| 25-578 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome |
Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti… |
| 23-6960 |
Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome |
May a State, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, refuse to resentence petitioner, who was sentenced to life in prison … |
| 23A674 |
Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
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due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6171 |
Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction |
Veterans, to include active duty service members and family members that are stationed in the continental United States at installations garrisoned by… |
| 22-7546 |
Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome |
(1) Does a conviction, based on a causation theory presented to a jury as scientific fact and used to establish that a homicide occurred, violate due … |
| 22-6167 |
Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome |
Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that … |
| 21-504 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opin… |
| 20-6485 |
Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken
baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co… |
| 18-1273 |
Alma Caldavado v. New York |
New York |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense expert-testimony harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence presumption-of-ineffective-assistance shaken-baby-syndrome strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. In an SBS prosecution, where defense counsel neither calls, nor consults with, an SBS expert to counter the prosecution's expert testimony on the "… |
| 18-5830 |
A. L., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights due-process free-speech parental-rights shaken-baby-syndrome standing |
Question not identified. |
| 24A349 |
Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas |
Texas |
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Denied |
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actual-innocence capital-punishment changed-science due-process forensic-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated Robert Leslie Roberson III's constitutional rights to due process and a meaningful opportunity to… |