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25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who…
24-7439 In Re Terron Dizzley 2025-06-17 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-trial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion trial-court-jurisdiction Did the trial court exceed its jurisdiction in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause by trying Mr. Dizzley a second time for the c…
24A1231 Stephen C. Stanko v. Joel E. Anderson, Interim Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete None
24A1150 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du…
24-6933 Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2025-04-08 Denied capital-punishment childhood-trauma death-penalty ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel fails to fully investigate and p…
24-6420 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied capital-punishment expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel traumatic-brain-injury waiver-of-counsel Does 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) require a certificate of appealability for review of an order prematurely granting summary judgment against a habeas pe…
24-6376 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-23 Denied capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias Did trial counsel provide prejudicially deficient assistance of counsel by repeatedly introducing and amplifying noxious racial stereotypes about Bowm…
24A491 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel waiver Whether an actual conflict of trial counsel that adversely affects representation can be validly waived without fully advising the client of the conse…
24-5668 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2024-09-30 Denied batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the Batson factors in determining racial discrimination in jury selection when empaneling …
24-5603 Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied due-process execution-methods informed-choice lethal-injection procedural-rights state-action Whether South Carolina's refusal to provide information about execution drugs violates a death row inmate's due process rights when choosing a method …
23-7641 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e…
23-7596 Andre Tayson Boone v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied appeal civil-procedure constitutional-analysis due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions time-extension Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal of the district court's denial of their motion for an extension of time to file a notic…
23A868 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Fourth Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's habeas corpus petition challenging the constit…
23A247 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Presumed Complete adequate-staffing deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment farmer-v-brennan habeas-corpus-filing-deadline prison-conditions Whether prison officials' deliberate indifference to systemic staffing deficiencies that substantially increase the risk of serious harm to inmates vi…
22-1234 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author…
22-6772 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Was the Fourth Circuit's finding of no materiality of the suppressed evidence inconsistent with this Court's clearly established precedents?
22-6690 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1), F-R.A.P. 22(b) and this Court's decisions in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S.…
22A492 Marion Bowman v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-06 Presumed Complete None
22A451 Steven Bixby v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-22 Presumed Complete None
22-5646 Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act?
22-5536 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t…
22-5476 John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland-v-Washington
22-5014 Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall…
22A2 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-30 Presumed Complete None
21A837 John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-17 Presumed Complete None
21A437 Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Presumed Complete None
21-1044 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. James Nathaniel Bryant, III Fourth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference In review of a claim fully adjudicated in state court, did the district court violate 28-usc-2254, finality, federalism
21-938 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2021-12-23 GVR capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit violated Strickland v. Washington in its prejudice analysis
21-6151 Gary DuBose Terry v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-review summary-judgment trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas court may summarily dismiss a petition alleging a substantial but defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel …
21-5962 Charles Nemon Vandross v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process standing supervision-of-lower-courts Whether the USCRY has denied Petitioner access to the courts
21A61 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2021-10-07 Presumed Complete None
20-7550 John Roosevelt Baccus v. South Carolina Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-03-24 Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the court below erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims without adjudicating the merits
20-975 Freddie Owens v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default Whether the standard for determining if an underlying constitutional claim is 'substantial' under Martinez v. Ryan is the same as the standard for obt…
20-582 Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf…
20-6166 Brad Keith Sigmon v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing cumulative-evidence evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit violated this Court's directives on the Sixth Amendment's right to effective counsel when it rejected Sigmon's Martinez evi…
20-5570 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and 'adjudicated on the merits' by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder…
19-8130 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2020-03-27 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction Correcting-erroneous-denial-of-extraordinary-writ
18A1292 Steven L. Barnes v. South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fundamental-rights prison-officials supreme-court time-extension Whether a state supreme court's denial of a prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari violates due process …
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court is objectively unreasonable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) in concluding a capital defendant was not prejudiced by counsel's failu…
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M…
24A409 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina Denied batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Whether the State's peremptory strikes of Black jurors in a capital murder trial violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky by impe…
24A723 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina Denied death-penalty ineffective-assistance racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel introduces racially prejudicial…
24A956 Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina Denied None