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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Tags	Question Presented
24A713	Matthew Lee Flowers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2025-01-22	Presumed Complete	confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel	Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel fails to adequately investigate…
24A641	Jose Guillermo Mendez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-12-30	Presumed Complete	certiorari indigent legal-resources prison-restrictions pro-se time-extension	Whether a pro se indigent prisoner's limited access to legal resources and prison mail restrictions constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifyin…
24A585	Trinidad Alvarado v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-12-16	Presumed Complete	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment methamphetamine-possession search-and-seizure	Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through an allegedly illegal search and seizure in a state criminal prosecut…
24-6123	Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-12-11	Denied	criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault	Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t…
24A545	Bartholomew Granger v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-12-04	Presumed Complete	capital-murder constitutional-deficiency critical-stage ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel	Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires reversal of a capital murder conviction where trial counsel allegedly pr…
24A538	Anthony Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-12-03	Presumed Complete	capital-punishment constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard	Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when a defendant demonstrates ineffective assistance of counsel that potentially prejudiced the outco…
24-5986	Patrick Bernard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-11-15	Denied	constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation	Question not identified.
24-5865	Reginald Donell Rice v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-10-30	Denied	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief	Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a criminal defendant's constitutio…
24-5670	Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-30	Denied	None	QUESTION PRESENTED Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment prevent the execution of an intellectually disabled deat…
24-5671	Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-30	Denied	aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation	Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of counsel substitution replicates the Christeson error and fails to address a potential conflict of interest i…
24-5571	Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-18	Denied	appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation	Whether a circuit split exists regarding the ineffective assistance of counsel standard for stipulating to a defendant's prior felony conviction
24-5515	Bryant Christopher Watts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-11	Denied	None	Question not identified.
24A247	Sam Autry Fletcher v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-09	Presumed Complete	constitutional-rights habeas-corpus prisoner-litigation pro-se section-2254 technological-evidence	Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition without fully cons…
24-5364	Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-22	Denied	attorney-abandonment fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-motion maples-v-thomas rule-60b-motion	Did the Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion by misinterpreting a Rule 60(b) motion as a jurisdictional Rule 4(a) motion, and did the circuit court's de…
24-5344	Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-19	Denied	circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors	Whether reviewing courts must consider the cumulative effect of counsel's errors in determining Strickland prejudice and weigh Van Arsdall factors for…
24-5233	Jose Carlos Belmont v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-05	Denied	circuit-split civil-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-gateway newly-discovered-evidence standing state-vacatur successive-writ takings	Question not identified
24-5212	Clarence Wyatt Holland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-01	Denied	circuit-court due-process fundamental-justice harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-law	Did the Circuit Court apply the correct harmless-error standard and properly consider the record evidence of prejudice?
24-5169	Jeremy David Spielbauer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-07-30	Denied	challenges-for-cause constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection media-coverage trial-procedure use-immunity venue	Question not identified.
23-7834	Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-06-28	Denied	4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention	Whether the officers had probable cause for the stop, whether there was a search warrant for the car, whether there was sufficient evidence to support…
23A1093	Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-06-07	Presumed Complete	certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se	Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner lacks acc…
23-1255	Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-30	Denied	certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant	Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate of …
23-7577	Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-28	Denied	capital-case capital-punishment due-process good-cause ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief postconviction-counsel potentially-meritorious rhines-standard rhines-v-weber voir-dire	Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel cannot establish 'good cause' under Rhines v. Weber? And…
23A1035	Dedric Dixon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-21	Presumed Complete	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy felony-murder ineffective-assistance jury-verdicts	Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when he is convicted of felony murder after being acquitted of intentional murder ba…
23-7437	Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-09	Denied	appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review	Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process
23A978	Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-02	Presumed Complete	death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rhines-stay voir-dire wiggins-claim	Whether a death row inmate can obtain a Rhines stay to return to state court and exhaust a procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of trial coun…
23-7340	Kelton Vondre Yates v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-04-30	Denied	appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court-jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations	Whether Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations
23A946	Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-04-22	Presumed Complete	civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b	Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) can overcome procedural default when the prisoner claims lac…
23A923	Bryant Christopher Watts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-04-16	Presumed Complete	civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction notice-of-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se	Whether a pro se prisoner's untimely notice of appeal can be excused under equitable tolling principles when the delay results from alleged procedural…
23-7227	Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-04-15	Denied	agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction	Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity…
23-7142	Elizabeth A. Ramsey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-04-05	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-rights presumption-of-innocence standing	Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the court's refusal to allow him to present evidence and witnesses in his defense
23-7086	Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-27	Denied	8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation	whether-grievances-were-properly-filed
23A857	Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-21	Presumed Complete	appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution	Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o…
23-7039	Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-20	Denied	appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default	Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double-jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally-defaulted
23-7037	Billy Joe King v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-20	Denied	appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility judicial-review mental-capacity standing	Whether the petitioner has met the burden of proof to establish his mental incompetence and entitlement to a competency hearing
23-7000	Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-15	Denied	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias sex-crimes sixth-amendment	Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes?
23M73	Anthony Dewayne Jamerson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-13	Presumed Complete	None
23-1004	Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-13	Denied	capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court	Whether a federal claim is 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)
23-6956	David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-11	Denied	collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction	Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und…
23-6924	Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-07	Denied	actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error	Does a federal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S.C…
23-974	Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-06	Denied	aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations	Whether the federal habeas corpus statute of limitations begins to run from the finality of a deferred adjudication order or the finality of the judgm…
23-6806	Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-22	Denied	criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process jury jury-impartiality justice-system obstruction-of-justice penal-code pre-trial trial-rights	When does Penal Code 21.02 adulterate the justice system, obstructing due process, pre-trial and an impartial jury?
23A760	Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-20	Presumed Complete	court-procedure legal-access petition-forms pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari	Whether a pro se petitioner can obtain Supreme Court petition forms when unable to access them through standard channels
23-6764	Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-20	Denied	administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default	Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim to equitable tolling based on the prison mailroom's mishandling of prisoner mail, includin…
23A737	Byron Ray Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-08	Presumed Complete	aedpa alternative-perpetrator child-sexual-abuse habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment	Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to present alternative perpetrator evidenc…
23A713	Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-01	Presumed Complete	agency-duties death-penalty ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-habeas waiver-of-rights	Whether an attorney's complete abdication of agency duties during a client's waiver of state habeas review can constitute cause to excuse a procedural…
23-6515	John Edward Hall v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-01-18	Denied	burden-of-proof death-penalty due-process federal-habeas standard-of-review state-court	Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) (28 U.S.C. 2254(d)) governing federal habeas review of state court decisions…
23-6451	Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-01-10	Denied	abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review	Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review?
23A635	Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-01-09	Presumed Complete	impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire	Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when a juror with a potential familial connection to a witness i…
23-6365	Rodney Adam Hurdsman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-12-27	Denied	critical-stage incarceration plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-period right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial	whether-the-pretrial-period-is-a-critical-stage
23-6255	David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-12-13	Denied	aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause	Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of 'direct …
23-635	Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-12-13	Denied	28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure	Has a claim been 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never con…
23-6227	Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-12-11	Denied	certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict	Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability
23A496	Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-12-01	Presumed Complete	aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision	Whether a state court's decision can be considered an 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when the defendant was denied a full and …
23-6139	Milton Dwayne Gobert v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-30	Denied	client-instructions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel per-se-rule sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington substitution-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-strategy	Does this Court's clearly established precedent under Strickland v. Washington permit lower courts to hold that trial counsel's performance categorica…
23-6108	Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-27	Denied	compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-procedure	Whether or not State violates an accused person's Due Process Rights when Texas High Court denies his State 11.07 Habeas Corpus, without written order…
23A472	Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-27	Presumed Complete	capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia	Whether a defendant's severe mental illness and state habeas counsel's abandonment can constitute cause to excuse procedural default in a capital case…
23-6076	Timothy Ricardo Pedraza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-22	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility statutory-interpretation texas	Whether a State or US Court of Appeals abused its discretion and/or committed plain error for a misapplication of state law (statute)
23-6003	David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-15	Denied	civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-history reconstruction-era removal-act statutory-interpretation	Should an important federal law from the Reconstruction Era be given its original public meaning or should it remain a virtual deadletter due to the g…
23A440	David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-15	Denied	capital-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion removal-statute	Whether the Equal Protection Clause permits disparate treatment of capital defendants by state prosecutors in seeking execution dates without a meanin…
23A434	Ernesto L. Natividad v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-15	Presumed Complete	certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner pro-se writ-of-habeas-corpus	Whether a pro se incarcerated petitioner can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when awaiting a response from the Circuit Court …
23-6008	Matthew Johnson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-14	Denied	capital-punishment district-court-discretion docket-control due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations	Does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) require a federal district court to allow the full 1-year period for habeas applications?
23A410	Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-07	Denied	certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus	Whether a state court dissent on a constitutional claim requires granting a certificate of appealability in a death penalty habeas proceeding
23A394	Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-01	Presumed Complete	circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court	Whether the preclusive scope of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) permits federal courts to consider ineffective assistance of counsel claims that were not adjudica…
23A380	Anthony Dewayne Jamerson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-26	Presumed Complete	None	Question not identified.
23-5887	Arthur Vasquez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-26	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings	Whether the Supreme Court of the United States has jurisdiction to review the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
23A353	Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-18	Presumed Complete	None	Question not identified.
23-5824	Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-17	Dismissed	administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process standing	How can the FTC prove that they have an actual injury to a consumer's rights?
23-5767	Fidel Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-12	Denied	complainant-credibility credibility-determination expert-testimony harmless-error lay-testimony sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard	Did the Fifth Circuit err in its review of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment claim and its evaluation of Strickland prejudice when it determined that repea…
23-5772	Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-12	Denied	appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling	Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in sustaining the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas' hol…
23A320	Milton Dwayne Gobert v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-12	Presumed Complete	None	Question not identified.
23-323	Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-09-28	Denied	abandonment aedpa gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus indigent-representation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b) second-or-successive-petition	Whether a Rule 60(b) motion claiming that habeas counsel's abandonment prevented the consideration of a petitioner's claims should always be recharact…
23-5637	Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-09-22	Denied	aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions	Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a COA for failure to properly consider the framework in which successive petitions are mandated to be reviewed
23-5500	Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-09-01	Denied	confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action	Can a state's evidentiary rules violate the Constitution's due process clause by depriving a defendant of a fair trial?
23-5498	Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-31	Dismissed	civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation	Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
23A183	Richard Wayne Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-29	Presumed Complete	None	Question not identified.
23-5421	Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-23	Denied	capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review strickland-v-washington	whether-contradictory-state-federal-court-rulings-demonstrate-debatability-of-constitutional-claim
23-5321	Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-09	Denied	appeals appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining procedural-barriers right-to-counsel state-courts	Question not identified
23-5250	Jaleel Bertrand Franklin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-01	Denied	certificate-of-appealability counsel-statements due-process jurist-standard legal-deference logical-fallacy presumption-of-correctness racial-composition racial-makeup-of-venire state-created-barrier venire-panel	Whether counsel's statements are entitled to 'double deference' or a presumption of correctness when such are premised entirely upon a logical fallacy…
23-5251	Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-01	Denied	4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement	Was evidence presented at a trial for murder subject to the exclusionary rule, where said evidence was the result of an illegal search of the defendan…
23-5206	Francisco J. Castaneda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-26	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-procedure detention-standards due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-questioning search-and-seizure	Was the petitioner unlawfully detained?
23-5219	Jerry Wilson, aka Steve Vic Parker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-26	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation	Is a United States Citizen Wrongfully Imprisoned, LIFE-IN-DANGER
23A38	Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-17	Presumed Complete	AEDPA-statute-of-limitations attorney-abandonment capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion	Whether a Rule 60(b) motion alleging abandonment by counsel can attack a defect in the integrity of habeas proceedings and excuse compliance with AEDP…
23-5089	Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-13	Denied	batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination	Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' methodology for evaluating a prosecutor's facially race-neutral reasons for purposeful discrimination violate…
23-20	Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-06	Denied	constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler	Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau…
23-5047	Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-06	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings	Whether the federal court of appeals abused its discretion
23-5037	Patrick L. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-05	Denied	due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure	Do Texas procedures for postconviction habeas corpus violate the Sixth Amendment and deny indigent prisoners equal protection and due process of law b…
23-5008	Michael Bien v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-30	Denied	certificate-of-appealability circuit-court covid-19-tolling district-court extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus hearing new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b	Whether a United States District Court's ruling to deny a §2254 Certificate of Appealability should be vacated by the Circuit Court when Rule 60(b) ne…
22-1203	Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-13	Denied	confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent	Whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder
22-7687	James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-01	Denied	constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat	Whether a defendant may assert self-defense against a verbal threat even if the victim did not act on the threat
22-7674	John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-31	Denied	4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing	Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
22-7665	Demarkus Antonio Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-30	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-errors constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing	Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of this case and issue a memorandum decision
22-7654	Juan L. Caballero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-26	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence	Can the lower court courts indiscriminately deny (timely) filed Federal habeas corpus (2261) of newly discovered evidence wherein the newly discovered…
22-7640	Herbert Lavonne Wiggins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-25	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process merits newly-discovered-evidence standing	When did the law pass stating that courts do not have to adjudicate the merits on a writ?
22-7515	Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-10	Denied	6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment	Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution?
22-7495	Rudolfo Gill v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-09	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-precedent standing takings	Whether a plaintiff must make a 'substantial showing' of the deprivation of constitutional rights to establish standing to sue
22-1068	Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-04	Denied	certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment	Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability
22-7433	Carlos Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-01	Denied	appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel	Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a COA on the basis that the Petitioner was not able to argue his case without appoint…
22-7410	Reynaldo Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-28	Denied	28-usc-2244 28-usc-2253 antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus	What constitutes an expeditious remedy and/or a prompt hearing under 28 U.S.C. §2254
22-7356	Michael Moose v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-25	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings	Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's request for writ of certiorari
22-7301	Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-17	Denied	fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain	Whether the pre-AEDPA presumption of correctness applies whenever the state record supports the state court's finding, or whether the federal court mu…
22-7271	Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-13	Denied	14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure	Whether Texas's procedure for failing to apply the Bullcoming standard and violating the 6th Amendment right to confrontation that is incorporated aga…
22-7244	Jose Ramon Cruz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-10	Denied	certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment state-court-decision state-court-deference strickland strickland-standard	Whether the 'could have supported' framework of Harrington v. Richter allows a federal court to 'invent' historical facts not relied upon by the state…
22-7206	Dennis Hood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-04	Denied	constitutional-rights day-for-day due-process equal-protection false-aggregate-sentence parole-denial perjurious-information sentence-aggregate sentence-aggregation time-credit	Whether a person can be put in fear of death for refusing parole on a sentence already served
22-7188	Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-03	Denied	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence	Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson-vs-Virginia-sufficiency-of-evidence-standard-abrogated-Thompson-v-City-of-Louisville-n…
22-7169	Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-31	Denied	actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review	Whether the standard of review for actual innocence claims should be resolved by this Court to address a circuit split
22-7064	Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-22	Denied	constitutional-provisions double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus inmate-rights judicial-review legal-controversy petition-clause pretrial-writ reindictment statutory-provisions	Whether the state court's denial of a pretrial writ of habeas corpus on double jeopardy grounds, where the defendant was reindicted for the same offen…
22-7042	Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-20	Denied	actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act	Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction
22M94	Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-16	Presumed Complete	None
22-7020	Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-15	Denied	certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review	Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-7021	Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-15	Denied	actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling	Whether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the district court err…
22-7008	Heath R. Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-14	Denied	certificate-of-appealability child-sexual-abuse forensic-interview forensic-interviews habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel	Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel?
22-866	John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-13	Denied	thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel	Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside…
22A801	Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-13	Presumed Complete	None
22-6992	Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-10	Denied	criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time	Whether it is legal to start a prison sentence, then stop it and then restart it by adding more time, is it legal to revoke street time on parole when…
22-6955	Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-07	Denied	caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire	Was the Fifth Circuit's ruling that a court's comments during voir dire cannot give rise to a Caldwell violation erroneous and in tension with rulings…
22-6959	Thurston Rickey-Lee Davis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-07	Denied	5th-amendment 6th-amendment anders-brief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations summary-judgment	Whether the 5th Circuit abused its discretion in denying habeas relief based on the statute of limitations and summary judgment issues
22-6938	Raul Gonzalez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-06	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing vagueness	Question not identified
22-6939	Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-06	Denied	appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default	Whether a state habeas petitioner's pleading was timely filed under the mailbox rule
22A781	Patrick L. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-03	Presumed Complete	None
22-6904	Robert Roderick Stubblefield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-02	Denied	appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-merits petition-review standing writ-of-certiorari	Should a COA have been issued and should relief have been granted after review of the merits of all three claims that were raised to the District cour…
22-6917	Stevie Andre Roberson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-02	Denied	14th-amendment due-process equal-protection false-information liberty-interest parole parole-board procedural-rights texas-parole-statute	Whether prisoners have a constitutionally protected liberty interest in parole release under the 14th Amendment
22-6798	Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-02-16	Denied	brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression	Whether a defendant must show inability to discover favorable evidence through due diligence to establish 'suppression' under Brady v. Maryland
22M79	David Wayne McWherter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-02-16	Presumed Complete	None
22A734	Dennis Hood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-02-09	Presumed Complete	None
22-6688	Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-02-02	Denied	2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error	Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing?
22A693	Arturo Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-02-01	Presumed Complete	None
22-6621	Jason Sewell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-01-24	Denied	certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure denial-of-petition due-process habeas-corpus non-frivolous-claims petition-denial texas-law	Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability on four claims following the denial of his petition, where each issue presented non-frivolou…
22A639	Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-01-13	Presumed Complete	None
22-6480	Anthony Rohlf v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-01-09	Denied	circuit-conflict civil-rights claim-definition due-process federal-habeas judicial-review misconduct pro-se-petitioner successive-writ writ-of-certiorari	Does the definition of the term 'Claim' given by this court in Gonzales v. Crosby still stand as the law of the land?
22-6474	Cody Jay Riley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-01-06	Denied	actual-innocence aedpa americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process hiv incarceration penological-interests scientific-evidence	Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests?
22A586	Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-30	Presumed Complete	None
22-6362	Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-21	Denied	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination	Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas and the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas San Angelo Division err in deciding the merits of Pe…
22A553	Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-20	Presumed Complete	None
22A543	Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-19	Presumed Complete	None
22-6304	Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-14	Denied	brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel	Was petitioner in custody when interrogated?
22-6240	Robert Dale Hines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-07	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment trial-counsel	Whether the Court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel
22-6241	Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-07	Denied	6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process	Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr…
22M52	Argustus Charles Choyce v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-07	Presumed Complete	None
22-6182	Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-30	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion liberty-interest procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation	Does the U.S. Supreme Court view habeas-corpus as a static-narrow-formalistic remedy or has its scope grown to achieve its grand purpose the protectio…
22-487	Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-22	Denied	ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence	Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation
22-6139	Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-22	Denied	administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing	Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a petitioner has standing to bring a claim
22-6066	Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-16	Denied	28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority	Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
22-6010	Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-08	Denied	appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity	Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional due to a change in the law during the appeals process
22-6004	Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-07	Denied	civil-rights clemency clemency-services court-order due-process habeas habeas-petition indigent-capital-defendants mental-health mental-health-crisis statutory-interpretation	Whether courts are required by McFarland v. Scott to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of the statute
22A399	Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-07	Denied	None
22-5952	Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-31	Denied	2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings	Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) does not preempt state laws prohibiting…
22-5945	Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-28	Denied	civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings	Whether the legal issues being raised
22-358	Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-18	Denied	double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington	Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply 'double deference' to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner was…
22A318	Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-17	Presumed Complete	None
22-5819	Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-12	Denied	appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing	Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22A307	Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-12	Presumed Complete	None
22A296	Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-07	Presumed Complete	None
22-5647	Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-22	Denied	28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing	Did the Fifth Circuit misapply 28-USC-2253 by requiring a Certificate of Appealability for a Rule-60(b) motion, infringing First-Amendment and Due-Pro…
22-5662	Sergio Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-22	Denied	constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-inquiry prejudice-standard probation-misadvice reasonable-probability reject-plea-offer waive-right-to-trial	Whether the possibility of a conviction should affect the prejudice inquiry in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim alleging probation misadvice
22-5642	Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-21	Denied	28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari	Is a person in custody for the purpose of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if the individual is still under a direct consequence from the criminal…
22A246	Nathaniel Frazier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-20	Presumed Complete	None
22-5601	Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-16	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-claims-act free-speech healthcare-liability medicaid-reimbursement ninth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-provisions	Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
22-5560	Tyrone Learone McCurdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-13	Denied	brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process perjury prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial witness-tampering witness-testimony	Has the prosecutor suborned perjury?
22-5509	Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-06	Dismissed	civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings	Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions
22-5467	Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-30	Denied	6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant	Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk err in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its-face and then file it into the ap…
22-5442	Powell Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-24	Denied	ake-v-oklahoma certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process due-process-expert expert-witness fifth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington	did-the-panel-of-the-fifth-circuit-err-by-deciding-the-merit-of-an-appeal-not-properly-before-the-court-to-justify-the-denial-of-a-certificate-of-appe…
22-5412	Clifton Lee Tribble v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-22	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection habeas-corpus judicial-review police-procedure standing witness-testimony	Whether an increase in a defendant's authorized punishment based solely on the findings of a court, no matter how they label the fact, must be found b…
22-5369	Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-17	Denied	confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement	Question not identified
22-5284	Michael Duntae Fagans v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-04	Denied	actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial	Whether Fagans is entitled to relief or an evidentiary hearing
22-5291	Barton Ray Gaines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-04	Denied	civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists recusal rule-60b-motion standard-of-review substantial-showing	Whether GAINES made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right
22-5294	Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-04	Denied	actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing	Does this court have jurisdiction & power to grant certiorari, excused limitation bar, correct fundamental miscarriage of justice, denial of COA by 5t…
22-5236	George E. McFarland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-01	Denied	adversarial-proceedings constructive-denial cronic-violation ineffective-assistance lineup-identification prosecutorial-awareness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment	Whether the Sixth Amendment requires inquiry into surrounding circumstances for a constructive denial of counsel claim
22-5240	Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-01	Denied	civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire	Whether the mailbox rule entitles petitioner for equitable tolling
22-94	Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-01	Denied	appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b	Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
22-5216	Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-28	Denied	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment	Did the trial counsel's failure to timely and adequately conduct an investigation into Salazar's known mental health issues constitute ineffective ass…
22-5195	C. Raymond Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-27	Denied	actual-innocence aedpa-limitations brady-violation brady-violations due-process herrera herrera-claim house-v-bell ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp	Federal & State Court Split on Newly Reliable Evidence
22-5207	Brandon L. Cooper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-27	Denied	brady-v-maryland due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel	Whether the lower court's decision was based on an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law
22-5100	Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-13	Denied	burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal	Whether there is a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a federal or state trial court rescinds…
22-5069	Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-12	Denied	None
22-5031	Thomas Sawyer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-05	Denied	14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-services race-discrimination	Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against individuals based on their race i…
21-8211	Richard Vincent Letizia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-23	Denied	burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-appeals habeas-corpus identity-dispute	Whether the State of Texas can grant extended bail without first meeting the burden of proving the petitioner's identity?
21A856	Antonio Bermudez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-23	Presumed Complete	None
21-1558	John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-14	Denied	aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing	Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability
21-8119	Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-10	Denied	14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire	Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in not finding petitioner was deprived of his 5th and 14th amendment rights
21A813	Juan Enriquez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-10	Presumed Complete	None
21A803	George Edward McFarland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-08	Presumed Complete	None
21-8050	Brad Allen Dunn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-03	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment public-university religious-freedom standing student-organization takings viewpoint-discrimination	Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to dismiss the respondent's complaint
21-1524	Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-03	Denied	courts-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review objectively-unreasonable precedent standard-of-review state-court unreasonable-manner	What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable mann…
21-8039	George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-02	Denied	appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial	Whether a defendant is required to show a reasonable likelihood of a different outcome at trial to establish prejudice from ineffective assistance of …
21-8024	Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-01	Denied	certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing	Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Certificate of Appe…
21-7996	George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-27	Denied	5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue	Where identical charges are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy rule based …
21A752	Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-20	Presumed Complete	None
21-7903	Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-18	Denied	5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington	Is state-appellate-court-hindering-post-collateral-proceeding-unconstitutional
21-7862	Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-13	Denied	appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment	Does the aggravated assault with deadly weapon conviction moot the petitioner's § 2254 motion seeking relief?
21-7871	Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-13	Denied	actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case	Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard?
21A716	Brandon L. Cooper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-13	Presumed Complete	None
21A723	Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-13	Presumed Complete	None
21-7836	Bruce Edward Bingham, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-11	Denied	burden-of-proof closing-arguments constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process due-process-violation prosecutorial-misconduct remorse right-to-counsel	Was the prosecution's remarks regarding the 'conscience of the community' and 'remorse' prosecutorial misconduct, or allowable argument?
21-7799	Sam Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-09	Denied	equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus irwin-v-dept-of-veterans-affairs martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan statutory-limitations statutory-tolling trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler	Did the district court and Fifth Circuit err in refusing to equitably toll petitioner's untimely refiled §2254 habeas petition
21-7741	David Mejia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-28	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-litigant standing	Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding fraud on the court not a substantive constitutional violation of due process?
21-7745	Raymond E. Lumsden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-28	Denied	administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing	Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision
21A660	Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-28	Presumed Complete	None
21-7716	Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-27	Denied	14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review	Whether Welhee Jackson is entitled to relief on an evidentiary hearing where the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United S…
21A632	Carl Wayne Buntion v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-21	Presumed Complete	None
21-7641	Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-18	Denied	4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant	Did the State of Texas and the U.S. District Court improperly admit evidence obtained unconstitutionally?