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25A890 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Application at-large-elections eleventh-circuit public-service-commission racial-vote-dilution section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25A871 Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. David Schroeder, Judge Ohio 2026-02-03 Application double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-factfinding sixth-amendment suspension-clause Question not identified.
25A850 Jeffrey Dale Busby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-28 Application confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony forensic-evidence smith-v-arizona technical-reviewer Question not identified.
25-6561 Joshua Demien Magee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-13 Pending collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto mississippi-supreme-court procedural-standards 1) Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may ignore the ex post facto clause by applying new decision rendered in Howell v. State, 358 So. 3d 613, 615…
25-6541 Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-12 Pending constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines 1. whether a state 's application ano enforcement of its Procedural Bars via its highest appellate Court in Certain Cases resultin annihilation Ano …
25A791 Antonio Sauceda Reyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-08 Application court-access due-process first-amendment indigent-litigant legal-resources prisoner-access Question not identified.
25A754 Martez Abram v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-30 Application appellate-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal indigent-defendant mississippi-supreme-court supreme-court Question not identified.
25-717 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Denied civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order.
25A718 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Application batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may apply an impossible standard of prejudice in reviewing ineffective assistance of counsel claims related to B…
25A706 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law
25A684 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Application capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by sustained conflicts between lead and co-counsel…
25A586 Jonathan Harrelson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-11-18 Application affirmative-defense age-of-consent criminal-intent minor-victim prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-rape Whether a defendant can be convicted of statutory rape when he claims to have been misled about the victim's age and believed the minor was over the a…
25A583 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ…
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
25A504 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-03 Application constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense Whether a local government's categorical ban on firearm possession in public parks violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense
25-5954 In Re Michael Albert Focia 2025-10-24 Denied commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment 1. Does the district court's application of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. section 921 and following, to apply to private arms sales on the secondary …
25-5940 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-22 Denied brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right …
25-5918 Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-20 Denied crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f…
25-5818 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-07 Denied conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-counsel postconviction-relief procedural-bar simultaneous-representation state-court-jurisdiction Petitioner and his brother were adversely situated codefendants in two separate felony cases over which the same judge presided. That judge appointed …
25-5807 Tamatha Lynn Melom v. Stone County, Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-06 Denied confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment 1. Whether the seizure, destruction, and permanent transfer of a citizen's lawfully owned dogs, based on untested hearsay, without production of polic…
25-385 Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-02 Denied capital-trial criminal-procedure retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error teague-rule In McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the right to personally decide whether t…
25-5750 Gary David Green v. Texas Texas 2025-09-29 Pending None Question not identified.
25-5653 Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel Whether a defendant was deprived of a fair trial due to juror concealment of relationships and ineffective assistance of counsel's failure to investig…
25-234 State Board of Election Commissioners, et al., Appellants v. Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Mississippi 2025-08-28 Pending None
25A230 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction Whether a state court's denial of a successive postconviction motion violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights under the Sixth, Eighth, an…
25-5341 Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent Does the revised sentence violate the Eighth Amendment?
25A160 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder dna-evidence due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution's suppression of exculpatory DNA evidence and alternative suspect information violated the defendant's due process rights unde…
25-93 Ang Jin v. Chen Zhao, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yetao Jin Seventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied distribution-law due-process equal-protection fiduciary-liability restatement-second special-representative Whether the court judgment could circumvent appellants' most important argument regarding Restatement 2nd, Special representative's fiduciary liabilit…
25A97 NetChoice, LLC v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete age-verification content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech parental-consent social-media Question not identified.
24A1279 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium …
24-7491 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm…
24-7483 DeAngelo Zieglar v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-06-24 Denied caldwell-precedent capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-selection moratorium-impact In light of Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985), where a state has instituted an indefinite and formal moratorium on the death penalty, wheth…
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t…
24-7474 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-20 Denied arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti…
24-7416 Courtney B. Mathews v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-13 Denied attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ethical-burden trial-errors Does a criminal defense attorney becoming a witness against their own client due to intentional waiver of attorney-client privilege, creating divergen…
24-7407 Andrew McGraw v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-12 Denied None Question not identified.
24-7403 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation Whether multiple convictions and sentences under a single statutory provision of Title 8 U.S.C. 1324 for simultaneous conduct violate the Double Jeopa…
24-1260 Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-10 Granted ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights Whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots cast by federal election day to be received by election officials af…
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-03 Granted batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Does clearly established federal law require reversal of a state appellate court's denial of relief from a capital prosecutor's discriminatory exercis…
24-7311 Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-05-29 Denied appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th…
24A1152 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran and Cochran Land Company, Inc, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Application adverse-possession due-process federal-courts land-patent property-rights summary-judgment Whether a federal court may extinguish property rights under a federal land patent and compel an heir to execute a deed based on disputed conveyances …
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-20 Denied confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap…
24-7237 Jamarr Smith, Thomas Iroko Ayodele, and Gilbert McThunel, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied criminal-procedure digital-surveillance fourth-amendment general-warrant geofence-warrant good-faith-doctrine Whether the good-faith doctrine applies to digital-age general warrants
24-1159 Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-05-13 Judgment Issued child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized …
24A1022 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Presumed Complete None
24-7009 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting record development deprived Petitioner of a meaningful opportunity to p…
24A988 Carlos Moore v. Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance Mississippi 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete None
24-6939 Scott Lee DeShaw, et al. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-07 Denied criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama parole-discretion Can a juvenile offender be sentenced to life without parole under a system that does not give the sentencing judge discretion to choose a parole-eligi…
24-1024 Clarence Cocroft, et al. v. Chris Graham, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied central-hudson commercial-speech constitutional-law first-amendment regulatory-speech state-law Is Central Hudson's first prong a constitutional 'on/off' switch for evaluating commercial speech legality, or a flexible factor?
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti…
24-959 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-03-06 Denied ake-standard due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-expert sentencing-mitigation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court denied Petitioner due process by refusing to provide expert mental health assistance sufficiently independent of…
24-910 Charles Ray Crawford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied ake-standard due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-health-expert sixth-amendment Whether the trial court violated Ake v. Oklahoma by imposing preconditions on expert mental health assistance for an indigent criminal defendant raisi…
24-882 Derrick Chatman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-02-18 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-remand jury-unanimity lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment Does a state court direct-remand rule that infers jury unanimity on a lesser-included offense violate the Sixth Amendment, where the jury's verdict wa…
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…
24-6456 Doran Maurice Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-02-03 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mississippi-law Question not identified.
24A716 Clarence Cocroft, et al. v. Chris Graham, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete advertising-ban central-hudson commercial-speech federal-preemption first-amendment medical-marijuana Whether the First Amendment permits a state to impose a categorical ban on commercial speech by state-licensed medical marijuana businesses based sole…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey precludes a § 1983 plaintiff from seeking prospective injunctive relief challenging a law under which they were previously co…
24-6302 Willie Hearns, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-01-15 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6257 Willie Cory Godbolt v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-01-10 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated by the admission of evidence obtained through an allegedly improper search and seiz…
24-6223 Ernest Edwards, aka Ernest James Edwards v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-01-02 Denied None Question not identified.
24-700 David Thomas Harris Brantley v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied bone-morphogenic-protein childhood-trauma federal-grand-jury genetic-testing legal-jurisdiction medical-research Whether the Supreme Court can adjudicate complex allegations of genetic manipulation, childhood trauma, and potential systemic misconduct involving me…
24A562 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, LLC Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality mandamus-petition procedural-irregularity writ-of-possession Whether a federal district court judge's potential conflict of interest, arising from being a named defendant in a related lawsuit, requires mandatory…
24-613 Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Should a court of appeals be summarily reversed for defying clear Supreme Court precedent, and should a judge or jury determine whether public employe…
24-560 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights Does Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement scheme violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments?
24-5974 James Cobb Hutto, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-11-14 Denied capital-post-conviction competency-right constitutional-claim habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court psychological-assessment Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to competency during state post-conviction capital proceedings
24-5956 Charles Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-11-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion procedural-bars speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Whether a defendant can be deprived of liberty in violation of due process and whether claims affecting fundamental constitutional rights can be proce…
24-5791 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2024-10-21 Denied brady-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State's suppression of favorable evidence and presentation of false arguments at a death penalty case's penalty phase violates due process…
24-5775 Timothy Robert Ronk v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-17 Denied constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment Does the failure of death penalty defense counsel to seek funding for an independent expert and not challenge the State's expert testimony constitute …
24A355 James Cobb Hutto v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction successive-petition supreme-court-review Whether a state supreme court's denial of a successive post-conviction petition violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to meaningful hab…
24-5721 Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus serial-killer-confession Did the state court contravene Chambers and Holmes by excluding serial killer Smith's confession and condemning an innocent man to the fate of dying i…
24-391 Felipe Petrone-Cabanas v. Arizona Arizona 2024-10-08 Denied criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion Whether juveniles may be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discretion to choose any lesser opti…
24-5659 Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether expressly citing race or gender as a reason for a peremptory strike means the strike was motivated by discriminatory intent under Batson v. Ke…
24-5668 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2024-09-30 Denied batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the Batson factors in determining racial discrimination in jury selection when empaneling …
24A277 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights Whether Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement law violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when it perma…
24A259 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy Whether the Spending Clause permits Congress to impose conditions on federal grants that restrict a state's ability to modify its tax policy through a…
24-279 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation Whether, in an as-applied First Amendment challenge to a licensing law, the standard for determining whether the law regulates speech or regulates con…
24A205 Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete casino-liability duty-of-care negligence premises-liability scooter-accident summary-judgment Whether a casino can be held liable under Mississippi premises liability law for injuries caused by a malfunctioning motorized scooter rented to a pat…
24-5347 Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-08-20 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate, uncover, and present evidence of defendant's reduced moral culpability may be categorically discounted…
24-5173 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-30 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an 'unpleasant experience' with police (namely, 'drivi…
23A1151 Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing double-edged-sword ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether a state court's rejection of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on a hypothetical 'residual doubt' strategy and potential 'doubl…
23-7705 Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-13 Denied administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Whether Sohnson's sentence was improperly calculated and should be reduced under the 'safety valve' (18 U.S.C. 3553(f)) sentencing law in effect at th…
23-1219 Colton Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-05-16 Denied chambers-precedent chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial gun-evidence right-to-present-defense self-defense Constitutional right to present a defense
23-7372 Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing Question not identified
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, to apply a 2023 decision (Howell v. State.) case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi's procedural…
23-1160 Derrick Williams v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel Whether the fundamental right to petition the state courts is restricted by any timeframe for appealing the denial or deprivation of counsel on direct…
23-7167 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2024-04-09 Denied batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether the defendant has been denied the right to trial by an impartial jury when racial discrimination in jury selection compromises the right of tr…
23-7187 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-defense death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-standard mitigation post-hoc-strategy post-traumatic-stress-disorder procedural-history sixth-amendment whether-post-hoc-speculation-about-strategy-can-excuse-a-failure-to-conduct-reasonable-investigation
23-7089 Steven L. Lewis v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-27 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-venue mistrial retrial speedy-trial venue Whether the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue
23-1030 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-03-19 Denied church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput…
23-6960 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-11 Denied 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause require resentencing when the principal evidence supporting a conviction is later recanted?
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23A796 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation penalty-phase sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires reversal of a capital conviction where trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing …
23-6804 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-02-21 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have 'broad discretion' to refuse to …
23-830 Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona Arizona 2024-02-02 Denied criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret…
23-6646 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2024-02-01 Denied child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a timely hearing on the enforcement of a child custody decree
23A674 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to consider newly discovered evidence of medical misdiagnosis that p…
23A639 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete church-governance denominational-dispute ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment hierarchical-church property-control Whether the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause precludes state courts from resolving internal church …
23-6354 Devonte Easterling, aka Devontae Easterling v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-27 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the petitioner is eligible for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence
23A569 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-law ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Whether a state supreme court can impose an impermissibly high standard of prejudice review that effectively nullifies the constitutional protections …
23-6207 Ottis J. Cummings Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Commings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-08 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations sex-discrimination standing trial-counsel Whether the Court denied Petitioner due process proceedings due to allegedly McKay's sex?
23-6182 Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-07 Denied appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial Whether the trial court erred in amending the indictment, affecting trial and sentencing
23-6147 Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut…
23A448 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can assert subject matter jurisdiction over a foreign marriage dissolution that has already been validly dissolved by a court in…
23-5842 Ellis Keyes v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2023-10-20 Dismissed 8th-amendment citizen-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process governmental-invasion governmental-powers state-sovereignty torture torture-prohibition Shall the State of Mississippi be restrained, abolished and banned from the use of torture?
23-5823 Ramiro Felix Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2023-10-17 Denied constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness recantation texas-code-criminal-procedure Whether a state court errs in refusing to entertain a cognizable Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment claim based on a state expert's recantation of trial t…
23-5608 George Butler v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-09-19 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel intervening-decision sentencing-error Whether the conviction and/or sentence was in violation of the United States Constitution, Mississippi Constitution, and Laws of Mississippi
23-248 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2023-09-14 Denied batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C…
23-5400 Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan Michigan 2023-08-18 Denied compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment When can a defense expert be excluded for failure to timely file curriculum vitae?
23-5362 Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-08-16 Denied attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure Whether the indictment was defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers
23-5352 Cassandra McGuire v. Highmark Holdings, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-rules stare-decisis summary-judgment Did the courts properly apply default judgment rules when the defendant failed to respond in a timely manner?
23-103 Bruce Ellis, et al. v. City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied attorney-general-certification civil-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process federal-question federal-rule-civil-procedure solicitor-general takings vagueness-doctrine whether-federal-rule-civil-procedure-5.1(b)-requires-court-certification-of-unconstitutional-act
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights
22-7850 In Re James C. Winding 2023-06-22 Dismissed 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the South…
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts Whether a State may curtail a protected interest in DNA testing arbitrarily
22-7600 Randall Cooper, Jr., aka Randall Cooper, aka Randall Carl Cooper, Jr., aka Randall C. Cooper, Jr., aka Randall Carl Cooper v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-19 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing newly-discovered-evidence trial-rights Whether newly discovered evidence warrants a new trial
22-7235 Adam Chism v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-04-06 Denied criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Chism was denied due process of law when plain error was committed by the trial court in imposing an illegal sentence as a matter of law and/o…
22-6955 Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire Was the Fifth Circuit's ruling that a court's comments during voir dire cannot give rise to a Caldwell violation erroneous and in tension with rulings…
22-6899 Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures
22-6880 Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-28 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice
22-6855 Alvin Lee Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-23 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Johnson's conviction and sentence derived from a defective indictment
22-748 Golden Glow Tanning Salon, Incorporated v. City of Columbus, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process economic-liberty fundamental-right individual-liberty lawful-occupation occupation strict-scrutiny Is the right to pursue a lawful occupation a fundamental right deeply rooted in this nation's history and traditions such that any infringement upon t…
22A710 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-07 Presumed Complete None
22-6678 Cortez Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-01 Denied 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure Whether the trial court properly applied the Darden test of Juror Misconduct
22-6438 Tommiel Q. Claiborne, aka Tommie Lee Claiborne, Jr., aka Tommie L. Claiborne v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-01-03 Denied confrontation constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection legal-assistance peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Failing to Exercise the Right to Challenge Jurors for Cause or Peremptory Challenge Purposes
22-581 Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable Ninth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession Whether Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c) violates the Due Process Clause by excluding a third-party confession that is recanted and inconsistent wi…
22-550 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-12-15 Denied competency conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry retroactivity sentence state-courts void-conviction Whether the retroactivity rule for criminal procedure applies to the State of Mississippi
22A517 Stephanie Goree v. City of Verona, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-12 Presumed Complete None
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when…
22-6057 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-11-15 Denied batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection racial-discrimination Whether Mississippi continues to misapply Batson v. Kentucky
22-412 Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte…
22-5716 Michael Tarvin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-09-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
22-5667 Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the Batson standard by requiring a defendant to establish that a juror removed peremptorily is st…
22-5413 Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance revolving around federal treaties
22-5423 Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro…
22-5385 J. S. v. Texas Texas 2022-08-19 Denied confrontation criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice kent-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation extends to a hearing on whether to certify a child as an adult
22-5336 Brian Scott Berryman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-08-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-decisions criminal-law due-process federalism judicial-law legislative-intent public-interests standing statutory-construction Whether the state court decision conflicts with relevant decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and affects broad public interests
21-8262 Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated
21-1548 Courtney L. Rainey v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-06-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process false-information first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech witness-intimidation Whether a conviction under a state witness intimidation statute violates the First Amendment and Due Process Clause
21-8027 Derek J. DeGroot v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-06-01 Denied competency conflict-of-counsel counsel-conflict faretta-colloquy faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court-discretion Does the Sixth Amendment require a trial court to conduct a competency colloquy where a defendant makes a mid-trial demand to represent himself?
21-7911 Lincoln Dille, aka Lincoln Dille II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-05-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial standing whether-the-state-used-all-of-its-peremptory-challenges-against-african-american-jurors
21-1439 Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
21-7858 Larry Lewis v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether the indictment was defective in count 1 and 2 under state law, whether the indictment failed to specify the date and place of the alleged crim…
21-7814 Julia Ann Poff v. Warren Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus standing structural-error trial-process Was the complete deprivation of Ms. Poef's fundamental rights to determine how to protect her liberty related to structural error that violated multip…
21-7792 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Dismissed constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness whether-the-retroactive-application-of-mississippi-statute-creates-a-significant-risk-of-prolonging-the-petitioner's-stay-in-prison
21-7717 Kacy Fonteze Williams v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied constitutional-claim discretion discretionary-review district-court federal-review firearm-charge habeas habeas-corpus right-to-be-heard standard-of-review state-court Whether the District Court failed to properly utilize its discretion on the petitioner's habeas where the court dismissed the firearm charge issue ren…
21-7682 Travon DeAngelo Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief res-judicata spoliation-of-evidence Whether newly discovered evidence is sufficient to establish a due process violation for procedural default or the bar of res judicata pursuant to the…
21-7668 Russell Haley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-21 Denied constitutional-rights conviction-challenge counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who pleads guilty has the right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's deficient pe…
21-7620 Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination Whether white federal judges of the Eastern District of Missouri under color of Missouri laws willfully subjected petitioner based on his color and ra…
21-7584 William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-04-11 Denied batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire Did the state postconviction court violate Batson-and-its-progeny
21-7435 Ronell Williams v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-22 Denied 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discretionary-sentencing jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion youth-characteristics Does this Court's decision in Jones v. Mississippi mandate that states must strictly apply that any discretion in sentencing a juvenile to life withou…
21-7423 Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-21 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
21-7389 John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-16 Dismissed civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Whether a financially solvent prisoner has a constitutional right to receive in forma pauperis status to file a meritorious petition for writ of certi…
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi 2022-02-28 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21A371 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Presumed Complete None
21-6800 Abdulkhaliq Mohammed Murshid, aka Andy v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-01-10 Denied 4th-amendment business-records civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-action law-enforcement prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure Whether officers can search a business without a search warrant
21-6651 Laqunn Gary v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-17 Denied due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights federal-issues federal-treaties ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-procedural-bar state-procedural-bars Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar the petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance that revolve around federal tre…
21-6632 Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-16 Denied criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eig…
21-6571 Ruben Orlando Benitez v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-09 Denied case-review collateral-relief court-manipulation judicial-review legal-procedure litigation litigation-hindrance mississippi-court-of-appeals mississippi-court-of-supreme record-of-facts rehearing Question not identified.
21-6521 Jamar Allen v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-06 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-provisions court-filing due-process hallucinogenic-drug judicial-process legal-document procedural-rules reasons-for-granting-writ scotus-petition victim-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause requires the burden of proof to be met if the only evidence justifying the petitioner as the shooter is the victim's te…
21-6500 Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-03 Denied actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment When a citizen of the United States becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation for homicide and is induced to give false statements, does the due-p…
21-6349 Victor Hurns v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-11-19 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the denial of petitioners' request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendm…
21-6328 Scottie D. Allen v. Florida Florida 2021-11-18 Denied capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in the s…
21-6257 Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-11-12 Denied as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth
21-618 Armand Jones v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-27 Denied codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev…
21-5911 Michael Herman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied complete-defense compulsory-process due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standards mens-rea right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Can a defendant's right to present a complete defense be violated by the arbitrary and disproportionate application of a general evidentiary standard …
21-504 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-05 Denied due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony?
21-5836 Christopher Wilson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-09-30 Denied 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process expert-witness fraud Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals erred in denying Christopher Wilson's motion to vacate his conviction and s…
21-5790 Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a 'crime of violence,' unconstitutionally vague, whe…
21-353 Ethan Hoggatt, et al. v. Allstate Insurance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied abuse-of-discretion fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment insurance-fraud mississippi-unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices-a negligence-per-se petition-clause right-to-petition Do Petitioners have an absolute right under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Mississippi's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act to have the repor…
21-348 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-09-03 Denied administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in narrowly construing an express preemption clause by applying a presumption against preemption
21-282 Brian Russell Turner v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-08-25 Denied arizona-v-youngblood body-camera-footage brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-standard Whether the Supreme Court of Mississippi Erred in Denying Petitioner's Claim that the Prosecution Withheld Exculpatory Evidence Pursuant to Brady v. M…
21-5481 James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-08-25 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the conviction and sentence of the petitioner under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on …
21-5345 Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation Whether an administrative regulation may establish a federal right enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-5316 In Re Taryn Christian 2021-08-06 Dismissed autonomy brady-v-maryland brady-violation counsel-strategy habeas-corpus mandamus mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment strickland Whether the Sixth Amendment right to autonomy over the objective of one's defense, as recognized in McCoy v. Louisiana, applies retroactively on colla…
21-5232 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-29 Denied caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.…
21-5094 Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-13 Denied caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
20-1715 Denise Taylor-Travis v. Jackson State University Fifth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied causation causation-standard civil-rights due-process jury-instructions privacy-rights public-records-act retaliation title-ix Whether the jury instruction on the causation standard for a Title IX retaliation claim was erroneous
20-8208 Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-02 Denied eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing How to determine when a juvenile sentenced to life in prison without parole or its functional equivalent prior to Miller v. Alabama is entitled to a n…
20-1560 Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. Georgia 2021-05-11 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice is a facially race-neutral explanation under Batson
20-1526 Warnock Engineering, L.L.C., et al. v. Canton Municipal Utilities Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-pleading-standards first-amendment johnson-v-shelby pleading-standards quantum-meruit retaliation-claim standing summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' quantum meruit claim due to alleged inadequate pleading should be revie…
20-7837 Sam Bradford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-23 Denied criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Petitioner's (Sam Bradford) due process rights were violated when the trial court committed plain error in imposing a natural life sentence fo…
20-7628 Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-02 Denied appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court of Mississippi have jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Appeals where there are two duty members who refused …
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 …
20-1306 Alan Dale Walker v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-03-19 Denied capital-case capital-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mitigation-evidence psychological-trauma sixth-amendment tactical-decisions trial-counsel Did the Mississippi Supreme Court fail to adhere to this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence requiring counsel in a capital case to conduct a thorou…
20-7448 Shuntario Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions right-to-confront-witnesses right-to-present-defense right-to-present-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision to affirm the hearsay objection was contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 302 (1973) and its progeny…
20-1253 Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2021-03-10 Denied chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the Mississippi Supreme Court break state law when it would not apply the mandatory language in the use of the word 'shall' in Mississippi Code of…
20-7317 Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing Whether the United States District Court decision to deny Petitioner's §2254 Habeas Corpus Petition as untimely is constitutional
20-7238 Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-02-24 Denied competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment Does Mississippi's 'presumption of competency' violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all…
20-7203 Chiron Sharrol Francis v. Texas Texas 2021-02-22 Denied chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause crane-v-kentucky crime-scene-evidence due-process evidence-authentication evidence-preservation fair-trial right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Did the police's bad-faith-handling-of-evidence deny the defendant due-process-and-fair-trial
20A126 Tate Reeves, Governor of Mississippi, et al. v. Indigo Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Child J. E., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Presumed Complete None
20-6775 Dantazias Raines v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-05 Denied criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment Does a juvenile have a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury decide whether he is permanently incorrigible, and thus eligible to be sentenced to life w…
20-6613 C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-11 Denied constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the construction of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses o…
20-6482 Derrick Moffite v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-01 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional/statutory provisions
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-634 Felicia Robinson v. Webster County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-violation due-process government-liability private-actor-injury section-1983 standing state-created-danger Whether a person injured by a private actor can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a state or local government actor who created the danger …
20-6260 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati…
20-549 John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a detainee's first appearance in court a 'critical stage' of the proceedings?
20-5830 Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims
20-384 Penny Nichols Corn, et al. v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-precedent garcetti-v-ceballos lane-v-franks law-enforcement-misconduct misprision-of-felony public-employee-speech Whether public employees have First Amendment protection to report fraudulent conduct by state troopers
20-5677 In Re Jimmy Wren 2020-09-11 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus Whether 28 USC §2244 deprives similar-situated-litigants of due-process