§2255-motion
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23A789 | Charles Edward Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | §2255-motion constitutional-retroactivity jurisdictional-limitation mandatory-life-sentence residual-clause successive-habeas | Whether a federal appellate court lacks jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) to review a successive habeas motion challenging a mandatory life sen… | |
| 23-5896 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | §2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction | Did the courts violate the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence despite errors, governme… |
| 22-5873 | Nicholas Levi Olsen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-materials one-year-time-limit prison-lockdown | Did the district error in holding that defendant violated AEDPA's one-year time limit for filing §2255 motion, even though prison was locked-down with… |
| 21-8020 | Ronald Mitchell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury | Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective for failing to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse |
| 20-8293 | Louis John Fontanez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 21-usc-841 but-for-causation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness expert-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-enhancement | Was counsel constitutionally ineffective because he failed to consult or hire expert witnesses to investigate the but-for causation of the victim's in… |
| 20-6415 | Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se… |
| 18-8233 | Calvin J. Reid v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has misapplied the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis |
| 18-6087 | Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions | Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion? |