| 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… |
| 25-5674 |
Byron Neal v. Warden, FCI Terminal Island |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question detention-legality habeas-corpus savings-clause second-successive-motion |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 as a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 despite… |
| 24-7236 |
Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
conflict-of-interest counsel-replacement habeas-corpus rule-60(b) substantial-likelihood time-limitation |
Is a Rule 60(b) motion filed less than seven months after the appointment of conflict-free federal habeas counsel categorically untimely such that it … |
| 24-7223 |
Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6354 |
Shelben T. Curtis v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
ineffective-assistance jury-instruction retroactive-application sixth-amendment sudden-heat voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the lower courts unreasonably applied Brantley retroactively when deciding if counsel's ineffectiveness denied Sixth Amendment rights due to i… |
| 24-6216 |
Durell T. Crain v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6164 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
capital-punishment due-process execution-standards incompetency-claim mental-competency state-court-review |
May a state court dispose of an evidentiarily-supported incompetency to be executed claim under Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman despite f… |
| 24-6053 |
Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issue legal-petition statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1034 |
Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process penological-needs prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings procedural-due-process superintendent-v-hill wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Whether courts should determine the procedural due process protections that apply in prison disciplinary proceedings by balancing ordinary due process… |
| 23M63 |
A. C. James, Jr. v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 23A584 |
Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc petition-for-rehearing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a federal appellate court denies a petition for rehearing en banc in a case inv… |
| 23-5792 |
Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation |
Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses |
| 23-5431 |
Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus prison-law-library strickland-standard strickland-test |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the Defendant's negligent actions did not violate the Plaintiff's constitutional right to access th… |
| 22-1075 |
James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the right to confrontation was denied |
| 22-7447 |
In Re Antonio D. McCaster |
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2023-05-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations timeliness writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely |
| 22-7071 |
Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction |
Is it a denial of due process when a state imports a due process right and then acquiesces the defendant was denied this right and then arbitrarily ta… |
| 22M15 |
Paul Moore v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 22M13 |
John B. Myles v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21A820 |
Randle Jackson, aka Vernando Ross v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21-7953 |
Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar |
Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's judge abused his discretion in dismissing the petitioner's… |
| 21-7550 |
Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal |
Oregon |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection indigent involuntary-dismissal judicial-discretion sanctions |
Is it a violation of due-process to involuntarily dismiss a case with prejudice for a party's failure to pay a monetary sanction that bears no relevan… |
| 21M103 |
Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21A479 |
Paul Moore v. Ron Neal |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21A356 |
Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal |
Oregon |
2022-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21-6292 |
Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by redactin… |
| 21-5765 |
Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense |
| 20-1134 |
John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-5183 |
Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund's substantive and procedural due process rights |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no reasonable probability that the state's appellate… |
| 19A803 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 19-6817 |
Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis when it determined Petitioner had not made a substantial showing of a denial… |
| 19A323 |
Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-5276 |
Marvin F. Taylor v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified |
| 18-9825 |
Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione… |
| 18-9177 |
Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 18-287 |
Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison v. Frederick Michael Baer |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act deferential-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Seventh Circuit violate the deferential review requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by disregarding the reasoned … |
| 24A592 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
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Denied |
competency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay mental-illness schizophrenia |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a defendant with severe, untreated paranoid schizophrenia who was deemed incompetent to assist… |
| 24A1109 |
Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
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Denied |
None |
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