| 21-6382 |
Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder |
Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and 'right to evidentiary hearing' habeas law |
| 21-5753 |
James Allyson Lee v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing childhood-trauma habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief ptsd ptsd-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether new mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's horrific childhood abuse and PTSD diagnosis can be considered cumulative and inconsequential … |
| 20-7932 |
Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers |
Does Wilson v. Sellers permit federal habeas court to assign 'implicit' factual findings to state court order when applying 2254(d)'s limitations on r… |
| 20-7895 |
David Scott Franks v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
capital-case capital-sentencing eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence residual-doubt sentencing wiggins-standard wiggins-v-smith |
Is counsel relieved of the duty to investigate and present all reasonably available mitigating evidence in a capital case if he chooses to present a r… |
| 20-7185 |
John Anthony Esposito v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 capital-case habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should be allowed to flout the Supreme Court's clear instruction in Wilson v. Sellers that federal courts must focus on t… |
| 20-6876 |
Leon Tollette v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254(d) eleventh-circuit federal-habeas-review harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Whether, on federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), a federal court may refuse to 'look through' to the last reasoned state court decision, a… |
| 20-6294 |
Richard L. Sealey v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
capital-trial continuance continuance-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice trial-court-discretion |
Whether the denial of a defense motion for a continuance during the penalty phase of a capital trial violates due process |
| 19-8272 |
Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
aedpa aedpa-review capital-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court's reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel's p… |
| 19A867 |
Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-02-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-7488 |
Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r… |
| 19-6918 |
Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel |
Whether courts must consider the record evidence in determining the reasonableness of trial counsel's actions, or can deem them strategic and reasonab… |
| 19-6604 |
Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence |
Whether new evidence of innocence obtained by subsequent diligent counsel should be deemed new evidence, even if prior counsel provided deficient repr… |
| 19A339 |
Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-5438 |
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers |
| 18-9746 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Are due process and the Eighth Amendment violated when a prosecutor knowingly argues falsehoods about the defendant's culpable acts in order to incite… |
| 18-9117 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does a death sentence imposed by a judge who made fact-findings not made unanimously by the jury who recommended a death sentence comport with Hurst a… |
| 18-8389 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 brain-damage capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence of the defendant's difficult childhood and fr… |
| 18-7594 |
James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
capital-cases civil-rights death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination racial-exclusion standing |
Does Lanier's systematic discrimination against African Americans violate Strauder v. West Virginia, 380 U.S. 202 (1965), and Foster v. Chatman? |
| 18A604 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-6819 |
Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity |
Whether a juror's racial bias affected a death sentence |
| 18A506 |
James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2018-11-09 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-6409 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference |
Where the last state court to review the merits of a state prisoner's habeas claim denied relief in a reasoned opinion, may a federal court assume the… |
| 18A389 |
Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A534 |
Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A858 |
Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18A1346 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of prosecutorial misconduct and death ineligibility |
| 18A1133 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|