| 25-6647 |
Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review |
1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably i… |
| 24-5290 |
Kevin Duane Stunes v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance postconviction-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication |
1) When a state regulates a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, i.e a claim of constitutional entitlement to its postconviction review v… |
| 23-7764 |
Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
bad-acts ballistics-evidence capital-case criminal-evidence criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance other-crimes-evidence postconviction-review prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether in a case with no direct evidence connecting the defendant to the crime except the introduction of evidence of other crimes or bad acts, the S… |
| 23-162 |
Christian Winchel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review |
I. Supreme Court Rule 10(a)—Whether the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings u… |
| 22-7048 |
Scott P. Roeder v. Dan Schnurr, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-economy postconviction-review standing suspension-clause unborn-rights |
1. Whether United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62 (1971), should be overruled in favor of equality with the unborn?
2. Whether a habeas corpus petition… |
| 22-6694 |
Abdiraham Haji-Hassan v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-suspect-theory due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining postconviction postconviction-review presumption professional-assistance reasonable-professional-assistance strickland-standard |
Whether the state postconviction court misapplied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668
(1984), by applying its "strong presumption of reasonable pro… |
| 22-6538 |
Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction |
1. When states open their postconviction forums to federal claims raised in a successor posture based on newly-discovered evidence, do they have to ad… |
| 21-7198 |
Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment |
1. When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a
new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the S… |
| 21-6988 |
Paul E. Pavulak v. Warden, FMC Butner |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-§-2241 28-U.S.C-§-2255(e) federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan postconviction-review section-2241 section-2255 |
May a federal prisoner seeking review of a defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel seek postconviction review under 28 U.S.C. § 224… |
| 18-9546 |
Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule |
(1) Whether, as the Court has thrice asked but never answered, States must apply a "watershed rule" under Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989) in postc… |
| 18-8689 |
Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy |
I. Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance where counsel failed in the most basic sense to litigate a claim of i… |
| 18-6023 |
Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus postconviction-procedure postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington swarthout-v-cooke unreasonable-application webb-v-texas |
Whether this Court's opinion in Webb v Texas, 409 U.S. 95, 93 S. Ct. 351, 34 L. Ed. 2d 330 (1972) applies to prosecutors as well as judges;
Whether t… |