| 25A890 |
Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
at-large-elections eleventh-circuit public-service-commission racial-vote-dilution section-2 voting-rights-act |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act standards in evaluating a challenge to Georgia's at-large method of… |
| 25A867 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a new trial when the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence identifying an alternative suspect pri… |
| 25-6642 |
Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment venue-change |
Whether a trial court's refusal to change venue in a capital case with extensive prejudicial pretrial publicity violates due process and the defendant… |
| 25-847 |
Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes |
Alabama |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffin-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination |
Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice |
| 25-848 |
Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell |
Alabama |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
constitutional-procedure context-analysis griffin-error prejudice-standard prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination |
Whether courts must reverse for Griffin error without examining a prosecutor's comment in context and without finding prejudice |
| 25A706 |
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services |
Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law |
| 25A684 |
Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Application |
capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by sustained conflicts between lead and co-counsel… |
| 25A676 |
Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus |
Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals violated Mr. Spencer's constitutional due process rights by improperly denying his appeals in a capital … |
| 25A645 |
Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-12-03 |
Application |
capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard third-party-culpability |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated by trial counsel's failure to investigate and present third-party cu… |
| 25A650 |
Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes |
Alabama |
2025-12-03 |
Application |
closing-argument fifth-amendment griffin-violation harmless-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination |
Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing argument that implicitly reference a defendant's choice not to testify violate the Fifth Amendment's pr… |
| 25A651 |
Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell |
Alabama |
2025-12-03 |
Application |
closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence |
Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing arguments that could be interpreted as referencing a defendant's decision not to testify violate the Fi… |
| 25-558 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Michael Sockwell |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Pending |
batson-challenge equitable-remedy federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-prisoner |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. §2254 and whether a federal court may grant habeas relief to a guilty state prisoner upon identifying … |
| 25-6025 |
Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5949 |
Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance |
Whether the Oklahoma courts' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual innoce… |
| 25-5953 |
Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-10-24 |
Pending |
adverse-inference capital-murder criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment prosecutorial-conduct right-to-silence |
In the sentencing phase of a capital trial, where the defendant exercises his right to remain silent and to plead not guilty, does the Fifth Amendment… |
| 25-5926 |
Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-representation separation-of-powers |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's summary denial of a stay of execution conflicts with Supreme Court precedents requiring reasoned balancing of factors i… |
| 25-5927 |
Chase Russell Downey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25A451 |
Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process execution-date executive-power judicial-function separation-of-powers |
Whether the separation of powers and due process are violated when a state executive officer, who also holds exclusive clemency power, is authorized t… |
| 25A455 |
Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Application |
badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop |
Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits racially discriminatory traffic enforcement as a modern badge or incident of slavery |
| 25-5928 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether a comparative analysis of execution methods should focus solely on pre-stimulus psychological pain, and whether Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia pro… |
| 25A457 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits execution by nitrogen hypoxia that causes prolonged conscious suffering and asphyxiation when a less painful al… |
| 25A401 |
Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Application |
constitutional-rights first-amendment government-office public-officials qualified-immunity recording-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right to record public officials in a government office without prior permission and whether qualified immuni… |
| 25-5771 |
Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact |
Did the Appellate Court of Illinois violate due process by refusing to substitute their judgment for the Trier of Fact and denying an affirmative defe… |
| 25-368 |
Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Pending |
civil-rights constitutional-protection first-amendment injunction law-enforcement public-begging |
Whether the First Amendment protects begging |
| 25A347 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Michael Sockwell |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25A290 |
Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
authentication capital-murder confrontation-clause evidentiary-authentication protection-order service-of-process |
Whether the Confrontation Clause requires live testimony from a sheriff's deputy to authenticate a protection order's return of service in a capital m… |
| 25-5589 |
Shane Stevens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio violates the Due Process … |
| 25-273 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al., Appellants v. Bobby Singleton, et al. |
Alabama |
2025-09-10 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 25-274 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al., Appellants v. Evan Milligan, et al. |
Alabama |
2025-09-10 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 25-281 |
Patrick Byrne v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice defamation due-process fifth-amendment protective-order |
Whether a District Court erred in disqualifying counsel of choice in a civil defamation case for violating a protective order by reporting potential c… |
| 25-5559 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. |
California |
2025-09-05 |
Dismissed |
bankruptcy due-process land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law vexatious-litigant |
Whether the lower court violated Article VI Clause 2 of the Supremacy Clause in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws, and whether the court's acti… |
| 25-243 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Pending |
constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act |
Does §2 of the Voting Rights Act require Alabama to create a second majority-minority district despite potential constitutional concerns? |
| 25A228 |
United States v. Darby Development Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-agency fifth-amendment government-action regulatory-taking statutory-authority takings-clause |
Whether an administrative agency's unauthorized regulatory action that exceeds its statutory authority can constitute a compensable taking under the F… |
| 25-5386 |
Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default |
Whether the Federal Court of Appeals properly reviewed the district court's procedural default ruling de novo and whether the state procedural rule wa… |
| 25-5374 |
Artez Hammonds v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
circuit-split due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether, under Griffin v. California and Carter v. Kentucky, jury instructions omitting 'no adverse inference' language can cure a prosecutor's willfu… |
| 25A192 |
Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories |
Whether historical practice and tradition at the time of the founding categorically exclude begging from First Amendment free speech protection |
| 25-5341 |
Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent |
Does the revised sentence violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 25-5279 |
Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits consecutive term-of-years sentences that guarantee a juvenile nonhomicide offender will die in prison |
| 25A109 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. |
Alabama |
2025-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state legislature from drawing congressional districts that allegedly discriminate against minority vo… |
| 25A110 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. |
Alabama |
2025-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act |
Whether Alabama's 2023 congressional redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause by allegedly discr… |
| 25-5145 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
In the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case, was it unreasonable for the state court to conclude that the defense attorney did not h… |
| 25-5136 |
Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation |
Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the conti… |
| 25-5101 |
In Re Matthew Phillips |
|
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentence-execution state-prisoner |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by barring a second habeas petition when no adequate remedy exists for a f… |
| 25-5103 |
In Re Matthew Phillips |
|
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights equal-protection extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by barring a second habeas petition when no adequate remedy exists for a f… |
| 25-5044 |
Robert Baise, Jr. v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
alabama-criminal-code conviction-enhancement criminal-procedure misdemeanor-classification presumptive-sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a conviction under Alabama Code § 13A-6-93 constitutes a misdemeanor charge that can be used to enhance a subsequent sentence under presumptiv… |
| 24-7487 |
Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication |
Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the evidence supports voluntary into… |
| 24A1192 |
Gregory Hunt v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24A1094 |
Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-7176 |
Miriam Pope v. Chetan Patel, fka Hitesh Patel |
Alabama |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-law discovery-rights due-process immigration-status undocumented-persons |
Whether a statutory rule of civil procedure denying discovery to a defendant violates the Constitution's due process clause, and whether due process a… |
| 24-1153 |
Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its 'prejudice inquiry' the unrebutted, nonc… |
| 24-7145 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance intent intoxication jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to pursue a theory of lack of intent due to intoxication and by not developing m… |
| 24A1040 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6941 |
Michael Wayne Reynolds v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
aedpa clear-and-convincing evidentiary-hearing factual-deference habeas-corpus state-court-review |
When a state court refuses to conduct an evidentiary hearing, will its factual findings be entitled to deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), and mus… |
| 24-6939 |
Scott Lee DeShaw, et al. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama parole-discretion |
Can a juvenile offender be sentenced to life without parole under a system that does not give the sentencing judge discretion to choose a parole-eligi… |
| 24-1006 |
Lisa Antoine v. Oxmoor Preservation/One, LLC |
Alabama |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection property-rights state-law water-drainage |
QP: Does the 14th Amendment allow Alabama to deny Lisa Antoine equal protection and due process by imposing drainage restrictions and property access … |
| 24A895 |
Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24A803 |
Michael Wayne Reynolds v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6579 |
Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance habeas-corpus judicial-review state-proceeding |
Does a brief written by the prosecution in a State habeas proceeding, and then rubber-stamped by State judges, qualify as a judgment entitled to defer… |
| 24-872 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Granted |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence |
Whether a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence and whether courts evaluating multiple IQ score… |
| 24A785 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6472 |
Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
capital-murder death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief strickland-standard |
Under the extreme circumstances of this case, can a state court deny a Strickland claim on the merits without conducting an evidentiary hearing? |
| 24-6463 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, et al. |
Florida |
2025-02-04 |
Dismissed |
burden-of-proof failure-to-state-claim pleading-standards res-judicata statute-of-limitations trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the case for failure to state a claim, statute of limitations, and res judicata, and whether the court abu… |
| 24-6356 |
RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles |
Whether sentencing a young adult to life without parole violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 24-702 |
Haywood Jackson Mizell v. City of Ozark, Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
due-process eminent-domain just-compensation municipal-seizure property-rights taking-clause |
Whether the City of Ozark's appropriation of private property for public use without just compensation violates due process and eminent domain princip… |
| 24-6194 |
Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's opinion substantially conflict with Supreme Court precedent by failing to consider and weigh circumstantial evidence again… |
| 24-612 |
Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Dismissed |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights |
Whether Alabama's Treatment Ban triggers heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for … |
| 24-6067 |
Jerrelle Quintrez Gladden v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
criminal-defense fifth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment-right witness-exclusion |
May a district court exclude a defense witness when he will invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions but undisputedly will answer a… |
| 24A523 |
Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing postconviction state-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence following a capital murder conviction where the defendant was denied an eviden… |
| 24-582 |
United States v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Dismissed |
constitutional-law equal-protection gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights transgender-rights |
Whether Alabama Senate Bill 184 prohibiting medical treatments for transgender minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24A513 |
Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-sentence eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied federal habeas corpus standards in denying relief to a death-sentenced inmate challeng… |
| 24-5993 |
Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia superadded-terror |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a method of execution involving conscious suffocation or superadded terror? |
| 24-534 |
Arizona Yagé Assembly, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
associational-privacy civil-discovery exacting-scrutiny first-amendment law-enforcement-demand religious-freedom |
Whether a church can challenge a civil discovery order requiring disclosure of member information under exacting scrutiny principles established in NA… |
| 24-5927 |
William Dale Watson v. William Streeter, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness |
Did the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals err in affirming Watson's conviction despite alleged jurisdictional defects, inadmissible evidence, and pros… |
| 24-5830 |
Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-10-25 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-execution |
Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry and whether an arrest can be considered lawful when circu… |
| 24-423 |
Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar |
Alabama |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
administrative-law constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process equal-protection law-license-revocation |
Whether the Alabama Supreme Court justices violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights by affirming a state regulatory agency's decision to perman… |
| 24-5749 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Dismissed |
appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred in affirming the lower court decision based on failure to state a claim, failure to comply with federal rules, sovereign… |
| 24-5743 |
Rafael Ernesto Gabriel v. California |
California |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f… |
| 24-391 |
Felipe Petrone-Cabanas v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion |
Whether juveniles may be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discretion to choose any lesser opti… |
| 24-5489 |
J. L. L. v. W. B. |
Alabama |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5458 |
Derrick Courchaine v. California |
California |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f… |
| 24-212 |
Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Alabama Supreme Court's reversal of a lower court's order granting a deed to the Archers violates their constitutional rights to due proce… |
| 24-5382 |
Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
capital-case change-of-venue constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial media-prejudice |
Whether the Alabama courts' refusal to change venue in a capital case involving the District Attorney's son and extensive prejudicial media coverage v… |
| 24-5373 |
Raymond Rodriguez v. California |
California |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f… |
| 24-5236 |
Francisco German Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
boykin-v-alabama competence-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea united-states-v-ruiz voluntariness waiver |
In determining the voluntariness of a guilty plea, did the Ninth Circuit improperly apply the competence-to-stand-trial standard instead of the Boykin… |
| 24-127 |
The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor |
Alabama |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation |
due-process-clause-14th-amendment |
| 24-5180 |
Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Arkansas courts applied an incorrect standard for resolving petitioner Whiteside's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in sentenci… |
| 24A60 |
Keith Edmund Gavin v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-procedure death-row filing-fee in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion |
Whether a death row inmate's in forma pauperis application can be denied based on having received monthly inmate deposits that exceed the filing fee t… |
| 24-5055 |
Tre'veon Demarcus Anderson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights douglas-v-alabama due-process fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments |
Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated when the State elicited testimony from a witness who repeatedly invoked th… |
| 24A33 |
Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review capital-conviction constitutional-rights criminal-appeal death-penalty due-process |
Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals violated the defendant's constitutional rights by improperly denying his direct appeal in a capital case |
| 23-1337 |
Baldwin County, Alabama, et al. v. Mike Bordelon, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
due-process economic-use fair-market-value fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central property-rights regulatory-taking takings temporary-prohibition temporary-taking |
Does the temporary prohibition of a specific project or use constitute a compensable regulatory taking, regardless of the availability of other econom… |
| 23-7666 |
Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
evidentiary-hearing factual-determination factual-record federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-proceedings unreasonable-determination |
Whether a state prisoner must dispel 'any potential justification' for a state court's factual finding, even when the prisoner was unjustifiably denie… |
| 23-7590 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
brady-violation capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus miller-el-standard plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion |
Where reasonable jurists could debate whether a petitioner is entitled to Rule 60 relief where the State has concealed evidence |
| 23-7591 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights |
Whether Alabama's execution process violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 23A1064 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
capital-trial due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when the prosecution makes materially false statements about a key witness's plea agreement duri… |
| 23A1065 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-gurney prolonged-restraint |
Whether prolonged restraint on an execution gurney without access to counsel constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel an… |
| 23-7567 |
Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a defendant-appellant has a right to counsel through the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 22O158 |
Alabama, et al., Plaintiffs v. California, et al. |
|
2024-05-24 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 23-7435 |
Mariette Harris v. Miles W. Ellis, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
alabama-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery-rule statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether petitioner Mis. Harris filed on time for the Alabama Discovery rule section 6-5-482(a) Ala code 1975 the six-month discovery rule |
| 23-7412 |
John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review |
Does Cronaias' testimony violate the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination? |
| 23-7394 |
Moses Jackson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Iban Act violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 23A970 |
Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Presumed Complete |
aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit and state courts improperly applied the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Missouri v. Frye by denying reli… |
| 23-7303 |
Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires the protections granted under Miller v. Alabama to be extende… |
| 23A920 |
Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar |
Alabama |
2024-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
binding-precedent due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-review precedent |
Whether a state appellate court violates a litigant's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when it refuses to follow… |
| 23-7185 |
Lawrence Northern v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden |
Wisconsin |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure counsel-of-choice direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-v-machner strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7128 |
Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief |
Whether a habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when the state trial court and federal district court agree that the petitio… |
| 23-7111 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal |
whether-trial-court-erred-dismissing-case |
| 23-7028 |
Hunter Thomas Boesch v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
brain-development cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults late-adolescent-brain-development mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-protections youth |
Whether the sentencing protections afforded in Miller v Alabama should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults 18 to 20 years old |
| 23-990 |
George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights |
Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte… |
| 23-6852 |
Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case? |
| 23A756 |
Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenges death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly denied a certificate of appealability in a capital case involving potentially meritorious constitutional chall… |
| 23-6738 |
Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
capital-murder capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a death row inmate is precluded from establishing prejudice from his trial counsel's deficient performance during the penalty phase if his cou… |
| 23-830 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret… |
| 23-6562 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi… |
| 23A688 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing an inmate using an untested nitrogen hypoxia method that poses a substant… |
| 23A664 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficu… |
| 23-6517 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder |
Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag… |
| 23A647 |
Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Presumed Complete |
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct |
Whether Title VII permits a hostile work environment claim based on allegations of unwanted physical contact and sexual harassment by a supervisor and… |
| 23A634 |
Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 |
Whether a retaliation claim based on objecting to a discriminatory event can be brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment … |
| 23A626 |
Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus petition-review supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence |
| 23A609 |
Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition |
Whether the First Amendment right to petition requires a trial court to make specific findings of fact and law when ruling on a motion to compel arbit… |
| 23A598 |
Lillian Akwuba v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Presumed Complete |
controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution good-faith jury-instructions mens-rea |
Whether the jury instructions for a controlled substances distribution charge improperly defined the good faith standard and mens rea elements under 2… |
| 23-6356 |
Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge |
Question not identified |
| 23-682 |
Alabama v. Marcus Bernard Williams |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
GVR |
AEDPA-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits merits-review procedural-grounds state-court-adjudication |
Does a state-court adjudication on the merits lose its entitlement to AEDPA deference if it is affirmed on procedural grounds? |
| 23A583 |
Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-case constitutional-challenge death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in affirming the denial of a capital defendant's federal habeas petition challenging t… |
| 23-6296 |
Charles Andre Bailey v. Dennis Bley |
Oregon |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
ada-violation civil-rights death-certificate fraud government-violation health-insurance medical-fraud medical-records physician-patient-relationship qui-tam |
Why did Dr. Bley sign my father's death certificate if he claims he's not his doctor? |
| 23-6232 |
Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
bite-mark bite-mark-analysis conflicted-judge due-process expert-testimony forensic-evidence judicial-recusal recanted-testimony scientific-developments scientific-reliability |
Whether due process prohibits a conviction based on forensic evidence later shown to be unreliable |
| 23-639 |
Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether a court may disregard a valid IQ test with a range under 70 simply because not all tests show such a range, or must proceed to evaluate adapti… |
| 23-6228 |
Barbara Burks Williams v. Fred Lane, et al. |
Alabama |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
alabama civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment due-process failure-to-appear legal-notice procedural-rules standing takings |
Why wasn't the Due Process of the law applied? |
| 23A515 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
Whether the use of a peremptory challenge to remove a Black woman from a jury panel violates the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky and … |
| 23A502 |
Department of Treasury, et al. v. West Virginia, By and Through Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
congressional-conditions federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause state-sovereignty tax-offset |
Whether the offset provision in the American Rescue Plan Act violates the Spending Clause by imposing an unconstitutionally ambiguous condition on fed… |
| 23A475 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing or individualized review for juvenile offenders sentenced to mandatory life without the possibility… |
| 23-503 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
alabama constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection execution execution-notice notice statute statutory-compliance |
Does a state violate a prisoner's right to due process and equal protection of the laws when it complies with an execution related statute for some pr… |
| 23A429 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un… |
| 23-471 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice |
Does Alabama's exclusion of 18-year-olds from jury service, coupled with its permitting them to be tried as adults, deny 18-year-old defendants their … |
| 23A402 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un… |
| 23-5890 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination |
Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent… |
| 23-5860 |
John Carl Ferrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing supreme-court voluntary-plea |
Does a decision by the Supreme Court, after a plea is entered but before sentencing, present sufficient cause to consider if the plea was entered know… |
| 23-409 |
Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the 'shotgun pleading' standard conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Supreme Court pr… |
| 23A321 |
Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-12 |
Presumed Complete |
bitemark-evidence due-process innocence-claim judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief recanted-expert-testimony |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to grant post-conviction relief based on recanted expert testimony t… |
| 23A312 |
Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability jury-recommendation strickland-v-washington |
Whether a single raw IQ score above 70, regardless of when administered, is independently sufficient to deny a capital defendant's Atkins claim, and w… |
| 23-5714 |
Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
appellate-review evidence-rule juror-misconduct jury-misconduct mattox-v-united-states no-impeachment-rule parker-v-gladden prior-convictions sixth-amendment trial-procedure verdict-challenge |
Did the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals depart from this Court's decisions in Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140 (1892) and Parker v. Gladden, 38… |
| 23-5616 |
Isaac Kipkurui Biegon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy-evidence conspiracy-hearsay corroboration corroboration-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
Whether a preliminary finding of a conspiracy could be based solely on the contested hearsay statement |
| 23A241 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State v. Marcus Caster, et al. |
Alabama |
2023-09-13 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A233 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus penalty-phase |
Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals properly applied constitutional standards in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence after mul… |
| 23A231 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State v. Evan Milligan, et al. |
Alabama |
2023-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-191 |
Nancy Williams, et al. v. Greg Reed, Secretary, Alabama Department of Workforce |
Alabama |
2023-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedies section-1983 standing state-court state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court |
| 23-5459 |
Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony |
Whether the violation of the Confrontation Clause as explicated in Douglas v. Alabama was harmless error |
| 23-167 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
GVR |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement |
Whether courts must deem the Atkins prong satisfied when an offender's lowest IQ score, decreased by one standard error of measurement, is 70 or below |
| 23-5400 |
Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
When can a defense expert be excluded for failure to timely file curriculum vitae? |
| 23A129 |
Cuhuatemoc Peraita v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-08-16 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment extraneous-prejudicial-information jury-impartiality mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights |
Whether a capital defendant's waiver of mitigation evidence is knowing and voluntary under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the defendant suff… |
| 23A104 |
Jeremy Moody v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-08-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A101 |
Reginald Burrell v. Warden, Childersburg Community Work Center |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5239 |
Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
autism-spectrum-disorder boykin boykin-standard change-of-plea cognitive-deficiencies cognitive-deficiency criminal-procedure district-court-record due-process plea-hearing |
Did the Ninth Circuit's rejecting Petitioner's due-process claim regarding his change-of-plea hearing conflict with Boykin-and-its-progeny, particular… |
| 23-5145 |
James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emotional-anguish execution execution-protocol lethal-injection medical-suffering physical-suffering |
Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless attemp… |
| 23A51 |
James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5124 |
Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel |
Whether the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, requests for inclusion of psychiatrist's testimony, and other information as to the preserved issue… |
| 23-5109 |
Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility |
Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the proper materiality standard under Brady v. Maryland |
| 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 |
Whether the standard for assessing Strickland prejudice in capital cases involving counsel's deficient advice to waive a defendant's statutory right t… |
| 22A1111 |
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-7769 |
Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion |
Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders |
| 22-7753 |
Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings |
When a juvenile is charged with first-degree murder, does the transfer to adult proceedings violate the juvenile's Eighth Amendment rights because the… |
| 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 |
| 22-1142 |
Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the trial court err in holding the Prosecution did not have possession of the 'it was placed' note ultimately produced by the FBI? |
| 22-7492 |
Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana |
Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children? |
| 22-1063 |
Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker |
Tennessee |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits term-of-years sentences that effectively deny juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity for release |
| 22-7349 |
Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly erred by exceeding the limited scope of the COA analysis |
| 22-7337 |
Toforest Onesha Johnson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-murder death-penalty post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct reward-payment suppressed-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the State suppress evidence under Brady in the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case? |
| 22-7221 |
Carlotta Susann Kutschenreuter v. Lagreta McClain, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction-procedures |
Whether Alabama's procedural rules and courts' rulings have denied review of petitioner's Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claims, wa… |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Dismissed |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether the decision of the First District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clause claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-7131 |
Deandre D. Currington v. Mason Bynum, Sheriff, Dale County, Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 22-7057 |
Raymond Pniewski, Jr. v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights court-advisement due-process guilty-plea involuntary-plea judicial-procedure people-v-jaworski |
Do the rulings of Boykin v. Alabama and People v. Jaworski violate the petitioner's constitutional and due process rights by requiring the court to ad… |
| 22-7075 |
Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
child-witnesses confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-defendant hearsay prior-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony |
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him |
| 22-7028 |
John L. Dickerson, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jane Matlock, Deceased v. Emmanuel Noel Cruz Tancinco, et al. |
Arkansas |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-administration judicial-procedure medical-malpractice procedural-rights standing substantive-rights wrongful-death |
Whether the petitioner's substantive and procedural due process rights were violated when the Circuit Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed th… |
| 22-836 |
Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing |
Whether a Federal Court in a claim filed under Section 1983 can void a disbarment judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in which the disbarred … |
| 22-6895 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process evidence prison-behavior sentencing skipper-precedent skipper-v-south-carolina |
When a capital defendant's death sentence is vacated and the case is remanded for a new sentencing at which the death penalty is an available sentence… |
| 22-6862 |
Benjamin Young v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase |
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the introduction of gang membership evidence in the culpability phase of a capital trial |
| 22-6851 |
David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation and due process rights when it raises an issue sua sponte that the parties did… |
| 22A762 |
Toforest Onesha Johnson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-787 |
Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer |
North Carolina |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity |
Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio… |
| 22-777 |
William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
butterworth-precedent compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy prior-restraint secrecy witness-testimony |
Whether Alabama's Grand Jury Secrecy Act restricts a grand jury witness's public disclosure of their own testimony — including information known to th… |
| 22-6807 |
Antonio McGhee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the post-conviction court erred in concluding that the petitioners were not entitled to relief under the Court's opinion in Miller v. Alabama |
| 22A731 |
Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-02-09 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6629 |
Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
aedpa aedpa-deference federal-constitutional-claim habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision state-court-review state-law-evidentiary-rule strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether AEDPA deference applies to state-court reasoning not articulated in the decision |
| 22A654 |
William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A637 |
David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A621 |
Benjamin Young v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6431 |
Philip Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment |
| 22-591 |
Donald V. Watkins, et al. v. Matrix, LLC, et al. |
Alabama |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech presumed-damages public-figure summary-judgment |
Whether the Alabama Courts' grant and affirmance of a summary judgment for Respondents in a state law defamation case conflicts with this Court's deci… |
| 22-585 |
Halima Tariffa Culley, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Judgment Issued |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-forfeiture mathews-analysis probable-cause property-rights seizure-hearing speedy-trial takings |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a post-seizure probable-cause hearing prior to a statutory judicial-forfeiture proceeding |
| 22-580 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether an alternative method of execution is feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing State has statutorily authorized the metho… |
| 22A533 |
Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6256 |
Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime,… |
| 22-6193 |
Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding |
Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual |
| 22A480 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-496 |
Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia |
Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of co… |
| 22-6134 |
Eugene Riley III v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. … |
| 22A441 |
John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. Kenneth Eugene Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A428 |
Halima Tariffa Culley, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6049 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice |
Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p… |