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25-6818 Vernon Carter v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2026-02-13 Pending None
25-6767 Mario A. Manborde v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending constitutional-law due-process federal-law judicial-review manifest-injustice unreasonable-determination Is There a Constitutional Cure For Manifest Injustice?
25-6746 Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. Florida 2026-02-06 Denied eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution pleading-requirements severe-harm Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject to t…
25A868 Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may deny a certificate of appealability when a petitioner seeks to challenge a district court's denial of post-conviction reli…
25A862 Clark MacKendrick v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process Whether a federal court may deny a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus proceeding without providing a detailed explanation of its reasonin…
25-6657 Dale B. Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2026-01-23 Pending None Question not identified.
25-6647 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review Whether reasonable jurists could debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably intertwined initial 28 U.S.C. § 2254 dockets and failur…
25-6608 Dennis Christensen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending None Question not identified.
25-6581 Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Dea…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's rights under the Takings Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment are offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies a…
25-6405 Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea…
25-6382 Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying review of a death row inmate's method-of-execution challenge based solely on undue delay, despite newly …
25A671 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-09 Application death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se Whether the procedural complexities of maintaining separate pro se and counseled federal habeas dockets can constitute ineffective assistance of couns…
25A635 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Application equitable-tolling extraordinary-relief federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mental-health suicide-attempt Whether a federal prisoner's suicide attempt and subsequent mental health challenges constitute grounds for equitable tolling or extraordinary relief …
25-624 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard Whether a mixed question of law and fact under Strickland v. Washington is reviewed for clear error or de novo, and whether an appellate court can rel…
25-6191 Duane E. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied charging-document constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Whether Adams' constitutional right to due process was violated when the trial court conducted a trial and entered a judgment without subject matter j…
25M41 Jermaine Smith v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Pending None
25-580 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence Whether a court must consider only trial evidence when determining the prejudicial effect of a constitutional error or if post-verdict evidence can be…
25-525 Damion Anthony Delapena v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining Does federal habeas petitioner make a 'substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right' under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) where his trial attor…
25-516 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-27 Pending aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether AEDPA deference is unconstitutional under Loper Bright and whether a defendant must discredit evidence admitted due to constitutional errors t…
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…
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…
25-478 Christin Bilotti v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-17 Denied None Question not identified.
25-5880 Derrick Gregory James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentence-modification Whether a change in a criminal sentence years after initial imposition constitutes a double jeopardy or due process violation
25-5843 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-10-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure Whether a prisoner's habeas petition challenging his conviction can proceed when he was denied access to potentially exculpatory evidence during his o…
25A407 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice Whether an appellate court's de novo review of a trial court's Strickland prejudice determination can disregard the trial court's express factual find…
25A394 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence Whether a federal court may assess the harmlessness of a Giglio error by considering post-trial DNA evidence not presented to the original jury, rathe…
25-304 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fair-trial judicial-misconduct state-trial-court Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claim that he was denied his cons…
25-5585 Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b); Whether a new judgment, resulting from res…
25-5575 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi…
25A224 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Brady v. Maryland disclosure requirements are properly evaluated under the de…
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes a court's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and barred from 2254 Habeas Corpus review for failure to…
25-5432 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied None Question not identified.
25-5426 Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by denying Appellant's appeal without addressing the state trial court's violation of Appellant's Sixth Amendment c…
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25-5244 Kristy Richard v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
25-5218 Michael Anthony LoRusso v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied None Question not identified.
25A93 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a new trial or resentencing where a defendant alleges ineffective assistance of counsel a…
25A79 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner Whether a federal court may deny a certificate of appealability to a state prisoner's federal habeas petition without providing a reasoned explanation…
25-5097 Michael Bell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied brady-violation due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief successive-petition Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Giglio in his initial § 2254 motion, should a second-in-time mot…
25-5085 Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-07-11 Denied actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida can procedurally bar a habeas corpus petition based on actual innocence claims without relying on procedural rule…
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground Whether defense counsel's failure to request a pretrial immunity hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth …
24A1214 Joshua Lee Dukes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Presumed Complete None
24A1201 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan post-conviction state-proceedings Whether Martinez v. Ryan creates a constitutional right for state prisoners to have counsel appointed in state post-conviction proceedings to effectiv…
24-7360 Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing Whether a court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by using a petitioner's silence at sentencing as the sole definitive factor to deny relie…
24-1211 Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability based on a single judge's assessment violates the established standard for suc…
24A1139 John DiTullio v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-23 Presumed Complete None
24A1103 Caleb Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Presumed Complete None
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
24-7118 Enrique Diaz v. Ricky Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2025-05-02 Denied amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement Whether the Third District's decision disallowing Diaz's use of habeas corpus violates his constitutional right to court access and challenges an alle…
24-7117 Jeffrey Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied competency-to-execute death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-health panetti-standard Does the Panetti standard for competency to be executed require more than a mere rational understanding of the physical fact of execution, and must it…
24-7084 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied aedpa-deadline attorney-negligence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied the certificate of appealability standard by denying relief based on disagreements with other reasonab…
24-1111 Damon Peterson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender life-sentence parole-commission Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued for a mandatory life-with-parole sentence for a juvenile offender when the state parole comm…
24-7010 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's blanket denial of a certificate of appealability complies with Supreme Court standards for COA review and whether the d…
24A991 Jeffrey S. Jordan v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete None
24-7003 Hale R. Harris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel require a remedy to the constitutional violation?
24-6950 Daontae T. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and procure exculpatory security camera footage abrogates the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendmen…
24-6932 Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-04-04 Denied death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-recommendation sixth-amendment Whether Florida may limit a jury's penalty phase role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments despite the Supreme Court's overruling of Spa…
24-6883 Kenneth Karlston Newsome v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process international-human-rights life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence Whether a person's right to be presumed innocent is denied by conclusory assertions of guilt before trial, and whether life imprisonment violates due …
24-6890 Earl Emanuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-03-28 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-integrity due-process judicial-rule jury-practices separation-of-powers Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights by refusing to recognize precedent on jury practices and p…
24A938 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Presumed Complete None
24-6871 Diego J. Jimenez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-03-27 Denied constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process judicial-bias jury-instructions structural-error Whether a bias and partial Judge that was recused before trial created a Structural Error when presiding over a criminal defendant's case, whether fra…
24-6876 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance o…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-6822 Jorge Almeida v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mens-rea mental-disease specific-intent Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by conceding guilt instead of presenting an insanity defense and whether due process was violate…
24A892 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied None
24-6777 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied None Question not identified.
24A891 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied None
24-6776 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus mental-incapacity procedural-timeliness Could reasonable jurists debate whether an evidentiary hearing should have been granted to resolve an unrebutted factual proffer that Mr. James' untim…
24A873 Hale R. Harris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-12 Presumed Complete None
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner 'fairly presents' her federal claim when the petitioner raises the substance of a federal constitutional claim in st…
24-6676 Louis Angel Mercado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied appellate-procedure brief-filing cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-counsel presumed-prejudice state-appeal Whether prejudice should be presumed under United States v. Cronic when defense counsel fails to file an appellee's brief under a state-initiated appe…
24-6646 Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
24A799 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-19 Presumed Complete None
24-6574 Mark A. Marchetti v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance exculpatory-evidence fair-trial trial-procedure Whether a trial court's failure to introduce available exculpatory evidence violates a defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective…
24-6565 Alex Hernando Gomez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6549 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance jury-selection martinez-rule strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel during jury selection violated Strickland v. Washington standards and whe…
24-6538 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim of ineffective ass…
24A770 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard Whether a federal court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability when state appellate judges have divided on the merits of a petitioner's co…
24-6486 Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to habeas filings after appellate review, to all second-in-time habeas filings, or to some second-in-time filings based o…
24-6406 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied brady-claim competency-claim disclosure-violation federal-statute habeas-corpus second-petition Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) bars a second-in-time federal habeas petition raising a Brady claim based on evidence that the State failed to disclose un…
24-6368 Carlton Smith v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-01-23 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6369 Curtis B. McPherson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-01-23 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6209 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether trial counsel's performance deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel as made applicable by the Four…
24A630 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari constitutional-claims death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's constitutional claims in a complex capital c…
24-6182 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review Whether a circuit split in procedures for reviewing certificates of appealability constitutes a due process violation and warrants Supreme Court inter…
24A618 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-prisoner Whether a federal habeas court correctly applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) standard for granting relief on a state p…
24A603 Christopher Thomas v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete armed-robbery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment requires reversal of a criminal conviction where trial counsel allegedly provided ineffective assistance by failing to obj…
24A583 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24A575 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus second-petition statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting habeas corpus relief under 18 U.S.C. § 2254 in dismissing a death-row inmate'…
24-6124 Bradley Dorman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied court-access equal-protection first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act three-strike-rule younger-abstention Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's 'Three-Strike' Rule is unconstitutionally applied to a prisoner's prior Younger abstention dismissals and v…
24-6074 Corey Rogers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-12-05 Denied due-process fundamental-error grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion per-curiam-decision unlawful-detention Did the Supreme Court of Florida abuse its discretion by issuing a per curiam decision without reviewing the merits of Corey Rogers' case, and did the…
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed an appeal when the petitioner had exhausted administrative remedies under Florida administrative reg…
24-5998 Carlos Tonyo Cabrera v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-11-20 Denied due-process hearsay-evidence judicial-error prior-convictions procedural-due-process sentencing-scoresheet Whether a court violated a petitioner's due process rights by imposing life sentences based on an erroneous scoresheet using unsubstantiated prior con…
24-5991 Morgan Allen Armstrong v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied court-jurisdiction federal-court judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure Question not identified.
24-5977 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-11-15 Denied constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction Whether all judges in the United States are bound to follow the Constitution, whether state courts can deprive persons of life, liberty, or property w…
24A464 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a new trial or resentencing where the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence …
24-5895 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss relief-from-judgment rule-60-motion Whether a District Court abused its discretion by dismissing a Rule 60(b)(4) Motion for Relief from Judgment alleging a due process violation
24A413 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete court-access institutional-constraints law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant Whether a prisoner's limited law library access and restricted legal research time due to institutional constraints constitutes a substantial burden o…
24A402 Carl Ezekiel Woods v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-right extension-of-time federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the litigant lacks profes…
24-5799 Maria Navarro Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-23 Dismissed constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-law habeas-corpus state-statute Whether the exhaustion of inadequate remedies in federal habeas corpus actions requires dismissal of a petition under an unconstitutional state statut…
24-5716 Dale B. Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-10-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations dismissal district-court judicial-review legal-standing Whether the district court's dismissal of a civil rights action was proper given the plaintiff's allegations of constitutional violations
24A314 Robert Darrel Batson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when state appellate courts have already adjudicated his ineffecti…
24-5616 Craig Bernard Kerry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied competency-examination ineffective-assistance mental-health-issues petition-timeliness trial-court-error Whether the trial court erred by determining that Mr. Kerry's petition was untimely and whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a…
24-5553 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p…
24A258 Robert A. Hamberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24-5521 Vernon Carter v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-09-11 Denied constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment verdict-form Whether the trial court's jury instructions and verdict form violated the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment rights by failing to specify…
24-5464 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Whether Texas counsel fails to adequately challenge insufficient evidence and provide ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Constitut…
24A240 George L. Fields v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default strickland-standard Whether a state court's denial of a prisoner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims constitutes a violation of due process when the claims involve…
24-5441 James A. Price v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-09-04 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5430 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right of confrontation was violated by the trial court's ruling that the 'door was opened' to a law enforcemen…
24-5308 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether a federal circuit court is patently wrong in denying a Certificate of Appealability in a capital case where a state habeas petitioner identifi…
24-5309 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-evaluation mitigation-testimony sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Allred's convictions and death sentences are unconstitutional due to receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial in violation…
24A158 James A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-bar time-extension Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources and mental health challenges constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a wr…
24-5205 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-01 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error supreme-court Question not identified.
24-5168 Edward Nicholas Reeder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied certificate-of-appealability court-order final-order habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure motion-disposition motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-withdrawal trial-counsel voluntary-dismissal Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to object and request that the lower court to address the disposition of Reeder's motion to withdraw plea by…
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely?
24-5127 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with the …
24-60 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied coercive-questioning fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violation interrogation interrogation-tactics juvenile-suspect miranda-rights secret-recording unreasonable-application Whether a detective's act of placing a juvenile suspect in an interview room with a juvenile co-suspect while secretly monitoring and recording the co…
24-5104 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied appeals-court district-court due-process federal-appeals federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard statute-of-limitations Whether the prohibition on a federal district court's ability to dismiss a federal habeas corpus petition on statute of limitations grounds without af…
24M10 Sean Reilly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete None
24A41 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24-5057 Isaiah L. Dunbar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus postconviction Whether an applicant can raise state postconviction claims that are procedurally barred in federal habeas review under the Antiterrorism and Effective…
24A12 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus postconviction section-2254 Whether a death-sentenced inmate's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was improperly denied by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, poten…
23A1164 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability for a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a stat…
23A1165 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete circuit-court death-sentence federal-review first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in denying Mr. Phillips' …
23-7814 James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing Whether sentences of life without parole, as applied to juvenile offenders, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment…
23-7798 Evan C. Wilhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied christeson-v-roper conflict-of-interest counsel-performance cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice professional-reputation professional-responsibility Whether prejudice should be presumed when a conflict of interest forces Counsel to choose between denigrating their own performance on behalf of their…
23-1329 Francisco De Aragon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does Strickland require cumulative-effect-of-errors evaluation,does-AEDPA-deference-apply-to-state-court-findings-favorable-to-petitioner,does-actual-…
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23A1106 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability for a state prisoner's federal habeas corpus petition challenging his mu…
23A1088 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied an unreasonable standard in evaluating claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in a death penalty case involv…
23A1089 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights police-interview self-incrimination suspect-confession Whether the placement of a suspect in a police interview room with another suspect after invoking Miranda rights constitutes an interrogation that vio…
23-7625 Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire Does the State violate the ADA and Equal Protection Clause by failing to provide accessibility accommodations for a hearing-impaired pro-se defendant …
23M101 Terry Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete None
23-7563 Sanford Benjamin Gloster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied aedpa brady-doctrine brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process giglio-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-default Does the admission of false evidence constitute Giglio/Brady violations under Due Process Clause
23A1053 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-courts habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-conviction writ-petition Whether the federal courts improperly denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging a state court conviction and sentence
23-7509 Thomas J. Moore v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied burden-of-proof capital-case criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct religious-arguments testimonial-evidence trial-counsel Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability violates the established 'Slack v. McDaniel' standard to determine a substantial showing of the d…
23-7329 Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment whether-a-state-criminal-appellant-has-constitutional-right-to-fair-trial
23A943 Brian E. Conway v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete extraordinary-writ forum-selection habeas-corpus state-law successive-petition writ-of-relief Whether a successive habeas corpus petition can be summarily denied under state law when the petitioner seeks relief in multiple courts
23M93 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete None
23-7262 Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit whether-the-tolling-statute-for-filing-a-timely-post-conviction-review-was-properly-applied
23-7257 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice premeditated-murder self-defense use-of-force witness-testimony Whether the jury used unreasonable facts to prove a premeditated design
23A914 William Ted Holliday v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-appellate habeas-corpus mandate-recall post-conviction prisoner-rights Whether a state prisoner's motion to recall a mandate constitutes a cognizable legal claim for federal habeas corpus relief
23-7148 Arnold Ancrum v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied actual-innocence civil-rights due-process federal-magistrate-act habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether petitioner's 6th and 14th amendment rights were violated
23-7154 Robert M. Greene v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-04-05 Denied article-i-section-9 constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus speedy-trial state-suspension suspension trial-rights Whether Florida's suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus violates Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether the denial of a state prisoner's constitutional right to the writ of habeas corpus permits equitable tolling of the AEDPA statute of limitatio…
23-6993 Leon Akins v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied competency-evaluation criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process dusky-v-united-states judicial-review mental-competency record-evidence trial-standards Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with this Court's decisions in Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960) and Drope …
23-6982 Paulius Telamy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression favorable-evidence postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Whether, under Brady v. Maryland, the prosecution suppressed favorable evidence
23-6957 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied 4th-amendment cannabis-odor exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-scope vehicle-search warrantless-search Does dismantling the vehicle interior exceed the scope of a warrantless search based on the odor of burnt cannabis?
23A808 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete None
23-6787 Jerry Means v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-law-rights Whether an indigent pro se defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising any claim of trial court error on direct app…
23-6752 Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent Whether Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied federal law
23-6733 Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based on si…
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b Whether habeas counsel's unsworn representations can rebut a petitioner's allegation of dishonesty
23-6713 Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st…
23-6650 Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent Does Lockhart v. Fretwell prevent federal habeas corpus relief despite prejudice when Supreme Court precedent at trial was not clearly inconsistent wi…
23A707 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in denying the petitioner…
23-6587 Pedro Andres Bravo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied 28-usc-2244 appellate-review federal-habeas-review final-judgment gonzalez-v-thaler habeas-corpus state-court-finality state-court-jurisdiction Whether the Court's holding in Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134 (2012), that a judgment becomes final (pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)) when the…
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Whether a wrongfully convicted Section 2254 petitioner's U.S. constitutional rights violation claims that were not previously exhausted in the state c…
23A660 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 Whether a federal habeas petitioner can obtain a certificate of appealability after failing to make a substantial showing of a constitutional right's …
23-6459 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied 28-usc-2253 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-comment mistrial-motion self-incrimination Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his Fifth Ame…
23-6363 Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does an attorney's failure to investigate, interview witnesses, and discuss defenses before advising a guilty plea violate the Sixth Amendment's right…
23-6364 Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-12-27 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's sentence for second-degree murder was unconstitutional due to the sentencing court's error in applying the wrong sentencing la…
23A586 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari civil-procedure death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixty-b Whether a federal habeas petitioner may seek relief under Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) to reopen a judgment dismissing his habeas corpus proceedings
23A588 Justin Willis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to object to a limitation on peremptory challenges constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Strickland …
23-6325 James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-12-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether petitioner's 14th Amendment right to equal protection and proportionality of sentence has been violated
23-6238 William Jarvis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied confrontation confrontation-clause due-process effective-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment third-party-guilt Whether the Fifth Amendment right to be free from the compulsion to make self-incriminating statements includes the right to not be required to provid…
23-6226 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process ex-post-facto-law federal-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus state-court-misconduct state-law trial-errors When will a state's 'substantive law' be applied in a federal court?
23-6117 Gordon Lagerstrom v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion standing Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)?
23-564 Timothy Bing, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer pretrial-investigation pretrial-motions sixth-amendment state-attorney Whether a policy by the State Attorney's Office which punished the petitioner for engaging in a pretrial investigation of his case as well as filing p…
23-6091 Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-11-22 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence under Florida Statute § 775.087(2)(a)1 when the defe…
23A453 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-court-adjudication Whether a federal habeas court may grant relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when state court adjudications fail to provide a full and fair review of a crim…
23-6016 Malik Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied 28-usc-2253(c) certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interference-with-right-to-testify postconviction-relief prior-criminal-history right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence whether-the-record-supports-the-court's-conclusion-that-the-state-court-hearing-regarding-the-inadmissible-hearsay-(crawford-violation)-did-not-violat…
23-6007 Daniel A. Rocha v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance procedural-rules time-limitations Does Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 358 (1968), and its progeny, require a state court to advise an indigent defendant of the procedural rules and ti…
23-5916 Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony frye-standard frye-test ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation right-to-counsel Was Petitioner prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to move for adversarial testing of the State's novel DNA testing and statistics under Frye v. Uni…
23A381 Terrence Thomas v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time prisoner pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court Whether a pro se prisoner's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court procedural ru…
23-5861 Joseph Pierre v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether the Courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this court
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory sta…
23A326 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A330 Pedro Andres Bravo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A332 Charles J. Lawn, Jr. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5741 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-10-10 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Whether the District Court erred in denying the same 4th Amendment protection of legal intrusion as the initial entry question
23A309 Aaron Mohanlal v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete AEDPA habeas-corpus local-rules page-limits pro-se-prisoner section-2254 Whether a federal district court may dismiss a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 with prejudice based on non-compliance with local page li…
23-5723 James Daryl West v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied circuit-opinion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal due-process factual-assertion habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing whether-the-eleventh-circuit-court-of-appeals-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-complaint
23A295 Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5620 Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit flouted this Court's relevant decisions and precedent by declining to even grant a certificate of appealability regarding…
23-5559 Jarrish Outlaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-09-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-remedy manifest-injustice manifest-of-injustice standing supreme-court-review writ-jurisdiction Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's petition to invoke all writ jurisdiction on a manifest of injustice claim
23-5563 Christopher John Derting v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied circuit-court-conflict due-process federal-review habeas-corpus keeney-v-tamayo-reyes post-conviction-review strickland strickland-claim townsend-v-sain vicks-v-bunnell Can the District Court ignore the views of this Court stated in Lovell v. Duffey pertaining to 2254 (d) (2) claims, which should focus on what State C…
23A229 Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-11 Presumed Complete access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner Whether a prisoner's right to adequate access to legal resources and law library facilities is violated when institutional lockdowns and heavy caseloa…
23-5523 Cedrick L. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing state-constitution Whether a Florida court judge has the right to not comply with federal laws and the Florida constitution when it comes to a loyalty oath
23A215 Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A195 Malik Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5443 Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-08-25 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st…
23-5418 Billy Noel Catherwood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-circuit national-emergency public-defender standing state-corrections time-extension victim-impact Did the Mid. Dis. of FL y. U.S. Ct. of App. err (in not following Supreme Court Order allowing 180-day extension of time for filing federal habeas cor…
23A159 James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-08-22 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A141 Christopher John Derting v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-17 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5289 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not est…