| 25-6390 |
Busch Sereal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non… |
| 24-6396 |
Ryan Perrin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions |
I. When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (AC… |
| 24-5776 |
Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions |
To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec… |
| 23-5388 |
Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application |
DOES McHAM V. STATE /404 S.C. 465/746 S.E.2d 41(2013), REQUIRE
THAT PETITIONER BE ALLOWED TO FILE A SUBSEQUENT PCR APPLICATION? |
| 23-5259 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions |
DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY?
II. IS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURTS DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS,… |
| 22-7879 |
Olyric Robinson v. California |
California |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review california-procedure constitutional-rights due-process hit-and-run mandated-procedures parole-decision-making-instrument parole-revocation state-court-decisions substantial-evidence |
Whether the state courts of California rendered decisions in violation of precedents (i) established by other state courts of last resort or United St… |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi… |
| 22-6613 |
Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington |
Whether the state appel late court in this case misappl ied thi s Court's holding
in Harrington v. Richter , 562 U .S. 86 (2011). |
| 22-6509 |
Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers |
1. Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err when it interpreted your holding in Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S.Ct. 1188 (2018) to mean that "in assessing the rea… |
| 22-5332 |
Jerome Mellion v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection manslaughter pro-se state-court-decisions state-supreme-court |
DID THE LOUISIANA STATE SUPREME COURT VIOLATE THE FEDERAL U.S.
14TH AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION "EQUAL PROTECTION " OF
LAW GUARANTEES WHEN… |
| 22-5086 |
Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure |
1- Plaintiff invoked the violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution of the
United States as to the fact that he was not served with a due pr… |
| 21-7905 |
Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit |
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| 21-7562 |
Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
1. whether, the fifth Circuit Court appling Moore,534 f3d 4les Conflict with the decisian of this Court Hancock. 139 sct2714
2. whether the fifth Cir… |
| 21-846 |
John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-12-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court |
In Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), this Court held that in cases where a capital defendant's future dangerousness is at issue, due pro… |
| 20-5801 |
James Rogers v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 19-8042 |
Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi… |
| 19-7455 |
Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness |
1. Whether the "clearly established Federal law" provision of the Antiterrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categori… |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 19-6863 |
In Re Melvin Bonnell |
|
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard |
Bonnell's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will cause disparate interpretations of the federal Constitutio… |
| 18-9159 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 18-9152 |
Gary Reid v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 18-9092 |
Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-9080 |
Joseph Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 18-85 |
Pamela B. Stuart v. Catherine S. Ryan, et al. |
Florida |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-remedies due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights state-court-decisions state-courts takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause applies to the decisions of state courts, and, if so, under what circumstances may this Court review and remedy state judic… |