| 25-5898 |
Jeremiah Bobb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-witness constitutional-rights evidentiary-error ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strategic-decision |
A child-witness's initial interview with the authorities was recorded and the child un-equivocally stated that the Petitioner did not sexually assault… |
| 25-5004 |
Delano Hale v. Bill Cool, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-defense forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance strategic-decision strickland-standard |
In a capital murder case focused on the circumstances of the decedent's death, where forensic evidence is known to comprise the State's main evidence,… |
| 22-5523 |
Lawrence Gaines v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions no-adverse-inference strategic-decision trial-counsel |
I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT REVERSED THE WELL REASONED DECISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT WHICH HELD THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE … |
| 21-8137 |
David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation |
1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his ineffe… |
| 21-7456 |
Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision |
Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r… |
| 21-1080 |
Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
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capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy |
1. Petitioner's trial counsel accidentally opened the
door to devastating extraneous offense evidence.
Could reasonable jurists disagree with the dist… |
| 21-938 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit violate basic principles of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when it failed to reweigh the whole of the evidenc… |
| 20-5155 |
Charles E. Coughlin v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-expert-witnesses strategic-decision unreasonable-determination |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel holding "appellant has not made a substantial… |
| 19-7994 |
David Armondo Butler v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage |
Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic… |
| 19-5592 |
Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making |
1. Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions?
… |
| 18-9065 |
Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington |
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| 18-8464 |
Oscar Lamar Mims v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial strategic-decision strickland-standard suspension-of-writ writ-of-review |
Does the Certificate of Appealability process weaken the efficacy of the Writ, either to the point of working a Suspension of the Writ or of making §2… |
| 18-7888 |
Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony |
WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONDUCT ANY PRETRIAL INVESTIGATIONS TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW POTENTIAL WITNESSES THAT COULD HAVE SUPPORTED P… |
| 18-671 |
Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision |
1. Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or an… |