| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-5224 |
Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations |
Must a habeas petitioner make a threshold showing of reliability before the reviewing court will consider the evidence in totality to determine whethe… |
| 19-7489 |
Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon |
Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence… |
| 19-7272 |
Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial |
| 19-6077 |
Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the exclusion of all reliable and relevant material evidence, including the testimony of the defendant's first-hand witness, violated the defe… |
| 19-5694 |
Craig Farley v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
consciousness-of-guilt constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-trial exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-identification-evidence phone-records sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Is there any reasonable argument that trial counsel satisfied the Strickland standard when he failed to introduce crucial lack of identification evide… |
| 19-5144 |
David R. Uribe v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia underlying-charges |
Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia and the Due Process Clause? |