| 25A767 |
Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Application |
brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 25-773 |
Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation |
Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause… |
| 25A688 |
Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Application |
americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6346 |
Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment |
1. Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court s unconstitutional jury instruction derived from Pennsylvania's consolidated statute 18 P… |
| 25A658 |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7483 |
DeAngelo Zieglar v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
caldwell-precedent capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-selection moratorium-impact |
In light of Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985), where a state has instituted an indefinite and formal moratorium on the death penalty, wheth… |
| 24-6957 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Whether the trial court erred by precluding Addie Brice's civil suit statement from evidence and improperly withholding crucial testimony |
| 24-6432 |
Zemirah El v. Bernard Moore, dba Administrative Clerk |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-authority diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity oath-of-office void-judgment |
Whether a judge refusing to take the oath of office loses judicial immunity and renders their orders void ab initio |
| 24A615 |
Keeba Scott Harris v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-prosecution habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge native-american sepric-reservation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether the tribal jurisdiction of the SEPRIC Reservation precludes criminal prosecution by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for offenses committed on… |
| 24-5471 |
In Re Keith Girvan |
|
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure eyewitness-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition state-court-findings |
Whether 3rd Circuit Local Appellate Rules, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e), and 28 U.S.C. 2254 apply to Habeas Corpus Proceedings and provide… |
| 23-7152 |
Sean Burton v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial |
whether-the-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania-violated-the-brady-rule |
| 23-6765 |
Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o… |
| 23A612 |
Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference |
| 23-710 |
Brigitte Nelson v. Acre Mortgage & Financial Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
civil-procedure consumer-protection dodd-frank-act federal-regulation judicial-review mortgage-disclosure regulatory-compliance respa tila tila-respa |
Whether the Third Circuit's Judgment incorrectly affirmed the Jury Verdict and the District Court Judgment |
| 23A335 |
Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-10-13 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez |
Whether a state court conviction violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when photographic evidence of innocence was not presented… |
| 23-132 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation |
Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju… |
| 23-96 |
Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority contempt-sanction county-boards-of-elections dominion-voting dominion-voting-systems election-board election-law election-procedures pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-rights |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in holding Petitioners, County Board of Elections, in contempt for conducting an inspection of voting machines … |
| 22-7697 |
Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
Whether Act 84, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional |
| 22-7646 |
Derek Pelker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers |
Question not identified |
| 22-1113 |
Merril Leroy Jessop v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing |
Whether the Texas courts' refusal to conduct an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's substantial constitutional claim of ineffective assistance of coun… |
| 22-7070 |
Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure |
Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights by refusing to drop all charges against him, denying h… |
| 22-661 |
David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the right to marry to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
| 22-527 |
Sammy Jay Riddle v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-collateral-review texas-courts texas-criminal-procedure |
Whether the Texas courts denied petitioner due process by rejecting his substantial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim without conducting an evid… |
| 22-519 |
Shawn Rogers Malloy v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
attorney-client-privilege brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-remedy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-nobles |
Does the prosecution's retention of, failure to quarantine, and failure to disclose possession of a criminal defendant's legal strategy notes, prepare… |
| 21-6636 |
Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court |
Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality |
| 21-793 |
Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity |
| 21-333 |
Amro Elansari v. Maite Ragazzo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection medical-marijuana pennsylvania standing state-law |
Does 14th Amendment Equal Protection apply to Medical Marijuana Card Holders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? |
| 21-189 |
Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the Speedy Trial Rule (600) is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment, and whe… |
| 20-8429 |
Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by permitting a conviction and unlawful sentence on an of… |
| 20-8226 |
In Re Francis Boyd |
|
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure |
Can a trial judge instruct a jury during a jury charge that they cannot find the petitioner guilty of a certain degree of murder after entertaining a … |
| 20-1065 |
Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where … |
| 20-6354 |
Richard A. Poplawski v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fee-provisions fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act standing |
Can courts strategically exempt litigants from the law to thwart test cases? |
| 20-375 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-359 |
Henrieta Pisztora, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
14th-amendment due-process municipal-law notice notice-requirement property-rights real-property service-of-process tax-sale |
Whether Pennsylvania's Second Class City Treasurer's Sale and Collection Act violates the 14th Amendment |
| 19-8292 |
Russell Tinsley v. Sherry Yates, Administrator, Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability civil-commitment constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process fauntleroy-doctrine full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction |
Whether the New Jersey civil commitment of Mr. Tinsley was a violation of the Fauntleroy doctrine and/or jurisdiction of the Full Faith and Credit Cla… |
| 19-749 |
William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents |
Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that … |
| 19-540 |
Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure |
Whether the warrantless seizure of money for forfeiture can be justified |
| 19A211 |
William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-5433 |
In Re Steven Bleau |
|
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether Bleau was deprived of his constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause and Sixth Amendment when his newly presented exculpatory evidence… |
| 19-5191 |
Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia |
Does the legal 'right' recognized in Miller v. Alabama include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including the well-established ra… |
| 18-9562 |
Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C… |
| 18-9361 |
Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono |
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ… |
| 18-9167 |
Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process |
Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen… |
| 18-8487 |
Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant |
| 18-7259 |
Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Did the petitioner give the first opportunity of the state supreme court to resolve such claims, issues, contentions in a state habeas corpus? |
| 18-6253 |
Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony |
Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information |
| 18-5104 |
Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act |
Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex… |