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25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard This case presents an important question regarding an individual's entitlement to a certificate of appealability. Regarding that entitlement, this Cou…
25-510 Damon Balar Cook v. Luis Garnica, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied appeal-reinstatement discretion-abuse mandate-recall miscarriage-justice ninth-circuit procedural-review 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Abused its discretion in denying Petitioner Damon Cook's timely motion to recall the mandate and to rein…
25A303 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete allocatur certiorari petition-extension procedural-review supreme-court time-limitation Question not identified.
25-5622 Tara Jean McManus v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal judicial-error justice-seeking legal-pursuit ninth-circuit procedural-review Did the Ninth Circuit error in dismissing case: 25-409 (Appendix: A-l) that carries not only personal consequence, but broader implications for proced…
24A1228 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-circuit municipal-appeal procedural-review supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-6571 Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent I. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? II. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, a…
24-6314 David C. Lettieri v. City of Binghamton, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-interpretation imminent-danger judicial-strike legal-standard procedural-review 1. What is considered "imminte danger?" 2. Is Neitze v Williams, 490 U.S. 319 incorrect? 3. What is constred as a strike?
24-748 John Xavier Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-counsel constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance legal-error procedural-review strickland-standard When a defendant claims ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for failing to pursue an issue on appeal and appellate counsel acknowledges that t…
24-6182 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied IFP capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review 1) There is a circuit split among the courts of appeal in the procedures a court applies when reviewing applications for a certificate of appealabilit…
24A482 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5847 Albert Anderson v. Winston Salem Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-standard case-precedent court-decision judicial-discretion legal-reasoning procedural-review Under an abuse of discretion standard is reversal appropriate? To correct as lie: were the decision is unreasoned especially iden to several cases? wh…
24-5793 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-21 Denied IFP acquittal-standard case-law evidence-admissibility judicial-precedent procedural-review ultimate-issue WHETHER EVIDENCE FROMAPRIORPROCEEDING WHICH RESULTED INACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVEBEENDEEMED INADMISSIBLE BECAUSE THEACQUITTAL DETERMINED ANULTIMATE ISSUECO…
24-5307 Phillip Lee Kelley v. Kevin Stitt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issue legal-petition procedural-review supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5221 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ("TCCA")—in refusing to authorize plenary review of Mr. Burton's unrebutted prima facie case that his i…
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-7601 Khari Devon Coley v. Correctional Officer Wayne L. Garland, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights custody-challenge due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-process prison-litigation-reform-act prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-review standing Aa/as- d'he. Pe^f•+/o^ <sr,5 prison 9.rt'e\jqyiC'C ^foced?Ur MaVqUzb(<>-h* prisoner ufon hl^ir^sf^r -fe custody °*- yorK'S o PPVc^ (b^^J prisoner or …
23-7555 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure due-process federal-defender judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review Should a court of appeals review a judge's denial of a motion to recuse de novo or for an abuse of discretion? Did Judge Brown himself created the ap…
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit utterly failed or abandoned its duty to engage in the GOA process with respect to four remaining COA issues: Issues One, Two…
23-1177 Eric Fisher v. Virginia Virginia 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli…
23-6913 Carl Thompson v. Marjorie K. Allard, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure complaint-amendment federal-courts futile-amendment futility-standard judicial-discretion procedural-review rooker-feldman standing Was there a violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine? Did the Panel of the Ninth Circuit abuse its discretion by finding amendment to the complaint w…
23A758 Rachael Eubanks, in Her Personal Capacity, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor Sixth Circuit 2024-02-20 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari michigan procedural-review sixth-circuit state-sovereignty Question not identified.
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing WHETHER THE UNITED STATES OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ON THE SAME JUDTIC…
23-5497 Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent in Miller-El v Cockerell, 537 US 322, (US 2003),…
23-5468 Brittney Coleman v. Island Express Helicopters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aircraft-operation civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation judicial-decision-making legal-competence negligence pilot-certification pilot-competency procedural-review reasonable-care THE PILOTS UNREASONABLE JUDGMENT OF DECISION IN THE COURT OF FLYING THE PILOTS PREJUDICIAL DECISION CONCERNING COMPETENCY THE PILOTS COMPETENCY THE…
23-5355 Johnny Lee Warren v. Chris Nanos, Sheriff, Pima County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdictional-issue legal-petition procedural-review standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review 1. WHETHER DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE OF FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS PREMATURELY FILED IN ORDER TO EXAUST ALL AVAILABLE STATE REMEDIES COM7$ AS A FIRST …
23-57 Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter (outside of a small number of statutory exceptions) to withhold all in…
22-7106 Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted? Whether this honor…
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5834 Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error 1) WHETHER MR. TORRES WAS ENTITLED TO RELIEF OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING, ON HIS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHERE TH…
22-5646 Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Question not identified.
22-5198 Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari 1) Why did no evidence appear in the here written states of Virginia search? 2) Why did no evidence 'presented,' as proof of ever-violation of the cl…
21-7861 Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome of Suprem…
21-7590 Stephen Izuchukwu Onwuzulike v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deportation due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction non-citizen-rights procedural-review standing takings Intexpretation ofimmigration juristiction 1. Inconsistency towards Power o 1-130 application petition. 2 Due poe ation ouppsin poper appeppica to cr…
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appedability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition if there Las a dispute in the l.s. District Cou…
21-6554 Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review 1. A Federal Court may only entertain a federal prisoner's habeas corpus petition when a "remedy by motion [to vacate] is inadequate or ineffective to…
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United …
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and…
21-135 Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii 1. Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe ("Monroe") to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable estoppel can only arise…
20-8328 Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand.
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review 1) Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri, because it adds a fourth factor,…
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? D…
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error 1o Whether Petitioner's trial Counsel sleeping during the Commonwealth's witness directexamination is a critical stase of the triali Whether it consti…
20-7179 Nelson Viera v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice procedural-review rule-60 supreme-court Whether the lower Courts are properly interpreting and implementing the Supreme Court decree about jurisdiction and fraud upon the Court under Rule …
20-5412 Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit Where Petitioner has never been allowed to develop the factual record which supports his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, should thi…
20-106 Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review In 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed convictions of Petitioners Gary Tanaka and Alberto Vilar for securities law-related offenses, but vacated the sen…
20-5159 Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment 1. ) Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment when custody of the vehicle was obtained by a misrepresentation with respect …
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below, Respondent's failure to state a claim with…
19-934 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i…
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review DID THE FIFTH CIRUIT*S OPINION CONFLICT WITH IT'S OWN PRECEDENT IN ROJAS V. RICHARDSON REGARDING THE PREJUDICICAL NATURE OF A PARTY'S IMMIGRATION STAT…
19-7319 Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings Question not identified.
19-6890 Kevin Lamont Pearson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure final-revocation-hearing magistrate-judge probable-cause procedural-review revocation-hearing rule-32.1 standing Does the plain text of Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure bar a district court from considering an alleged violation at a final revo…
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review 1. Whether The District Court And The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability ("COA") Wher…
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Appellate count committed a manifest of Constitutional error by failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article il subsecti…
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure …
18-9075 Ponce D. Howard v. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict conflict-of-evidence declaration-conflict declarations investigation investigation-findings magistrate-judge procedural-review summary-judgment workplace-policy Did the Magistrate Judge assigned to the case for the United States Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the District Court, and the Eleventh Cir…
18-8891 Warner Bernard Crider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit Crider Filed Under § 2255 fostering several issues warranting a certificate of appealability. To Crider's dismay the Sixth Circuit denied all of issue…
18-8703 Alan Wade Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California, 386 US 738(1967)? Wheth…
18-8486 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Minnesota 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ of Habeas corpus moot? Did Court error by holding his petition was moot…
18-8449 Juan Bustos-Chavez v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi alibi-evidence due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review murray-v-carrier procedural-review Whether the actual innocence exception established by Murray v. Carrier, applies to alibi evidence; II. Whether, based on the alibi evidence submitte…
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition After being dismissed four times on incorrect procedural basis, without allowing for briefing or a chance to be heard, Morris sought review of his 60(…
18-7791 Joyce Ann Smith v. City of Princeton, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-dismissal civil-mediation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court due-process magistrate-judge mediation procedural-review reconsideration settlement settlement-dispute standing towing District Court Final Decision of Petitioner not having a claim, but there is a claim. District Court Magistrate Judge Decision of not allowing the Pe…
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f…
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review I. Does The Failure OfThe Arlansas Department. Of Correction To Pay Equitale Remuneration To Its Inmate Population Equate To Mader Day Slavery? II. D…
18-6546 Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i…
18-5608 Andres Mata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination procedural-review state-appeals state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals' determination that a habeas petitioner failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional righ…