| 25-6611 |
James E. Frantz v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations constitutional-error habeas-corpus judicial-discretion substantive-claim |
1) Did the District Court error by failing to recognizing substantive claims as cognizable under habeas corpus and failing to exercise its equitable a… |
| 21-7592 |
Detrick Deroven v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment |
Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment… |
| 21-7015 |
Edward T. James v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review |
1. Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim? |
| 20-5965 |
Vito A. Pelino v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-reopening civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts judicial-discretion rule-60(b) rule-60b state-courts substantive-claim |
Whether jurists of reason can debate that repeated decisions to ignore (not dismiss or deny) a substantive claim constitutes sufficiently "extraordina… |
| 18-8242 |
Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim |
Did The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in Denying Certificate of Appealability of the denial of the Amendment of th… |