| 23-7227 |
Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity… |
| 22-7859 |
Timothy Sumpter v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis state-post-conviction strickland strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Under clearly established law, in most ineffective assistance of trial counsel cases, prejudice is shown by demonstrating "a reasonable probability th… |
| 22-7021 |
Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling |
QUESTION No. 1
Wnether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the dis… |
| 22-6851 |
David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
(1) Under these circumstances, does a court of appeals violate the
fundamental principles of party presentation and Petitioner's due
process rights?
… |
| 22-490 |
Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's… |
| 21-862 |
Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
§2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction |
1. Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclus… |
| 19-7280 |
David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness |
To whether Jones' successful Florida Claim 23-80 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart his one-year statute of limitations and Effectiv… |
| 19-5715 |
Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts competent-counsel constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-post-conviction |
Whether the appointment by a convicting court of a lawyer, who was not competent to
represent the indigent, death-sentenced prisoner at any stage of t… |
| 19-38 |
Malcolm McGee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-law federal-sentence-enhancement felony-drug-offense recidivist-sentence-enhancement recidivist-sentencing resentencing retroactive-reduction sentence-enhancement state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-prison-sentence successful-attack |
When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a state prison sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhancem… |
| 18-9297 |
Jeremy Shane Hall v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance professional-norms reasonableness-of-counsel record-evidence sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
Whether a court can disregard record evidence of the prevailing professional norms in assessing the reasonableness of counsel's action or inaction und… |
| 18-9176 |
Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction |
1.Under the AEDPA of Title 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), should Petitioner's State Nunc Pro Tunc Request be considered as "other collateral review with resp… |
| 18-1132 |
Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
|
cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler |
Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to IATC claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went wholly unsubstantiated due to the … |
| 18-7813 |
Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure |
(1.) At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become so inadequate as to render that process "ineffective" as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. § 2… |
| 18-7396 |
Alonzo Fishback v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa credibility credibility-of-counsel deference-to-state-court due-process federal-review federal-review-of-state-court-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentencing sixth-amendment state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-review |
The Anti-Te rrorism and Effe ctive De ath Penalty Act (A EDPA) re quires a f ederal habe as
corpus c ourt to g ive substantial defe rence to the findi… |
| 18-6872 |
Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence |
1. Post-AEDPA, can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct, where the Commonwealth suppressed arguabl… |
| 18-5244 |
Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework |
1. Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an where (1) the state has removed ce… |