| 24A1150 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du… |
| 24-6376 |
Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias |
Did trial counsel provide prejudicially deficient assistance of counsel by repeatedly introducing and amplifying noxious racial stereotypes about Bowm… |
| 22-6772 |
Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Was the Fourth Circuit's finding of no materiality of the suppressed evidence inconsistent with this Court's clearly established precedents? |
| 24A723 |
Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
|
Denied |
death-penalty ineffective-assistance racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel introduces racially prejudicial… |