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23-5386 Bryant Matthew Parker v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-review reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case voting-rights Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Plaintiff's Yoakum County Protest Voting Restrictions Act was unconstitutional, …
22-7885 Antwon Whitten v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied affordable-care-act civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioners' claims challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and…
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Circumstances-for-pro-se-habeas-petitions
22-7378 Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sixth-amendment speedy-trial Was Petitioner's right to a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment denied?
22A909 Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-04-18 Presumed Complete None
22-7056 Alexander Cameron v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-03-21 Dismissed appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-evidence free-speech judicial-procedure standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his appeal based on the state court's erroneous application of the 'n…
22-6669 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition procedural-deficiency standing takings va-code-19.2-271 Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated because the VDOC policy prohibits incarcerated individuals, other than law enforcement or…
22A676 Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Virginia 2023-01-27 Presumed Complete None
22-6504 Donald Herrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process free-speech grand-jury-fraud ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-framework Did the Commonwealth of Virginia adopt a trial framework that allows elected officials to brake their oath by presenting, publicizing and spreading di…
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Court…
22-6184 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's 'unreasonable determination of the facts' clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5420 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-22 Dismissed 14th-amendment 4th-circuit civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure writ-of-error Whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals made an error of Law when is failed to protect the 14th Amendment
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim at h…
22-5110 Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction
22-14 Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was burden…
21-1562 Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-06-14 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when Reed was not…
21-8005 Mark M. Lowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-corrections due-process human-needs judicial-disqualification pro-se-appellant standing Whether the denial of basic human needs violates individual rights under the 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution
21-8002 Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript whether-the-failure-to-provide-a-trial-transcript-violates-due-process
21-7058 Adam Pelletier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider rule-60(b)(3) state-court-dismissal Is Petitioner's claim of prosecutorial 'Fraud Upon The Court' a valid claim under Rule 60(b)(3)?
21-7012 Jessica Ewing v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied burden-of-proof counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction Whether the previous court erred in denying Ms. Ewing's motion based on its own merits determination of her ineffective assistance of counsel claim
21-1016 Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-01-19 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full and …
21-6296 James Paul Desper v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association parental-rights prison-regulations prison-visitation Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of fa…
21-5794 Fred M. Carrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain property-rights takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
20-1628 Daniel Tekle v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure void-judgment warrantless-search Question not identified
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-04-28 Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
20-7489 Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing Whether the Fourth Circuit decision was debatable not to review the merits of the claims
20-1236 Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 Is Anderson being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment because Va. Code Sections 18.2-361 and 18.2-366 are u…
20-7221 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied aggregate-prejudice criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit's judicial precedence of not reviewing multiple ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the cumulative effect and aggr…
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus as unauthorized and successive
20-6623 Raymond Ka-Lun Pin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied administrative-grievance civil-rights constitutional-rights discretionary-parole due-process equal-protection imprisonment parole sentencing takings Whether the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's due process rights by the arbitrary enforcement of a void dis…
20-6416 Devon M. Byrd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings-clause Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause
20-6315 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha…
20-6036 Torrey Washington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights Does the Confrontation Clause require a victim to be made available for cross-examination if pictures of them are submitted, and is counsel ineffectiv…
20-5633 Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the district court committed legal error when it determined that the newly presented evidence does not qualify for consideration under the act…
20-5593 Chaz Antonio Earp v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mistake Whether the appellant received a fair trial as promised by the federal and state constitutions
20-5288 Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement Where contract law identifies that an agreement can be signed under bad faith and made voidable by either extrinsic fraud or an intentional omission o…
20-5256 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Did the Virginia Supreme Court and Chesapeake Circuit Court err in failing to establish jurisdiction over the subject matter?
20-5033 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'Min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-07-19 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Question not identified
20-5106 Antwon Gairrio Whitten v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-07-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated based on the alleged denial of due process and free speech
20-5092 Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-07-16 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court Whether the ruling by the Supreme Court constitutes a clearly established law error in the United States Supreme Court Ineffective Assistance of Couns…
19-8872 James Henry Simpson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8776 Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing Whether the court can address the petitioner's habeas petition asking for his APPA rights back when a direct appeal is a fundamental constitutional du…
19-8623 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle When two state courts arrive at different conclusions using different governing legal principles on the same case, should the petitioner be given a re…
19-8619 Deon Christopher Cobb v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-06-05 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory provisions
19-8313 Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Did the lower courts err in determining Petitioner's reliance on McQuiggin v. Perkins
19-8110 DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Independent or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's claim of prosecutorial…
19-7805 Shavis Holloman v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-7513 Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-02-03 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in its rulings on ineffective assistance of counsel claims
19-7297 Christopher J. Burton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-01-15 Denied civil-commitment collateral-consequences criminal-justice criminal-procedure deportation due-process professional-assistance sexually-violent-predator strickland-v-washington voluntary-plea Whether civil commitment proceedings are sufficiently similar to deportation proceedings such that the distinction between collateral and direct conse…
19A711 DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-12-26 Presumed Complete None
19-6949 James R. Royal v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-12-17 Denied collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Is McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct.1500(2018) a watershed rule of criminal procedure which must be applied retroactively on collateral review?
19-6933 Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served Whether the petitioner's jail good time credit and ESC Level have been calculated incorrectly
19-6710 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere…
19-6455 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-filing state-court-proceedings statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
19-6244 Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-10-10 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion in dismissing the case, in violation of the petitioners' civil-rights, due-process, and free-spe…
19M48 Senol Yilmaz v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Virginia 2019-09-05 Presumed Complete None
19-5761 Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the court erred in allowing the prosecution to use a peremptory strike without a race-neutral basis
19A212 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-21 Presumed Complete None
18-9711 David Meyers v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fail-to-strike-testimony fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intrinsic-fraud perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Did attorney Paul Roskins violate due-process, fail-to-strike-testimony, false-testimony, compulsory-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-05-31 Denied constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-9154 Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit court erred in failing to correct a defective jury instruction
18-8973 Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-04-23 Denied civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell Has the petitioner been validly sentenced under the Virginia statute on earned sentence credits?
18-8883 James E. Jessup v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims alleging violations of his First Amendment rights and due process righ…
18M143 Mark A. Grethen v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-10 Presumed Complete None
18-8620 Joel M. Hicklin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-03-29 Denied civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner's failure to investigate
18-8212 Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convi…
18-8022 Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation
18-7954 Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan Whether the Slayton rule bars federal habeas relief for a jurisdictional claim
18-7762 Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison reg…
18-7604 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied civil-rights confidentiality confidentiality-statute due-process mailroom-search medical-records medical-records-privacy prisoner-rights privacy privacy-rights veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether privacy rights extend to a prisoner's military medical records
18-7492 Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee, Jr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-01-22 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t…
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-20 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, such as: (1) A Vague Statute Was…
18-7024 Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence — post-trial — without notice are unconst…
18-6577 Ernesto Wilfredo Solano Godoy v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied confrontation-clause due-process fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records strickland strickland-standard strickland-test sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-542 John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation Whether an individual defendant has standing to assert a rule of specialty violation
18A257 Craig Michael Linnon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Presumed Complete None
18-5902 Terrence Javon Allen, Sr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se sixth-amendment speedy-trial Can the courts violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by denying a criminal defendant his Sixth Amendment ri…
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the cumulative effect of multiple constitutional violations, including ineffective assistance of counsel, deprived the defendant of a fair tri…
18-265 Micah Patterson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-31 Denied adversarial confrontation constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation sixth-amendment virginia-supreme-court Did the Virginia Supreme Court err by effectively affirming a lower court holding that denied relief for Patterson's ineffective assistance of counsel…
18-5677 Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-21 Denied constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus alleging ineffective-assistance-of-counsel where petitioner's attorney was…
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection
17-28 Arsean Lamone Hicks v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2017-07-05 Denied None
20A27 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None