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25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness 1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione…
25A719 Pamela McKethan v. GSLS GA, LLC Georgia 2025-12-18 Application certiorari family-emergency good-cause pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
25-583 Rodney Towe v. Georgia Georgia 2025-11-17 Denied criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte…
25A524 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application first-amendment free-speech hat-day school-regulation student-speech weapon-depiction Whether the First Amendment protects a public school student's right to wear clothing depicting a firearm when the message is not overtly threatening
25A460 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-10-22 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether a substitute expert witness's testimony based on an absent analyst's testimonial statements violates a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clau…
25A350 Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. Georgia 2025-09-26 Application certiorari extension-of-time legal-complexity petition-for-relief pro-se supreme-court-rule Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition warrants extraordinary relief given the complexity of th…
25A302 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow…
25A284 Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. Georgia 2025-09-11 Application extension-of-time georgia-supreme-court legal-complexity pro-se-petition supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will grant a 30-day extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under Rule 13.1 when the petitioner demonstr…
25-5532 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-03 Denied bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence 1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of Rogers's new …
24A1198 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence capital-punishment constitutional-due-process death-penalty new-trial recantation Whether the recantation of bitemark evidence used to convict a death row inmate warrants a new trial under federal constitutional due process standard…
24-5992 Andrew W. Bell v. Fulton County, Georgia, et al. Georgia 2024-11-19 Denied appeal-procedure ejectment-claim georgia-supreme-court procedural-due-process property-dispute statutory-interpretation Did the Supreme Court of Georgia improperly reject Petitioner's appeal under O.C.G.A. § 5-6-35(j) and violate procedural due process?
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment Does a federal court's unconditional deference to a state supreme court's purported findings on an essential element of a crime violate a habeas petit…
24-5386 Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Georgia 2024-08-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-breach judicial-discretion jurisdiction-conflict supersedeas-bond Whether a state court's denial of a jury trial and imposition of an excessive supersedeas bond without an appeal or review mechanism violates constitu…
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification Should-the-Rooker-Feldman-doctrine-apply-to-moot-decisions-by-state-courts
23-7173 John Lee Barlow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in categorically ruling that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted …
23-7042 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards?
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts Which court resolves an irreconcilable conflict of jurisdiction between the federal courts and state courts?
23A104 Jeremy Moody v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-04 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
22-7877 Corey Coggins v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2023-06-27 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-defense-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Is it ineffective assistance of counsel for a court-appointed attorney to enter into a joint defense agreement without client consent, waiving 4th Ame…
22-1142 Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia Georgia 2023-05-24 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct Did the trial court err in holding the Prosecution did not have possession of the 'it was placed' note ultimately produced by the FBI?
22-1077 Sheryl Pereira v. Terrial O'Neal Georgia 2023-05-05 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion precedent property-rights stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers Whether Supreme Court of Georgia and Court of Appeals of Georgia erred by violating their own longstanding precedent
22-7339 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-04-20 Denied 14th-Amendment appellate-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process georgia-courts habeas-corpus ocga-5-6-35 post-conviction-remedies Due-Process
22-776 Courtney Drake v. Georgia Georgia 2023-02-17 Denied blood-draw blood-test breath-test due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent self-incrimination warrantless-search Whether the government can use a motorist's refusal of a warrantless blood test as evidence of guilt
22-5671 Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws
22-146 Tracy Smith v. Georgia Georgia 2022-08-16 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether it is a violation of the Sixth Amendment for trial counsel to fail to object to a jury instruction that sanctioned a non-unanimous verdict
20-8068 Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden Georgia 2021-05-18 Denied certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey Did the Supreme Court of Georgia abuse its discretion by refusing to grant a Certificate of Probable Cause to review the judgment of the Habeas Court?
20-1509 Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee Georgia 2021-04-28 Dismissed article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Const…
20-6775 Dantazias Raines v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-05 Denied criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment Does a juvenile have a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury decide whether he is permanently incorrigible, and thus eligible to be sentenced to life w…
20-188 Zhiheng Sheng v. Daniel Michael Snyder Georgia 2020-08-19 Denied antenuptial-agreement beneficiary-designation civil-procedure erisa erisa-waiver retirement-plan spousal-rights spousal-waiver state-law Can a waiver by a spouse of her interest in a retirement plan covered by ERISA be enforced through a state law cause of action?
19-996 Lindsay Waters v. Georgia Georgia 2020-02-10 Denied civil-rights coercion due-process dui dui-testing fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to coerce submission to a warrantless blood test
19-7343 Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-01-17 Denied criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter Can voluntary manslaughter or any other homicide be used as an underlying felony to support felony murder?
19-850 Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia Georgia 2020-01-07 Denied arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitrary enforcement?
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson 2019-12-11 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination Whether the order of disbarment should be reversed, remanded, or vacated and set aside for violation of the Due Process and Self-Incrimination Clause …
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v…
19-691 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Georgia Georgia 2019-12-02 Denied 404b-evidence circuit-court-split circuit-split d.c.-circuit-precedent due-process evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence georgia-supreme-court intrinsic-evidence intrinsic-evidence-rule prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts Were petitioner's due process rights violated by the Supreme Court of Georgia's overly broad application of the 'intrinsic evidence' rule?
19-5791 Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. Georgia 2019-09-03 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re…
18-9745 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards Whether the state court's refusal to provide a hearing mandated by Georgia's DNA statute denied due process
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-02 Denied arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional
18-6276 Marcus Anthony Terrell v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing state-courts Whether the dismissal of petitioners' certificate of probable cause by the Supreme Court of Georgia violated their due process rights and resulted in …
18-282 Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. Georgia 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether Pickering and its progeny apply to off-duty public employees speaking on matters of public interest unrelated to their employment, and the app…
18-5372 James J. Bagwell v. Southern National Assets, LLC Georgia 2018-07-26 Denied banking-rules bankruptcy civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure lien-priority misappropriation-of-funds tax-sale Whether the lower courts erred in denying the pro se petitioner his constitutional rights of equal protection and due process
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention?
19A648 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia Presumed Complete None