No. 25-5809

Anthony Lee Van Durmen v. Bryan Morrison, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-10-06
Status: Rehearing
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: appeal-of-right constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-impediment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2026-02-20 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

WHERE PETITIONER'S APPEAL OF RIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER (20) YEARS DUE TO THE STATE'S CREATED IMPEDIMENT WHICH PROHIBITED HIM FROM FILING, RESULTING IN SEVERE PREJUDICE, IS HE ENTITLED TO A NEW TRIAL WHERE AT LEAST ONE CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A REVERSAL UNDER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a petitioner's appeal of right delayed for over 20 years due to state-created impediment entitles him to a new trial under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2026-01-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
2025-12-16
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2025-11-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-11-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/21/2025.
2025-11-05
Waiver of right of respondent Bryan Morrison, Warden to respond filed.
2025-04-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 5, 2025)

Attorneys

Anthony Van Durmen
Anthony Lee Van Durmen — Petitioner
Bryan Morrison, Warden
Ann Maurine ShermanMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent