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51 results for “Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction”

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Tags	Question Presented
25A534	Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-11-07	Application	arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review	Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona…
25-5885	Vasquez D. Hayes v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2025-10-15	Denied	amendment-principles constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction	(1) Isn't it true and/or fact, the due process embodied in the Constitution is guaranteed to criminal defendants? (2) Isn't it true and/or fact, no j…
25-5767	Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-09-30	Denied	certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error	1) Did the United States District Court error in ruling that Mr. Draft 's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely? 2) Did the United States …
25-5509	Parnell R. May v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-08-29	Denied	None	Question not identified.
25-10	Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-07-02	Denied	certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure	Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals this Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even criminal context.
24-7063	Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-04-23	Denied	eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel	Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in deferring to lower court findings regarding trial counsel's failure to remove a potentially biased juror who serve…
24A928	Michael Lavern Boyd v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2025-03-26	Presumed Complete	None
24-6798	Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-03-18	Denied	aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication	Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an…
24A698	Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-01-15	Presumed Complete	constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights	Whether a state corrections director's denial of a prisoner's request for a specific method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition o…
24A659	Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2025-01-02	Presumed Complete	certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension	Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate after a significant delay in seeking federal habeas review
24-6054	Joshua Matthew Stockton v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2024-12-02	Denied	appellate-review civil-procedure court-interpretation legal-standards procedural-challenge supreme-court	Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's decision regarding a civil matter involving procedu…
24-5163	Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2024-07-29	Denied	aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard	Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and instead …
23-7008	Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2024-03-18	Denied	6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights	Was Martin entitled to production of documents, did a Brady violation occur when favorable material evidence was withheld/discarded, was Martin entitl…
23-6930	Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2024-03-08	Denied	appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-claim standing supreme-court	Whether Supreme Court precedent demands review of this claim where the lower court did not grant the writ of certiorari?
23-6281	Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2023-12-18	Denied	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense	Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23-6102	Rolandis Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2023-11-22	Denied	administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-deprivation court-procedure due-process federal-rights federalism judicial-power standing state-government takings	Can Constitutional depravations be justified by some remote administrative benefit to the State such as an Administrative Plan?
23-5778	Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2023-10-12	Denied	administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession	Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5212	DeAndra Stephenson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2023-07-26	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence notice-requirement standing sua-sponte-dismissal	Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion for rehearing en banc, which sought review of the district court's de…
22-7305	Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2023-04-17	Denied	8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing	Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver…
22-7222	Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2023-04-05	Denied	bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment	Whether preclusion of cross-examination about an informant's propensity for bias violates the Confrontation Clause
22-7124	Ricky Lee Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2023-03-28	Denied	constitutional-violation due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions life-imprisonment state-procedural-default trial-error waiver	Whether petitioner's right to due process was violated
22-6951	Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2023-03-07	Denied	capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers	Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc…
22A721	Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2023-02-07	Presumed Complete	None
22-6619	Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2023-01-24	Denied	appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing	Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Donshue's motion for a new trial
22-6607	Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2023-01-23	Denied	aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights	Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of lack…
22-6417	Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-12-29	Dismissed	civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling	Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Burgie's Rule 60(b) motion and appointment of counsel
22A547	Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-12-19	Presumed Complete	None
22-6177	Sanders McDaniel Carter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-11-30	Denied	aedpa brady-vs-maryland certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus rule-60	Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard
22-5881	Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-10-21	Denied	constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing	Whether Tirencie Oliver's sentence imposed is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitutio…
22-5380	Wallace A. Gardner v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2022-08-18	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings	Question not identified
22-5279	Abdulhakim Muhammad v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-08-04	Denied	civil-rights congressmen-letter due-process federal-jurisdiction foreign-terrorist-organization habeas-corpus national-defense-authorization-act new-evidence standing statute-of-limitations	Whether the petitioner's claims are exempt from the time bar of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)'s one-year statute of limitation, even though the evidence is e…
22A63	Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-07-22	Presumed Complete	None
21-8185	Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2022-06-17	Denied	civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings	Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' claims for lack of standing
21-8154	Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-06-16	Denied	bulk-data-collection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections surveillance-techniques unreasonable-searches-and-seizures	Whether the FBI's use of bulk data collection and surveillance techniques violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches an…
21-7998	Lamar Daniel Ron Wilson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-05-27	Denied	charging-instrument constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-information indictment ineffective-counsel plea-agreement	Plea-agreement-as-sole-evidence-for-conviction
21-7689	Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2022-04-25	Dismissed	civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983	Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-7553	Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-04-05	Denied	4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial	Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits
21-7288	Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2022-03-07	Denied	8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing	Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize…
21-7039	Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-02-01	Denied	28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application	Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S.C.…
21-1021	Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson	Eighth Circuit	2022-01-20	Denied	adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation	Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty
21-6832	Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2022-01-12	Denied	actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review	whether-the-supreme-court-overruled-boykin-v-alabama
21M62	Vernell Conley v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2022-01-10	Presumed Complete	None
21-862	Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2021-12-10	Denied	§2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction	Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-5838	Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2021-10-01	Denied	administrative-negligence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process failure-to-protect inmate-violence prison-safety prisoner-rights prisoner-vulnerability protective-custody standing	Why did A.D.C. officials 'Wendy Kelly' and Byron Brown' fail to protect me from a stabbing?
20-8304	Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2021-06-14	Denied	appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar	Question not identified
20-8269	Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2021-06-09	Denied	28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington	Whether the state court failed to apply the correct standard of 'reasonableness' under Strickland v. Washington
20-7133	Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2021-02-12	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects	Whether the Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause by allowing prosecution by information rat…
19-8591	Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2020-06-04	Denied	discovery-motions exonerating-evidence habeas-corpus juvenile-jurisdiction new-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing	Question not identified
19-8410	Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2020-05-07	Denied	civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation	Whether the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution supersedes the statutory requirement of exhausting state remedies before filing a federal habea…
19-8105	Justin Anderson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2020-03-26	Denied	brain-damage capital-sentencing federal-habeas fetal-alcohol-spectrum fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-proceedings strickland-prejudice strickland-standard	Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-7476	Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2020-01-29	Denied	brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards	Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was 'thorough?