post-conviction-review

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25A891 Nicholas Sexton v. Maine Maine 2026-02-06 Application appellate-review certificate-of-probable-cause due-process post-conviction-review pro-se-petition procedural-waiver Question not identified.
25-6340 Robert Knickerbocker v. Michigan Michigan 2025-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review I. Did A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATION OCCUR WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 29B …
25-5512 Robert Andrew Bartlett, Sr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-review state-law Whether a trial in a state criminal case who is prevented by state law from raising a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, who has a state law …
24-7333 Daniel Del Brumit v. David Rogers, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-habeas indian-law post-conviction-review state-retroactivity treaty-interpretation In 2020, this Court decided McGirt, and as a consequence, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA hereafter) "recognized that several other India…
24A455 Eric W. Strong v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-resources post-conviction-review prisoner-access section-2254 Question not identified.
23-7792 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law (1) Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility …
23-7791 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state …
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…
23-7647 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-review-proceeding post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel successive-petitions 1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appoint ment of counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings? 2. Can a State assert a procedu…
23-7067 In Re Timothy Stratton 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing 1. CAN A MAN BE CHARGED TO FIND GUILTY WHERE ALL OF THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF A CRIME ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE JURY'S CHARGE? 2. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE…
23-6677 Michael Isidoro Sanchez v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights colorable-claims due-process indigent-defense of-right-appeal post-conviction-review right-to-counsel smith-v-robbins This case raises an issue of nationwide importance concerning the vital role that courts Bnders review per the "two interrelated tasks" in achieving t…
23-6018 Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s…
23-5563 Christopher John Derting v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict due-process federal-review habeas-corpus keeney-v-tamayo-reyes post-conviction-review strickland strickland-claim townsend-v-sain vicks-v-bunnell Can the District Court ignore the views of this Court stated in Lovell v. Duffey pertaining to 2254 (d) (2) claims, which should focus on what State C…
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Question not identified.
23-5258 Octavius McLendon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 grants convicted federal inmates the right, in lieu of common law habeas corpus, to "move the court which imposed the sentence"…
23-5180 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where there was evidence of a history of the defendant's mental health issues and mental health hospitalization and trial counsel failed to even initi…
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…
22-7245 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…
22-7160 Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions 1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi…
22-6987 Dennis J. Brookshire v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-court-identification post-conviction-review WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO MOVE TO SUPRESS THE OUT OF COURT IDENTIFICATIONS AND DID SUCH IDENTIFICATIONS DENY THE PETITIONER A FAIR …
22-6654 Roland Cummings v. Maine Maine 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte Where a post-conviction review of a murder trial leading to a sentence of life imprisonment finds that there was ineffective assistance of counsel but…
22-5536 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t…
22-5039 Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review 1. FOR PURPOSES OF RECEIVING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FROM THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, HAS A "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A REA…
21-7584 William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-04-11 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire 1. Did the state postconviction court violate Batson and its progeny by refusing to consider evidence that this Court's precedent expressly permits? …
21-6700 Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at the PCR hearing, by trial Counsel's failure to object to…
21-6151 Gary DuBose Terry v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-review summary-judgment trial-counsel In determining whether a federal habeas petitioner's pleadings and supporting documents have alleged a substantial but defaulted claim of ineffective …
21-5375 Douglas Coley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-13 Denied IFP collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri…
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…
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…
20-1608 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…
20-7982 Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, …
20-7787 Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling Jurisdiction for federal habeas? Why Appellant Constitutional error should be cognizable in a petition for Habeas Corpus? Whether errors by courts i…
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 …
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing 1. Petitioner's request for state post-conviction review was deemed filed three days late because of a series of errors by the court clerk, who: • inc…
20-708 Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied 28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard 1. Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland v. Wa…
20-6361 Robert L. Davis v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-review standing weight-of-evidence We EK Pino po ted ns oe United StotesCourt_of AP Peal ancl Micelle Dis tira to Sok Elena has oleseteal So Fixe Reale the accebhed andl use| course _of…
20-5402 Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5145 In Re Charles Talbert 2020-07-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure 1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v…
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre…
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…
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default (1) WHETHER TO MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT A HABEAS APPLICANT FOR A C.O.A. NEED NOT SHOW THAT HE WILL PREVAIL O…
19-6313 Mario Ronrico Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP ACCA-enhanced-sentence armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing multi-count-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing-package-doctrine unconstitutional-sentence Whether the sentencing package doctrine, rather than the concurrent sentence doctrine, must be applied on post-conviction review of a meritorious chal…
19-6228 Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture 1. Was the US. Court of Appeals unfair for intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 19, 2013, opinion/memorandum, then mailing it 20 days be…
19-5834 Thomas David McWaters v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review standing In PetitroweR's ReQuest to the Ninth Circunt Court No. Owe: FOR A CeRtWFCATe OF APPEAlAbUAy, WOUld A gURISt OF REASON FINd rt debatable whetheR he sta…
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-5222 James Arthur Meeks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure-bar-rule civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-bar standing trial-counsel DID THE STATE OF TEYAS PROPERLY APPLY THE PROCEDURAL BAR (STATUE OF LIMITATIONS iN WRITNO. W89-85S62T (C-D) PURSUANT TO ART. 11.O7(4 OFTHE CODE OFCRiM…
18-9690 Curt M. Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions Q1: Should a habeas petitioner's claims of actual innocence, supported by the face of the court record, be subject to deference of abusive or successi…
18-1194 Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), is categor…
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…
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Did The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in Denying Certificate of Appealability of the denial of the Amendment of th…
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler 1. Must a court categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez ? 2. If the Court declines to…
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…
18-7658 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…
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of trial…
18-7186 Corey Ian Weidner v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-rule post-conviction-review state-law state-post-conviction-proceedings strickland-standard WHETHER, WHEN A STATE POST-CONVICTION COURT DECIDES THAT COUNSEL DID NOT NEED TO TAKE SOME ACTION UNDER STATE LAW TO BE EFFECTIVE, THE STATE COURT DEC…
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…
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-6075 Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas Texas 2018-09-21 Denied IFP adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a S…
18-5751 William Burke v. Georgia Georgia 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process constitutional-fairness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-review fair-trial judicial-review jury-instructions post-conviction-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy At what point does it become fundamentally unfair to 'adjust the charges to the evidence'? In this instance, the State adjusted the charges, and by ex…
18-5641 Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause 1. Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking rel…
18-5312 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater…