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23-7153 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-07 Denied capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica…
23-7119 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied appointed-counsel capital-murder conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan flat-fee-contract ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland Whether, where appointed counsel in a capital case had a flat-fee contract and failed to investigate or challenge a capital murder charge to the clien…
23A876 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied capital-case conflict-of-interest effective-assistance flat-fee-contract ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a capital defendant's appointed counsel's flat-fee contract constitutes an actual conflict of interest that warrants a presumption of prejudic…
22-6091 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the law-of-the-case doctrine prohibits a court from changing its previous ruling on the same question later during the course of litigation
22A206 Brian Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-07 Presumed Complete None