| 19-8814 |
Nicholas Alexander Davis v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing due-process federal-habeas lockett-v-ohio mitigating-evidence payne-v-tennessee |
Victim-impact-evidence-exclusion |
| 19-1105 |
Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review |
Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened Supreme Court precedent in holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals made an unreasonable determinatio… |
| 19-1106 |
Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in concluding that Moore v. Texas I and II were mere applications of Atkins v. Virginia that could be applied retroact… |
| 19-7455 |
Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness |
Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical… |
| 19-6857 |
Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
brady-and-progeny brady-claim brady-claims-review constitutional-error due-process fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus judicial-duty pervasive-effect-of-errors prejudice-analysis preservation preservation-doctrine preservation-of-issues totality-of-evidence totality-of-the-evidence |
Should questionable application of the fair presentation and preservation doctrines allow a circuit court to neglect duties such as the duty to determ… |
| 19-697 |
James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling |
Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish… |
| 19-6101 |
Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty factfinder harm lockett-v-ohio mitigating-circumstances prejudice |
Should the Court recalibrate the frameworks for judging the prejudice or harm of capital sentencing errors in jurisdictions where the factfinder may d… |
| 19A306 |
Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A274 |
James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-5232 |
Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component |
Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p… |