| 25-6846 |
Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
batson-challenge capital-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes strickland-prejudice |
1. whether a post-conviction petitioner must prove a successful Batson challenge would change the outcome of the trial to show Strickland prejudice.
… |
| 25A407 |
Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6038 |
Robert Wharton v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
capital-case harmless-error juror-prejudice mitigation-evidence strickland-prejudice wiggins-standard |
1. How should the "one juror" standard of prejudice set forth in Wiggins v. Smith be applied where the mitigation that counsel failed to investigate w… |
| 24-5271 |
Claude P. Lacombe v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-prejudice |
1. Under Puckett v. United States , 556 U.S. 129 (2009) and Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), a petitioner seeking habeas relief from a sente… |
| 24-5163 |
Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
(1) Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and inst… |
| 23-7765 |
Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cumulative-error death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
Counsel failed to object to the capital trial court's multiple misleading and inappropriate comments during jury selection about the uniquely gruesome… |
| 23-7569 |
Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance multiple-representation sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard sullivan-standard trial-court |
When counsel alerts the trial court to a conflict of interest not involving multiple representation, and the trial court fails to resolve the conflict… |
| 23-5767 |
Fidel Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complainant-credibility credibility-determination expert-testimony harmless-error lay-testimony sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in its review of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment claim – and its evaluation of Strickland prejudice – when it determined tha… |
| 23A175 |
Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice structural-error voir-dire |
Question not identified. |
| 23A29 |
Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1000 |
William Casiano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability contemporaneous-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining strickland-prejudice |
1. Does the rule in Lee v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1958, 1967 (2017), that directs courts to credit contemporaneous evidence, and not "post hoc asse… |
| 21-6909 |
Mark Allen Geralds v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady brady-materiality cumulative-analysis due-process giglio-violation materiality prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland strickland-prejudice trial-confidence |
1. Whether the materiality inquiry for Brady and the prejudice analysis for Strickland require a cumulative analysis in determining whether confidence… |
| 21-6039 |
Stanley Blair Hill v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process expert-testimony junk-science scientific-evidence strickland-prejudice |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8921 |
Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
Trial counsel in this capital case knew that the defendant's mother had consumed alcohol while pregnant. Despite recognizing the need to investigate w… |
| 19-8833 |
Christopher Mann v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maryland-court-of-appeals prejudice strickland-prejudice strickland-test weaver-precedent weaver-v-massachusetts |
Has the Maryland Court of Appeals abused its discretion by applying Weaver v. Massachusetts(, 137 S. Ct. 1899 (2017)) to mandate looking at the streng… |
| 19-8105 |
Justin Anderson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brain-damage capital-sentencing federal-habeas fetal-alcohol-spectrum fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-proceedings strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
Trial counsel for the defendant in this capital case learned from four witnesses that the defendant's mother had a drinking problem, including one wit… |
| 19-5568 |
Keith D. Nelson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-damage capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability childhood-abuse childhood-sexual-abuse ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard |
1. Does it violate the Strickland prejudice standard to conclude that never before presented evidence of brain damage, severe mental illness, and chil… |
| 18-6320 |
Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-investigation reasonable-investigation strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard unreasonable-factual-findings unreasonable-findings-of-fact |
(1) Defense attorneys must conduct reasonable investigations . Out of twenty one potential witnesses, trial counsel only interviewed McGhee and his fr… |
| 18-5231 |
Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke |
Question not identified. |