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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Tags Question Presented
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