unlawful-prosecution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-766 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution Petitioner was charged, subjected to pretrial proceedings, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for an act that the law does not make criminal. Petition…
20-5451 Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-08-21 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution When Petitioning For Federal Habeas Relief a 2nd Time, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where "Conceding Guilt" Nevertheless Could Not Wa…