| 25-5894 |
Kenneth Lavigne v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard time-barred |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Sixth Amendment and this Court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), Hill v. Lockhart, … |
| 24-6056 |
Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis strickland-standard |
Does the "probing and fact-specific analysis" mandated by Strickland v. Washington and Sears v. Upton require courts to weigh both the strengths and w… |
| 24-6022 |
Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel |
1. Whether a state court that applies a sufficiency of the evidence standard to
determine a habeas petitioner was not prejudiced by his trial counsel'… |
| 24-5640 |
Mark Watkins v. New York |
New York |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deficient-performance ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability strickland-standard trial-counsel |
To establish that trial counsel was ineffective due to a single error, must the defendant establish that the error satisfies Strickland v. Washington'… |
| 24A271 |
Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5508 |
Jason J. Dominick v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
blood-pattern-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel |
1. If Velma and the rest of the Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. Gang would expose junk science presented to the jury in order to preserve the reliability and … |
| 24-5014 |
Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Sixth Circuit deliberately applied a more demanding standard for showing prejudice for ineffective assistance of counsel than the standard establi… |
| 23-6800 |
Jorge Espinosa v. New York |
New York |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-cut-and-dispositive constitutional-right criminal-defense due-process error-and-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error prejudice-analysis single-error Strickland strickland-standard |
Whether all ineffective assistance of counsel claims are assessed under the Strickland error-and-prejudice rule, or whether such claims based on a sin… |
| 23-604 |
Leon Phillip Jacob v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
|
habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor |
Whether the Texas courts' prejudice analysis defies this Court's precedents in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984); Williams v. Taylor, 529 … |
| 23-5959 |
Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law by approving as reasonable a state court prejudice an… |
| 23-5886 |
Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment state-practice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unconstitutional-state-practice |
Whether prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is shown by an attorney's failure to preserve a claim that would result in an a… |
| 23-5423 |
Andre Monteek Edwards v. Kim Cargor, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accident accident-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-analysis second-degree-murder self-defense strickland-standard |
1(a). DOES A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION PRECLUDE A SHOWING OF PREJUDICE WHEN COUNSEL'S ERRORS WHICH PRECLUDED THE JURY'S CONSIDERATION OF MICHIGA… |
| 22-7859 |
Timothy Sumpter v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis state-post-conviction strickland strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Under clearly established law, in most ineffective assistance of trial counsel cases, prejudice is shown by demonstrating "a reasonable probability th… |
| 22-997 |
Andrew Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether the TCCA, by considering only the trial testimony that supported the convictions rather than how the testimony of petitioner's medical experts… |
| 22-6145 |
Daniel Alexander Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-law burden-shifting commenting-on-silence falsely-representing-evidence ineffective-assistance misstating-law misstating-witness ninth-circuit-review prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard |
Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly applied Arizona law in finding that multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct, including falsely representi… |
| 22-358 |
Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply "double deference" to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner … |
| 22-235 |
Paul S. Morrissey, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
appellate-circuit-split case-termination civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-standard federal-rules prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review statute-of-limitations willful-noncompliance |
Whether a discretionary dismissal without prejudice, which nevertheless functions as a dismissal with prejudice because it would end a case forever, i… |
| 22-5476 |
John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers |
1. Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when it concluded that Petitioner suffered no prejudice… |
| 21-1579 |
Stephen Alexander v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
courtroom-closure fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When Defense Counsel errs by not objecting to an improper courtroom closure, should reviewing courts apply a "fundamental unfairness" test, or the tra… |
| 21-7794 |
Paul C. Bolin v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-discretion mitigation mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
This capital case, in which defense counsel's investigation and preparation for the penalty phase was grossly deficient, presents two questions concer… |
| 21-7660 |
Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-habeas cumulative-errors expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness opening-statement prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
In this Missouri capital habeas case, Scott McLaughlin's trial counsel failed to investigate the background and credibility of Dr. Keith Caruso who wa… |
| 21-7154 |
John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Mr. Walters lost an opportunity for a favorable plea because his counsel failed to tell him about it. As a result, Mr. Walters entered a guilty plea t… |
| 21-938 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit violate basic principles of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when it failed to reweigh the whole of the evidenc… |
| 21-6065 |
Michael Belcher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence |
In a capital case, does the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting p… |
| 20-8199 |
Isiah Lamonte Brown v. California |
California |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-remedy counsel-ineffectiveness counsel-violation criminal-procedure fundamental-autonomy prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-testify standard-of-review waiver waiver-standard |
1. What standard of prejudice, if any, must be satisfied to reverse a conviction because trial counsel violated the defendant's fundamental autonomous… |
| 20-1134 |
John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-6391 |
Timothy Ronald Hare v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-standard critical-stage effective-assistance ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic |
I. Does the requirement to prove prejudice under this Court's previous decision in Latter v Cooper, place a burden on the accused that this Court deem… |
| 20-5721 |
Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr… |
| 20-101 |
Lloyd Harris v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
actual-prejudice balancing-test constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial preindictment-delay prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motive |
Where preindictment delay has caused actual prejudice to the accused's ability to defend himself, does the Due Process Clause require (1) the defendan… |
| 19-8866 |
Yara Chum v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections |
First Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard sixth-amendment state-court-review state-law-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit err in holding that a state court decision was not contrary to federal law when, in deciding a Sixth Am… |
| 19-7825 |
Gustavo Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-defense elements-of-offense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-test lafler-v-cooper legally-nonexistent-defense plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. How should a court apply the "reasonable probability" test for prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and Lafler v. Cooper,… |
| 19-7407 |
Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel |
1. Whether, under Strickland, a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must it in… |
| 19-7329 |
Jamaar Jerome Williams v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction-litigation post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-analysis |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it concluded Williams had failed to establish prejudice under Martinez v. Ryan because the record clearly shows W… |
| 19-6857 |
Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-and-progeny brady-claim brady-claims-review constitutional-error due-process fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus judicial-duty pervasive-effect-of-errors prejudice-analysis preservation preservation-doctrine preservation-of-issues totality-of-evidence totality-of-the-evidence |
An utterly corrupt law enforcement officer tainted the guilt and sentencing stages of Mr. Goode's trial. The courts have never fully evaluated Goode's… |
| 19-491 |
Nilesh Bharatkumar Kumar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-resident plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
To establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a defendant who has pleaded guilty based on deficient advice from his atto… |
| 19-6125 |
Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Counsel admitted that he did not know that his chosen defense, diminished capacity, could be based upon mental illness. As a result, counsel never … |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-227 |
Adnan Syed v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury, … |
| 19-5568 |
Keith D. Nelson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-damage capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability childhood-abuse childhood-sexual-abuse ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard |
1. Does it violate the Strickland prejudice standard to conclude that never before presented evidence of brain damage, severe mental illness, and chil… |
| 19-183 |
Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome |
In considering whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance was prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is all… |
| 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… |
| 18-742 |
Brandon Washington v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors |
Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea… |