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25-1003 Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division v. Dexter Johnson Fifth Circuit 2026-02-23 Pending AEDPA collateral-review habeas-corpus new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity successive-habeas-petitions The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) prohibits successive habeas applications by state prisoners with only narrow except…
25-562 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend…
25-385 Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-02 Denied capital-trial criminal-procedure retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error teague-rule In McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the right to personally decide whether t…
25-5590 Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-law retroactivity second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1) Whether this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), recognized a new right that is retroactivel…
24-958 Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge In its prior decision in this case two Terms ago, this Court unanimously held in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), that the Second Circ…
24-6594 Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida Florida 2025-02-19 Denied IFP atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the categorical restriction against executing the intellectually disabled can be circumvented via procedural hurdles implemented after liti…
24-6408 Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal…
24-6272 In Re Benjamin Shipley 2025-01-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S., 144 S. Ct. 1840, 219 L. Ed. 2d 451 (2024), retroactively opens the affirmative …
24-5155 Bradley W. Berry v. Donnie Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-amendment federal-case-law federal-court-of-appeals griffith-v-kentucky judicial-review retroactivity state-constitution 1. Whether the decision by the federal court of appeals is correct as applied to the Petitioner regarding a certificate of appealability. 2. Does the…
24-5016 Michael Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, …
23-7744 In Re William F. Laffoon 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mcgirt-ruling native-american native-american-rights reservation-law retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction on /Vku 7T*1 203.H 3imCU dfGirtuJas Set Feet nfter'feCiev'/ruJtl/ne Served . tke Volina u5aS .Made tavl ^RoryxlA k, (dkiTC. of tke united States Dis…
23-7705 Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-13 Denied IFP administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Whether Sohnson's SenTencé 18 improperly Calculated--and Should be celev[aTe! under The $,4Ty perseoT (0%) Sentencing law in effecT aT The Time of im …
23-1290 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response Waived 598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or…
23-7584 Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder 1. Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense? 2. Can a defendnat be convicted of Conspiracy to commit third degree murder …
23-7467 Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the panel of the Eighth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
23-7306 Ronnie Y. Conrad v. Rob St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the presumption of prejudice applies to conflict-of-counsel claims when the defense attorney is being prosecuted by the same agency prosecutin…
23-1150 Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-23 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that…
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
23-7166 Charles Edward Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable …
23-7056 Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration 1. Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S…
23-1002 Tony R. Hewitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-12 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s…
23-6902 Jeffrey Akard v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions L S/muiJ Q U, S. Cour-L ZTurlge. P/ifnrr.e n pi PA. Qk^rejeMPsAr appeal Id at j/gr /a Fe. i»jIap.a 4 ^ l$4'Cr £//] ZTo/y ^ A1tLcL&- £t/l error -fo 1/t…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Question not identified.
23-6596 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6452 Shannon R. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation ~T rx necson \\ YjL. 4V-< l peY\Vov\e,r do noV qut^V^y ©f VkiV under We AVH (£j(2J((l) penoVV/ enVc^n^emenV ccoa . VWe —'O irsvrVuV Ooudc, sV\VY covwi…
23-6432 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
23-6383 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-12-28 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of individuals with intel…
23-6303 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-consolidation civil-rights collateral-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-process legal-nomenclature miranda-rights procedural-posture retroactivity review-denial state-vs-federal 1.) STATE OF FLORIDA v. WEISS, 935 So.2d 110, 115 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) and Roberts v. State, 874 So.2d 1225 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004), which admits the state a…
23-531 Timothy I. Carpenter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Amici (2) criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-firearm-offense first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Do the sentencing reforms in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply when a district court sentences an individual whose offense was committed before …
23-6012 Rafael Espinal-Mieses v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960(b) criminal-sentencing federal-statute maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation The First Circuit affirmed the denial of Mr. Espinal-Mieses's motion for safety-valve relief under the former version of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), which di…
23-5951 Rodney L. Love v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
23-5832 William R. Abbott v. Loretta Otis-Sanders, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights crack-cocaine criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing federal-statute-of-limitations first-step-act prison-rape-elimination-act retroactivity Whether the State of Louisiana Constitution's Equal Protection Clause embodies through the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Federal sta…
23-5806 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
23-5826 Mary Ann German v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity After a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, do the police get a grace period after this Court's …
23-5753 Ben J. Latham v. Alaska Alaska 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp, 2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te 2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin…
23-307 Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding…
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
23-5438 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction ONE Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants on the date that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Apprendi (June 26, 2000), or on the date that…
23-5379 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus counsel-concession criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy When guilt is the sole issue for the jury to decide, is it permissible for counsel to unilaterally concede the essential elements (actus reus and mens…
23-5119 Nawllah Shayanne Tiger v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP federal-jurisdiction law-of-the-case major-crimes-act mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma postconviction-relief retroactivity state-procedural-law subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction 1. Was the Oklahoma court's decision to approve reinstating Ms. Tiger's convictions based on such a novel and unforeseeable change in state procedural…
22-7897 In Re Frank Walls 2023-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane 1. Was Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) necessarily "made retroactive," for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 …
22-7866 Frank A. Walls v. Florida Florida 2023-06-26 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment federal-authorization finality-of-mandate intellectual-disability mandate-reversal retroactivity supreme-court 1. Must Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014), be applied retroactively by state courts because it substantively expanded the class of individuals who …
22-7631 Terrell McGee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities CK c\A&KIH t; 0tf (K (\y\d Toxi^Vi be Cofn^j/fovw/e (MJ/iowe 7/" ffY, rjobr (\ihve f [)oeS SewWiciWj bak/een fiS-orJtvivry _ CVen iftic<iWw<f ^cfwr le…
22-7549 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity 1. 15 -£PfidEl^_ yS, UsiiTgrl STATES, IHI R RETRoAdTi v\V ftppUcftWVE^L_m? r5o3i) it>K poST- CObN \ dTi OTsS PsE\E\F ? 2. D»r> "THE EIGHTH C'tRdUiT C…
22-1098 David Parsons Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts property-rights retroactive-application retroactivity statute-of-limitations takings takings-litigation 1. When Knick changed the world of takings litigation by allowing—for the first time since 1985—a property owner with a claim for unconstitutional tak…
22-7321 Schuyler Scarborough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus retroactivity right-to-counsel state-criminal-procedure akMtr+k*' ifoh- of tthfitkA a Ade.i^c{>f>or^rh^ fft^ te ^ dwltd fh<o ostiehuu*. of Ceufi^l -for bus d&tlASt. ./. uiht-fbitr-0ie~^fah- e-f OkUah&Ma. t…
22-7303 Patrick Dewayne Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-law-change first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
22-7215 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction Subsequent Petitioner's conviction/ while his case was under direct review, State High-Court held in an unrelated case—Stukes [1]—that the trial court…
22-7119 Vincent Alonzo Corson v. Texas Texas 2023-03-27 Denied IFP carrier-standard cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process habeas-corpus mccleskey-abuse-of-writ preclusive-effect retroactivity state-court-proceedings 1. If a State Post-Conviction proceeding is conducted in a manner that does not afford an Applicant a full & fair hearing —Due Process —leaving the Co…
22-7041 Deandre Markee King v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity The vast majority of federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. And in many of those pleas, the defendant promises not to file a future 28 U.S.C. § …
22-878 Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 First Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. §1930(a)(6)(A) applies to a case under Chapter 11 of Title 11, United States Code, upon reopening, where the chapter 11 case was …
22-6879 Bobby O. Williams v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District Illinois 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factors due-process fair-warning judicial-expansion jury-determination jury-findings retroactivity sentencing-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence On Petitioner's second direct appeal, in resolving Petitioner's sufficiency of evidence claim regarding the existence of a single statutory aggravatin…
22-6881 James Clark, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-806 John Doe v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin…
22-770 Ross M. Jackson v. Glenn Cowan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy equal-protection first-amendment-speech internal-policies probable-cause public-forum retroactive-application retroactivity section-1983 It is the rare decision that presents multiple conflicts with other circuits. The Eleventh Circuit's decision in this case presents four §1983 conflic…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
22-6739 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity 1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal – whic…
22-6724 In Re Christopher Cobb 2023-02-07 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review., 142 S.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should
22-6658 Wade Bonk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi…
22-6531 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights comprehension-disability constitutional-rights due-process garza-ruling post-conviction-relief ptsd retroactivity statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the ruling in GARZA V, IDAHO 139 S. CT 739 (2019) applies to Plaintiffs Constitutional guarantee? A. Pending judgement (Writ of Cert.) in S…
22-6495 Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado Colorado 2023-01-09 Denied IFP colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply rule of substantive law retroactiv…
22-6407 Steven L. Haden v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied IFP categorical-approach criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states elements-test mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive,…
22-550 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) competency conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry retroactivity sentence state-courts void-conviction I. WHETHER THE RETROACTIVITY RULE FOR CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLIES TO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. II. WHETHER THE FAILURE TO MAKE A COMPETENCY INQUIRY WH…
22-6256 Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama Alabama 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new cri…
22-6191 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-01 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
22-6137 Bryan Thornton v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation 1.) The question presented here is the same as that presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court granted certiorari on S…
22-6121 Michael Paul Conn v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-11-21 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP bouie-principle bouie-v-city-of-columbia due-process judicial-interpretation notice notice-requirement retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration west-virginia Did it violate the Petitioner's due process right to notice pursuant to Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347, 84 S.Ct. 1697, 12 L.Ed.2d 894 (1964) …
22-6094 William Milton v. California California 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states due-process mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive,…
22-6010 Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity I feel railroaded And why was my Question 1 Counsel filed to ASK when vof A MIStNAl my verdict WAS Shanged 4ovt $13 Guilty Not 2f 4
22-5956 Charles Wallace v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction ARE NONUNANIMOUS INSTRUCTED CASES RIPE TO REMOVAL via 28 U.S.C.A. §1443? DOES THE UNITED STATE CONSTITUTION AND AMENDMENTS IN AND OF ITSELF VOID AND …
22-5906 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2022-10-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule 1. In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with int…
22-5894 Terrence Gibbs v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing-law federal-statute judicial-discretion retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-law Whether non-retroactive changes in federal sentencing law, which dramatically altered sentencing exposure for those later sentenced, comprise "extraor…
22-373 David Schaszberger, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 13 Third Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability due-process good-faith good-faith-defense qualified-immunity retroactivity state-action Is there a "good faith " defense under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional…
22-5859 Marcal Fraction v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and…
22-5825 Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review 1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence? 2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, …
22-5746 Chrystal Clues-Alexander v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea jury-unanimity plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal ramos-retroactivity retroactivity right-to-jury-trial unanimous-jury Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), provides grounds for a defendant to withdraw her pre-Ramos plea of guilty be…
22-255 Scott Wilford, et al. v. National Education Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fair-share-fees free-speech good-faith-defense janus-precedent public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity section-1983 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by basing a defense to § 1983 on "equality and fairness" rather than determining whether the common law in 1871 pro…
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In Persuasive Authority Leading Case on Point Hamilton V. Alabama 368 U,S.52,(1961). The Supreme Court of the United States Reversed. In an opinion by…
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
22-171 Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., dba Hospital Hima San Pablo Caguas and Hospital Hima San Pablo Fajardo, v. Unión General de Trabajadores Puerto Rico 2022-08-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-determination administrative-determinations appellate-rules arbitration-awards court-review due-process procedural-due-process procedural-rules retroactive-application retroactivity review-procedures 1. Whether the Puerto Rico Supreme Court erred and violated the presumption against retroactivity and procedural due process when it retroactively …
22-5396 Timothy J. Hill v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law mcgirt-case native-american-rights oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-ruling Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
22-5365 David Steve Elias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing I. After Mr. Elias's plea but before his sentencing, the First Step Act amended § 924(c)(1) to clarify that the consecutive mandatory minimum sentence…
22-5161 Antonio M. Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroactive changes in sentencing law in determining whether a defendant has shown "extraordinary and compell…
22-5062 Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden Third Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a …
21-8267 Dave Lawrence v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP equitable-tolling habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief retroactive-constitutional-right retroactivity time-limitation I. Whether the United States Supreme Court decision recognizing ineffective assistance of counsel claims for criminal defense counsels failure to advi…
21-8285 Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-06-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty 1.) Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule? 2.) Should McGirt be applied retroactively?
21-8258 Luke D. Patterson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-rights contract due-process jurisdiction retroactivity Whathar A kl/ provor dofoctre sdtmast stAxcl CAN ) Whothoe tho Dsthit Couet's coial Ad tho Appoals Couet Affemation in ERROR
21-8160 Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity 1. Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a crimin…
21-8082 Arthur Houze v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and…
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…
21-7908 Jose Mejia v. New York New York 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment On October 25, 2021, N.Y. Crim. Proc. § 440.10(2)(b) and (c) were amended to remove the procedural bar precluding a defendant from raising a collatera…
21-7878 Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement When receiving a reduced sentence in 2020 for a crack-cocaine offense under the First Step Act, Petitioner Mitchell asked the district court to find h…
21-7885 Charles Deon Ladd v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mcgirt-case oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity standing substantive-rule supreme-court takings Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
21-7857 Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling.
21-7719 Gary Wall v. Jeffrey Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process executive-detention habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rules retroactivity teague-nonretroactivity teague-v-lane Does the Fourth Circuit's holding that new procedural rules cannot apply to any federal habeas proceeding, even where federal habeas is a petitioner's…
21-7727 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-judgments criminal-judgments final-judgment indian-territory mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma race racial-classification retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct.2452 (2020) applies retroactively to "all persons " in Indian Territory "irres…
21-7675 Jason Leon Cruse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-structure habeas-corpus mcgirt-retroactivity native-american-rights retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when it was decided?
21-7558 Vitaly Kolosha v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act due-process federal-law free-speech jurisdictional-conflict retroactive-application retroactivity standing state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation /. oJtf-efit TtA¥ C&cs/LT M APBS A /2//fTk/<? v ?/+£>*-& ■ A IOO V&ArQs <s>U> 7F-EATy / LAU?,PfaG(l Pt/UdG, OH, A-CLT of CettG&Mss / /£ 7T ActpOma-t/…
21-7559 Vitaly Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge detention-powers due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law legal-standing retroactivity state-law state-official state-sovereignty treason Question not identified.
21-7535 Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Oregon Department of Corrections, the U.S. District Court of Oregon, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, be allowed to collect 28 U.S.C…
21-1300 Mark Gabriele, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-vs-afscme restitution retroactivity section-1983 union-fees Petitioners are employees of the State of California who declined to join a public union. They seek a refund of the fair-share fees that public-sector…
21-1306 Stacy Penning v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1021, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme public-sector-unions retroactive-effect retroactivity 1. Whether the proper remedy for the collection of an illegal fee is refund or restitution, regardless of the purported good faith of the fee collecto…
21-1274 Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-21 GVR Relisted (4) criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-7368 Antwan Boyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-7270 Karo Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-7217 Thomas Allen Twobabies v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision montgomery-v-louisiana native-american-law oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals retroactivity schriro-v-summerlin supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction 1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN MCGIRT V. OKLAHOMA APPLIES TO THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO TRIBES FOR MAJOR CRIMES ACT PURPOSES. 2. WHETHER THE OKLAH…
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh…
21-6871 Alan Price v. Florida Florida 2022-01-14 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule I. Whether McCoy u. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review? II. Whe…
21-6739 Anthony Harris v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-29 GVR Relisted (2)IFP covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli…
21-923 Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-22 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6680 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced. 2. Can a stat…
21-6650 Zachary Jeff Harvell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction WHETHER RESPONDENT WAIVED/FORFEITED ANY OF IT'S PROCEDURAL DEFENSES IN McGIRT'S DECISION AND RESPONDENT IS PROCEDURALLY BARRED FROM ASSERTING ANY IF I…
21-6629 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta…
21-883 Glen D. Gore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-15 Denied chickasaw-nation conviction-finality criminal-procedure federal-native-american-relations habeas-corpus indian-major-crimes-act judicial-precedent McGirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma Oklahoma-law retroactivity substantive-rule Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was decided.
21-6610 Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction Whtf McGirf ]/. j^O s, c>i, (lbzo)j applies ~h) to/hJittiofls Anft\ 4]hen W&S an^uAtcl,u3t(t,
21-872 Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law 1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence? …
21-857 Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-09 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at…
21-6560 Carlo Donato v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor…
21-846 John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court In Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), this Court held that in cases where a capital defendant's future dangerousness is at issue, due pro…
21-847 Jonathan Ian Burns v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity supreme-court In Simmons v. South Carolina , 512 U.S. 154 (1994), this Court held that in cases where a capital defendant's future dangerousness is at issue, due pr…
21-6528 Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced? 2. Is Oklahoma'…
21-6529 Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced? 2. Is Oklahoma'…
21-6507 Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether or not Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 no retroactivity decision conflicts with the holding in Sharp v. Murphy, U.S. 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020…
21-6494 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6462 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6464 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6471 Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner is eligible for a Title 18 U.S.C. Section 358a(c)(1)(A)(i), bd on the modiiction of Secon 35 C)A), through the First Step Act of J0…
21-799 Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection 1. Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) protects employees from retaliation occurring after the provi…
21-6432 James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6440 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
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…
21-6397 Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), district courts have the authority to reduce a sentence based on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In the F…
21-763 John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin…
21-6331 Byron White v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-18 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty WHETHER RESPONDENT WAIVED/FORFEITED ANY OF IT'S PROCEDURAL DEFENSES IN McGIRT'S DECISION AND RESPONDENT IS PROCEDURALLY BARRED FROM ASSERTING ANY IF I…
21-6224 Tony Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-10 GVR Relisted (3)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-690 Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction Did the district court error by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the "First Step Act of 2018" retroactive, which made the "Fair Sentencing…
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition If a petitioner litigated a pre-AEDPA federal habeas petition, do AEDPA's new restrictions on second or successive petitions apply retroactively to th…
21-6010 Robert D. Sutton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres…
21-6030 Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty WHETHER RESPONDENT WAIVED/FORFEITED ANY OF IT'S PROCEDURAL DEFENSES IN McGIRT 'S DECISION AND RESPONDENT IS PROCEDURALLY BARRED FROM ASSERTING ANY I…
21-568 Jason Jarvis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
21-6018 Gary F. Compelleebee v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception WHETHER RESPONDENT WAIVED/FORFEITED ANY OF IT'S PROCEDURAL DEFENSES IN McGIRT'S DECISION AND RESPONDENT IS PROCEDURALLY BARRED FROM ASSERTING ANY IF I…
21-5967 Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver Pursuant to this Court's holding in Class, does an unconditional guilty plea, by itself, waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under §…
21-5875 Kenneth J. Jackson, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c criminal-sentencing de-novo-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the sentencing amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) enacted by the First Step Act of 2018 (the "First Step Act", "FSA", or "Act"), Pub. L. No. …
21-467 Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. Oklahoma 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (1) collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-5713 Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York New York 2021-09-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework Jurisdiction and- the-Teague-Standard: 1 . Does the Court have t*fie power to review a State Collateral Review Court 's failure to give Retroactive E…
21-5709 Miguel Gonzalez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error legal-precedent mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation Did the Supreme Court, Superior Court and trial Court commit reversible error when they held that a new constitutional right was not created by the Su…
21-5681 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-post-conviction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity seminoles-nation-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception WHETHER RESPONDENT WAIVED/FORFEITED ANY OF IT'S PROCEDURAL DEFENSES IN McGIRT 'S DECISION AND RESPONDENT IS PROCEDURALLY BARRED FROM ASSERTING ANY I…
21-5568 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blood-evidence blood-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity FftUomtE to ft DEFEUDfiFr AFTER HE HNS BEER TOLD -TO THRU OUBR EUzDEMCE FfiuoRA&LE To THE DEPENDENT? A ]Y)072IO a/ fiOR EUXDEHClF FftUoRBBLE TO THE D…
21-5516 In Re Freddy Perkins 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement 1. Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent" under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and …
21-5356 Joel Dale Wright v. Florida Florida 2021-08-12 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause…
21-5313 In Re Juan Luis Leonor 2021-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-retroactivity-test retroactivity second-degree-murder state-v-ronald-smith sudden-quarrel-provocation supreme-court-review teague-standard 1. Whether, the Nebraska Supreme Court's decision not to hold Ronald-Smith retroactive to cases on collateral review confines Petitioner to a lesser r…
21-5316 In Re Taryn Christian 2021-08-06 Denied IFP autonomy brady-v-maryland brady-violation counsel-strategy habeas-corpus mandamus mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment strickland This case presents the kind of extraordinary circumstances in which this Court exercises its discretionary authority to issue a writ of mandamus. The …
21-5271 Paul Surine v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc…
21-5181 Gerald Patrick Thomas, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP collateral-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan retroactivity teague-bar teague-v-lane trevino-v-thaler 1. Does Teague v. Lane bar Federal Habeas court from reviewing the merits of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim because Martinez v. Ry…
21-5144 Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015…
21-5053 Hernando Javier Vergara v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-challenge constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity supervised-release In a previous holding (United States v Raymond , 588 U.S., 139 S.Ct._, 204 L. Ed. 2d 897 LEXIS 4398 (2019), this Court ruled that 18 U.S.C. §3583(1*;)…
20-8418 Bruce Harland Butler v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity standing WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION WAS CONTARY TO CLEARLY ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT? CARPENTER v. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 22…
20-8358 In Re Hector David Sanchez 2021-06-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction retroactivity standing Question not identified.
20-1725 David Seidemann, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress Local 2334, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution retroactivity union-fees Petitioners are current and former public-school teachers in the State of New York who declined to join a public union. They seek a refund of the fair…
20-1700 Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity 1. Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
20-1686 Bobby Lee Hampton v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-06-04 Denied collateral-review constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel teague-v-lane In 2018, this Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500, that "a defendant has the right to insist that counsel refrain from admitting guilt e…
20-8195 Calvin James Reid v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-02 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation WHETHER A 30 YEAR OLD JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT IN STATE COURT CONVICTION SHOULD STAND UNCORRECTED BECAUSE THE VIOLATION OCCURRED OVER 30 YEARS AGO?
20-8208 Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing In Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259, __U.S.__, 141 S.Ct. 1307, 1314-15 (2021), this Court reaffirmed, when reviewing a post-Miller sentencing hearing…
20-8037 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas Texas 2021-05-17 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity 1. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law that Petitioner is eligible for but could not pre…
20-7972 Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in…
20-7945 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7926 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7863 Martin G. Lewis v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 burrage-v-united-states detention-legality habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-bar retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the government should be foreclosed from relying on prior litigation that it concedes incorrectly invoked a procedural bar to review on the me…
20-7864 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the state follows th…
20-7876 Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7843 Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-04-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-7822 Trevon Wiley v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection non-unanimous-verdict ramos-precedent retroactivity sixth-amendment state-criminal-procedure teague-standard unanimous-verdict Does the Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the retroa…
20-7808 James R. W. Mitchell v. California California 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-autonomy mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error voluntary-manslaughter In McCoy v. Louisiana (2018) 138 S.Ct. 1500, this Court held that a criminal defendant has a right of autonomy under the Sixth Amendment to dictate th…
20-1409 Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity 1. May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely…
20-1383 Arthur Diamond, et al. v. Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability first-amendment good-faith-defense retroactivity section-1983 union-fees 1. Is there a good-faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional ri…
20-7648 Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing Whether the proportionality principle & the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into…
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7523 Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-22 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v…
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court DID THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW AND PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FAILED …
20-7357 Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy retroactivity right-of-autonomy sixth-amendment teague-rule teague-v-lane In McCoy v. Louisiana , 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held the Sixth Amendment grants a right of autonomy that precludes criminal defendants' law…
20-7353 Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Whether, in a case where the jury question was whether Petitioner acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life when she made a drivin…
20-7192 Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine Whether the rule announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review.
20-1150 Shelby L. Haynes, et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied agreement common-fund common-fund-rule equitable-lien erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary non-contractual-claims plan-administrator retroactive-application retroactivity 1. Can an ERISA plan fiduciary assert equitable lien by agreement claims against persons with which it has no agreement? 2. Can the undisclosed condi…
20-7178 Nolan C. Turner, III v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief retroactivity right-to-counsel second-degree-murder trial-counsel Over Turner's objection, trial counsel told the jury the offense committed in this case was a general intent second degree murder and not the charged …
20-7125 Rashan Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7107 Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule 1. Whether NELSON V. COLORADO 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that ha…
20-7053 Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new rule…
20-1030 Tommie Rae Brown v. Deanna Brown-Thomas, et al. South Carolina 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fundamental-right-to-marry judicial-decree marriage-validity retroactive-application retroactivity void-marriage I. Whether requiring the class of persons in marriages that are void ab initio to obtain a judicial decree of invalidity before remarrying violates th…
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida 2021-01-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual disability on the merits for cases on coll…
20-6949 Neally Cunningham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "…
20-6912 Roy L. Rambo, Jr. v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process pretrial-restraint retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did this Court's holding in Luis v. United States, 578 U. S. 194 L. Ed. 2d 256 (2016) simply clarify a Federal civil asset forfeiture statute by deter…
20-6879 John D. Freeman v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule 1. Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth Amendment rig…
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall because the Supremacy Clause, as held in Montgom…
20-6832 Shannon Keith Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP cocaine-sentencing criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act, are district courts required to apply the current, legally…
20-6787 Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con…
20-6634 In Re Karen Denise Chades 2020-12-15 Denied IFP collateral-proceedings constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-v-washington teague-v-lane trial-counsel 1. This case necessitates an answer to a question of constitutional first law left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722 (1991), and again in Mart…
20-6533 Grover B. Reed v. Florida Florida 2020-12-04 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process …
20-6515 Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida Florida 2020-12-03 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law 1.Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause …
20-6518 Blaine Milam v. Texas Texas 2020-12-03 Denied IFP briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law 1. Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review and, if so, did the Texas Court of Criminal Ap…
20-6521 Hector Valdez v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence…
20-6427 Marquis Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(…
20-6307 Gary Lawrence v. Florida Florida 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), merely clarified Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), or announced a new…
20-572 James R. Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity (1) - Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) provides for Criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate Commerce, absent proof that they knew…
20-6089 Jermaine D. Hill v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing retroactivity statute-of-limitations In 2012 this Count ruled in Miller v. Alabama 567 U.S. that it is Unconstitutional to sentence a juvenile to life without the possibility of parole. I…
20-6099 Malcolm Moore v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), …
20-509 Jonnaven Jo Monalim, et ux. v. HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union Hawaii 2020-10-16 Denied constitutional-law deficiency-judgments due-process english-common-law foreclosure foreclosure-deficiency judicial-procedure market-value property-rights retroactivity This Petition asks this Court to decide two important related questions of American constitutional law that have heretofore been virtually ignored for…
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause…
20-422 Sarah R. Lee v. Ohio Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), held that the Constitution forbids public-…
20-5857 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-5806 Anthony Rogelio Griego v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254d2 28-usc-2254e1 collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus Hill-v-Lockhart's-prejudice-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity strickland-standard 1) Whether the state court's decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington's deficient performance anal…
20-5787 Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th…
20-5762 Will Robertson Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent petition-standard retroactivity section-2255 successive-petitions unconstitutional-law At issue is whether, when a petitioner files a second or successive § 2255 petition, jurisdiction over the § 2255 issue hinges on a showing it is "mor…
20-5714 Donald Joseph Koshmider, II v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process medical-marijuana possession-immunity retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Did the Sixth Circuit err when its opinion failed to analyze Petitioner's issues according to the Legislative directive that Public Act 283 is retroac…
20-5728 Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the r…
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether, Federal Law Renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Legal Error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committed Legal Error by failin…
20-5650 Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms…
20-5610 Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing Under Griffith v. Kentucky, new rules apply to all defendants whose cases are "pending on direct review or not yet final." Petitioner was convicted in…
20-251 Willie Gipson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent Ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity state-collateral-review Teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the …
20-5426 David Moss v. Texas Texas 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-code-of-criminal-procedure AState Court of last resort decided an- important question of law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this court. This court decided L…
20-5334 Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability on the district court's denial of Kieren's motion to amend his petition w…
20-5262 Stephen Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012), (placement of GPS monitoring on a vehicle and cells-site tracking withou…
20-5123 Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-21 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment Because Cardell Hayes's non-unanimous verdict is unconstitutional, Ramos v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —, 2020 WL 1906545 (2020), is he entitled to the relief…
20-5064 Tony Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process exculpatory-evidence Landgraf-v-USI-Film-Prods preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity rico-conspiracy statute-of-limitations witness-evidence 1. In United States v. Lovasco, this Court delegated to the lower courts the responsibility to "apply[] the settled principles of due process" to prei…
20-5051 Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis…
19-8890 Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se…
19-8878 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim…
19-8798 Rafeeq Salahuddin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona 2020-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-rights batson-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection legal-procedure retroactivity whether a state count of last resort has power to destroy a dependant's constitutional vight to trial by jury whosemember's are selected by non-discri…
19-1365 Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within …
19-8580 Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2020-06-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
19-1330 Michigan v. Juan T. Walker Michigan 2020-06-01 Denied alford-plea collateral-attack criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper perjury plea-bargaining retroactivity Respondent maintained his innocence before trial, and testified at the evidentiary hearing ordered by the Michigan Supreme Court on his collateral att…
19-8548 Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la…
19-1303 Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California California 2020-05-20 Denied criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI…
19-8403 Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review How can the Court be impelled to use its' all encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of time added to a primary base term, as an aggravat…
19-8341 Richard Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure florida-sentencing hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-precedent ring-v-arizona teague-standard teague-v-lane 1. Pursuant to the test of Teague v. Lane, is Hurst v. Florida retroactive to Petitioner, whose Florida capital sentence became final after the issuan…
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta 2020-04-23 Denied 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…
19-8230 Alexander Kates v. New York New York 2020-04-09 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement property-return prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity Whether a plea agreement to return illegally seized property in exchange for a guilty plea, induced by the prosecutor, is breached when the prosecutio…
19-1204 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings 1. Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amend…
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud In this case THE PETITION for that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of' "Complaint in this actio…
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California 2020-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15 year ol…
19-8107 Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" app…
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether, due to the overwhelingly objective indicis of national consensus that surrounds the advaned research on adblescent brain developmont wholly d…
19-8079 Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe…
19-8041 Stanley Edward Jamison, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-right timely-motion Whether Mr. Jamison's § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), claiming that Johnson invalidates the p…
19-1130 Dale Danielson, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights court-ruling good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution retroactivity takings In Wyatt v. Cole, 504 U.S. 158 (1992), this Court held that qualified immunity is categorically unavailable to private entities who violate 42 U.S.C. …
19-1126 Stacey Mooney v. Illinois Education Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 takings Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), held that the Constitution forbids public-…
19-1106 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Relisted (2) adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit 1. Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that Moore I and Moore II were mere applications of Atkins that could be applied retroactively on collatera…
19-7930 Roderick Pearson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S…
19-1097 Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) aia burden-of-proof due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-validity retroactive-legislation retroactivity takings vested-rights Does the application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the enactment of the AIA violate the Due Process Clause because it retroact…
19-1070 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D…
19-7780 Frank Harper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a…
19-7793 Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California California 2020-02-26 Denied IFP ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom 1. Due Process: (a) Whether the City's 1 ½ year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye an…
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules 1. Whether Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Moore v. Texas , 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), announced new substantive rules that apply retroacti…
19-7689 Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-18 Denied IFP capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Did Tennessee decisions applying the facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance, not handed down until after Sutton committed his ca…
19-7680 Samuel Howard v. Nevada Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016). 2. Whether Hurst is retroactive.
19-7595 Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states Following Welch , does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws?
19-7609 Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2020-02-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
19-7531 Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? 2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R…
19-7491 In Re William James Berry Sr. 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP byford-v-state due-process habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-court-remedies welch-v-united-states 1. Did the jury instruction given in his trial for first-degree murder, which deprived the element of premeditation and relieved the state of its burd…
19-7434 Andrea Zambrano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1. Whether United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether "in…
19-7437 Tony Sparks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac…
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure First, this court has held that the use of a detection device by law enforcement on a citizens person, places, or things without a warrant, which reve…
19-7386 Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light …
19-7350 Billy Battenfield v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-21 Denied IFP aedpa appeal-waiver criminal-procedure critical-stage garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-sentencing retroactivity statute-of-limitations 1. Whether Garza v. Idaho, — U.S. 139 S.Ct. 738, 203 L.Ed.2d 77 (2019) adopts a new watershed rule of procedure that applies retroactively on state co…
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler First Question : Did Montgomery v. Louisiana also announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supre…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Q1. What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affe…
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Phillip Tomlin's sentence of life imprisonment without parole reflects a breakdown of the Certificate of Appealability ("COA") review process and rais…
19-7130 Fabio Morel v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 …
19-789 Maghreb Petroleum Exploration, S.A., et al. v. John Paul DeJoria Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retroactivity-provisions civil-rights constitutional-law de-novo-review due-process erie-doctrine federal-constitution foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgment judicial-review retroactive-application retroactive-legislation retroactivity texas-constitution texas-law texas-legislature uniform-foreign-country-money-judgments-recognitio 1. Respondent John Paul DeJoria is a billionaire who co-founded a Moroccan company, was found liable in Moroccan court for defrauding Petitioners and …
19-6949 James R. Royal v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule 1. Is McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct.1500 (2018) a watershed rule of criminal procedure which must be applied retroactively on collateral review?
19-6887 In Re Brad K. Edmonds 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search 1. Did the government installation of a GPS device on a vehicle and its use of that device to monitor the car constitute a search? 2. Did trial couns…
19-6845 David Steward v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision, that applies…
19-6863 In Re Melvin Bonnell 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard Bonnell's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will cause disparate interpretations of the federal Constitutio…
19-6798 Corey Eugene Gill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
19-6818 John D. Ward v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)? II. Whethe…
19-6643 John Forrest v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col…
19-601 Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (4) 5th-amendment america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent retroactive-application retroactivity takings-clause 1. Does the retroactive application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the passage of the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. …
19-6510 Timothy L. Douglas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel…
19-6521 Marcus T. Simmons v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel…
19-6492 Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness Petitioner was convicted of federal kidnapping and sentenced as a career offender in 2000, under the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines, when the Gu…
19-6453 James E. Lang v. Florida Florida 2019-10-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it's statutory law committed by it's lower appellate Court, that has affirmed a c…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
19-527 Paul Huskisson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform 1. Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule, like all other exclusionary rule exceptions, take into account the flagrancy and de…
19-6336 Eddie Jennings v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va…
19-6255 Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether me, the Petitioner, is entitled to Relief from denial 404 motion at the District Court level in light of the First Step Act, December 21st, 20…
19-6260 Craig Cross v. Florida Florida 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L. Ed. 2d 825 (2010), Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 …
19-6264 Orane Nelson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties under § 924(c)(1)…
19-6195 Alejandro Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness (1) DOES THIS COURTS DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAVIS 588 U.S. 139 S.Ct.2319 (2019) HOLDING THAT 18.U.S.C S 924()(3)(B) IS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY V…
19-6092 Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness I - The lower courts and the respondents claim that the Petitioner's petition is untimely and should be dismissed as such. II - The lower courts and …
19-6078 Terreall McDaniel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela…
19-6054 John Hemby v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va…
19-374 Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2019-09-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y…
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity 1. Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve…
19-5964 In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c…
19-5928 Marcos Santiago v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta…
19-5882 Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada Nevada 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states 1. Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court…
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career …
19-5809 Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich 1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute, MCL § 750…
19-5665 Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing Parsuant to U.S. Sup. C. ruke 1H. 1(a). In 2o08, Pefitioner was convictedf ofa'misdemeanor' D.U.I.(V.C.823152). This was elevated to a felory ander P.…
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…
19-5521 Steven Michael Cox v. Nevada Nevada 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-standard welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 S. Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-5410 Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-31 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force 1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere …
19-5391 Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum Both questions presented by this petition involve circuit splits. I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on …
19-5392 Kurt J. Myrie v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy retroactivity violent-crime 1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §…
19-5401 Thomas Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §…
19-5367 Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW* WHEN THE STATE COURT COURT SENTENCED HIM TO SPEND 30 YEARS TO LIFE IN STATE PRISON, UNDER A "THREE…
19-5307 James D. Brigman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel…
19-5316 Abelee Bronson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel…
19-5262 Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth…
19-5219 Bobby G. Pullen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric…
19-5218 In Re Teon Jamell Williams 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-evidence due-process exceptional-circumstances indictment indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity search-and-seizure short-form-indictment Was Petitioner's conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure? 2. Was violation of United States Constitution A…
19-5128 Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is…
19-5111 Avery Blodgett v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C.-§2113 18-U.S.C.-§924(c)(3) 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3 crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states 1. Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical "crime of violence" under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)? 2. Whether…
19-5124 Arthur Durham v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states 1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta…
19-5095 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining racial-discrimination retroactivity right-to-counsel school-desegregation supreme-court Petitioner Salerno hereby moves this court to issue a ruling on whether the following two cases are applied retroactively. 1. Missouri v. Frye, 566 U…
18-1593 Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an…
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan 2019-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Bryan's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will result in disparate interpretations of the federal Constitut…
18-9546 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule (1) Whether, as the Court has thrice asked but never answered, States must apply a "watershed rule" under Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989) in postc…
18-9521 Christopher Anthony Jones v. Nevada Nevada 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-exception welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
18-9495 Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff…
18-9501 Bruce Mayo Ennis v. Nevada Nevada 2019-05-31 Denied IFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-29 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Nine years ago, the State of Arizona in reaction to its becoming aware of an unrelated investigation of petitioner Giuseppe Viola, involving his autom…
18-9431 William Maurice Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018? If so did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply Griffith …
18-9436 William Edward Branham v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2019-05-28 Denied IFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law 1. Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collate…
18-9363 Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver 1. Can a defendant in a state capital sentencing proceeding voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waive a federal constitutional right that was bo…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18-1449 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm…
18-9267 John Loveman Reese v. Florida Florida 2019-05-14 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
18-9274 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2019-05-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity sentencing-procedure teague-v-lane In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
18-9197 Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Earl Moore Found himself in the sights of what has become known as a sting operation. That is, Moore was sitting at home in great need of resources to…
18-9210 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. If Davis holds § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague, is that ruling retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review? 2. If Davis rein…
18-9211 Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. In Sessions v. Dimaya, 1388 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), this Court held the "crime of violence" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 16(b) void for vagueness for the …
18-9217 Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations (1) Whether the "right" in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a…
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image…
18-9060 Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 This Court provides that the Ex Post Facto Clause applies to any change in the law that creates a significant risk of a higher sentence, including cha…
18-9029 Tyron James v. Kansas Kansas 2019-04-29 Denied IFP appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure 1. May a conviction baded dn a unconstitutional hard o life Senfence be overturned at any time? 2. May this Courts decisionin Apprendi ar to what con…
18-8983 Patrick Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-8970 John William King v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel teague-analysis teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether McCoy applies when a defendant's attorneys concede, against his wishes, his guilt to a lesser-included offense during final argument, and i…
18-8875 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation Question One: The 'Pipeline' Analysis Should Be Expanded To New Law That Applies To Postconviction Claims Where The Resolution Of The Postconviction …
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain 1. Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to det…
18-1304 Richard Ashbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained …
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…
18-8737 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 GVR IFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a conviction and sentence im…
18-8718 Anthony C. Barrett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex…
18-8730 In Re Jimmie Dixon 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the S…
18-1276 Andrew Levert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a…
18-8708 Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether the decision handed down in Maths v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have sta…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE DECISION OF MCOUIGGIN V. PERKINS, 133 S.Ct. 1924 (2013) APPLIES RETROACTIVELY BECAUSE IT CHANGED DECISIONAL LAW AND WHETHER THE DECISION I…
18-8683 James Aren Duckett v. Florida Florida 2019-04-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-8670 Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment 1. Does Alabama's insistence that a judge, not a jury, can weigh the mitigating and aggravating factors and sentence a person to death directly confli…
18-8654 Karyea Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception Did The Court Of Appeals err by dismissing the appeal of the District Court's reasoning that Mathis was inapplicable to Karyea Williams on Collateral …
18-8632 Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 782;…
18-8489 Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply. Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim
18-8496 Anthony Swatzie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a…
18-8534 Gino Carlucci v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.O.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera…
18-8510 Travis Thaniel v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts 1. DOES THE FEDERAL' L'AW OF WEAVER V. MASSACHUSETTS, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017); HAVE RETROACTIVE APPLICATION IN THE STATE OF MARYL'AND? 2. DOES A TRIAL!…
18-8409 Anthony Mungin v. Florida Florida 2019-03-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent…
18-8435 Roy Allen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court held unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("A…
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d…
18-1181 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Relisted (2) aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent At Ahmad Issa's 1998 trial, two witnesses described statements that their friend (and Issa's accomplice) made to them about Issa's involvement in a mu…
18-8324 Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C…
18-8201 Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied 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…
18-8148 Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne…
18-8156 In Re Dennis Bowden 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c…
18-8169 In Re Alfredo Aguirre 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c…
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo…
18-8095 Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation WHETHER A CLARIFYING AMENDMENT UNDER UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOULD APPLY RETROACTIVELY UNDER 18 USCS 3582(C)
18-8109 Robert Blake Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search SHOULD THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN MISSOURI V McNEELY, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), BE APPLIED RETROACTIVELY TO STATE CASES WHERE WITHOUT A WARRANT, AND WITHOU…
18-8110 In Re LaShawn Anderson 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement This petition presents two important issues concerning the proper interpretation of the Saving Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); and the appropriate applic…
18-8052 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst u. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a pris…
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Is this Court's ruling in Birchfield v. North Dakota, 136 S.Ct. 2160 (2016)—that a motorist may not be criminally punished for refusing to submit to a…
18-1077 Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1. Does Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) apply …
18-8027 Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied IFP case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari 1. Does Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. Should this Court grant certiorari,…
18-8007 Kenneth R. Beagle v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling Alleyne-v-United-States constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process Montgomery-v-Louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-doctrine supreme-court teague-doctrine Teague-v-Lane DID THE COURT IN MONTGOMERY V LOUISIANA IDENTIFY, FOR THE FIRST TIME, A THIRD CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING WHICH OF ITS RULINGS MAY BE APPLIED RETROACTIVE…
18-7974 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio…
18-7943 Robert David Watson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability collateral-review luis-v-united-states new-rule retroactivity section-2255 supreme-court-rule teague-analysis teague-v-lane Whether Luis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review? Whether under Slack v. McDaniel, 529…
18-7883 Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing 1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) …
18-7751 Brian Bolton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states Whether the governments arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 s. ct. 2551 (2015), is "procedural-…
18-7860 Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule Does the new rule of constitutional law announced in Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), that any fact that increases the mandatory minimum …
18-7869 Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism opening the protal to use 28 U.S.C. §2241, to test the legality of an unconstitutional se…
18-7789 Ashley Richards v. Texas Texas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d…
18-7804 Denandias Watson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-1023 Maine Community Health Options v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) appropriations-act appropriations-rider cardinal-rule implied-repeal legislative-history legislative-intent reciprocal-commitments retroactivity statutory-obligation statutory-payment-obligation 1. Given the "cardinal rule" disfavoring implied repeals—which applies with "especial force" to appropriations acts and requires that repeal not be fo…
18-7765 Burgess Massey v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states new-york-robbery residual-clause retroactivity second-or-successive-habeas sentencing-enhancement violent-felony 1. Whether the New York State offense of robbery in the third degree is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act …
18-7735 Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question One: WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? …
18-7744 Corey Clark v. Alabama Alabama 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity 1- DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMAS ACT 2OIY-IGS VIOLATE THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE TEVO PURPOSE'S. 2) DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMA'S ACT 2OIY-I6S THAT R…
18-7716 Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui…
18-7725 Ralph Francis DeLeo v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review due-process judicial-proceeding luis-v-united-states new-watershed-rule powell-v-alabama retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-rule-10 watershed-rule Should this Court exercise its supervisory power under Supreme Court Rule 10 and Grant review of petitioner's case because the Sixth Circuit ignored h…
18-7680 Hector Cirino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C…
18-7643 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. …
18-7568 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-01-25 Denied IFP co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity 1. Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and he should have been convicted o…
18-7573 Matthew Hearn v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C…
18-7586 Zachary T. Frey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally vag…
18-7543 Rodney Landingham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C…
18-7523 Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1.)THE IOWA STATE COURT DECISION IN STATE V. HEEMSTRA, THAT IT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUTE IS CONTRARY TO THE DECISION IN STATE V. GOOSMAN, TH…
18-7507 In Re Dwight Carter 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)…
18-7426 Terry Lamell Ezell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states procedural-burden retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states Where (1) the sentencing record is silent or does not clearly establish if the district court relied on the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual claus…
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a prisoner seeking to collaterally attack the legality of his sentence is required to do so in the district where the prisoner…
18-7448 Charles Foxx v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. 2…
18-7453 Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. Whet…
18-7421 Torrence Allen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man…
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-01-15 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth? Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th…
18-7346 Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker I. Whether The Lower Court Denial Of Modification Of Sentence Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) Based On A Mandatory Guidelines Range Departure's Sentence V…
18-7310 Kadeem Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea…
18-7238 Antron Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-7210 Gordon Prailow v. Maryland Maryland 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that were…
18-7226 Omar Blanco v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Did Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), announce a substantive rule of constitutional law? 2. May a state court hold that a substantive rule…
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis WHETHER OR NOT THE U.S. DISTRICT AND APPELLATE COURTS VIOLATED CASTRO V. UNITED STATES, 124 S.CT., BY REFUSING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY…
18-7169 Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence Whether, in imposing sentence for an ongoing offense, courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor? Whether, in imposing s…
18-7097 In Re Leigh Jesse Quinto 2018-12-20 Denied IFP bond-case bond-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process federalism habeas-corpus new-rule retroactivity standing supreme-court Did the Supreme Court's decision in Bond v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2355, 180 L. Ed. 2d 269, decided June 16, 2011 (hereinafter "Bond I"), establish…
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser…
18-7037 Gerald L. Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'…
18-6981 Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of…
18-6984 Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ENTITLED TO FILE AN APPLI-' CATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2241 AND/OR 28 U..S.C. 2255(e) IN LIGHT OF McFADDEN v. U.…
18-6989 Jessie Lee Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-6915 Carlton Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g…
18-6927 In Re Jerry Urbina 2018-12-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation WHETHER IN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT HOLDING IN HUGHES V. UNITED STATES (CITATIONS OMITTED), THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING PETI…
18-6936 Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-6889 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity 1. Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a p…
18-6877 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
18-6843 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2018-11-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retro activity decision, which lim its the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury de termi…
18-6845 Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al…
18-6849 Steven James v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards This case presents two questions of national importance concerning the federal constitutional rights of juvenile homicide defendants (like Steven Jame…
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity 1. Does Pena-Rodriguez apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. The Eleventh Circuit first denied a certificate of appealability ("COA")…
18-673 Terrence Edwin Prince v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) and whether applying AEDPA's restrictive provisio aedpa brady-claim brady-rule due-process federal-courts gatekeeping-provisions habeas habeas-corpus retroactivity second-in-time-petition second-or-successive 1. Is a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions when the claim i…
18-6767 Brent Galbreath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process error johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error violent-felony violent-felony-definition When a Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sent…
18-6776 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
18-6735 Perry Alexander Taylor v. Florida Florida 2018-11-20 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection flawed-scientific-testimony hurst-retroactivity medical-examiner-testimony non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Perry Alexander Taylor was denied relief under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) in the State of Florida because his case was one of many that b…
18-6760 David Junior Upshaw v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. May a defendant, faced with a silent record below, prove that his ACCA enhanced sentence was in deed based upon the residual clause through a proce…
18-616 Roger Nepal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th…
18-614 In Re George Houston 2018-11-09 Denied alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl…
18-6599 Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine In Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) , this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally v…
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs 1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA…
18-6608 William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco…
18-6569 Mark Lee Murray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether ge…
18-6537 In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca…
18-6548 Salvatore Leone v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher…
18-6394 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus intervening-change-in-law retroactivity second-motion successive-petitions In denying Steele's Second-in-time §2255 motion, did the lower court(s) err in there finding that the district court lacks jurisdiction to hear Steele…
18-6375 Michael Whisby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-provision collateral-review mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness stokeling-v-united-states vagueness-doctrine violent-felony 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. 2…
18-6370 Charles Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-6387 Spencer Bowens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retr…
18-6328 Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-454 Derek L. Dinger v. United States Armed Forces 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can…
18-6281 Terry E. Callins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness Did Mr. Callins file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which …
18-6284 Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon…
18-420 United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum The question presented is whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circui…
18-6175 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law 1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h…
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 …
18-5841 Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law 1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h…
18-5837 David Lee Roberts v. Alabama Alabama 2018-08-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona David Roberts was sentenced to death based solely on findings by a judge after his sentencing jury voted that he should live. In Hurst v. Florida, 136…
18-5821 Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law (1) Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief when one of a set of multiple sentences is now invalid because of…
18-5767 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-27 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/ Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus v…
18-241 Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund This Court held in Reich v. Collins, 513 U.S. 106, 108 (1994) that "due process requires a 'clear and certain' remedy for taxes collected in violation…
18-5754 Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED…
18-5730 Terrence Denmark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,statutory-interpretation,retroa retroactivity statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-confinement 1) Should there be a two-part test for the 28 U.s.C. § 224l instead of a Five-part test, and should the test be based on (l) illegal unconstitutional …
18-5735 Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-23 Denied IFP apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane Pursuant to the intervening Constitutional rule announced in Montgomery v Louisiana, 577 US ; 136 S Ct 718 (2016), which clarified the retroactivity j…
18-5674 Roger Clay Swain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness Did Mr. Swain file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which "h…
18-217 Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (9) collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane Did the Fourth Circuit err in concluding—in direct conflict with Virginia's highest court and other courts—that a decision of this Court (Montgomery) …
18-5648 Anthony Lamarca v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5654 Willie Lee Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that …
18-5665 Orestes Cabrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel immigration-consequences nolle-prosequi padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky retroactivity WHETHER PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE AND THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WERE VIOLATED WHERE BOTH OF THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN…
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Is the decision announced in State v. Ronald-Smith, a new susbtantive rule of law that the Federal Constitution requires to be applied retroactively t…
18-5641 Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause 1. Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking rel…
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below?
18-5547 Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States, __U.S.__, 138 S.Ct. 1959 (June 18, 2018)…
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser…
18-5437 Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity 1. whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim…
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity 1, Given that the elements of capital murder which were identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State will be applied to determine if Jame…
18-5422 Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon…
18-5402 Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de…
18-5415 Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim…
18-5392 Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United …
18-5376 Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-113 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co…
18-5352 Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-87 Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. Minnesota 2018-07-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute 1) Is a litigant denied due process in the primary sense of having an opportunity to present his case when a state's highest court overrules a consist…
18-5230 John Parker Murphy v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,…
18-5217 Audy Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care…
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-11 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL ERROR THAT CONFLICTS WITH UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS WHERE STATE COURTS FOUND A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING STATUTE …
18-5191 Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(D) can consider the current understanding of the nat…
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings 1. Given the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homici…
18-5179 Ronnie Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona WHETHER THE BLACK LINE DRAWN BY THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IN ASAY v. STATE, 210 S0.3d 1 (Fla. 2016), LIMITING THE RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF HURST v. FLORI…
18-39 Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington Washington 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola…
18-5094 Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser…
18-5147 Edward Nathan Wing v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity timeliness 1. Whether Mr. Wing's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely because it was…
18-5166 Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when…
18-34 Pablo San Martin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona Does the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) violate the Eighth and Fourteen…
18-5065 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule, which deems Hurst errors harmless in every case in which the defendant's pre-Hurst …
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987)(holding that on direct review a new constitut…
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst …
18-5124 Norberto Pietri v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de…
18-5126 Jamal Hamilton v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 …
18-5078 Bruce Pace v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte…
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-…
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…
18-5091 Kevin Don Foster v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst …
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o…
18-5040 Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin…
18-5042 Jack Sliney v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ…
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5054 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte…
18-5060 Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
18-5002 John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ…
18-5012 Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments bec…
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d…
25A378 Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied capital-punishment defense-strategy ineffective-assistance retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.