| 25-5970 |
Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Dismissed |
federal-courts legal-interpretation magwood-v-patterson procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS MISAPPREHEND AND MISAPPLY THE UNITED STATES DECISION IN MAGWOOD V. PATTERSON? |
| 25-5901 |
Dominic A. Rountree v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25-318 |
Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate
of Appealability?
2. Whether the District Court should … |
| 25-5398 |
Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Rehearing |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
(1)
DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN VIOLATION OF A
MYRIAD OF SUPREME COURT SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO
TRIAL BY JURY PRECEDENTS MISAPPREHEND … |
| 24-7191 |
Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-analysis |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its review of federal habeas corpus petition and procedural analysis of petitioner's claim |
| 24-6550 |
Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Rehearing |
constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard |
Whether the Third Circuit misapplied Strickland and Slack standards in denying Brown's ineffective assistance of counsel claim when substantial eviden… |
| 24A584 |
Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated by the prosecution's failure to timely disclose po… |
| 24A488 |
Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-petition section-2254 |
Whether a pro se prisoner's habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can survive dismissal when alleging ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 23-7511 |
Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the issuing authority failed to comply with the rules of court to exclude the judge's signed order of the AEE and deny a writ of probable caus… |
| 23-6203 |
Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establishes the gateway claim of actual innocence under Schlup v Delo and M… |
| 23-5915 |
Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it refused to appoint counsel for the appellant and denied the appellant due process and the rig… |
| 21-5826 |
Armel Baxter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt structural-error |
Whether an erroneous reasonable-doubt instruction that would be structural error on direct appeal warrants a presumption of prejudice when raised in a… |
| 21-160 |
Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges |
Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied |
| 19-8085 |
Lamar L. Zamichieli v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing |
why the decision of the lower court may be erroneous, but the national importance of having the Supreme Court decide the question involved |
| 19-7818 |
Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington |
Whether district court required to give deference to state appellate court's finding of historical facts |
| 19-6984 |
Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Does Martinez v. Ryan excuse a procedural default in Federal Habeas Corpus proceedings? |
| 19-6651 |
Shawn A. Thompson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment standard-of-review third-degree-murder |
Did the Trial Court err in failing to provide the jury with the entirety of the Third Degree Murder instructions? |
| 19-5590 |
Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Was your petitioner, being without any assistance of an attorney denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused de… |
| 19-5296 |
Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder |
Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's denial of the challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence resulted in an unreasonable application of Suprem… |
| 18-8680 |
George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Dismissed |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the decision of McQuiggin v. Perkins applies retroactively |
| 18A932 |
George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-7713 |
Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order |
Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the district court's opinion that this issue was procedurally defaulted and finding that Mr. Grimsley was no… |
| 18A788 |
Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. v. Melvin Keith Richardson |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-7268 |
Christopher Berry v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
civil-procedure court-filing-requirements due-process federal-law federal-procedural-rules newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court |
Did the holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law in … |
| 18A243 |
Aaron Carter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-5724 |
Juan Concepcion v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
brown-vs-board case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-judgment due-process Equal-protection Gideon-v-wainwright gideon-vs-wainwright ineffective-counsel legal-petition Self-representation speedy-trial statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the state's alleged ineffective counsel resulted in a denial of due process and equal protection |
| 18-5672 |
Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts |
Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision that is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, all other Courts of Appeals, feder… |
| 24A1135 |
Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
|