| 21A221 |
Jamie Mills v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A170 |
James Edward Barber v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-6055 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
accommodation ada ada-accommodation civil-rights cognitive-disability due-process execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia prison-rights standing statutory-deadline |
What is the threshold of evidence required for a cognitively disabled petitioner to establish that his need for accommodation was obvious under the AD… |
| 20-7592 |
Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a jury's non-unanimous advisory verdict to serve as the predicate for a death sentence, when the jurors were told … |
| 20-1302 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence |
Whether a federal court violates 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) in determining state court's factual findings |
| 20-1197 |
Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing |
Whether the availability of equitable tolling requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances |
| 20A129 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. Willie B. Smith, III |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 20A128 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Willie B. Smith, III |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-1084 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Judgment Issued |
aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court |
| 20-6972 |
Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given … |
| 19-8413 |
Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision |
Whether the Alabama state courts and federal district court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in denying habeas relief to the petit… |
| 19-7880 |
Nathaniel Woods v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-discrimination arbitrary-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia suppressed-information |
Does the Eighth Amendment apply only to imposition of a death sentence, or may a petitioner challenge how a death sentence is carried out? |
| 19-7745 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules |
Whether Hail v. Florida and Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review |
| 19A871 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. James McWilliams |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A513 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-6531 |
Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability |
| 18A1238 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering |
Whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol using midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment by posing a substantial risk of causing severe and excruciat… |
| 18A1053 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. Christopher Lee Price |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-8766 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
appellate-review bucklew-standard civil-rights due-process evidence lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction standing |
Whether a district court can make factual findings based on evidence that may not be admissible at trial |
| 18-1249 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
compounding-pharmacy cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pentobarbital |
Whether an Alabama death row inmate has shown that pentobarbital is 'available' to the Alabama Department of Corrections for use in executions |
| 18-1158 |
Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial |
| 18A815 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18A601 |
Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-6658 |
Ronald D. Veteto v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Alabama |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se standing |
Whether a State may arbitrarily deny an indigent pro se prisoner effective and meaningful access to the courts? |
| 19A976 |
Nathaniel Woods v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18A1044 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A99 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
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