| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |