| 22-5542 |
Johnny A. Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
capital-cases certificate-of-appealability cumulative-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington wiggins-claim Wiggins-v-Smith |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained summary denials of certificates of appealability in capital cases conflicts with 28-U.S.C… |
| 21-8153 |
Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Was the denial of a COA proper? |
| 21A797 |
Johnny A. Johnson v. Paul Blair |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7542 |
Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Missouri |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights delay-in-sentencing due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness mitigation-evidence right-to-present-evidence sentencing-delay |
Whether the inordinate delay between the defendant's conviction and capital sentencing proceedings prejudiced the defendant's ability to present mitig… |
| 21A548 |
Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7449 |
Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-trial closing-argument ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan mccoy-v-louisiana nixon-v-florida sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
Whether the decision to forego a closing argument in the penalty phase of a capital murder trial is a tactical decision for trial counsel to make or a… |
| 21A299 |
Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-5854 |
Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Missouri |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Whether a state can add a causal connection requirement to the definition of intellectual disability, ignoring Atkins and its progeny |
| 20-8333 |
Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
delay eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation resentencing sixth-amendment |
Does this Court's Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment precedent protect a defendant's right to present mitigation when a delay occasioned by the St… |
| 21A51 |
Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Missouri |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A606 |
Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Missouri |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|