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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A902 | Raymond Ghaloustian, aka Valnyk Matthewsi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Application | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25A824 | Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6557 | David Calhoun v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing | I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re… |
| 25-6527 | Brian William Schumaker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent jurisdictional-challenge motion-denial plenary-review record-expansion section-2255 | I. WHETHER the lower courts erred in denying petitioner's motions to expanding the record in the district court and supplementing the record in the co… |
| 25-6454 | Derek Capozzi v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-retroactivity residual-clause section-2255 sentence-enhancement | 1. Whether, to qualify under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 for relief from a sentence enhancement imposed by operation of the now abrogated residual clause of 18 U… |
| 25-5902 | Ramon Simpson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split credibility-determination evidentiary-hearing section-2255 sixth-amendment | Whether, in light of a profound and acknowledged circuit split, a district court may deny a § 2255 hearing by making a dispositive credibility determi… |
| 25A358 | Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-extension federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance law-library prison-conditions section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5630 | Geneva Kristina Hudson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 | 1. Must a petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in advising whether to plead guilty demonstrate a predisposition to pleading guilty as… |
| 25A281 | Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Presumed Complete | collateral-review due-diligence federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2255 successive-petition | Question not identified. | |
| 25A275 | Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-260 | Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter | First Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 | 1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate have been disrupted so significantly that they ca… |
| 25-5452 | In Re Andrew James Johnston | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-privilege filing-restrictions habeas-corpus merits-determination section-2255 | 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including issuance of a writ of habeas corpus from this Court, to protect the privilege of habeas corpu… | |
| 25A178 | Michael Rene Garrett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus post-judgment-motions pro-se-litigation section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25A172 | Jonathan Seay v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Denied | amendment-timing circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limits section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7392 | Jonathan Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 | 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the … |
| 24-7240 | Luis Fernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus judicial-review residual-clause section-2255 | In United State s v. Davi s, 588 U.S. 445 (2019 ), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause " definition of the term "crime o… |
| 24-7167 | Derek Rogers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender… |
| 24-6807 | Carl P. Palladinetti v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-significance court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance section-2255 | A. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denial of Mr. Palladinetti's COA filing represents an issue of constitutional significance worthy of U… |
| 24-6716 | Deepak Deshpande v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 | (1) . Wat is the peeper mamer of ensuring flat the remedy offered in the name of section 2255 las bean adequate and effective to test the legality of … |
| 24-6551 | William J. Wise v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit panetti-standard section-2255 successive-petition | The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fundamentally erred by dismissing the appeal of… |
| 24-6478 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion section-2255 | 1) Where the District Court denied Movant's 2255 petition on procedural grounds, did the Court of Appeals violate Movant's rights to Due Process and t… |
| 24-6438 | Iran Dwayne Ketchup v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-injustice rule-60 section-2255 | Did Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 60 allow the lower courts (1) to re-open the 28 P.S.C. S 2255 proceedings, pursuant to Gonzalez v. Crosby ,… |
| 24-594 | Arthur Seale v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability criminal-judgment post-conviction-relief resentencing section-2255 | Can 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) bar courts of appeals from exercising jurisdiction over cases like Dr. Seale's? | |
| 24-5940 | Charlton Beasley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-conviction actual-innocence davis-decision procedural-default section-2255 statute-of-limitations | § 2255 within one 1) Did Beasley overcome procedural default when he filed year of the Supreme Court decision in Davis which was a new rule of law and… |
| 24A451 | Emilio Santiago v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Presumed Complete | federal-appeal habeas-corpus prisoner-rights section-2255 supreme-court-procedure time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 24-505 | Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a United States Supreme Court case of statutory interpretation, which was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings under circuit prec… | |
| 24-5837 | Ruben Aguilera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 | [1] May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the "occasions" clause of the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 24-5709 | Gregory Bartunek v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus material-facts procedural-relief rule-60b section-2255 | If the § 2255 pleadings raised issues of fact, should those have been resolved by an evidentiary hearing? II. Was the lack of an evidentiary hearing … |
| 24-5568 | Steven Gantt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-dismissal certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction rule-60b section-2255 | 1.) Whether attorney's decision to dismiss §2255 motion without prisoner's consent would provide valid grounds for Rule 60(b) relief? 2.) Whether the… |
| 24-5570 | In Re Joseph R. Dickey | 2024-09-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … | |
| 24-5494 | Brian Scott Witham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 | In Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998), this Court held that when an individual who pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) offense later challenges th… |
| 24-5474 | Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | judicial-discretion mandate-recall post-conviction-relief section-2255 sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | WHEIHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED HUBBARD'S MOTION TO RECALL THE MANDATE, POST -RUAN V. UNITED STATES , 142 S. CT. 2370 (… |
| 24A134 | Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 24A43 | Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Presumed Complete | declaratory-judgment jones-v-hendrix section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-collateral-attack | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 23-7649 | Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23A1079 | John Thomas v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Presumed Complete | appeal-standard constitutional-right district-court federal-prisoner post-conviction section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7458 | In Re Michael David Hower | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes? Di… | |
| 23A976 | Michael Edwin Harding v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | collateral-review federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance post-conviction pro-se section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7324 | Danilo Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity | Following the grant of petitioner's section 2255 motion, the district court resentenced petitioner to discretionary life in this RICO gang case. This … |
| 23A926 | Keith Hager v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-17 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-deadline federal-prisoner judicial-extension post-conviction pro-se section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7064 | Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI | Third Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 | 1. Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective for purposes of § 2255 only when a Petitioner (1) Makes A Claim of Actual Innocence and (2… |
| 23A818 | Pikerson Mentor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability collateral-review davis-decision retroactive-application section-2255 successive-motion | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6619 | Edward Lee Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule | I. Whether the "total exhaustion rule" applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255; and if so, was the district court in error to rule Smith's §2255 as u… |
| 23-6470 | Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional | (1) US 38 U.S.C. Section 2255 Whether petitioner has subjected to any substantial or procedural defects that ended his life, thereby violating section… |
| 23A499 | Stephen Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner mootness section-2255 supervised-release | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6065 | Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § … |
| 23-162 | Christian Winchel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review | I. Supreme Court Rule 10(a)—Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings u… |
| 23-5348 | Julian Breal v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | davis-ruling due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-vacate procedural-default section-2255 united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-challenge | Whether the Petitioner was denied his due process Fifth Amendment right to the United States Constitution due to being procedurally defaulted from pre… |
| 23-5351 | John P. Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability citizen-united-v-fec due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medicare-fraud post-conviction-relief section-2255 yee-v-escondido | This case is one of more than a dozen Medicare fraud cases among varous circuits where physicians, like Dr. Ramirez, were convicted under multiple err… |
| 23-5256 | Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence criminal-procedure elements-clause firearm-conviction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 successive-petition united-states-v-taylor welch-v-united-states | The question presented is whether a Petitioner in a properly filed successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging his conviction for pos… |
| 23-5128 | In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. | 2023-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 | 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion? 2. Did the United… | |
| 23-5009 | Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 | A. Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete "as to all causes of action," as required by Collins v. Miller, 252 U.S. … |
| 22-7768 | Nidal Ayyad v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur | Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7729 | William J. Sears v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 | Did the Court of Appeals err when it denied my Motion for Certificate of Appealability? Did the District Court err when it denied my § 2255 petition … |
| 22-7701 | Jose Pena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur | Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7669 | Larenzo Gabourel v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 collateral-relief factual-innocence federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 | May the collateral relief mechanism for Federal prisoners pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, be used to promote a claim of factual innocence? |
| 22-6592 | James Stacey Harber v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing | 1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial? 2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. … |
| 22-656 | Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 22-6501 | Michael A. Hagar v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial | QUESTION ONE The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it did not issue a Certificate of Appealability as the Petitioner met the requirement und… |
| 22-6459 | Lenroy McLean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct government-review procedural-motion section-2255 section-3504 statutory-interpretation wiretapping | I. Whether the Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 procedure qualifies proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 3504(a)(1) to merit an affirmance or denial by the Government prior to… |
| 22-6277 | Paul E. Pavulak v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-bar rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) section-2255 successive-petition | 1. When a petitioner challenges a procedural bar in his 2255 which based on a fraud on the court, may a District Court Judge dismiss this motion as a … |
| 22-6086 | Dale McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 | Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Peti- oner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons; due to the COVID -19 Pandemic, justifies "Eq… |
| 22-6041 | David Williams, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 | Whether a defendant's conviction and sentence for nonexistent crimes: (1) violates the Fifth And Eighth Amendments, (2) constitute extraordinary and e… |
| 22-6025 | Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation | (1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 22-5890 | Ronald William Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 | Whether the boilerplate waiver of Petitioner's appellate and post-conviction rights contained within his plea agreement bars his claim under 28 U.S.C.… |
| 22-5897 | Unises Chapotin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1) Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to Johnso… |
| 22-5887 | Joseph Michael DeGraw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-construction section-2254 section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Courts should, sua sponte, construe a state prisoner's pro se filed pleadings, in 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 proceedings, citing the w… |
| 22-5790 | David Delva v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent section-2255 sua-sponte warrantless-seizure | Did the Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner's COA claim; whether a reasonable jurist would debate if appellate counsel was ineffective for fail… |
| 22-5782 | Matthew Tassin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation | Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may … |
| 22-5750 | Salvador Diaz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus second-circuit section-2255 standard-of-review | Where the COA determination under § 2253(c) requires an overview of the claims in the habeas petition and a general assessment of their merits, did th… |
| 22-5539 | Sean David Pickett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 | 1. Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitione… |
| 22-5530 | Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-testify section-2255 strickland-standard witness-tampering | Each of the following four pages presents one primary question regarding IAC claims that survived Section 2255(b) screening, but were ultimately rejec… |
| 22-5451 | John That Luong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | IFP | and remand for further proceedings in light of Ta vacate the Ninth Circuit's judgment 18-usc-924c constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence davis-v-united-states hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-2255 section-924(c) section-924c taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Court should grant Luong's petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the Ninth Circuit's judgment, and remand for further proceedings in l… |
| 22-5329 | Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 | Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner condemned to be executed in violation of the Eighth Amendment because he was found not to b… |
| 22-5321 | William S. Divine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation | 1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19 safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of §2… |
| 22-5179 | Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings | 1) Should the U.S. Supreme Court grant a Certificate of Appealability in light of this Court's decisions and the Petitioner's three §2255 application … |
| 22-5090 | Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity | Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 21-8255 | Christopher Alexander Reilly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress notice-of-appeal section-2255 | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, TO ALLOW DEFENDANT REILLY TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT C… |
| 21-8257 | Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(l) when the government by locking down the defend… |
| 21-8055 | In Re Shane Jeansonne | 2022-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing | pul -f-U nrCO(sh SfalcQi of H,V CH&S /* f%VA*Sh M \t> P^{*- H-€ O <\ pztP^<il S-j-PPZ 0/? q^yq/'i^G Unfif °l i $ fOM>\d '\-0 , T^i(\ n\(AcU [v^y-lirp^… | |
| 21-7936 | Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law | Does a disabled veterar have a "personal stake, interest, or standing" on seing that his wlthheld 20% bereFit, dve to his incarcerator, recelve a 'spe… |
| 21-7783 | Reynaldo Aviles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether, given that there is a split in the circuits on the question, reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent preclud… |
| 21-7666 | Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding … |
| 21-7582 | Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny… |
| 21-7543 | Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions | 1. Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the f… |
| 21-1305 | Melchor Munoz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Whether – in a case where (1) the revocation of a criminal defendant's citizenship is mandatory as a result of a plea to a criminal conviction but (2)… |
| 21-7420 | Isiah Pierce v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 | Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003) that ineffective assistance of counsel claims should be litigated in collateral … |
| 21-7428 | Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.… |
| 21-7434 | Darryl Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in … |
| 21-7284 | Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to … |
| 21-7318 | Abraham A. Augustin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements | SENTENCING IN FEDERAL COURT IS GUIDED BY STATUTE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTORS IN 18 … |
| 21-7080 | Galvin Gibson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-claim brady-v-maryland collateral-review criminal-appeal due-process hung-jury napue-claim napue-v-illinois section-2255 strickler-v-greene united-states-v-gibson united-states-v-houston | WHETHER BRADY AND NAPUE CLAIMS WHICH RELATE TO A FIRST TRIAL WHICH RESULTED IN A HUNG JURY ARE COGNIZABLE IN A § 2255 MOTION OR WHETHER THE APPEAL OF … |
| 21-7092 | Epati Malauulu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver | Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 21-6988 | Paul E. Pavulak v. Warden, FMC Butner | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C-§-2241 28-U.S.C-§-2255(e) federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan postconviction-review section-2241 section-2255 | May a federal prisoner seeking review of a defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel seek postconviction review under 28 U.S.C. § 224… |
| 21-6863 | Nesly Loute v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand section-2255 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny… |
| 21-946 | Michael Coscia v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel | Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), … |
| 21-6640 | Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony | 1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m… |
| 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… |
| 21-6099 | Sandchase Cody v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing | Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-347 | Michael Jackson v. Donald Hudson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Dismissed | circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum saving-clause section-2255 statutory-maximum | Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to bring a habeas claim under the saving clause of Section 2255(e) to challenge the unlawful application of a m… | |
| 21-316 | Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation | This Petition seeks to resolve a circuit conflict. Persons convicted of a federal offense can file a petition to challenge their convictions pursuant … |
| 21-79 | Jonathon Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 | Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided Petitioner's Motion for a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of his § 2255 petition rather than e… |
| 20-8334 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion acca armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states legal-landscape section-2255 sentencing-review | Where a § 2255 movant relies on evidence of the legal background at the time of his sentencing to prove he was sentenced under an unconstitutional law… |
| 20-8120 | Gary Lee Willingham v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal | After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm… |
| 20-8053 | William Leroy Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony | Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence, pursuant to United States v. J… |
| 20-7792 | Ralph Stephen Gambina v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-19 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-provision | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 20-1449 | Harold Persaud v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan rule-60b section-2255 trevino-rule trevino-v-thaler | Whether under Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler a Petitioner May Use Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to Reopen a Proceeding Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the B… |
| 20-7635 | Lisa Biron v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner | When the Warden Court's understanding of the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a Conclusion feed date in its den… |
| 20-7522 | Joshua R. Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines 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… |
| 20-7472 | David Maurice Milner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions | Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to consider Mr. Milner's R… |
| 20-7386 | Andrew Chapnick v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 20-7395 | Antonio E. Wills v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum | Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den… |
| 20-7259 | Juan Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1. Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of th… |
| 20-7137 | Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 | I. Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or succ… |
| 20-7091 | Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-challenge residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony | The overall issue is whether, under law set forth in Johnson, Mr. Chaney should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions o… |
| 20-7042 | Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion | Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-7030 | Devaron Antoine Love v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct | Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual innocence to overcome a procedural default where he can show, based on a new decision from thi… |
| 20-6969 | Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony | Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA because post-Johnson (2015), he no longer has three prior qualifying "violent f… |
| 20-6980 | Michael Ray West v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion | Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6893 | Patrick Wallace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 | The United States District Court for the Central District of Ilinois and the Seventh Circuit Court should have issued a COA to review the denials of t… |
| 20-911 | Michael Jackson v. Don Hudson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-custody habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective overruled post-conviction-motion saving-clause section-2255 | Whether Section 2255 is "inadequate or ineffective" when, at the time of petitioner's initial Section 2255 motion, circuit precedent foreclosed a pote… |
| 20-6766 | Steven Justin Villalona v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 | (1) What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings? (A) For example, if the record, mot… |
| 20-865 | In Re Todd Britton-Harr | 2020-12-30 | Denied | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release | Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… | ||
| 20-6600 | Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing | Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or success… |
| 20-6570 | Brandon Bernard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition | Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti… |
| 20-6478 | Barry Addison Gray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 career-offender career-offender-sentencing-guideline due-process johnson-ruling Johnson-v-United-States residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions raising due process vagueness challenges to fixed sentences imposed through application of the pre-2005 mandatory care… |
| 20-6448 | Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden | Third Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq… |
| 20-722 | Rodney Anton Williamson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massiah-v-united-states right-to-counsel rule-33-motion section-2255 sixth-amendment | The right to counsel in this case was violated by the prosecution surreptitiously recording Petitioner after indictment and before arrest and arraignm… |
| 20-6221 | Miguel Nunez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-6186 | Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions | 1. Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential: 28 U.S.C. s 2253 (c) (1)? 2. Whether Court of Appeals was correct in its procedural ruling t… |
| 20-5983 | Omar Sierre Folk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit | 1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016. |
| 20-447 | Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender, which increased his sentence from 135… |
| 20-5953 | Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | andrus-v-texas certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance discovery due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1. Was trial counsel ineffective in his directive to advise McCoy to plead guilty by failing to review the government's discovery in violation of this… |
| 20-5873 | Tario Stamps v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | binding-precedent due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing | Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or success… |
| 20-5878 | Renard Cortez Murray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order precedent second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing | In the Eleventh Circuit, law established in a published, three-judge panel order issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) in the context of an applicati… |
| 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… |
| 20-119 | Louis Ruggiero v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-charges ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard section-2255 | Should the court of appeals have granted a certificate of appealability on whether a district court may deny a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 evidentiary hearing on… |
| 20-71 | Stephen P. Brown v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment | Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab… |
| 20-5110 | Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict collateral-appeal-waiver district-court due-process plea-agreement section-2255 standing sua-sponte | CIRCUIT CONFLICT(split)rWHETHER a district court in a Section 2255 proceeding has the authority to raise a collateral-appeal waiver defense sua sponte… |
| 20-5030 | Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement | Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 19-8737 | James Steiner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness johnson-claim judicial-review meaningful-review rosemond-claim section-2255 | I. In Rosemond v. United States , this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted a n 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense on… |
| 19-8646 | Leonard Griffin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-8633 | Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 | A writ of certiorari be granted since the Eleventh Circuit's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this court whic… |
| 19-8597 | Lewis McKenzie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 19-8585 | Van Jackson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether a federal Prisoner has a Right to Present a argument based on a Change in Procedural law on his first motion under Title 28 U.S.C.S 2255 ?… |
| 19-1245 | Samuel Kwushue v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti… |
| 19-8315 | Todd Michael Vincent v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Question One A review of an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion does not involve the validity of the underlying judgment. Yet, the Eleventh Circuit, lik… |
| 19-8325 | Qais Hussein v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin… |
| 19-8199 | Dwight Bullard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.… |
| 19-8190 | George Lyle Cullett, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing residual-clause section-2255 timeliness timeliness-standard | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-8191 | Benjamin Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker… |
| 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… |
| 19-7958 | Anthony Quinones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker… |
| 19-7974 | Jesse Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker… |
| 19-7976 | Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7977 | Robert Morris Hoff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker… |
| 19-7933 | Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7947 | Bobby Joe Floyd v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7755 | Scott Michael Patrick v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness | Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the right initially recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory G… |
| 19-7636 | Gerald W. Eiland v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment auto-shop-business certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance-counsel expert-testimony franks-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant pen-register section-2255 sixth-amendment wiretap-challenge wiretaps | 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Eiland's motion Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255 without a hearing? 2. Was Eiland denied eff… |
| 19-7640 | Phillip Auston Carrier v. Billy Romero, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review congress-intent consent constitutional-law federal-appellate-court federal-prosecutor federal-prosecutor-consent gatekeeping-role gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-motion prosecutorial-consent second-or-successive-petition second-petition section-2255 | Whether "the remedy by motion " authorized by 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) is rendered "inadequate or ineffective " under §2255(e) when a federal appellate … |
| 19-7616 | Fred Blajos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7527 | Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing | In the Eleventh Circuit, law established in a published, three-judge panel order issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) in the context of an applicati… |
| 19-7325 | Hope K. Kantete v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy | 1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi… |
| 19-7277 | Dora Moreira v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1-) IN A DEPARTURE FROM THE DUE PROCESS REQUIREMENT OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT AND THE COMPULSORY PROCESS PROTECTION OF THE SIX AMENDMENT, 'DID THE UNITED… |
| 19-845 | Charles Huggins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process by his continuing imprisonment who was convicted on insufficient evidence without being granted an e… |
| 19-7144 | James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing | CAN A FEDERAL PRISONER CHALLENGE THEIR SENTENCE OR CONVICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECT. 2241 MOTION WHEN THEIR POST SECTION 2255 MOTION IS INADEQUATE OR I… |
| 19-836 | Paul Ross Evans v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions | 1. When a motion under Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 60(b) is granted with respect to a prisoner's first application under 28 U.S.C. 2255, whether a subsequent a… |
| 19-6889 | In Re Joel Law | 2019-12-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422b 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment,false-imprisonm constitutional-rights false-imprisonment habeas-corpus immediate-relief judicial-review section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1) Am I entitled to immediate relief from this Court, to protect myself and others similarily situated ,. from being falsely imprisoned pursuant to 1… | |
| 19-6842 | Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit court… |
| 19-6858 | David Lamont Liddell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-6832 | James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6686 | Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard | Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6689 | Frank Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6658 | Booker Terry Simmons v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6665 | Wesley Harlan Kingsbury v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-coercion section-2255 voluntariness | The petitioner entered a guilty plea to health care fraud after his jury trial on the charges had commenced. He later filed a motion seeking to vacate… |
| 19-6600 | Barry Lernard Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion coa-brief court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing manifest-injustice procedural-due-process psr psr-challenge section-2255 sentencing-claim sentencing-evidence sentencing-issue sentencing-review | 1. Where petitioner attacked evidence; Statens Certified Motion to Dismiss allegation in his PSR, of R.D., to his 2255 Motion, and argued his evidence… |
| 19-6618 | Delvin Deon Tinker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-provision criminal-motion elements-clause federal-statutory-provision mens-rea resisting-arrest retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-decision section-2255 | Under what circumstances is a criminal defendant pursuing a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decisi… |
| 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… |
| 19-6530 | Vincent Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit | whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not applying the Davis ruling to Mr Williams firearm habeas corpus petition towards his firearm co… |
| 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… |
| 19-6379 | Timothy Edward Holz v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | career-offender collateral-review crime-of-violence johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentence-enhancement mandatory-sentencing pre-booker pre-booker-mandatory residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.2a | Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), invalidated U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(a)---the career offender guideline's residual… |
| 19-6355 | Eric Mack v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions | Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t… |
| 19-6287 | Seferino Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines 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… |
| 19-6208 | Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 | 1.) When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of… |
| 19-6209 | John Hudson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony | The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica… |
| 19-6138 | William A. White v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power | 1) May a District Court, in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding, strike all of the evidence presented in support of the motion from the record, refuse to allow … |
| 19-5837 | Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search | 1. Was Petitioners guilty plea sustained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable Search and Seizure, where law enforcement conducted a wa… |
| 19-5661 | David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing | 1. WHETHER THERE EXIST A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IN THIS CASE AND THE UNANIMOUS DE… |
| 19-5588 | Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process inadequate-representation-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merit-review section-2255 waive waiver | DID CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARISE WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL'S FAILED TO RAISE NON-FRIVOLOUS MERIT(S) "INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL" ON DEFENDANT'S FIRS… |
| 19-5538 | Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 19-5516 | Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5523 | Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions | § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not Was petitioner's initial demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice? Was it legal for the… |
| 19-5391 | 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 … |
| 19-130 | In Re Randolph George | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus | In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti… | |
| 19-5315 | Raymond Aguilar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions 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… |
| 19-5267 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions | 1. Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process in his direct appeal violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive … |
| 19-5294 | Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing | 1. Whether the Fed. R as a matter of course' Responsive pleading is filed can be arbitrarily disregarded and denied?Cxim. P. 15(a) Motion 's right to … |
| 19-105 | Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ("Court of Appeals") on the grounds that the showi… |
| 19-5255 | Frank Lobacz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel | 1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S… |
| 19-5241 | Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler | Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me… |
| 19-52 | Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-5080 | Reyes Vega, aka Ray Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review section-1291 section-2255 unadjudicated-claims | Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adj… |
| 18-9781 | Adam J. Winarske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to … |
| 18-9800 | Barton Joseph Adams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment civil-contempt civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-incarceration section-2255 supervisory-powers | Whether the district court and the appeal court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings throughout this case including whe… |
| 18-9715 | Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements | WHETHER THE US DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION FOR FAILURE TO CONDUCT [A]N EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO 28 SECTION 2255(b) IN LIGHT OF A FACTU… |
| 18A1326 | Lisa Montgomery v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge death-penalty federal-habeas section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 18A1309 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 18A1310 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure pro-se section-2255 supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9537 | Stephen S. Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review | On the basis of a § 2254, a claim of fraud upon the court will have been reviewed by state courts prior to the Federal District Court level. However, … |
| 18-9506 | Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | 1. Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed within one year of, Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and claiming that Johnson inval… |
| 18-9412 | Amin A. Rashid v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-act criminal-act-concealment due-process evidentiary-hearing exoneration fundamental-defect judicial-misconduct mail-fraud miscarriage-of-justice neutral-judge section-2255 standing | Whether Undisputed Evidence Suggesting That The Trial Judge Was Acting To Conceal A Criminal Act Committed By Prior Judges In The Case Which Act If Ad… |
| 18-9368 | Antonio Dean Blackstone v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 2255-motion criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause section-2255 section-924c timeliness-standard united-states-v-davis vagueness | 1. Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case, where Petitioner filed a § 2255 claiming that Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2… |
| 18-9343 | Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States , this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definitio… |
| 18-9329 | Sean M. Barnhill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review | Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis when it re-adjudicated the merits of pro se petitioner's § 2255, and then denied … |
| 18-9336 | Saul Elias Camilo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | I Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective ass… |
| 18-9277 | Melvin Scott Morman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 18-9240 | Carlos Cordoba v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations | A one year statute of limitation exists for a federal prisoner to collaterally challenge his criminal judgment. The limitation period, however, is not… |
| 18-9122 | Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion | Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) applies to denial of access to court claims? 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) allocates s… |
| 18-8630 | Joseph Christopher Birdtail v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal section-2255 | Is it error for a district court to deny either discovery proceedings or an evidentiary hearing under the Federal Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceed… |
| 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… |
| 18-8245 | Gary Casdell Fite v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent general-intent-crime section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-8112 | Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing | Should the judgment be vacated, and mabe remanded, in light of [ Buck v. Davis, 580 US. _; : 137 S.Ct. 759, 197 L.Ed2d 107 (2017)-]. Where the Court O… |
| 18-7989 | Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 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… |
| 18-7801 | Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
| 18-7748 | James Freeman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims | Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione… |
| 18-7723 | Randy Dempsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7581 | Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 | Question 1 The majority of the federal appeallate circuits conclude that § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to adjudicte a claim of actual innocence… |
| 18-7379 | Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Johnson), this Court declared unconstitutional the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 18-7300 | Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue | 1. What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)? 2. Based on the correct interpretation of section 2255(e), is Mil… |
| 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… |
| 18-7132 | 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… |
| 18-6914 | Daniel Rojas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime | I. What amount of force satisfies this Court's definition of "physical force," that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another pe… |
| 18-6838 | Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing | Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 - … |
| 18-6795 | Darrell Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case whereas the petition creates an important first impression of the merits, which will ha… |
| 18-6733 | Laura Shauger v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit | This case raises a pressing issue of national importance: In applying for a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal from the denial of a motion u… |
| 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… |
| 18-6584 | Larry Flenoid v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-irregularity second-or-successive section-2255 supervisory-powers | WHETHER THE SUPERVISORY POWERS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL BE ASSERTED TO CORRECT THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUMMARILY AFFIRMING … |
| 18-6494 | Terrance Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review | In 2013, the district court applied an incorrect legal standard when denying Terrance Johnson's §2255. In 2016, Mr. Johnson sought to reopen the §2255… |
| 18-6430 | Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those … |
| 18-6350 | Zavien Brand v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts | ALTHOUGH NOT ARGUED BY DEFENSE COUNSEL NOR NOTICED BY THE DISTRICT COURT DURING THE 28 U.S.C. §2255 PROCEEDING, WAS THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPE… |
| 18-6249 | Markos Pappas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Does the certificate of appealability ("COA") requirement of 228 U.S.C. § 2253(c) that explicitly applies to motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, also appl… |
| 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… |
| 18-6146 | Charles Neuman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 | Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause, … |
| 18-357 | Dragomir Taskov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness | Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and all the violations of his constitutional rights are barred simply as untimely and because of t… |
| 18-6013 | Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | IFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2… |
| 18-6024 | Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit | (1) Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contrevene Buck. v. Davis,85 U. S.L.WI 4037,2017 BL :54115 (U.s.2/22/17) because the 3rd Circuit … |
| 18-5939 | Gary Michael Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timely-filing vagueness | 1. Whether a motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. _, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and asser… |
| 18-5814 | Bobby Cruz v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix section-2255 | DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING BOBBY CURZ A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENYING CRUZ'S AMEND… |
| 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… |
| 18-5790 | Uiki Teaupa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment | Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution entitle A Pro Se Defendant the right to have (1) discovery conducted on his claims of gove… |
| 18-5692 | Melvin Jordan, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony | (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2… |
| 18-5707 | Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his § 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1… |
| 18-5709 | Paul Allen Anderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 | WHETHER AN APPEAL WAIVER CAN BE ENFORCED IN A TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 2255 PROCEEDING WHEN PETITIONER HAS BASED HIS CLAIMS ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUN… |
| 18-5683 | In Re Todd Britton-Harr | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus judicial-review mortgage-fraud newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief section-2255 successive-motion successive-motions | Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner's application seeking an order authorizing the district court to consider a second or su… | |
| 18-5620 | Mario Zuniga v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… |
| 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… |
| 18-5515 | Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order | The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mr. Salemi a certificate of appealability with a summary order using boiler plate language. Did the Eleve… |
| 18-5488 | Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review | Does the Lower Court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5398 | Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5293 | George Anthony Autobee v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness | 1. Whether Mr. Autobee'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 … |
| 18-5263 | Bobby Ree McGee, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | IFP | 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability elements-clause johnson-claim residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 statutory-maximum violent-felony | Mr. McGee was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 180 months' impriso… |
| 18-5044 | Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred when it denied Petitioner's petition for issuance of a certificate of appealability to … |