28-USC-2255

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25-6247 Jackie Lee Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance proffer-agreement slack-v-mcdaniel Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to object to a Government's Due Process-violating breach …
25-5824 Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental and material that the entire order must be…
25A361 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-prisoner post-judgment-motion pro-se Whether a federal prisoner's pro se 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging a conviction can be procedurally dismissed without a certificate of appealabil…
25A122 Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability after the district court denies habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
24-7114 Daniel Flint v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is 'in custody' or could have-but did not-raise the same claim in a timel…
24-6896 In Re Nicholas Lee Blair 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b Whether a Rule 60(b) motion can rectify a dismissed 28 U.S.C. § 2255 application when new circuit precedent validates the petitioner's actual innocenc…
24-6215 Liston Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-conviction plea-agreement post-conviction-relief Whether the right to effective assistance of counsel attaches during a 28 U.S.C. §2255 proceeding when counsel is communicating a plea agreement to th…
24-5615 Merl Simpson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations Whether the one-year limitations period in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) runs from the date of the original or amended criminal judgment when restitution obliga…
23-7806 Arthur Seale v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court-remedy federal-prisoner-appeal postconviction-relief Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of remed…
23-7649 Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability
23-1258 Royce Wade Lander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that Petitioner failed to make the threshold showing for a certi…
23-7436 Eagles Denashu Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-claim right-to-counsel Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
23-7344 Richard Arlee Champion v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining pleading-timing pre-indictment-delay statute-of-limitations When determining the timeliness of a motion to vacate pursuant to 28 USC 2255, what pleading determines the relevant pleading when making that determi…
23-7199 In Re Joseph R. Dickey 2024-04-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence federal-prisoners habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. 2241(b)(1) apply to federal prisoners filing habeas corpus petitions under 28 U.S.C. 2255?
23-1015 Norman Seabrook v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus habeas-law ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal light-most-favorable notice-and-hearing procedural-due-process sixth-amendment sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal Did the District Court's sua sponte denial of Petitioner's habeas petition alleging ineffectiveness of trial counsel violate habeas procedural law?
23-6619 Edward Lee Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule Whether Lundy's 'total exhaustion rule' applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255
23-6236 Joseph R. Dickey v. Warden, FCI Marianna Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions constitutional-challenge federal-prisoner felker-v-turpin habeas-corpus successive-petition Whether 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) applies to claims in 28 U.S.C. 2255 motions
23-6206 Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Does the savings clause provided in Section 2255(e) allow the court to hear a prisoner's custody petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 following the d…
23-6186 Guillermo Borboa, aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Was the District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error in dismissing a MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUE TO COURTS LACK OF SUBJECT-MAT…
23-6011 Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'escape hatch' or 'saving clause' of 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) permits a federal prisoner to file a habeas corpus petition to contest the legalit…
23-5950 Kent Leroy Clark v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-remedy federal-prisoner postconviction-relief Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of remed…
23-5913 Julio Rolon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability
23-5256 Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence criminal-procedure elements-clause firearm-conviction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 successive-petition united-states-v-taylor welch-v-united-states Whether a petitioner in a properly filed successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging his conviction for possession of a firearm durin…
23A59 Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion successive-habeas-petition Whether a federal prisoner's motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) challenging the merits of a prior habeas corpus decision un…
23A36 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete 28-USC-2255 effective-assistance-of-counsel franks-issue habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel's failure to adequately challenge inadmissible evidence through a meaningful motion to suppress, appellate counsel's failure to …
22-7871 In Re Michael Bowe 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (6)IFP 28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court-procedure federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-or-successive-application statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
22-7669 Larenzo Gabourel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 collateral-relief factual-innocence federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 May the collateral relief mechanism for Federal prisoners pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be used to promote a claim of factual innocence?
22-7655 Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time, §2255 motion was 'second [or] successive?'
22-7609 Akiaz Marqiez King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reed-v-goertz sixth-amendment state-law-interpretation statute-of-limitations Whether the one-year statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) for filing a federal habeas petition commenced when the state trial court denied…
22-7354 Rafael L. Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealability that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate, set…
22-1021 John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whose law governs the scope of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) and § 2241
22-7121 Christopher Barret v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur Whether district courts must conduct full de novo resentencing following vacatur of one or more counts
22-7032 Scott Lynn Fishbein v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability defense-counsel due-process false-information guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Should a certificate of appealability have been issued for review of an appeal of the denial of a 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition based on ineffective assist…
22-7023 Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing Should my writ of certiorari be granted when my appointed attorney failed to file a timely notice of appeal?
22-6744 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-circuit standing supreme-court whether the Sixth Circuit Court erred in dismissing petitioner's motion as second/successive under 28 USC 2255
22-746 Damion Kentrell White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons…
22-6609 James D. Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right by denying petitioners 28 USC § 2255 motion to vacate…
22-6416 Nicholas Lee Blair v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b time-bar Whether a Petitioner can utilize a motion under Rule 60(b) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or similar vehicle, to overcome a dismissal without preju…
22-512 Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim can show that the remedy by §…
22-6128 Christopher Erwin v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Did the Circuit Court err in denying Petitioner's motion for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel without a hearing?
22-6041 David Williams, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 whether-defendant's-conviction-and-sentence-for-nonexistent-crimes-violates-constitution
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence 'as may …
22-5750 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus second-circuit section-2255 standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's COA application?
22-5756 Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application Does the Schlup v Delo, 513 US 298 (1995), actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the proced…
22-5549 Emmanuel Maxime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica…
22-5515 Jose Agapito Salas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated the congressional mandate under 28 U.S.C. §2255(b) by denying a federal prisoner's first-time habeas motion withou…
22-176 James Burkhart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 adverse-effect conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit's formulation of the adverse effect standard under Cuyler v. Sullivan is too demanding, particularly in the guilty plea co…
22-5270 Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) savings clause for habeas corpus relief?
22-5194 Maxo Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing Whether the appeals court abused its discretion by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 2…
22-5103 Chico Jermell Carraway v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-11-procedure sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether a defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) to prove prejudice from an unkept promise of counsel concerning se…
21-8255 Christopher Alexander Reilly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress notice-of-appeal section-2255 Whether the district court and court of appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability
21-8147 John P. Tomkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.C. …
21-8007 In Re Michael David Hower 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states plea-withdrawal Has AEDPA created an unconstitutional barrier that has rendered the petitioner's remedy under 28 U.S.C. §2255 inadequate or ineffective?
21-7928 Timothy Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion Did the district court have jurisdiction to consider Mr. Lindsey's authorized motion?
21-7783 Reynaldo Aviles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge Whether a certificate of appealability may be issued where there is a circuit split
21-7582 Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny…
21-7543 Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the fili…
21-1318 Gregory Bogomol v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-1305 Melchor Munoz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 'date on which the facts supporting the claim presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence'…
21-7420 Isiah Pierce v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States apply where the ineffective assistance of counsel claim was first litigated and decided in a consider…
21-7434 Darryl Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether the residual clause in the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines is unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, resulting in unequal…
21-7395 Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus …
21-7334 Gregory Todd Numann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability
21-7326 Edison Burgos-Montes v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-motion record-development summary-dismissal Whether a court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability to a prisoner whose 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion is summarily denied even though the rec…
21-7284 Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to 28 …
21-6874 Joshua Britt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction
21-6750 Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o…
21-857 Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-09 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not challenge their convictions on the ground that the statute of conviction did not criminalize their activity due to…
21-6554 Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review Whether §2255 is inadequate or ineffective when binding precedent forecloses relief even when a meritorious claim of actual innocence is proven
21-6538 In Re Kenny Blanc 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 collateral-review constitutional-law federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 …
21-6539 In Re Kenny Blanc 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 …
21-763 John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin…
21-750 Jasper Knabb v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel
21-6247 Andrew Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause Does an inordinate delay of almost six years render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the point that Petitioner may in…
21-6099 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2…
21-316 Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation What type of change in the law allows a person to file a § 2241 petition?
21-5395 In Re Christopher Burgess 2021-08-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar Should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both 'actual-innocence' and 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel…
21-5408 Bruce Allen Rutherford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether the movant's claim that counsel failed to inform him of plea offers and allowed them to expire is cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
21-5318 Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review Which harmless error standard applies to a habeas corpus challenge under 28 U.S.C. §2255?
21-5144 Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a post-conviction motion asserting a claim that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States because it was dictated by the res…
20-8448 Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does the saving clause under 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) permit a federal prisoner to proceed in a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2241 when the remedy under 28…
20-8158 In Re Larry E. Starks 2021-05-27 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 collateral-attack collateral-review constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether the denial of review on jurisdictional claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process When there is no requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability, is the COA seeker's Fifth Amendment right to…
20-7863 Martin G. Lewis v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 burrage-v-united-states detention-legality habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-bar retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the government should be foreclosed from relying on prior litigation that it concedes incorrectly invoked a procedural bar to review on the me…
20-7522 Joshua R. Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200…
20-1301 Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief Whether the federal courts have the proper standard for granting coram nobis relief
20-7386 Andrew Chapnick v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
20-7395 Antonio E. Wills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den…
20-7333 Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc. unconstitutionally foreclosed Petitioner'…
20-7137 Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders as binding precedent deprive inmates of due process?
20-7030 Devaron Antoine Love v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual-innocence to overcome a procedural-default
20-911 Michael Jackson v. Don Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-custody habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective overruled post-conviction-motion saving-clause section-2255 Whether Section 2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' when, at the time of petitioner's initial Section 2255 motion, circuit precedent foreclosed a pote…
20-6766 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings?
20-865 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-12-30 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
20-800 Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t…
20-6571 Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits
20-6448 Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden Third Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement Whether courts have jurisdiction to consider habeas claims when the remedy under Section 2255 is inadequate
20-697 Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination Whether the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) permits use of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to present new evidence of racial discrimination in a federal death …
20-6290 Orlando Sanchez v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin…
20-652 George Georgiou v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability counsel-waiver due-process napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct rule-8c witness-testimony Whether the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability should be reversed and remanded
20-6221 Miguel Nunez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely…
20-447 Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender was not a miscarriage of justice entit…
20-5927 Gene Michael Diulio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due-process, vagueness, mandatory-sent…
20-5928 Rick Lee Archer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to …
20-5652 Daniel L. Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States
20-5587 Zachary Joseph Love v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus kaufman-v-united-states townsend-factors townsend-v-sain Should the Townsend v. Sain factors for evidentiary hearings in 28 U.S.C. § 2254 state habeas proceedings apply to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 federal habeas pro…
20-5510 Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the governing provisions in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals precedent case law, In re Goddard, has unlawfully created an arbitrary or ambi…
20-5496 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo Whether evidence of actual innocence provides a legal reason to reopen 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion proceedings to establish constitutional violations
20-191 Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and confl…
20-5377 Brandon Ray Buckles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prisoner fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is a district court's summary denial of a federal prisoner's § 2255 motion without an evidentiary hearing improper when the prisoner alleges ineffecti…
20-5250 Oscar Armando Avila-Jaimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 andrus-precedent evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fifth Circuit's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this court …
20-119 Louis Ruggiero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-charges ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard section-2255 Should the court of appeals have granted a certificate of appealability
20-5155 Charles E. Coughlin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-expert-witnesses strategic-decision unreasonable-determination Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
20-5032 Daniel Lewis Lee v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 brady-claim due-diligence federal-inmates habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel savings-clause sixth-amendment structural-bar Whether the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is available where the circuit having § 2255 venue imposes a categorical structural bar on federal i…
20-5030 Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing that his sentence may have been based…
19-8915 Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether defendants' convictions under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) should be vacated
19-8770 Carl St. Preux v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations Whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e) bars a defendant from seeking re-sentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 after successfully challenging a prior state conviction …
19-1365 Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual serving a wrongfully enhanced sentence is barred from obtaining relief solely because the wrongfulness of the sentence was estab…
19-8597 Lewis McKenzie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to satisfy the requirements of § 22…
19-8585 Van Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner has a right to present an argument based on a change in procedural law on his first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-1245 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti…
19-1226 In Re Masoud Bamdad 2020-04-17 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights constitutional-violation detention-review due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-and-ineffective ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-remedy Whether a federal prisoner can obtain relief via the original writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 when the initial §2255 motion and its subseq…
19-8199 Dwight Bullard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.…
19-8190 George Lyle Cullett, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing residual-clause section-2255 timeliness timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the preBooker care…
19-8100 Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200…
19-8041 Stanley Edward Jamison, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-right timely-motion Whether Mr. Jamison's § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), claiming that Johnson invalidates the p…
19-1133 Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin…
19-7974 Jesse Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7976 Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7933 Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7947 Bobby Joe Floyd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7911 Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing Whether a defendant has a right to be physically present at a re-sentencing hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-7755 Scott Michael Patrick v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether the right recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory Guidelines
19-7677 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d…
19-7640 Phillip Auston Carrier v. Billy Romero, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review congress-intent consent constitutional-law federal-appellate-court federal-prosecutor federal-prosecutor-consent gatekeeping-role gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-motion prosecutorial-consent second-or-successive-petition second-petition section-2255 Whether the remedy by motion authorized by 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) is rendered inadequate or ineffective
19-7616 Fred Blajos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7604 Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-7492 Inger L. Jensen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2255 harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claim
19-934 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
19-7412 Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000)
19-7247 Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner's challenge to his conviction or sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' - and thus the prisoner may …
19-845 Charles Huggins v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process
19-7144 James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing Can a federal prisoner challenge their sentence or conviction under 28 U.S.C. Sect. 2241 motion when their post Section 2255 motion is inadequate or i…
19-7131 Eric Hanna v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Question not identified
19-6884 Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba…
19-6838 Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause' found in 28 USC 2255(e)
19-6842 Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes Seventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit court of …
19-683 Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule Whether a federal prisoner may proceed through § 2255(e)'s saving clause to seek collateral review under § 2241 when that prisoner has demonstrated a …
19-664 Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice
19-6686 Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6689 Frank Fernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6658 Booker Terry Simmons v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6670 Michael Bridge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-633 Edwin Arthur Avery v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Relisted (3) 28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 federal-custody federal-prisoners habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limitation post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief second-or-successive-motion state-custody statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-6643 John Forrest v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court Can a successive §2255 motion under Johnson open the door and allow for collateral review of enumerated clause predicates invalidated under Descamps a…
19-617 Nekebwe Superville v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.…
19-6639 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process habeas-corpus new-judgment one-year-time-period statute-of-limitations successive-motions Under 28 USC 2255(h), does the denial of a second or successive motion constitute a 'new judgment' restarting the one-year time period for filing 2255…
19-6550 Christian James Gieseke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28-U.S.C-2255 raises claims which would entitle him to relief, does the lack of proffered evidence nega…
19-6540 Howard Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure civil-procedure clay-v-united-states criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances final-judgment-rule forgery habeas-corpus indictment standing Is a 28 USC SEC. 2255 MOTION premature if filed less than 90 days after the appellate court enters its judgment in accordance with the holdings in Cla…
19-6505 Michael Ingram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan…
19-6527 Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines was-trial-counsel-constitutionally-ineffective
19-6492 Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness Does a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the mandatory career offender guidelin…
19-6389 Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief
19-6357 James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause
19-498 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability
19-6287 Seferino Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-6225 Marc Pierre Hall v. Warden Andrews Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 district-court fundamental-errors habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-analysis retroactive-statutory-interpretation savings-clause-28-usc-2241 statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation-28-usc-2255 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court had proper subject matter jurisdiction in light of United States v. Cotton, 535 U.S. 625 (2002), Bailey v. United States, 5…
19-6109 James Abraham Mata v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 district-court-judgment federal-prisoner federal-statutory-provisions habeas-corpus record-silence retroactive-decision second-or-successive-motion statutory-provision successive-motion unconstitutional unconstitutional-provision unconstitutional-statute When seeking relief under a retroactive decision invalidating a federal statutory provision as unconstitutional, what must a federal prisoner show in …
19-401 Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in…
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-5911 Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does the 'saving clause' of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a congres…
19-5661 David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing Whether there exist a conflict between the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in this case and the unanimous decisio…
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review Whether the district court and the sixth circuit court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5515 Lester Leon Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict criminal-defendant district-court district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision What standard governs a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28-U.S.C-2255, asserting relief pursuant to a retroactive-cons…
19-5516 Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a…
19-5353 Frank Elroy Vennes, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 28-usc-section-2255 civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-rule-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-integrity motion-to-reconsider rule-60(d)(3) Does a motion filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(d)(3) that does not attack the merits of a prior habeas decision, but alleges 'some defec…
19-5314 Aurora Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-5315 Raymond Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions void-for-vagueness When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a district c…
19-5316 Abelee Bronson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-5294 Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing Whether the Fed. R.. Crim. P. 15(a) Motion's right to amend as a-matter of course' a 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255 before a Responsive pleading is filed can be …
19-105 Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine…
19-5241 Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me…
19-5219 Bobby G. Pullen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of the mandatory guidelines, USSG §4B1.2(a)(2) (2004), is void for vagueness
19-5154 James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
19-5129 Kendell Lee Starks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a…
19-5100 Matthew Karahalios v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation Does unarmed bank robbery serve as a predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using or carrying a firearm during and in re…
19-52 Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to challenge an unlawful conviction or sentence foreclosed by binding …
19-5080 Reyes Vega, aka Ray Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review section-1291 section-2255 unadjudicated-claims Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
18-9807 Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove sentencing court relied on residual clause
18-9781 Adam J. Winarske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the residual clause provided the basis for his …
18-9653 Todd Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18-9495 Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
18-9506 Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is timely under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) when it claims that Johnson v. United States invalidates the residual c…
18-9336 Saul Elias Camilo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective-assista…
18-9046 Richard Shusterman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ruling when the District Court…
18-9016 Henry Earl Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill…
18-8910 Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent Why do the Fifth Circuit courts continue to ignore the United States Supreme Court's authoritative precedent?
18-1325 Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges…
18-8882 Kevin L. Donaldson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability civil-rights clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-error district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment government-liability standing Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
18-1276 Andrew Levert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional de…
18-8703 Alan Wade Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed…
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela…
18-8604 Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., resets the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) for a timel…
18-8556 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 amendment-doctrine appellate-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix relate-back-doctrine Whether the Relate Back doctrine announced in Mayle v. Felix allows for an amended motion to relate back to an original claim of ineffective assistanc…
18-8485 In Re Michael David Hower 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mandamus massaro-v-united-states plea-coercion prohibition Is the petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus or prohibition from this Court, to protect his constitutional and statutory rights …
18-8496 Anthony Swatzie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory provision
18-8277 Trevor Ransfer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 binding-precedent circuit-precedent crime-of-violence federal-appeals-court habeas-petition hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation successive-petition Should a three-judge panel's order denying a second or successive habeas petition be considered binding precedent?
18-8234 Jeremy Snider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8159 Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts …
18-8125 Darrell D. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-split criminal-defendant district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory provision, where the r…
18-1103 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel civil-rights due-process effective-assistance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing Whether the right to choice of counsel or effective assistance is violated when counsel is appointed to represent fewer claims than the Government is …
18-8115 Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurately calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8042 Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28-U.S.C-2255-motion
18-8036 Edmund Boyle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a court of appeals should remand a habeas action where the lower court fails to fully adjudicate the underlying habeas claims on the merits an…
18-7989 Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
18-7943 Robert David Watson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability collateral-review luis-v-united-states new-rule retroactivity section-2255 supreme-court-rule teague-analysis teague-v-lane Whether Luis v. United States is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review
18-7869 Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism
18-7723 Randy Dempsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18-7570 Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails…
18-7581 Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit too narrowly restrict a district court's § 2241 corpus jurisdiction?
18-7587 Biven Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability
18-7495 Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952)
18-7507 In Re Dwight Carter 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the 11th Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the gatekeeping standard contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C), wh…
18-7426 Terry Lamell Ezell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states procedural-burden retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states Where the sentencing record is silent or unclear on which ACCA clause the court relied, do individuals asserting a Johnson claim bear the burden to pr…
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding…
18-7449 Joel Darnell Patton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment gonzalez-standard habeas-corpus post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions reconsideration rule-59-motion successive-motions successive-petition Does a district court have the authority to reconsider the merits of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 action in response to a prisoner's timely post-judgment motion…
18-7421 Torrence Allen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion
18-7379 Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence 'may have' been based on the residual cla…
18-7300 Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)?
18-7252 Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc…
18-7238 Antron Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination or by surveying…
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis Whether the U.S. District and Appellate Courts violated Castro v. United States, 124 S.Ct., by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-7098 Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas…
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Section 2255(f)(3) tolls the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson v. United States applies in a situation similar to that in J…
18-7115 Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the fact that the § 2255 remedy failed to test and determine one of two Ineffective Assistance of Trial Counsel issues satisfies the phrase 'i…
18-6984 Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner was entitled to file an application for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 and/or 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) in light of McFadden v. U.S.
18-6952 Ortino Garcia Licon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255h2 acca-residual-clause federal-prisoner generic-burglary habeas-corpus historical-fact sentencing-enhancement successive-motion Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that ACCA's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentence, but fails to show as …
18-6923 Donatos Sarras v. Unknown Party Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-motion suspension-clause Whether pro se petitioner's rights under the Suspension Clause and the Fifth Amendment (Due Process) were impeded or impinged and he may proceed with …
18-6915 Carlton Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender guid…
18-6812 Jack Ferranti v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing Whether the district court imposed a defacto life sentence not authorized by the statute of conviction
18-6783 Gino Velez Scott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-giglio brady-violation due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-misconduct habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion Where a numerically-second § 2255 motion raises an actionable Brady-Giglio violation that the government suppressed until after the conclusion of the …
18-6753 Jesse Mendez v. Gary Swarthout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition harrington-v-richter judicial-deference reasoned-decision state-appellate-court state-court state-court-decision statutory-interpretation When a state court denied a habeas claim without a reasoned decision, can the district court reject the state appellate court's clear statement that i…
18-6765 Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness When does a criminal conviction become 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) if a petition for rehearing is filed after the petition for certiorari has …
18-6733 Laura Shauger v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit Whether rulings by the district court denying relief are debatable by jurists of reason if rulings by other courts in similar situations arguably supp…
18-6623 Carlos Cosme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the District Court Commit Error in Applying the Standard of review for Motions to Withdraw a Plea Agreement as to an Issue of a Question of the Ef…
18-6581 Larry Hailey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner's…
18-6534 John Taylor Tyler v. Eric Wilson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act factual-innocence federal-habeas habeas-corpus savings-clause statute-of-limitations When a prisoner has made a substantial showing of factual innocence, does a district court err when it holds that the broad jurisdiction of 28 U.S.C. …
18-6548 Salvatore Leone v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher…
18-6430 Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on a § 2255 motion without resolving contested material facts
18-6370 Charles Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states May a § 2255 defendant prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based upon the residual clause through a process of elimination?
18-6328 Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states Whether a defendant in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding may prove that his enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause of the…
18-6249 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Does the certificate of appealability (COA) requirement apply to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motions related to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings…
18-420 United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circuit precedent may later seek…
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners
18-6146 Charles Neuman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause
18-6163 Randy A. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals fail to preserve the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right?
18-6095 Jose Luis Buenrostro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus magwood-rule magwood-v-patterson motion-to-vacate new-judgment presidential-commutation sentence-reduction successive-motion Whether a prisoner whose sentence has been reduced from life to 30 years imprisonment through a presidential commutation may file a new motion to vaca…
18-6096 Michael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement May a court grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging a sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the petitioner'…
18-6099 In Re Terry Margheim 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 due-process judicial-administration judicial-integrity judicial-process stare-decisis supervisory-authority When the courts below violate due process by denying a meaningful opportunity to be heard in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding, will the United States Sup…
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?
18-5989 Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for a district court's denial of a motion to reopen a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
18-5939 Gary Michael Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timely-filing vagueness Whether a motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed within one year of Johnson v. United States asserts a right recognized in Johnson
18-292 Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding but erroneous circuit precede…
18-5914 Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-5895 Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition?
18-5876 Steven Sanford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson
18-5785 In Re Clifford Winkles 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing Whether Petitioner Clifford Winkles was improperly denied relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 due to procedural barriers, despite demonstrating actual innoc…
18-5790 Uiki Teaupa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment entitle a pro se defendant the right to conduct discovery and have an evidentiary hearing on claims of government m…
18-229 Ralph Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion Whether a sentencing court may grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence based on the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Armed …
18-5692 Melvin Jordan, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA
18-5683 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus judicial-review mortgage-fraud newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief section-2255 successive-motion successive-motions Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner's application seeking an order authorizing the district court to consider a second or su…
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Does Section 2255(f)(3) toll the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson applies in a similar situation?
18-5515 Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion by not providing a reasoned opinion to support its order?
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…
18-5392 Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in ruling that Mr. Carter's claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 are jurisdictionally barred from consideration because they …
18-5398 Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Samuel Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence may have been based on the residua…
18-5293 George Anthony Autobee v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely
18-5268 Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an…
18-5147 Edward Nathan Wing v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity timeliness Whether Mr. Wing's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely because it was fi…
18-5125 Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro…
18-20 Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability to review the denial of an evidentiary hearing on petit…
18-5100 Ras Rahim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme Whether the writ of coram nobis is the proper avenue for a federal inmate to challenge a portion of a consecutive sentencing scheme when the federal p…