limits Through legislation. Tennessee Law makes it literally impossible for indigent non-capital petitioners to receive the effective assistance of post-conv…
18-5959 John Ingebretsen v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether Ing…