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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1086 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-09 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition law-of-the-case-doctrine mandate-rule Sixth-Circuit-review summary-judgment Thompson-v-Clark Question not identified.
24-6195 Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review Where Petitioner presented substantial new evidence that not only shows he is innocent of murder, but further reveals the identity of the actual kille…
23-320 Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. James Harrison Fox, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-interest compelling-state-interest corrections-policy cutter-v-wilkinson deference-standard prison-administration racial-unrest religious-freedom sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to give adequate deference under Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), to the Michigan Department of Corrections'…
22-6830 Michael Joseph Loukas v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) due-process evidence-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion medication-warning-labels prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sixth-circuit-review 1. Was the Sixth Circuit decision based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Evidance presented in the state court proceedi…
21-72 Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an "adverse effect…
20-7918 Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that "mere outcome determination" is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington…
20-7086 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it applied a death penalty sentencing Strickland review, in a non death penalty case, raising an actual innocence…
20-507 Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of cou…
20-5956 Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the…
19-824 Lonnie Lee Owens v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived blakely-error compromise-verdict disputed-facts harmless-error judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit-review subjective-assessment witness-credibility In the decade since this Court ruled in Washington v. Recuenco, 548 U.S. 212 (2006), that errors under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), can…
19-770 Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler This Court's decisions in Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler , 133 S. Ct. 1911 (2013) held that state prisoners whose states …
19-6727 Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL…
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 …
18-6454 Charles Nash v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler TEENAGER CHARLES NASH WAS SUBJECT TO TALK FIRST INTERROGATION TACTICS YET DEFENSE COUNSEL SOUGHT SUPPRESSION OF HIS SIATEMENT ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS HAVI…
18-5938 Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence 1.) Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with…
18-5831 Willie Riley Curry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation The Fourth Amendment has continuously been applied to cases like the one here. The Sixth Circuit failed to follow that jurisprudence. Does Carpenter a…
18-5358 Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY DECIDE DISPUTED FACTUAL ISSUES AND DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE; AND DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY AGREE WIT…
18-5006 Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable…