| 23-5038 |
Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review |
Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 22A872 |
Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 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… |
| 22A12 |
Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7778 |
Lester Ochoa v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment cullen-v-pinholster eighth-amendment family-sympathy jury-instructions mitigation mitigation-evidence |
Whether a State court may prohibit jurors from considering sympathy for a defendant's family in the penalty phase of a capital case as mitigation |
| 20-6822 |
Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing |
Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law? |
| 20-5617 |
David Allen Rundle v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 aggravating-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus incest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychological-impairment psychological-impairments sexual-abuse state-court-determination |
was-the-state-court's-summary-denial-contrary-to-federal-law |
| 20-5366 |
Anthony Bernard Smith, Jr. v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance judicial-precedent ninth-circuit reasonable-diligence statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Whether reasonable diligence to remedy an extraordinary circumstance is sufficient for equitable tolling to stop the clock on a statute of limitations |
| 19-7501 |
Steven Livaditis v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 abusive-conduct constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairments mitigating-evidence penalty-phase reasonable-probability |
Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's claims, alleging defense counsel's failure to present any penalty phase evidence of (i) Petitione… |
| 19-7403 |
Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Dismissed |
capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution |
Whether a criminal judgment obtained through violations of state and federal constitutions and laws by law enforcement and prosecution qualifies for h… |
| 18-7641 |
Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
Whether the natural and probable consequences of a criminal act can support a conviction for second-degree murder under the 'natural and probable cons… |
| 18-6330 |
Jose Arnaldo Rodrigues v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment claims of ineffective assistance of counsel were properly denied by the state court without an evidentiary … |
| 18-6320 |
Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-investigation reasonable-investigation strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard unreasonable-factual-findings unreasonable-findings-of-fact |
Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a certificate of appealability on the ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 18-6214 |
Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the federal habeas courts should evaluate the summary denial of a California habeas petition based on whether the petitioner failed to allege … |
| 18M54 |
Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18A200 |
Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-5252 |
Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence |
Whether a petitioner can be denied discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of the government's spoliation of potentially exculpatory evidence i… |