| 25-5450 |
John Todd Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-three due-process federal-appellate-judge judicial-designation jurisdiction post-conviction-motion |
1. Whether a federal appellate judge who was never properly designated under 28 U.S.C. § 294
may lawfully adjudicate a post-conviction 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 21-6850 |
Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review |
Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional, invoking federal question jurisdiction in a di… |
| 21-5144 |
Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015… |
| 20-7308 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement |
Are New York State's criminal appellate procedures deficient, and/or prejudicial to a criminal defendant's due process, equal protection and/or state-… |
| 20-911 |
Michael Jackson v. Don Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-custody habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective overruled post-conviction-motion saving-clause section-2255 |
Whether Section 2255 is "inadequate or ineffective" when, at the time of petitioner's initial Section 2255 motion, circuit precedent foreclosed a pote… |
| 19-8924 |
William R. Jenkins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness |
The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 18-7615 |
Michael Alexander Bacon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split criminal-justice-process criminal-procedure evidentiary-inquiry fact-finding factual-dispute federal-rule-41 federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(g) government-possession post-conviction-motion property-return property-seizure rule-41g seized-property |
Courts widely recognize the general rule that seized property, other than contraband, should be returned to its rightful owner once criminal proceedin… |