| 25-6831 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255-motion |
Petitioner sought relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on grounds of ineffective assistance arising from errors and omissions by counsel pertaining to both c… |
| 24-5532 |
Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion |
Nearly all federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. In many of those pleas, the defendant signs an agreement promising not to file a future 28 U.S… |
| 24-5380 |
Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance section-2255-motion sentencing-variance sixth-amendment |
Did the lower courts err in conflating Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, thereby denying both due process and effective assistance of counsel, when th… |
| 23-5810 |
Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion |
1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability?
2. Shoul… |
| 23A314 |
Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
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attorney-client-communications collateral-review guilty-plea prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion tollett-v-henderson |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7713 |
Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Did Reprise His Grounds from His Motion… |
| 22-7354 |
Rafael L. Beier v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,… |
| 22-6128 |
Christopher Erwin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b… |
| 22-5547 |
Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28 USC 2255 claim, where the District … |
| 22-5293 |
Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers |
1.- Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability(C.O.A.), where petitioner sought review… |
| 21-8147 |
John P. Tomkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion |
1. Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.… |
| 21-6874 |
Joshua Britt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction, where
the District Court, without an evidentiary… |
| 20-7603 |
In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford |
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2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion |
The district court Judge A. Marcia Crone, has unreasonably delayed the ruling on my 28 U.S.C. §2255 Motion for over Seventeen (17) months after the la… |
| 20-6509 |
Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion 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… |
| 19-8657 |
Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion |
The first question deals with circumstances under which an evidentiary hearing may be warranted, including the level of burden a petitioner must meet … |
| 19-8139 |
Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion |
Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1.
Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of
his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot… |
| 19-7675 |
Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing |
WHETHER the us court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied petitioner's request for a certificate of Appealability by failing to grant hi… |
| 19-6016 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 18-7358 |
Aaron Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… |
| 18-6915 |
Carlton Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g… |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-5786 |
Donell A. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object … |
| 18-229 |
Ralph Curry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
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28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion |
Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a succes… |
| 18-5674 |
Roger Clay Swain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness |
Did Mr. Swain file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which "h… |
| 18-5217 |
Audy Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care… |