| 25-6805 |
Antonio Prophet v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-conspiracy federal-question fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus procedural-default |
1. When a federal criminal conspiracy initiated in the State court is then carried over into 2254 federal habeas corpus proceedings by a State Respond… |
| 25-6609 |
Roger Hoan Brady v. Sircoya M. Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability judicial-error procedural-default racial-discrimination voir-dire |
1. In light of the missing voir dire transcript, did the U.S. District Court erred when it held that Petitioner's Batson claim was procedurally defaul… |
| 25A767 |
Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Application |
|
brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6402 |
Anwar Mithavayani v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the lower courts provided sufficient and adequate process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due pro… |
| 25A670 |
Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 25-656 |
In Re Rayon Payne |
|
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process immigration-law judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default supervisory-authority |
1. Whether this Court should exercise its
supervisory authority under 28 U.S.C.
§165 1(a) to resolve a structural conflict
created when two federal… |
| 25-6302 |
Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus identification-evidence ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
1. Whether, under the circumstances presented hear, petitioner 's constitutional right to a fair trial due to insufficient identification evidence cla… |
| 25-6252 |
Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE… |
| 25-6143 |
Rodney James Dilworth v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY. |
| 25A576 |
John Bejarano v. William Reubart, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-procedure successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 25A495 |
Mark Hanna v. John Bel Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Application |
|
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights good-faith-standard in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5987 |
Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE;
Whether the district court and the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Ground One, actual-innocence claim as to hi… |
| 25A458 |
Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Application |
|
exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 25A433 |
Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5773 |
Karina Yohera Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder court-of-appeals due-process jury-punishment lesser-included-offenses procedural-default |
Did the Court of Appeals, Thirteenth Judicial District, Corpus Christi, Texas err by affirming the trial court's order that no jury punishment hearing… |
| 25A368 |
Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5718 |
In Re Christopher J. Bradford |
|
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default second-successive-petition |
1. Whether the United States Court pf Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
erred in its decision to dismiss the Petitioner 's 'application for leave to
… |
| 25-5705 |
Jua Smith v. Delta Barometre, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel counsel-disclosure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default writ-authorization |
a. Whether petitioner is entitled to have his habeas corpus petition disregarded if habeas counsel was not acting on behalf of the petitioner; and fai… |
| 25-322 |
Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver |
1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo… |
| 25-5664 |
In Re Amy Bishop Anderson |
|
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-error habeas-corpus new-evidence procedural-default specific-intent steroid-psychosis |
1. ) Statement of the Case and exhaustion of claims pursuant to 28USC section 2254(b)(1)(A) as delineated in S.Ct. Rule 20.4(a). Where, in my petition… |
| 25-5648 |
Ikeie Ranordo Smith v. Dale Bonn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
federal-claim leave-to-file michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-default state-procedural-rules supplemental-brief |
1. IS MICHIGAN COURT RULE (MCR) 7.405(E)(H) AND ALL QUATE STATE PROCEDURAL RULES PRECLUDE REVIEW OF A FEDERAL CLAIM, WHERE THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEA… |
| 25-5623 |
Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction |
D'.cL M-.rvllv Coiv^ of Ajpp-cals trr il a^ f'dfu^S'f
or CxxA'f coAx- cf Appt atab'll' ly?
Ji) iy d lk< lUd-cJ SUk-s DisUcd too*-/ for DiUricJ ' of ^… |
| 25-5589 |
Shane Stevens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by
a sentence later declared void ab initio—on the grounds of proced… |
| 25A274 |
John Benton Ragland v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 25A254 |
Michael Broomer v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
antiterrorism-act federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5445 |
Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes , 433 U.S.72 (1977) Id.
At 81 states appellant court 's direct appeal order can be
procedurally defaulted and ba… |
| 25-5403 |
In Re Michael Jay Harris |
|
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question No. 1 Should Mr. Harris be permitted to raise his claims of prosecutorial
misconduct based on newly obtained and never before presented evid… |
| 25-5386 |
Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default |
(1) Petitioner properly presented thirteen claims of constitutional
violations and sub-issues to each state court including the Michigan
Supreme Cou… |
| 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… |
| 25A150 |
Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5200 |
Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing |
(1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,… |
| 25-5172 |
William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court |
1. Were the Petitioner 's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when
petitioner 's Rule 60(B) motion was denied yet, the Northern District court o… |
| 25-5134 |
Nathan G. Flemming v. Taurean James, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-error due-process jury-influence procedural-default remmer-claim sentencing-delay |
1. Did the District Court Error in finding that the Presence of defendant for sentencing was not a violation of Due Process?
2. Did the District Cour… |
| 25-5125 |
Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that the Petitioner was not prejudiced by his defense counsel's failure to rec… |
| 24A1273 |
Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7338 |
Justin Panus v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-findings substantive-claims |
1. Whether Petitioner was entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the grounds that the lower court failed to conduct an "Unreasonable Determinat… |
| 24-7283 |
James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default |
If reasonable jurists from {-this Court 'Jackson v. Indiana '- -the Fifth Circuit 'Benham v. Edwards '- -Texas Federal Courts 'Reynolds v Neill, Hitt … |
| 24-7224 |
Devon Delehoy v. South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus kidnapping procedural-default |
1. Is a person who gets into a car voluntary, held against their will?
2. Is a person who exits a car and returns without concern, held against their… |
| 24-7144 |
Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
1. Does the narrow, equitable authorities announced by this Court in Marchietti v. Rye Silos S.E. prints to establish "cause" for purposes of executin… |
| 24-1105 |
Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 24-6914 |
Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) is applicable to a case in which the state court rejected the petitioner's claim o… |
| 24-6882 |
Michael C. Romig v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial procedural-default |
1.) Was it constitutional violation/error for the U.S. District Court to procedurally default Defendant/Petitioner due to court appointed counsels act… |
| 24-6834 |
Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Tami J. Schult |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
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| 24-6726 |
Jason Krumback v. Amber Pirraglia, Acting Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus innocence-claim procedural-default sentencing-review witness-testimony |
1. Can a person be a witness after sentencing?
2. Can testimony be withheld after it has been given?
3. Is a probation condition evidence?
4. Is a … |
| 24-6668 |
Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
agency-relationship federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-exhaustion |
In Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012), the Court announced that abandonment of a state post-conviction relief ("PCR") petitioner by his counsel, wi… |
| 24-6561 |
Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-review exceptional-circumstances exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner |
1. Whether there is a Violation of Act 2121, c.13 and the 5th Amendment of the Federal Constitution by why Convict had Sentence defendant on a FRU bon… |
| 24-6522 |
Samuel Carl Neyhart v. Tyrell Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel martinez-review ninth-circuit procedural-default |
1) Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error, and/or so far depart from the Supreme
Court of the United States processes and precedents, by failin… |
| 24-826 |
Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (8) |
aedpa cause-and-prejudice federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
Whether a federal court must apply the deferential review provisions of AEDPA to the state court's adjudication of an ineffective assistance of counse… |
| 24-6433 |
Jesus C. Gonzalez v. Dan Cromwell, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-claim ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication procedural-default state-court |
Where the defendant raises a federal due process claim, and only a federal due process claim, in the State circuit court, the State appellate court, a… |
| 24-6367 |
Nyah Sekel v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-service civil-procedure ethical-violations judicial-discretion procedural-default service-of-process |
Category 1: Procedural Default and Compliance
1. Is the defense still in default because they failed to physically
serve the Plaintiff in compliance w… |
| 24-704 |
Xengxai Yang v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-review competency-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default |
The "conviction of an accused person while he is legally incompetent violates due process," Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375, 378 (1966), and thus a fed… |
| 24-6148 |
Ronald Lee Neels v. Bob Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Whether an opening statement, counsel's failure to object to it, and the magnitude of the prosecutorial misconduct in the opening statement of a defen… |
| 24-6145 |
Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Sr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-standard procedural-default sentencing-error |
The question presented is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the standard governing the grant of a certificate of appealability for… |
| 24A582 |
Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6138 |
Andre Terial Love v. J. M. Robertson |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions due-process federal-review procedural-default state-court supreme-court-precedent |
IS THE STATE COURT'S FINDING THAT CLAIMS ONE AND TWO ARE PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED ADEQUATE TO BAR FEDERAL REVIEW OF THOSE CLAIMS?
DOES THE STATE COURT'… |
| 24-6105 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard |
I. DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY?
II. WAS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRIC… |
| 24-5940 |
Charlton Beasley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)-conviction actual-innocence davis-decision procedural-default section-2255 statute-of-limitations |
§ 2255 within one 1) Did Beasley overcome procedural default when he filed
year of the Supreme Court decision in Davis which was a new rule of law and… |
| 24-5936 |
Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60b6 |
FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED : DOES THE DISTRICT COURT AND FIFTH CIRCUIT'S
RULING CONFLICT WITH Casey v. Lewis , 518 U.S. 343 n.3 (1996), /.WHEN
HOLDING… |
| 24-505 |
Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
|
collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a United States Supreme Court case of statutory interpretation, which was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings under circuit prec… |
| 24-5756 |
Jonathan Leigh Sosnowicz v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice factual-development habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-prisoner |
Between 1948 and 2022, this Court applied the same standard for excusing a state prisoner's procedural default of a claim for relief as it applied to … |
| 24-5651 |
Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default |
In his petition for writ of habeas corpus before the district court, Petitioner Michael McLaughlin raised the claim that his trial counsel ineffective… |
| 24-5494 |
Brian Scott Witham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 |
In Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), this Court held that when an individual who pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) offense later challenges th… |
| 24A240 |
George L. Fields v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-right exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 24A211 |
Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver |
Whether a state waives a procedural-default defense when, in its answer to a state habeas petition in district court, it raises the defense to some cl… |
| 24A190 |
Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5311 |
Kurnicus Hayes v. Arnold Patrick |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-custody |
1. Whether Mr. Hayes ' 2254 petition satisfies the 2 prong requirement
established in Slack v. McDaniel for COA to issue on a petition that has been … |
| 24-5252 |
Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default |
Does the ACTUAL INNOCENCE OF SENTENCE EXCEPTION to the PROCEDURAL CCR rule EXTEND to the FLORIDA RESENTENCING CONTEXT?
Is the FORT INNOCENCE CONSTITU… |
| 24-5245 |
Otis Phillips v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coleman-v-thompson due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction martinez-v-ryan procedural-default |
Did Petitioner indeed meet procedural bar, and did 3" Circuit decision to deny violate federal law?
Did Third Circuit court decision, when it chose t… |
| 24-5196 |
Nicholas Salfi v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-duty effective-assistance habeas-corpus Lafler-v-Cooper martinez-exception plea-negotiations prejudice procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Whether the duty of defense counsel to provide effective assistance during plea negotiations extends to delivering counteroffers to the prosecution.
… |
| 24-5093 |
David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5053 |
Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817 and Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, when prison officials impeded… |
| 23-7794 |
Michael T. Washington v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-assistance |
1. Is State Attorney undisclosed substantial assistance motion "Newly Discover Evidence " resulting in a Brady violation? And violation of Petitioner … |
| 23A1137 |
Brian Scott Witham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7740 |
William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift… |
| 23-7719 |
Justin T. Winston v. Jon Noble, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights constitutional-violations federal-claims postconviction-motion procedural-default state-law wisconsin-law |
Did Mr. Winston procedurally default all of his federal claims?
If Mr. Winston defaulted his claims, did he show cause and prejudice?
Did the Wiscon… |
| 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… |
| 23-7649 |
Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-7563 |
Sanford Benjamin Gloster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brady-doctrine brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process giglio-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Does the admission of false evidence in substitute for the true and correct evidence, which itself was not originally stated to, by sworn deposition, … |
| 23-7535 |
Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness |
Whether A COA Should Issue Because Jurists Of Reason Could Debate Or Agree That Congress Could Did Not Authorize Federal Enforcement Of § 1591 To Pure… |
| 23-7510 |
Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7351 |
Rolandas Milinavicuus v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
1. Does A Habeas Corpus Petitioner Under The Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Suffer Unreasonable Application Of Ruling Contrary To The Facts Present… |
| 23A946 |
Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7268 |
Pikerson Mentor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural
default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un… |
| 23-7276 |
Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE… |
| 23-7227 |
Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity… |
| 23A902 |
Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-04-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
final-judgment habeas-corpus leave-to-appeal michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-default supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7134 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Can reviewing judge rely on information not provided to the issuing judge for determining whether substantial basis exists showing do the McCleskey su… |
| 23-7085 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
1. Where a state habeas court, in a non-alternative holding, considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required … |
| 23-7039 |
Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's
double jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally defaulted?
2. Whether the… |
| 23-6924 |
Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error |
QUESTION No. 1: Does &U£.ederal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v.… |
| 23A813 |
Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington |
First Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6848 |
Stewart Smith v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bias certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel partial-pcra-jurist pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
WAS PETITIONER'S GUILTY VERDICT OBTAINED AND SUSTAINED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, BIAS,… |
| 23-6764 |
Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default |
WHEN PETITIONER ALLEGED THAT HE WAS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING
BASED ON THE PRISON MAILROOM'S MISHANDLING OF PRISONER MAIL,INCLUD-
A SCANDAL INVO… |
| 23-6765 |
Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o… |
| 23-6743 |
Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to "effective representation" require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto… |
| 23-6727 |
Daniel J. Erb v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
In reference to Petitioner's Guilty Plea and Prosecutorial misconduct, the decisions of the lower courts are contrary to, or involv[ing] an unreasonab… |
| 23-6695 |
Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default |
1) Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to
the Due Process of Law when the Sixth Circuit Appellate Court denied
relief without… |
| 23-6684 |
Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court |
1. Did the U.S. district Court contravene the requirement of Act 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) and jdt?
2. When a State Prisoner failed to use available State … |
| 23A713 |
Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-duties death-penalty ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-habeas waiver-of-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23A705 |
Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner |
Question not identified. |
| 23A700 |
Cyrus Sanai v. Alex Villanueva |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-disentitlement district-court due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default sua-sponte |
Did the District Court err and violate Vang v. Nevada, 329 F. 3d 1069 (9th Cir. 2003) and Day v. McDonough, 547 US 198, 209-11 (2006) when it sua spon… |
| 23-6598 |
Shuaib A. Haji Mohamed v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-rights discretionary-review federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-review |
HAS A STATE PRISONER SEEKING FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS MADE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING THAT HIS PETITION SHOULD HAVE PROCEEDED FUR '-'
. THER WHERE THE PROCEDU… |
| 23-810 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing |
Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment since the defendant did … |
| 23-6451 |
Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review |
1. Are a district court's findings that a habeas corpus petitioner's attorney abandoned him "from the beginning" and "for the entirety of [his] state … |
| 23-6423 |
Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Did GeaGrouw? Pricate risen New) Caste Cocectianal Fact itnet Won, wo Lb Olan Violole Peta ver
Doe CCocass bY {a isePvinG Ged 6d OFFiar O. Predericii… |
| 23A619 |
Steven Antonius, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Shervington Lovell, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Argemiro Zapata-Castro, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23A594 |
Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6183 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6160 |
Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause |
1. Is Consistent with the Supremacy Clause, may a state refuse to follow this Court's holdings and permit indictment for a capital crime by a grand ju… |
| 23A477 |
Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 23A472 |
Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6110 |
Eulandas J. Flowers v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus miller-claim miller-v-alabama postconviction-proceedings procedural-default state-court-ruling state-postconviction |
In state postconviction proceedings, Mr. Flowers challenged his life-without-parole sentence as violating Miller v. Arizona, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), thre… |
| 23-6022 |
Kevin Liu v. Marcus Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
choice-of-counsel constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel state-law state-procedural-bar |
Kevin Liu appeals from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming the dismissal of his extra record federal constitutional claim on habeas … |
| 23A426 |
Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
collateral-review en-banc-petition exhaustion-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23A424 |
Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5986 |
Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5972 |
Barney A. Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-statement notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appellant procedural-default |
1. Since the U.S, District Court has Subsequently Confirmed that, the Not/ce .
oF Appeal in question was, im fact, timely Filed, Should the Court
of A… |
| 23-5970 |
Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal |
Procedural default bars a state inmate from obtaining federal habeas based on an issue not presented to the state courts. Schlup v. Delo recognized a … |
| 23-5945 |
Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus relief, where he raised a claim of actual innocence, and numerous claims of ineffectiveness of trial cou… |
| 23-5913 |
Julio Rolon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit
precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-5895 |
Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5836 |
Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel |
1.) To be issued a COA : Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a
debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right as enunciated in
Sl… |
| 23-5772 |
Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling |
DID THE UNEITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN SUSTAINGING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS' H… |
| 23-5686 |
David Calhoun v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Could jurists of reason debate the district court's resolution or conclude the issue presented is adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further… |
| 23-5528 |
Lahme Perkins v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cause-and-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-facts notice post-conviction-relief procedural-default third-circuit-court |
After Petitioner filed his application and memorandum of law pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254, and without ordering a response from the State, the District… |
| 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. |
| 23-5472 |
Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED… |
| 23-5474 |
Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine |
Given that petitioner is from Palestine, His English has always been poor, his second language is Spanish his history with mental health in years lead… |
| 23-5435 |
Marques Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5368 |
Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER A COA? |
| 23A132 |
Jerry S. Wilson v. Dan Cromwell, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default reasonable-doubt |
1. This case presents an important and recurring question concerning the legal standard for showing actual innocence sufficiently to overcome procedur… |
| 23-5348 |
Julian Breal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
davis-ruling due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-vacate procedural-default section-2255 united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-challenge |
Whether the Petitioner was denied his due process Fifth Amendment right to the United States Constitution due to being procedurally defaulted from pre… |
| 23-5331 |
Al Douglas Wordly v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 23-5299 |
Keith Mas Sims, Jr. v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exhaustion-of-state-remedies fair-presentation federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default speedy-trial |
To be eligible for federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must have exhausted the remedies available to him in state court. Id… |
| 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"… |
| 23-5155 |
Jeremiah Lyle VanTassel v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-default prosecutorial-vouching standing time-limits |
Does fraud upon the court trigger equitable tolling?
Would jurists of reason all agree that Petitioner procedurally defaulted in re the time limits u… |
| 23-20 |
Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler |
1. Does a court contravene Johnson u. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the … |
| 22-7862 |
Lazaro Veliz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-1234 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit defy this Court's remand instruction and circumvent 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court authority by findi… |
| 22-7801 |
Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7646 |
Derek Pelker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers |
Mr. Pelker alleged the Federal Governments impermissible collusion within the prosecution of the Commonwealth.of Pennsylvania for the same misconduct … |
| 22-7577 |
Lamonte Ealy v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
blockburger-test constitutional-review double-jeopardy multiplicity procedural-default same-elements same-parties state-statute |
Whether jurist of reason would find it debatable or wrong the District court assessment of Double Jeopardy Multiplicity counts under the same state st… |
| 22-7538 |
Dominic Souto Diaz v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-claim evidence-misrepresentation gateway-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence new-evidence pcra-counsel phone-records procedural-default |
(1) Bid the Court of Appeals err when it ruled Appellant's gate way claim of innocence was not new evidence? Was PCRA counsel in effective for not inv… |
| 22-7515 |
Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Constitutionalits with theUnited State Constitutional
of statute into question;?
2D Thete Conflicted into Puestion?ln Sovereisnty, Common LAw.
Bill o… |
| 22-7505 |
Charles Alfred Armajo, Jr. v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review |
I. Did the panel of the Tenth Circuit err by improperly deciding the merit of an appeal before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app… |
| 22-7443 |
Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and … |
| 22-7416 |
In Re Ronald Pack |
|
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa-tolling article-i-section-9 circuit-court great-writ habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-limitations statutory-tolling writ-of-certiorari |
1) Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(d)(1)(B) effectively suspend the great writ… |
| 22-7274 |
Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7221 |
Carlotta Susann Kutschenreuter v. Lagreta McClain, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction-procedures |
Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure (ARCrimP) 32.2(d) states "any claim that counsel was ineffective must be raised as soon as practicable, either at t… |
| 22-7186 |
Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching |
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ru^VA preseMeck unier "pWn errur
V… |
| 22-7112 |
Fuhai Li v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure |
I. The Court of Appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is Contrary to a decision of this court because it sidestepped the COA Proces… |
| 22-7042 |
Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act |
Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction when it proceeded to trial upon filin… |
| 22-7036 |
Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make … |
| 22-7023 |
Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing |
Roe v. Glover v. Idaho, 126 S.Ct.
Should my writ Certiorari be granted inasmuch as my appointed attorney failed to file a timely Notice of Appeal for… |
| 22-6955 |
Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire |
During jury selection, the court told eleven of the twelve seated jurors that their decision to impose death would be automatically reviewed on appeal… |
| 22-6951 |
Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers |
In this capital habeas case, the Eighth Circuit decided important questions
of federal law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cou… |
| 22-6939 |
Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default |
Can a Clerk of a federal appellate court refuse to file a pleading by a State habeas petitioner seeking a Panel Rehearing from the denial of an applic… |
| 22-6866 |
Antonio Rosello v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-6798 |
Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression |
1. Whether, to establish "suppression" under Brady
v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the parallel
"cause" to excuse procedural default of a Brad… |
| 22-6795 |
Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal |
1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE WHEN HE FAILED TO FILE THE
NOTICE OF APPEAL WHEN REQUESTED. |
| 22-6707 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims damages due-process habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6688 |
Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing?
Unde… |
| 22-6528 |
Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure |
1. Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and
2.) Does th… |
| 22-6501 |
Michael A. Hagar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial |
QUESTION ONE
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it did not
issue a Certificate of Appealability as the Petitioner
met the requirement und… |
| 22-6425 |
Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability? |
| 22-6387 |
Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings |
Does state prisoner "fairly present " federal nature of his claim on direct appeal where he cites to a lone Florida Supreme Court case that cites to, … |
| 22-6361 |
Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review |
Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen… |
| 22-6356 |
Tyler Nees v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6262 |
Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
by Summarily Affirmance of Petitioner Patel's 2241 Writ of Hab… |
| 22-6238 |
David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence |
I. Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Co… |
| 22-6204 |
Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6199 |
In Re Cornell White |
|
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition |
1. Can a federal district or appeals court deny habeas corpus relief without factual finding on the record, that a states asserted procedural default … |
| 22-6184 |
Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling |
WHETHER THE DECISIONS OF THE COURTS BELOW OUGHT TO BE SUMMARILY REVERSED AND THE CASE REMANDED TO THE COURT OF APPEALS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REMAND THE… |
| 22-6099 |
Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing |
What inhibits a Court of Appeals' discretion to invoke the waiver doctrine?
Whether a court of appeals should apply the waiver doctrine to a litigant… |
| 22-6091 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment |
More than four decades ago, this Court held that it is crucial that the jury be allowed to hear evidence of a defendant's positive adjustment to priso… |
| 22-6001 |
Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts |
Whether, after enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(3) as part of the
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a State can forfeit the
affir… |
| 22-5973 |
Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
1. Can Ineffectiveness Or Incompetence Of counsel on Direct review Result In a sixth Amendment violation OF THE ARIZONA And United States Constitution… |
| 22-5953 |
Robert Lee Swinton v. New York |
New York |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-of-right appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal |
After a defendant has shown his counsel a desire to appeal, can counsel take a defendant's appeal of right and fail to file a Notice of Appeal in the … |
| 22-5819 |
Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing |
Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability? |
| 22-5802 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler |
/QUESTION # ONE: The sixth circuit is in direct conflict with marfcinez
V RYAN 566 U.S.413 and TREVINO V THALER 569 U.S.l. Is a petioner
Precluded -f… |
| 22-5801 |
Steven Nelson Murray v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver procedural-default sixth-amendment |
When a criminal defendant must make a personal decision whether to waive a fundamental constitutional right, does an attorney provide deficient perfor… |
| 22-315 |
Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity |
Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting… |
| 22-5676 |
Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of
Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where … |
| 22-5666 |
Arturo Cano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing |
1. Whether being pro se versus being represented by counsel at the state initial collateral proceeding is a determinative factor for obtaining withdra… |
| 22-5549 |
Emmanuel Maxime v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes "cause"
to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica… |
| 22-5545 |
Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the … |
| 22-5519 |
Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
conviction and habeas corpus proceedings raises Kareem Stansbury's pressing issues of national importance; Whether, and to what extent the criminal ju… |
| 22-5503 |
Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons… |
| 22-5356 |
Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent |
Does Slock Burge # vs, united States^py u.s,^ CM33P DPPlt To my Cnss? Dou&is ieoPARoy
DOES BzRCWFXELD CSJ CONCuRRETfRuLlNOS reply To roy CASE? Birckf… |
| 22-5263 |
Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
I. WhetherWAs the Courtof Appeal's decision
that Petitioner's trial Counsel told the jury
degree of murder was Suficient, is the
Petitioner entitled t… |
| 22-94 |
Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b |
1) Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of
appealability ("COA") to appeal the denial of a
Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
2)… |
| 22-5184 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion |
Do a paritiones need to dotom oO Ccattifitate of appestabdrtity Sear the duriol of oe Civ via bo (b) motion 2
O13 sho couct of AppaUmls properly appl… |
| 22-5189 |
Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-default rule-60b-motion |
(1) Whether the district court abused its discretion when it denied Abdulrazzak's
motion to reopen (alter or amend) final judgment under Fed. R. Civ. … |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity. |
| 22-5066 |
John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment |
(1) Does a certificate of appealability ("COA") debatability review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) mean that the COA panel may deny debatability of… |
| 22-21 |
Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver |
1. Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts?
2. Even if considered immune by the Eleventh Amendment in an abstract form, did DCA w… |
| 22-4 |
Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whethe r the Davis- Hatton P rocedure is unconstitutional as-applied to Mr. Karr 's case and whether the Indiana State Courts and United States Distri… |
| 21-8226 |
Eric C. Sutherland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-claim habeas-corpus indictment indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-challenge new-evidence procedural-default schlup-standard schlup-v-delo subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. IF-AN INDICTMENT OMITS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AND A PRISONER FILES A §2255 A FEW MONTHS AFTER AEDPA'S ONE-YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS PASSED, IN … |
| 21-8090 |
Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner |
1) Considering that federal habeas courts maintain their power to fashion equitable remedies that allow for review and correction of otherwise barred … |
| 21-1531 |
Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking |
I. The jury instructions here permitted conviction for
felony "stalking" based merely on the Ardell's communications with third parties about the alle… |
| 21-8036 |
Jason Slaughter v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver |
Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default by advising petitioner tha… |
| 21-7967 |
Jairo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan… |
| 21-7925 |
Robert Wallace Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
1) Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly
before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability.
… |
| 21-7825 |
Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift… |
| 21-7783 |
Reynaldo Aviles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge |
1. Whether, given that there is a split in the circuits on the question, reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent preclud… |
| 21-7752 |
William Edward Gray v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
The Arkansas law of justification, or self-defense, on the date of Petitioner William Gray's offense, recognized the right of an individual to use dea… |
| 21-7671 |
Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness |
How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,… |
| 21-7645 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing |
Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I… |
| 21-7509 |
Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness |
Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau… |
| 21-7481 |
Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel |
I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err by refusing to review this claim where a judge must disqualify itself where it is actually biased or where the p… |
| 21-7411 |
Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE 11™ CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY PURSUANT TO SLACK V. MCDANIEL, 529 U.S.473, 120 S.Ct. 1595 … |
| 21-7339 |
Robert Donald Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing |
1. Did the United States and lower courts act outside of their Constitutionally limited subject matter and/or territorial jurisdictions by adjudicatin… |
| 21-7343 |
Harry Hueston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY HUESTION THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COA WHEN TIMELINESS WAS THE RESULT OF FACTS BEYOND HIS … |
| 21-7233 |
William Sardinas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states procedural-default united-states-v-taylor |
1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court… |
| 21-7203 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael Schwab |
Oregon |
2022-02-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
adverse-judgment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default service-of-notice service-of-process standing |
1) Does 14 justice(?) for appellee Commissioner to dismiss Petitioner's appeal, on grounds that Petitioner failed to serve the notice of appeal within… |
| 21-7200 |
John L. Jacques v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronically-stored-information ineffective-assistance legal-assistance legal-representation postconviction postconviction-relief procedural-default rule-of-completeness standing |
1. a) Is it sufficient reason for failing to raise new issues in a postconviction
motion after first appeal that were not already litigated - that the… |
| 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… |
| 21-7053 |
Iramm Wright v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-1070 |
Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing |
The Arizona Appellate Court, misstated issues of material fact; b) there is a fundamental error in the opinion of the court of Appeals, which misrepre… |
| 21-7033 |
Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal's for the Third Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of several other United States C… |
| 21-6959 |
Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim |
Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28 U.S.C.
§1257(a) concerning a state prisoners'claim(s) that was adjudicated
on the merits … |
| 21-6869 |
Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition |
should this Court use its power to grant certiorari to a non-prisoner to raise a compelling claim of actual innocence
Whether the Court of Appeals de… |
| 21-6847 |
John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit |
When a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, there are various procedural bars that often preclude relief on the merits. … |
| 21-6779 |
Troy Allen Hite v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-state-courts procedural-default right-to-counsel |
I. IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE WHERE MICHIGAN STATE COURTS REFUSED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'S DENIAL OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL S… |
| 21-6752 |
Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
1. Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a pr… |
| 21-6748 |
Jose Luis Wong v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court… |
| 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… |
| 21-6698 |
In Re Carlton West II |
|
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent |
EXACTLY HOW, WHEN AND WHERE ARE PRISONERS TO USE THE NEW EQUITABLE RULE ANNOUNCED IN MARTINEZ V. RYAN 566 U.S. 1 (2012) AND TREVINO V. THALER 569 U.S.… |
| 21-6697 |
Melvin Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-terrorism-and-death-penalty-act civil-procedure court-jurisdiction district-court-authority docket-modification due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Concerning procedures of the District and Courts of Appeals regarding due process in federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motions as well as a … |
| 21-6667 |
Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel |
1. State courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that it was Bastian who had initiated a … |
| 21-862 |
Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
§2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction |
1. Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclus… |
| 21-6541 |
Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
1. Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive
prosecution, trigging a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he
succe… |
| 21-785 |
Richard Riccardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states |
Whether the exception to the procedural default
rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)
applies where this Court has held declared a theory… |
| 21-780 |
Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause |
Ewin Oscar Martinez was convicted in 2000 of using and carrying a firearm during a "crime of violence" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), based upon … |
| 21-6374 |
Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination |
Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather… |
| 21-6357 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing |
When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a… |
| 21-754 |
Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default |
Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo… |
| 21-6283 |
Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force |
1. Federal assault with a dangerous weapon does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. Rather… |
| 21-6254 |
Deante Blackman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting circuit-precedent crime-of-violence habeas-corpus overruling-precedent procedural-default witness-murder |
1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim or … |
| 21-6171 |
Carlos Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-6088 |
George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6052 |
Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim |
Whether, and in what circumstances, the 4th circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative exhaustion were lack… |
| 21-5972 |
Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim |
I. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course where reasonable jurists — here, the district court and the magistrate ju… |
| 21-5964 |
Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements |
Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand to the Court of Appeals for issuance of a certificate of appealability when … |
| 21-5925 |
Denworth Davidson v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
1. Whether, as a threshold matter, Petitioner has shown that his federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process was violated by the pros… |
| 21-5887 |
Miguel Neil v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-law constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default |
Question One: Whether a lower federal court violates due process when it ignores a petitioner's appropriately cited case law in support that appellate… |
| 21-5809 |
In Re Dwayne Stoutamire |
|
2021-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing |
Does the constitution recognize free-standing claims of Actual inNoceNcy?
the facts presented meet the standard Articulated in Schlop v.Dlo, 513 U.5.… |
| 21-5783 |
Brian D. Smith v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a "critical Stage" requiring the assistance of counsel for a person "too poor" to hire one at the follo… |
| 21-5700 |
Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard |
Mr. Tilley alleged that he is actual innocent, and his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call expert witnesses as requested by Mr. Tilley, … |
| 21-5552 |
Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure |
1. Whether the eleventh circuit erred in holding that no
constitutional violations in Green's trial /When the police officer
who investigated Greens … |
| 21-5476 |
In Re William Barret Slade, II |
|
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether or not during evaluations, decisions, and judgments, the Alabama Trial, State Courts, are in complete contradiction to this United States Supr… |
| 21-5447 |
Nicholas Edwards v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEAL ERROR IN NOT FINDING
PETITIONER WAS NOT PREJUDICED BY TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO CALL
WITNESSES P/O OFFICER WHO WO… |
| 21-107 |
Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
State courts must appropriately apply the standards for counsel's performance outlined in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), to survive fe… |
| 21-5218 |
Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default |
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TUkt hie vsa.% bcuxca 77/e (Iahc J ^E… |
| 21-5120 |
Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero |
California |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings |
1) IS IT AbUSE oF dISCRETION WShAN ANY COUET MALES AN ORDR SUST -
AINING A DEMURRER WIHOOT LERNE TO AMENd, HE QUESTION AS TO
WHEtHIR OR NOT SOCh COUET… |
| 21-5103 |
Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default |
1. Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadl… |
| 20-8449 |
Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Gorham will present three brief statements with three concise questions for this Honorable Court's review.
Gorham alleged multiple Sixth Amendment ri… |
| 20-8377 |
Herbert Garfield Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cause-and-prejudice civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process external-interference habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations |
Compelling reasons exist for the exercise of the court's discretionary juris diction. The Fifth Circuit's [COA - DENIAL] "conflicts" with prior Suprem… |
| 20-8360 |
Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction |
I.
WAS MILITARY APPELLATE COURT OBLIGATED TO ACCEPT PETITIONER'S LATE INEFFECTIVE
ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIM WHERE IT WAS FILED BY APPELLATE COUNSEL… |
| 20-8337 |
Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8246 |
Tony Ray King v. Stanley Payne, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability defaulted-claim ground-for-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino-exception procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does a petitioner need to meet the Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) standard when presenting a defaulted claim under the Martinez-Trevino… |
| 20-1669 |
Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) |
1. In the federal habeas context, Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524 (2005), held that a post-judgment motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Pro… |
| 20-8103 |
Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver |
A. Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions as directed by a court order is a waiver completely precluding review of instructional errors… |
| 20-1621 |
Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit… |
| 20-8040 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-neutrality plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing trial-rights |
1: Are New York State's procedural rules insufficiently hospitable to a Petitioner's constitutional claims such as here where the Petitioner was deeme… |
| 20-8031 |
Major Hudson, III v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default rule-60 |
1. WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD FIND IT DEBATABLE THAT THERES AN EXTAORDINARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MISDEMEANOR VS. A FELONY, AND WHETHER A PERSON W… |
| 20-8026 |
Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts |
1. This is a question of first impression since AEDPA. When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts, the opportunity to review federal claims, this fa… |
| 20-8025 |
Thomas L. Fast v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cold-war cold-war-claims conflict-of-holdings due-process extraordinary-miscarriage-of-justice federal-officer procedural-default structural-due-process structural-rights |
1) Was appellate court's orders supporting lower court's decision's conflict with Supreme Court and appellate court's holdings violate Petitioner (for… |
| 20-8016 |
Rico Blackwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Mr. Blackwell is serving a long federal prison sentence for the paired crimes of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and use of a firearm during and rel… |
| 20-7999 |
David James Lola v. Miami Herald, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-rights civil-procedure constitutional-access court-procedure dismissal in-forma-pauperis judicial-review national-emergency post-conviction-relief procedural-default reconsideration |
Does due process dictate that in a
Pro Se appeal to a final action
should a clerk's entry of dismissal
for failure to prosecute be set aside
and an ap… |
| 20-7916 |
Shomas T. Winston v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-v-delo |
WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT SHOULD BE ABLE TO DENY A PETITIONER ACTUAL INNOCENCE AS A GATEWAY TO OTHERWISE BARRED CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS WITHOUT CONSIDERA… |
| 20-1496 |
Ali Mohamed Elatrache v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-murder constitutional-rights due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions jury-trial lesser-included-offenses procedural-default trial-by-jury |
I.
WHETHER REASONABLE JURISTS COULD
DIFFER AS TO WHETHER PETITIONER WAS
DEPRIVED OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
TO DUE PROCESS AND TO TRIAL BY JURY
WHEN TH… |
| 20-7691 |
Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default |
Mr. Washington (Petitioner) alleged that the CCL Court lack subject matter jurisdiction to try him. Petitioner was convicted, in large part upon Plain… |
| 20-7688 |
Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court |
I)CAN A STATE PROCEDURAL RULE OR STATE PROCEDURAL
DEFAULT PRECLUBE A FEDERAL COURT FROM REVIEWING
A DEFENDANTS FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONIAL CLAINS?
2) CAN… |
| 20-7685 |
Terrance Heard v. Grady Perry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ATC-claim constitutional-claim district-court-review district-courts factual-development ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard Martinez-v-Ryan Miller-El-Cockrell-standard procedural-default |
Whether the Tennessee District Courts are correctly considering whether a procedurally defaulted IATC claim is substantial, having merit, presented un… |
| 20-7636 |
Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default |
Mr. Barnes case raises a pressing issue of national importance: Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony on th… |
| 20-7635 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner |
When the Warden Court's understanding of the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a Conclusion feed date in its den… |
| 20-7572 |
Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel |
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| 20-7558 |
Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal?
2. Whether the plaintiff notified the Courts she was a… |
| 20-7544 |
Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous where reasonable jurists could disagree as to whether D… |
| 20-7498 |
Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing |
I. WHETHER THE COURT PROPERLY DENIED COA? THE TRIAL COURT AND THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAVE DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW RE… |
| 20-7480 |
Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard |
The district court vacated Petitioner's death sentence because his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. On appeal, Respondent contested only… |
| 20-7469 |
Joaquin Hernandez-Ayala v. Rene Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit procedural-default |
Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Hernandez-Ayala's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find … |
| 20-7439 |
Michael Luis Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement |
Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-1233 |
Johnny Gatewood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim.
2… |
| 20-7337 |
Kevin Thurlow v. Michelle Edmark, Warden |
First Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation counsel-representation ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-conflict-free-clause strickland-standard witness-testimony |
Initially the Petitioner asserted two constitutional violation claims of his
The first being that his counsel was ineffective for failing Sixth Amendm… |
| 20-7331 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default |
Whether the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. United States.
Whether petitioner's request for counsel was ineffe… |
| 20-7283 |
John Larvie v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-bargaining procedural-default standing state-court-reasoning tribal-sovereignty |
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| 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… |
| 20-7176 |
Jeffrey S. Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-law certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court habeas-petition judicial-review legal-error procedural-default |
I. Did the Court of Appeals error by not addressing the Certified questions from the district Courts Certificate of Appeal of Inquiry (COD) as granted… |
| 20-7136 |
James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default |
1. IN REQUESTING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, DOES THE REQUISITE "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING" REQUIRE PRO SE LITIGANTS TO RE-SUBMIT SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS T… |
| 20-7147 |
Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does this Court's holding in Cole v. Arkansas 68 S.Ct 514 constitute "Actual Innocence" or "Miscarriage of Justice" to excuse procedural default? |
| 20-7025 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Jr. v. Orlando Hudson, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus immunity monetary-relief post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review |
WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT ORDER IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO … |
| 20-7030 |
Devaron Antoine Love v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct |
Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual innocence to overcome a procedural default where he can show, based on a new decision from thi… |
| 20-7000 |
Felix Brown v. Keith Foley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim equity federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-default rule-60 |
1. In the context of a Habeas proceeding, does the United States Supreme Court require a showing of actual innocence in order to pursue an independant… |
| 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 (3) |
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… |
| 20-6929 |
Stephen Hugueley v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
In Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1, 12 (2012) , this Court reaffirmed the right to
effective representation " is a bedrock principle in our justice sys… |
| 20-975 |
Freddie Owens v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default |
The Court of Appeals granted a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on Freddie Owens's constitutional claim that he was denied the effective assistance … |
| 20-6793 |
Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error |
(1) After Weaver, can a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error demonstrate prejudice by showing… |
| 20-6772 |
Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel |
When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court s intervening decision in Martines v. Ryan, 566 U.S. … |
| 20-6681 |
Robert Wright v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement prison-grievance prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigation procedural-default standing |
1 Was Wright required to exhaust state remedies even if the DOJ POOS was a dead end?
2. Because the full grievance process was not in place before th… |
| 20-6630 |
Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing |
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| 20-6570 |
Brandon Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti… |
| 20-6549 |
Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler |
COUNSEL ON AN INITIAL STATE POST-CONVICTION HABEAS CORPUS APPLICATION, CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT OF MARTINEZ v. RYAN, 56… |
| 20-6535 |
Levi Ruffin v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court |
I would like to be able to have a lawyar uppointed to me on this matter because of my income Im asking for the courts to provide me with one. so I con… |
| 20-6413 |
Maxine Shepard v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause pro-se-litigant procedural-default service-of-process standing |
1. Whether the COA improperly held- in conflict with
the decisions of other courts - that the Petitioner did
not show good cause to excuse any proce… |
| 20-6395 |
Howard Griffith v. New York |
New York |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification |
Doe v Pataki, 3 F.Supp.2d 456 (SD NY 1998) provides that the People carry the burden of proving the facts to support the recommended registration clas… |
| 20-6370 |
David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction |
1. Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability by sanctioning… |
| 20-6322 |
George A. Christian v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial |
Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in… |
| 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… |
| 20-6276 |
Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer
20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc |
1) Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution,
U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the… |
| 20-6287 |
In Re Antonio Akel |
|
2020-11-12 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default |
WHETHER:
FROM REACHING THE SHOWIING NECESSARY TO OBTAIN THE REGULAR APPEAL PROCESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE:
(A). Where a Habeas Petitioners predicates, merits… |
| 20-597 |
Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error, such as a claim of ineffective- should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. … |
| 20-6201 |
Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law |
1. Should a certificate of appealability have issued where the
District Court incorrectly opined that claims raised by
Mr. Thomas were matters of st… |
| 20-6135 |
Justin Mertis Barber v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING BARBER'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A MOTION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FINDING T… |
| 20-6121 |
Jesus Adam Lizarraga v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent massaro-v-united-states procedural-default |
Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court summarily denied Mr. Lizarraga's motion to vacate, base… |
| 20-6096 |
Dieuseul Brown v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder independent-and-adequate-state-grounds jury-finding jury-instructions procedural-default second-degree-murder state-grounds |
Whether the Petitioner's claim is Procedurally Defaulted under the Independent and Adequate State grounds Doctrine. Whether the lower courts erred in … |
| 20-6052 |
Donald R. Conway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default |
Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion when upon reading Appellate Counsel's single-issue Brief, that, in context, was a matter of law a… |
| 20-6016 |
George A. Christian v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-10-14 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial |
Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in… |
| 20-5802 |
Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings |
What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi… |
| 20-5729 |
Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
QUESTION#!:
Does the 11th Circuit decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Martinez v. Ryan . (2012),
since it ignores that in Martinez v. Ry… |
| 20-5698 |
Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court |
A. Is a petitioner deried a fair trial when a juror
B Is counsel ineffective if he does not raise the fact that A Petitioner was dheried a fair trail… |
| 20-5647 |
Robert William Moynihan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-injustice constitutional-manifest-injustice exceptional-circumstances federal-courts judicial-power legal-remedy procedural-default standing |
Whether or not, as a matter of law, wove fe po. Se litigank, whe has presented clear and convincing evidence. demonsbroting a. ae constitutional im na… |
| 20-5611 |
Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-convictional relief counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial… |
| 20-5592 |
Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. D. Goree, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review frivolous habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance malicious procedural-default standing state-court-review |
Cllo Does 42u.S.C.1983 coMPlaints that Sound, in Part, like hablas Constitute Strikes inder 28 u.s.csi9is(9) explicitly Stating they are being sued in… |
| 20-5570 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review |
In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and "adjudicated on the merits" by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder… |
| 20-5574 |
Jose Luis Torres v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions deficient-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance multiplicious-offenses plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5510 |
Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE GOVERNING PROVISIONS IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT CASE LAW, IN RE GODDARD, 170 F.3d 43541999), HAS UNLAWFULLY CREAT… |
| 20-5465 |
In Re Francisco Felix |
|
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1)
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE, WITH RESPECT TO THE
INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE CONSTRUCTI… |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal after new law and evidence developed. The Eleventh Circuit had limited the… |
| 20-5445 |
Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts |
defense cause prejudice } due to inadequate nofice? If so, is it bad favth -for
a conscious prosecutor to seeK this outcome?
Does a Federal Court's,… |
| 20-5385 |
Judy Harmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-violations direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-powers procedural-default sister-circuits |
Whether there appears to be a disparity within the Sister Circuits use of jurisdictional powers and discretion, ruling over Ineffective Assistance of … |
| 20-164 |
Roosevelt Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
|
access-to-court claim-forfeiture due-process manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice postconviction-counsel pro-se-action procedural-default |
Whether a defendant is denied due process and access to the court when appointed postconviction counsel refuses to adopt a meritorious claim and Flori… |
| 20-5192 |
Scott Allan Moser v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel invited-error-doctrine martinez-framework martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Under the Sixth Amendment, are procedurally defaulted claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel excusable under the framework established … |
| 20-5208 |
William Monterial Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence identity identity-evidence procedural-default state-prosecution |
PORSUANT TO THE PRECEDENT ESTARLISHED EN UNITED STATES V BONNER, 6H8 F.2d 2O9 (4MCIR 2O11), DID THE STATE SUFFICIENTLY PROVE IT'S BURDEN OF PROOF OF G… |
| 20-5187 |
Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Question not identified. |
| 20-26 |
Wesley Ira Purkey v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment collateral-review federal-capital-prisoners federal-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-default trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel |
Whether and by what procedural mechanism federal capital prisoners who are in the analogous position of the state prisoners in Martinez and Trevino—i.… |
| 19-8835 |
Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim |
Mr. Wardlow's initial state habeas proceeding was essentially a sham, in which the trial court wholly allowed the prosecutor to determine the course o… |
| 19-8795 |
Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
1. Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to investigate readily availa… |
| 19-8776 |
Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing |
How cAn the court Deny HAtter His HabeAs Petition ASking For HiS diSeCt APpeAl rishtS bAcK When A DiveCt AppeAl iS A FundAmentAl constitutionAl Due Pr… |
| 19-8668 |
Lemuel Whiteside v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-robbery capital-felony-murder constitutional-rights graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment non-homicide-crime procedural-default |
WHETHER, FOLLOWING THIS COURT'S DECISION IN GRAHAM v. FLORIDA . 560 U.S. 48, 79 (2010), THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN INSTRUCTING PETITIONER WHITESIDE'S TR… |
| 19-8545 |
Duane Blake v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
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| 19-8529 |
Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
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| 19-8521 |
Aaron Daniels v. Jack Kowalski, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amadeo-v-zant amended-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Sixth Circuit reasoning concerning Petitioners attempt to get new counsel assigned during trial is flamed, as several United States Supreme Court … |
| 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… |
| 19-8470 |
Raymond K. Walker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply TUS XC.5
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ecdiveness c… |
| 19-8454 |
Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress |
1. Whether the circuit court erred by denying a certificate of appealabilit
y for an ineffective assistance claim because the
omitted evidence was ina… |
| 19-8451 |
Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record |
Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for … |
| 19-8413 |
Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8375 |
Lamarr Robinson v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-claim exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-presentation federal-review habeas-corpus incorporation-by-reference procedural-default state-court-remedies |
Does a prisoner "fairly present" the substance of his federal habeas corpus claim to the state's highest court, when he utilizes a commonly used, unof… |
| 19-8345 |
In Re Steven Ciotta |
|
2020-04-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel |
Yielding to a ends of justice inquire in regards to a federal application for writ of habeas corpus, should review be granted in the spirit of correct… |
| 19-8313 |
Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
In McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 393 (2013), the United States Supreme Court ruled: "a prisoner otherwise subject to defenses of abuse or succes… |
| 19-8306 |
Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review |
1. Whether, in this case, under the authorities of Martinez, Trevino and Ayestas, Petitioner is entitled to Rule 60 (b) (6) relief due to the alleged … |
| 19-8257 |
Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition |
Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud… |
| 19-8118 |
Wisconsin, ex rel. Joshua M. Wren v. Reed Richardson, Warden |
Wisconsin |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches laches-doctrine postconviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal |
When trial counsel acts ineffectiveness in failing to initiate a requested appeal leaves a defendant without appellate counsel, can delays and misstep… |
| 19-8117 |
Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
In federal habeas cases, whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner ha… |
| 19-8110 |
DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground |
(1) Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Irideperidetit or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's Claim of prosec… |
| 19-7894 |
In Re Charles S. Renchenski |
|
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-adequacy statutory-interpretation statutory-notice writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE FEDERAL COURT(S) UNLAWFULLY SUSPEND THE WRIT OF HABEAS
CORPUS
BY
RENDERING DECISIONS CONTRARY TO THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT RELATING TO: … |
| 19-7877 |
Tyrone Rogers v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
Conflict-counsel Enhanced-sentence In-custody in-custody-determination ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial ninth-circuit-conflict procedural-default Procedural-defaults sentencing-error Sexual-elements |
Has the U.S. Ninth Court of appeals entered a decision in conflict with
the decisions of other U.S. court of appeals on the important subject
of "se… |
| 19-7818 |
Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington |
I.
WHETHER UNDER §2254(e)(l) DISTRICT COURT REQUIRED TO GIVE DEFERENCE TO STATE
APPELLATE COURT'S FINDING OF HISTORICAL FACTS AND UPON FINDING THAT P… |
| 19-7792 |
In Re David Lopez |
|
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1)
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE, WITH RESPECT
TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE CONSTRUCTI… |
| 19-1023 |
Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel |
If a petitioner defaults an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with "some merit," does Martinez v. Ryan allow a federal court to excuse the… |
| 19-7524 |
In Re Lexter K. Kossie |
|
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2244 28-usc-2244 constitutional-performance due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan Martinez-v.-Ryan mitigation-investigation procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-review trevino-v-thaler Trevino-v.-Thaler trial-counsel |
1) Whether the Court's 'equitable' ruling permits Texas prisoners to avoid the successive requirements found at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(a) and (b) regarding … |
| 19-7476 |
Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards |
Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was "thorough"?
Was an appeal warranted on … |
| 19-7461 |
Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 109 S.Ct. 1038 103 L.Ed. 2d (1989); Caldwel… |
| 19-946 |
William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of beyond all reasonable doubt and the innocence conviction occurred be… |
| 19-7431 |
Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Court of Appeals decide an important federal question -- whether a "mere modicum" of evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction -- in a … |
| 19-7398 |
Andrew James Gibbons v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knaffla-bar mental-illness mental-illness-defense Opsahi-rule procedural-default Spears-rule state-procedural-rule |
1. Is petitioner (Gibbons) procedurally defaulted on his claim of ineffective
assistance of counsel for failure to investigate a mental illness defens… |
| 19-7353 |
Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether Petitioner filed "a second or successive " application by re-raising
a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or… |
| 19-7280 |
David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness |
To whether Jones' successful Florida Claim 23-80 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart his one-year statute of limitations and Effectiv… |
| 19-7256 |
Joseph Eugene Osborne v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute-of-limitations civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-predicate habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness |
1. Do suspicions trigger AEDPA's statute of limitations even if they would be insufficient to state a factual predicate for a claim under AEDPA?
2. E… |
| 19-851 |
Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default |
Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t… |
| 19-7154 |
In Re Corey Devon Eaton |
|
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve |
ISSUE I
(A) WHETHER CONSTITUTIONAL, STATUTORY INFIRMITIES, AND VIOLATIONS OF RULE 11 MAY HAVE RENDERED
COREY DEVON EATON'S PLEA AGREEMENT, AND HIS PL… |
| 19-7145 |
Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response |
1. A court of appeals lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to decide a § 2255 the district court's procedural error-that the movant defaulted an ineffect… |
| 19-6995 |
Richard Alan King v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent |
Was The Presiding Magistrate's Analysis So Flawed As To Warrent This Court To Reverse And Remand So That A Correct Legal Standard May Be Applied ? pg7… |
| 19-6984 |
Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
1 -) Does Martinez v. Ryan / 566 U.S. 1 (2012) excuse a procedural
default in a Federal Habeas Corpus proceeding where Post
Conviction relief Counsel… |
| 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… |
| 19-6950 |
Christopher Brian Rogers v. Tammatha Soss, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is federal habeas review barred under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) and a claim procedurally defaulted when a petitioner fails to bring an indep… |
| 19-770 |
Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler |
This Court's decisions in Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler , 133 S. Ct. 1911 (2013) held that state prisoners whose states … |
| 19-6884 |
Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6738 |
William Ardas Sarringar v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-competence procedural-default statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
When does the fundamental constituional right to be tried by a court of competent jurisdiction cease to operate as a right, or is forfieted by a party… |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6614 |
Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability after Petitioner made a substantia… |
| 19-6467 |
Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court |
Question number one of five
Question number two of five
Question number three of five
Question number four of five
Question number five of five |
| 19-6441 |
In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch |
|
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
First Question: Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the "fundamental miscarriage of justice" exception under the C… |
| 19-6392 |
Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing |
me issues responding to a no-merit repart that doesint
sion with respect of allclaims raised by Evers'
ere was never a weapon pruduce.
the Sixth Amend… |
| 19-6323 |
Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony |
1. WHETHER A DECISION AFFIRMING EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE ,
IN THIS CASE A TRANSCRIPT, CAN BE CORRECT IF
UNINFORMED AS TO THE TRANSCRIPT'S ACTUAL CONTEN… |
| 19-6311 |
Adam Douglas Boylen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-exhaustion constitutional-law due-process foreclosure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-preclusion procedural-default record standing state-court-record takings |
Whether, in light of Jones v. United States, 529 U.S. 848 (2000), and the interpretive rule that constitutionally doubtful constructions should be avo… |
| 19-6228 |
Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Dismissed |
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… |
| 19-6245 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
IS a Family Law Divorce Proceeding in which Parental, Custody Property and Financial rights are at issue a Bona Fide Civil Access to Courts Action war… |
| 19-6217 |
Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs |
1. Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner had Beceived Adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medicalcentar?
2. Whether Petitioner's Symptons, tests, m… |
| 19-6200 |
Michael Scott Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Can a State Court indict an accused on one of the tried crime merely being in the quise a theory of crime of the Florida Statutes. and each are comple… |
| 19-6091 |
James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review |
1.Why th cse as fidand it tms from201 nt 2017
2. To Keep fming the
of cheating the State of Arkansas
Cheating Scandle and the
the Government for: Col… |
| 19-5851 |
Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default |
Is there a federal procedural rule, written or unwritten, which permits a United States Court of Appeals and/or a United States District Court to simp… |
| 19-5824 |
William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Ciruit err in it's ! .
denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S.
District Court's denial… |
| 19-5799 |
Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts |
1. According to Cone V. Bell , 556 U.S. 449, can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (D)(2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal… |
| 19-5746 |
Howard Griffith v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review |
1) Procedural Default is the failure to follow state appellate procedures which bars
federal review of the case in the absence of showing cause for an… |
| 19-5729 |
Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Flowers was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary based on an incident where two men robbed a massage parlor that had a history of prostitutio… |
| 19-5705 |
Leighton Martin Curtis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-proceeding counsel-objection due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review magistrate-report martinez-v-ryan procedural-default record-preservation standard-of-review |
Does Counsels failure to on the record
d the pee and pos-V infLannc^bf>£-Cs dor the petitioners
ike specific objections todbe report and reccommendqt… |
| 19-5700 |
Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment |
WHETHER GARZA v. IDAHO, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), APPLIES TO PETITIONER'S CLAIM THAT HIS DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BY FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF A… |
| 19-5675 |
Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery |
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198… |
| 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… |
| 19-5585 |
Aljulah Cutts v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-retroactivity carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jones-v-united-states procedural-default real-time-tracking retroactivity stored-communications-act warrant-requirements |
1. Whether Congress intended for an order under the Stored Communications Act to be
sufficient to authorize real time tracking of cell phone generate… |
| 19-5544 |
Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Overtlle Denton Thompson's petition for discretionary review and thereby fail to a… |
| 19-5523 |
Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions |
§ 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not Was petitioner's initial
demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice?
Was it legal for the… |
| 19-5492 |
Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
three monthsextraordinary Circumstance if counsel filed
AEdP^' s limitations period expired?
duoare Of the AtoP Als lima motion,1s it an
after the
… |
| 19-5464 |
Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
I. Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respec… |
| 19-5389 |
Mervin R. Barteaux v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trial-counsel trial-court-error writ-of-certiorari |
Whether where the procedural default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is excused under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), that in… |
| 19-5356 |
Rashad Washington v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application |
Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha… |
| 19-5305 |
Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing |
First Question: Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the "fundamental miscarriage of justice " exception under the … |
| 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… |
| 19-5255 |
Frank Lobacz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S… |
| 19-5229 |
Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Can the hinth circuit court of Appeals dismissed Frivolous with out having given My Case as present's documentary to oppornutety nne that my Case IS e… |
| 19-5170 |
Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions |
FEPERAL DISTRICT COURT
THAT EN VIOLATION OE THE U.S. CONSTZTUTION IF
THAT CLAIM HAS NOT BEEN ADJUPICATEP BY THE
FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT AND IS BESULTIN… |
| 19-5018 |
Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt |
1. DOES THE WILLFUL AND SERIAL DENIAL OF ATTEMPIS TO DEMONSTRATE ACTVAL INNOCENCE, BY BOTH
COURIS AND COUNSEL, PRESENT AT A MINIHUM, THE DEBATABLE QUA… |
| 19-14 |
In Re Thomas F. Williams |
|
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues |
Question one: Whether the federal district & circuit court and the
Florida State courts violated the Petitioner 's 6th & 14th Amendment rights —when
t… |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-9795 |
Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO DENY A COA CONCLUDING
THAT PETITIONER SUFFICEINCY OF EVIDENCE CLAIM WAS PROCEDURALLY
DEFAULTED BASED ON STA… |
| 18-9754 |
Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. DNA, NEW EVIDENCE
a. Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to
a guilty verdict?
b. Is the discovery of flaws … |
| 18-9743 |
Hollins Tizeno v. Gerald Janda, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-default standing sua-sponte waiver |
Whether a district court may sua sponte raise a waived procedural default defense and, if so, under what circumstances is it appropriate to do so. |
| 18-9733 |
Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery |
I wish the cout to review
my medial file shewng
Iunstill Needingy Surgery
from the fall in Nevada County Jail.
This incident hoppered ON Novenber 30th… |
| 18A1312 |
Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-default writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9676 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona |
In light of these decisions, the Fifth Circuit's denial of Randy Halprin's motion for a COA gives rise to the following questions:
1. Has the Fifth C… |
| 18-9632 |
Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance laches liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Where a procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel and where the sixth amendment requires that responsibility for the defau… |
| 18-9450 |
Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation |
DOES THE FAILURE OF THE STATE COURT CLERK'S OFFICE TO NOTIFY PETITIONER OF THE COURT'S DECISION ON APPEAL CONSTITUTE RELIEF?
SHOULD EQUITABLE TOLLING… |
| 18-9491 |
William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ISSUE OF WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S CORRECTLY CONCLUDED THAT HIS ROs… |
| 18-9488 |
Nasedra K. Lumpkin v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-court procedural-default standing |
WHETHER REUIEW OF THE RECOND S POUIDED IN
WniT OF CENTIONALI BEFONE
SUPTENE CAURT REUEXL
On AN ABUSE
oF THE
MISCANKIGE
OF JUSTiCE
FACE OF
APPEAL
COUT'… |
| 18-1433 |
Milton Balkany v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler |
In McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467, 111 S.Ct. 1454 (1991), the Supreme Court held that if a criminal defendant fails to raise a claim at a time when i… |
| 18-9228 |
David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings |
Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat… |
| 18-9116 |
Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts |
I). "Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Det… |
| 18-9076 |
Bobby Glenn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition herrera-v-collins mcguiggins-v-perkins mcquiggins-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar procedural-default |
Petitioner untimely first habeas petition for actual innocence claim is continue to be procedural barred to relief because petitioner discovered evide… |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8796 |
Larry Junior Copeland, aka La-La v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act habeas-corpus procedural-default retroactivity sentencing-discretion |
This Court holds that when a habeas petitioner alleges facts that are outside the courtroom, and if proven, those facts entitle a petitioner to relief… |
| 18-8492 |
Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law |
Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law, if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule for the sake of denying a post-convic… |
| 18-8440 |
Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review |
WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHEN THE
CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY APPLIED AN "OVERLY RIGID
PER SE APPROACH" IN DENYING COA ON PETITIONER'S
MOTION… |
| 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… |
| 18-8434 |
Leif Halvorsen v. DeEdra Hart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-of-habeas-petition clearly-established-law darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct white-v-woodall |
I. Does the Sixth Circuit's ruling that a lack of Supreme Court case law dealing with a specific type of improper prosecution closing argument means n… |
| 18-8429 |
Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness |
the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) motion premised, in part, on Ma… |
| 18-8423 |
Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation |
(1) Once Respondent failed to reply to the courtt orders on October 26,2017, should the application have been granted via 28: U.S.C. § 2248. |
| 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… |
| 18-1132 |
Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
|
cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler |
Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to IATC claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went wholly unsubstantiated due to the … |
| 18-8201 |
Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
1. Whether Supreme Court's decisions in Buck v. Davis 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), Trevino v. Thaler, and Martinez v. Ryan apply retroactively to Robert Butl… |
| 18-8194 |
Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default |
Whether, or to what extent, appointed counsel pursuant to Harbison v. Bell, 556 U.S at 194 (2009) .. REBUFFED his demands to Brief and Raise the ineff… |
| 18-8073 |
Tony D. Thompson v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-time-appeal procedural-default standing withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the Trial Court and the Georgia Supreme Court abuse their discretion in failing to reach the merits of petitioner's out-of-time appeal and whe… |
| 18-8030 |
Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication |
Where is the boundary between "new claims," whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and "new facts," which federal habeas courts may not consi… |
| 18-8017 |
Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
In cases where a federal district court dismisses a habeas petition based on procedural grounds and is determining whether to issue a certificate of a… |
| 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… |
| 18-7983 |
Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation |
1) May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly … |
| 18-7954 |
Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan |
Pursuant to Slayton v. Parrigan, 215 Va. 27 (1974), a prisoner in Virginia is not permitted to raise a "non-jurisdictional" claim in a state habeas co… |
| 18-7829 |
Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing |
Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having… |
| 18-7760 |
Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1
This Court held that a court of appeals exceeds its subject-matter jurisdiction when the appellate court bypasses the certificate of appea… |
| 18-7713 |
Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order |
Mr. Grimsley alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to have a face to face visit prior to his second trial, after receiving crucia… |
| 18-7650 |
Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler |
Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7610 |
Michael Colbaugh v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
equitable-exception federal-habeas-corpus federal-writ habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-writ texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rulin g, denying Petitioner a second Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to the Texas Code of Criminal Procedur… |
| 18-7603 |
Raymond Zayas v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights crawford-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment |
When Petitioner's Crawford v. Washington claim was procedurally defaulted by trial counsel and initial post conviction counsel failed to raise an inef… |
| 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… |
| 18-7497 |
Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error |
(1) Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or … |
| 18-927 |
Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness |
1. Whether the government's expert's afterthe-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretatio… |
| 18-7370 |
Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations |
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| 18-7326 |
Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's "plain statement… |
| 18-7158 |
Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute |
I. Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, Such As: (1) A Vague Statute … |
| 18-738 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Whether The Standard That Governs the AEDPA Provisions, 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(1), §2244(b)(2)(B)(ii), and §2244(b)(3)(A), is inapplicable To A Second Hab… |
| 18-6944 |
Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel |
1. Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of in… |
| 18-6848 |
Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus penry procedural-default subsequent-habeas |
1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals deny Jennings equal protection of the law by dismissing on procedural grounds subsequent habeas corpus appl… |
| 18-6815 |
Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
QUESTION 1:
IS A COA MANDATED IF A PETITIONER DEMONSTRATES
THE STATE ARRIVED AT A DECISION CONTRARY TO AND A UNREASONABLE
APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND AN… |
| 18-6766 |
David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions |
(1) Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district
court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petitio… |
| 18-6741 |
Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis? |
| 18-6626 |
William Foley Miller v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review |
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| 18-6620 |
Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
(1) Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable cl… |
| 18-6550 |
Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6539 |
Allan Wayne Rencountre v. Colby Braun, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-default statutory-deadline statutory-filing-deadline |
Should the Court have granted equitable tolling with regards to the statutory filing deadline due to the ineptitude of Petitioner's retained counsel s… |
| 18-6525 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
edwards-v-carpenter federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockett-v-ohio martinez-rule martinez-v-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Under Edwards v. Carpenter, 529 U.S. 446 (2000), may a federal habeas corpus petitioner invoke the rule of Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) to show… |
| 18-6467 |
Tyrone Pulley v. California |
California |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler |
Does the rule established in Martinez V. Ryan, 132 S.CT. 1309 (2012) and Trevino V. Thaler 133 S. CT 1911, 1921 (2013) that ineffective state appellat… |
| 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… |
| 18-543 |
State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions |
Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits … |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those … |
| 18-6414 |
Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
1. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THE ISSUE " A HABEAS CORPUS IS AN APPROPRIATE VEHICAL FORSECOND OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THIS ISSU… |
| 18-6425 |
Michael Louis Beattie v. L. Romero, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies admissions civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-procedure-summary-judgment-uncontroverted-fa exhaustion-of-remedies fact-admission moving-party non-moving-party prison-grievance prison-grievances procedural-default summary-judgment uncontroverted-facts |
When, during Summary Judgment proceedings, a non-moving party asserts a fact - or set of facts - and the moving party doesn't dispute the fact, is the… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho… |
| 18-6332 |
Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
1. Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding? |
| 18-6250 |
Curtis Nairn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th and 14th Amendment rights unexhausted and meritless which violated Petitioner's 5th aedpa amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-claims constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-default section-2254 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied Petitioner's §2254 petition as procedurally barred by AEDPA, unexhausfed and meritless… |
| 18-6188 |
Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections |
Colorado |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused it's discretion in it's Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secu… |
| 18-6102 |
Anthony Mayes, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process federal-statutes judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default trial-counsel |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to address on direct appeal trial counsel's procedural default of client's fundamental due process rights, for app… |
| 18-6087 |
Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions |
I. DOES ASKING THE DISTRICT COURT TO REOPEN THE HABEAS PROCEEDING TO CONSIDER ALL ISSUES PRESENTED CONSTITUTE A SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE §2255 MOTION? |
| 18-6062 |
Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-exception final-conviction habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default retroactive-rights retroactivity |
1. Could reasonable jurists debate whether the equitable exception to procedural default recognized in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), should be … |
| 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… |
| 18-6032 |
D. L. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
does-wisconsin's-sentencing-scheme-apply-to-juveni federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence martinez-trevino-doctrine martinez-v-ryan miller-v-alabama procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings trevino-v-thaler |
(1) Can the exceptions excusing procedural default of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in the Martinez/Trevino doctrine apply to State H… |
| 18-6015 |
Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel |
Were Acker dents Sixth Ameadment rights
tt preloted when
DD frial counsel Farled to utilize an expert
ness
trial counsel farted te present delense
He… |
| 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… |
| 18-5845 |
David L. Pierce v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing |
1.)
Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied
petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their "ORDER,"
(Appendix A) that sta… |
| 18-5789 |
John Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition… |
| 18-5805 |
George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States err in Certificate of Appeal timely as untimely despite petitioner showing that extraor… |
| 18-5787 |
Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard |
WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH… |
| 18-5744 |
Arthur Lawton Clark v. Walter Berry, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus indictment indictment-insufficiency ineffective-assistance procedural-bar procedural-default |
Why do the fed.District Courts and the 11th Cir. Court of Appeals apparently agree that I have only stated that petitioner's indictment is simply "Fla… |
| 18-5687 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar |
1.) Whether ding he tiaevieoce gertd by federal proedural and substantive de proces of law preseribed particubarly by the 7rotected liberty interest i… |
| 18-5672 |
Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts |
HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION
THAT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT,
ALL OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, FEDEE… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an
argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit
have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma… |
| 18-5531 |
Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
The questions presented are whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised Culver's Sixth Amendment rig… |
| 18-5505 |
Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment |
1. When Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012) was decided during the pendency of a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, is the petiti… |
| 18-5519 |
Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. … |
| 18-5486 |
Celestino Quintana v. Matthew Hansen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
coleman-v-thompson due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default state-created-right state-created-rights trevino-v-thaler |
Whether violation of Colorado's limited State-created right to postconviction counsel can constitute "cause" excusing procedural default in a 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-5338 |
DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate Of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t… |
| 18-5295 |
Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review |
THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) APPLICATION BASED ON … |
| 18-5149 |
Francisco Cubero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term |
I. During Francisco Cubero's plea hearing , the magistrate judge told him that his
supervised-release term could not exceed five years but, at sentenc… |
| 18-5140 |
M. P. F. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment |
Dues Your Petitioner have a Constitutional Right to his Guilty Plea Hearing transcripts to perfect an appeal ?
Does a Circuit Court Clerk have a cons… |
| 18-5110 |
Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court |
IS THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN CONFLICT WITH OR … |
| 18-5104 |
Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act |
Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex… |
| 18-5070 |
Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default |
THIS COURT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED THAT IN A NARROW CLASS OF CASES IMPLICATING A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE," (SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 298, 314-1… |
| 18-5059 |
David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when determining whether Certificate of Appealability should have been issued regarding th… |
| 18-5015 |
Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure |
A. Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure rule when the highest… |
| 24A391 |
Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24A307 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar |
Question not identified. |