| 24-6491 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
asset-freezing certificate-of-appealability due-process hybrid-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated when a trial court freezes assets, appoints counsel over a defendant's objection, restricts h… |
| 24-5815 |
Joseph S. Addison v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion |
Whether a defendant can be denied their Sixth Amendment right to self-representation when they have clearly and unequivocally invoked such right |
| 24A35 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
ada disability-access legal-resources meaningful-access medical-impairment prison-conditions |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires state prisons to provide meaningful access to legal resources for inmates with disabilities who f… |
| 23-7557 |
Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error |
Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, violate due-process… |
| 23-6276 |
Danny Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
aedpa bitemark-evidence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-rights forensic-science habeas-corpus judicial-resources newly-ripened-claims second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition |
Is a habeas petition 'second or successive' when the factual predicate giving rise to the petitioner's claim occurs long after the petitioner filed hi… |
| 23-5889 |
Christopher Michael Williams v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
alternative-suspect-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-violation habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt right-to-trial sixth-amendment-right |
whether-defendant's-6th-amendment-right-was-violated |
| 23-5585 |
Scott David Creech v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations stone-v-powell |
Can a 60(b)(6) motion be considered a 60(b)(3) claim if it does not assert relief from judgment due to fraud, misrepresentation, or misconduct by an o… |
| 22-7574 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment mental-illness notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion separate-document-rule separate-judgment statutory-interpretation timely-appeal |
whether-the-court-of-appeal-erred-in-its-reliance-on-28-u.s.c.-§-2101(c) |
| 22-6150 |
Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire |
Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel |
| 22-6153 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review |
What is the correct mechanism and procedure to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court to the appellate court after Certiorari denial? |
| 22-5802 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler |
Whether a petitioner is precluded from relying on Martinez/Ryan to overcome a procedurally defaulted IATC claim if he filed an 'initial' petition for … |
| 22A75 |
Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5184 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion |
Whether the court of appeals properly applied Section 2253 of the Certificate of Appealability statute |
| 22-5058 |
Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by … |
| 21-1587 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting habeas relief based on an alleged misapplication of its own circuit precedent |
| 21-7850 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Dismissed |
ada-disability appeal appellate-jurisdiction clerk-error constitutional-rights counsel-substitution habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-substitute-counsel pro-se pro-se-motions |
Question not identified |
| 21A678 |
Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A496 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-6688 |
Freddie McNeill, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
brady-claim brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression judicial-review materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility witness-reliability |
Whether a reviewing court considering a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must assess the reliability and credibility of the witnesse… |
| 21-6616 |
Gabriel Schaaf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process in-custody-interrogation miranda-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent |
Whether police must wait for counsel to be present, before questioning a suspect who has invoked his right to remain silent and to have counsel presen… |
| 21-6428 |
Danny Lee Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnoses federal-review habeas-corpus historical-evidence intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice present-functioning state-court-review |
Whether a state court unreasonably applies Atkins v. Virginia when it focuses on the individual's 'present functioning' in a prison environment, disco… |
| 21-6285 |
Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence |
Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac… |
| 21-679 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. August Cassano |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
aedpa criminal-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment timely-invocation |
Should the Court summarily reverse the Sixth Circuit's award of habeas relief? |
| 21-511 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation |
Whether federal courts may use the All Writs Act to evade the limitations on state prisoner transportation in 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) |
| 21-5860 |
Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction |
Whether the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments protect inmates from an allegedly faulty appellate process due to ineffective counsel |
| 21A34 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. August Cassano |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-5199 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 21-5074 |
Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief? |
| 21-5025 |
James Galen Hanna v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
28-usc-2244 abuse-of-writ banister-v-davis due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-law second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition |
When a petition for writ of habeas corpus presents claims that do not constitute an 'abuse of the writ,' is it a 'second or successive' petition under… |
| 20-8407 |
Daniel Littlepage v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
aggravated-murder criminal-procedure due-process orc-2945.06 plea-bargaining post-release-control sentencing three-judge-panel |
Is the Petitioner's Due Process Rights Violated Due to the Violation of O.R.C. 2945.06, requiring a Three-Judge Panel for Aggravated Murder? |
| 20-7641 |
Brian Hawkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights credibility-analysis criminal-procedure due-process lovasco-standard pre-indictment-delay prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-error united-states-v-lovasco |
Has the trial court erred by adding a credibility analysis to an unjustifiable pre-indictment delay test of Due Process : prescribed by United States … |
| 20-7131 |
Shean Elkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage-equality sexual-orientation |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's right to marry based… |
| 20-7086 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying a death penalty sentencing review in a non-death penalty case |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6252 |
David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28-USC-2244(d)(1)(A) when Ohio-Rules-of-Appellate-Procedure prohibit the only remedy rais… |
| 20-6113 |
Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court |
When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a 'new judgment' pursuant to th… |
| 20-5563 |
Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
aedpa atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia certificate-of-appealability death-penalty habeas-corpus hall-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he is intellectually disabled |
| 19-7954 |
Steven M. Leonhart v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
competent-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strategic-benefit |
Is defense counsel who makes a plea bargain that fails to give his client a substantial strategic benefit acting as competent and effective counsel as… |
| 19-5321 |
John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules |
Does the 'actual innocence' exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been… |
| 18-9468 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state court's nunc pro tunc judgment cures a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, and whether the first federal habeas… |
| 18-9372 |
Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul… |
| 18-9331 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US… |
| 18A941 |
Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-1181 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state prisoner's conviction is constitutional under current Supreme Court precedent, even if it violated now-overruled precedent at the time… |
| 18-7929 |
Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court |
Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by denning a Certificate of Appealab… |
| 18-6727 |
John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias |
Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital defen… |
| 18-56 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
GVR |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c… |