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25-304 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fair-trial judicial-misconduct state-trial-court Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claim that he was denied his cons…
24A1038 Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition when the district court denies relief on procedural g…
24-6776 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus mental-incapacity procedural-timeliness Could reasonable jurists debate whether an evidentiary hearing should have been granted to resolve an unrebutted factual proffer that Mr. James' untim…
24A757 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability custodial-status federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct legal standard in denying a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus proceeding
24-5067 Stephen Mark Picart v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-claim due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hypothetical-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-record state-court-review tactical-choices Whether the federal court can 'hypothesize' about possible 'tactical choices' trial counsel might have made on the basis of facts that were unreasonab…
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?
23-7192 In Re Lionel Davis 2024-04-10 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 28-usc-2254 due-process federal-appellate-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the proper standard of review in denying his motion for authorization to file a successive …
23-6710 Martin Akerman v. Sherri Doiron District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-authority habeas-corpus jurisdiction military-custody military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus procedural-standards Does the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the petitioner's…
23-6439 Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts
23-635 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure Has a claim been 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never con…
23-6037 Stephanie N. Torres v. Molly Hill, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attempted-murder habeas-corpus state-court-record sufficiency-of-evidence When may a federal court bypass a state court's factual findings and rely on the state court record to adjudicate a habeas petitioner's claims?
23-5964 William Glenn Rogers v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase prejudice-standard prejudice-test strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is application of a prejudice standard that requires a habeas petitioner to 'eliminate or completely discredit' the prosecution's trial evidence in or…
23-5248 Nikolas Gacho v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment Should the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a certificate of appealability
23-5244 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-punishment competency-to-be-executed death-penalty delusional-beliefs habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness panetti-standard state-court-review Whether the state court's finding that the petitioner did not meet the Panetti threshold for incompetence to be executed was unreasonable under 28 U.S…
23-5 Breon Powell v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability court-closure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying due process to Appellant Powell by denying a Certificate of Appealability from the District Court's de…
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. …
22-7778 Kenneth Ueding v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-remedy speedy-trial state-convictions Did Mr. Ueding hold the right to challenge his state convictions in a habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254?
22-7628 Robert Earl Gorham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court adjudication of the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is 'contrary to' Strickland v. Washington
22-7054 Jamar L. Travillion v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-review forfeiture habeas-corpus procedural-standard right-to-counsel waiver Could reasonable jurists disagree with the District Court's rejection of Petitionen's claim that the State Courts' determination that he forfeited his…
22-6811 A. B. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte…
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err in interpreting Wilson v. Sellers to allow federal habeas courts to consider justifications not provided by the st…
22-6349 Daniel Nepomuceno v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights credibility-determination due-process federal-habeas guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-post-conviction-proceedings Could reasonable jurists debate whether a state court's dispositive credibility determination regarding federal constitutional rights, based on a writ…
22-6203 Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error issues-being-raised
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
22-5642 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari Is a person in custody for the purpose of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if the individual is still under a direct consequence from the criminal…
22-5581 Alfonso Ponton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 castro-v-united-states castro-warning district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's recharacterization of a prior pro se pleading as a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition without the warnings required by…
22-5411 Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
22-5359 Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike
21-8244 In Re Dominic M. Franza 2022-06-29 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest statutory-relief unconstitutional-imprisonment When a petitioner's imprisonment is unconstitutional
21-8249 Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the party-presentation principle by adjudicating a habeas-corpus-petition under 28-usc-2254 when…
21-8223 Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s…
21-7605 Lwane A. Mansell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in denying claim one of the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 as procedurally barred
21-7545 Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation Is petitioner entitled to be found 'in custody' for purposes of 28 USC § 2254, given the particular facts, in accord with Ninth Circuit Court of Appea…
21-6847 John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit Whether a pro-se-state-prisoner-adequately-alleged-gateway-actual-innocence-claim
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, did the Fifth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts wit…
21-6702 Oscar Porter v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 alibi-witness alibi-witnesses criminal-trial eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel violated the Sixth Amendment by prejudging and excluding close friends and family as alibi witnesses
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
21-6593 Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony Whether the state court decision by which 'clearly established federal law' is measured is rendered when the state court issues its mandate
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-6486 Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation Whether the state court's finding that the defendant was not prejudiced by being shackled in front of the jury, despite juror testimony that they saw …
21-743 Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo…
21-475 Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith Seventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide…
21-267 James Garfield Broadnax v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge cullen-v-pinholster evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a federal habeas petitioner may present evidence of a prosecutor's racially discriminatory intent in support of a Batson claim where the evide…
21-5460 Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, is a habeas court's review limited to the state court's reasons or can it consider other reasons?
21-5435 In Re Antonio Crawford 2021-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus Can a federal prisoner seek 28 USC 2254 habeas corpus relief to challenge the conviction based on a claim of actual innocence?
20-8269 Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the state court failed to apply the correct standard of 'reasonableness' under Strickland v. Washington
20-8060 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus standing trial-errors Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition on the ground that he failed to exhaust state court remedies, in vi…
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review May a federal court substitute its own reasons for denying a habeas petition when the state court's reasons were legally in error?
20-7666 Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20-7643 Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence Whether the federal court impermissibly added an element to the expectation-of-privacy standard for a third-party overnight guest, in violation of 28 …
20-7589 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-state-court strickland-analysis Can a federal habeas court ignore post-conviction mitigating evidence solely because it is thematically similar to trial evidence?
20-7504 Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act are 'criminal prosecutions' under the Sixth Amendment
20-7185 John Anthony Esposito v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 capital-case habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit should be allowed to flout the Supreme Court's clear instruction in Wilson v. Sellers that federal courts must focus on t…
20-6822 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law?
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) survives Wilson v. Sellers and whether the court must consider the impact of all mitiga…
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler Does a denial of counsel on an initial state post-conviction habeas corpus application activate the exclusionary provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)(B…
20-6113 Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a 'new judgment' pursuant to th…
20-6053 Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a 'determination of the facts' tha…
20-5617 David Allen Rundle v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 aggravating-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus incest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychological-impairment psychological-impairments sexual-abuse state-court-determination was-the-state-court's-summary-denial-contrary-to-federal-law
20-5618 Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals failed to follow this Court's federal habeas jurisprudence
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…
20-5527 Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, was the intent to apply it to Capital cases only for purposes of Attorney …
20-5370 Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent whether-the-petitioner's-petition-is-timely-and/or-the-one-year-statute-of-limitations-in-petitioner's-case-are-equatably-tolled-under-holland-v.-flor…
20-5210 Ashley L. Dunn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness substantial-showing timeliness Did petitioner make a substantial showing that her 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition was timely?
20-5174 Ronald Demetrius Thomas v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-courts habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-application state-court-review Whether federal courts can undermine constitutional rights by finding state court rulings reasonable under Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011) i…
19-1467 Robert S. Ortloff, aka Robert Stanley Ortloff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability docket-management due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it contravened long-established decisional law
19-8704 Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is based on an unreasonable determination of the facts due to an incomplete record and is c…
19-8647 Martin Diez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland cone-v-bell due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where the state courts did not address Petitioner's claim that the prosecution failed to disclose certain evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 8…
19-8413 Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision Whether the Alabama state courts and federal district court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in denying habeas relief to the petit…
19-8117 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais…
19-8046 Michael Anthony Cervantes v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) where the district court failed to adequa…
19-7908 Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err when applying the two prong Slack v. McDaniel test (procedure and merits) in deter…
19-7861 Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering Whether the 'actual innocence' gateway to federal habeas review allows a federal habeas petitioner to overcome the 'in custody' requirement
19-7810 Dale W. Eaton v. Mike Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency new-evidence state-court-adjudication strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court has adjudicated the performance prong of a Strickland v. Washington claim on the merits within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d…
19-7606 Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida Florida 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction Does statutory tolling as described in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) and (D) permit a petitioner's direct filing of second 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus …
19-7540 Random Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 attorney-abandonment attorney-neglect confrontation-clause due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-proceedings reasonable-diligence state-postconviction Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling
19-7501 Steven Livaditis v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abusive-conduct constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairments mitigating-evidence penalty-phase reasonable-probability Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's claims, alleging defense counsel's failure to present any penalty phase evidence of (i) Petitione…
19-7481 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas Texas 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is …
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated long-standing precedent and misapplied 28-USC-2254-d-2, 28-USC-2254-e-1, and the facts and evidence presented by t…
19-7192 Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations Does the reamme of 28 U.S.C. 2244(d) and (p) create ambiguity in 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1) regarding the one-year period of litigation
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
19-6611 William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct?
19-6482 Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 2254-review 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction When a death-sentenced inmate obtains punishment-phase relief from the district court during federal habeas proceedings conducted pursuant to 28 U.S.C…
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers Whether in denying a COA, the Fifth Circuit's methodology in the Gardner opinion is in conflict with Wilson v. Sellers and Miller-El
19-441 In Re Dimitri Patterson 2019-10-02 Denied 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-documentation standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 Habeas Corpus remain in State custody without constitutional rights?
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
19-5524 Tong Lor v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa evidence-presented-in-state-court federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-procedure presumption-of-correctness state-court-finding-of-fact state-court-findings unreasonable-determination-of-facts Does the AEDPA require the presumption of correctness to be applied to the state court's finding of fact when the petitioner is challenging that fact,…
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9207 Leon Markel Winston v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-assistance one-year-filing-deadline prison-access prison-law-library Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus be afforded Equitable Tolling of the One…
18-8977 Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers
18-8914 Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, be disregarded by the lower court?
18-8788 Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review Where a state court denies a person the opportunity to establish the necessary factual record to support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,…
18-8685 Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of appeal…
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to a Batson claim when the California courts' decisions relied upon legal principles in…
18-1197 Deanna Brookhart, Acting Warden v. Anthony D. Lee, Sr. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 affidavit-evidence evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-court-determination state-postconviction-review Whether a state court makes an unreasonable determination of fact under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) by assuming the truth of affidavits provided in support…
18-8430 Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal habeas court contravenes this Court's precedent when it evaluates the merits of a petitioner's claim without regard for the state co…
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the specifi…
18-8421 Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel Did the circuit court of appeals err when it denied (COA) status on the point raised that the U.S. district court abused its discretion by not allowin…
18-8389 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 brain-damage capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence of the defendant's difficult childhood and fr…
18-8337 David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable…
18-8179 Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state criminal conviction violates due process when a state has unconstitutionally concluded the sufficiency of the evidence
18-8030 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication Where is the boundary between 'new claims,' whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and 'new facts,' which federal habeas courts may not consi…
18-994 Dirk Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel physical-helplessness physically-helpless toxicologist toxicology toxicology-testimony Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
18-7636 Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP 26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation Does a court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 26 USC §2244(d)(1) to deny review of G.0.A. Challenging District c…
18-7414 Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence and …
18-7431 Teddrick Batiste v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance organic-brain-damage procedural-bar state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the state court's post-conviction process was adequate to ascertain the truth and lacked critical components of an adjudication on the merits
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable
18-7149 Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other …
18-7128 Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury
18-6850 Steven Madina Esparza v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 court-appointed-counsel discretionary-review equitable-tolling federal-courts finality-of-conviction gonzales-v-thaler gross-negligence habeas-corpus look-through-presumption ylst-v-nunnemaker Under GONZALES V. THALER, when does a petitioner's conviction become final for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)
18-671 Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or anoth…
18-6831 David Errol Willock v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal habeas-corpus postconviction-relief remand rule-of-lenity statute-of-limitations Whether the correct calculation of the statute of limitations in a habeas corpus action under 28 USC 2254 where the petitioner has filed for state pos…
18-656 Johnathan Hall, Director, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole v. William O. Ayers Sixth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 28-usc-2254 experienced-criminal-defense-attorney experienced-criminal-trial-attorney federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-decision uncounseled-defendant waiver Was federal habeas relief improperly granted when, without basis in this Court's clearly established precedent, the federal court disregarded the dete…
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…
18-6620 Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable claim …
18-6409 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference Where the last state court to review the merits of a state prisoner's habeas claim denied relief in a reasoned opinion, may a federal court assume the…
18-6077 Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP 2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition?
18-6023 Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus postconviction-procedure postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington swarthout-v-cooke unreasonable-application webb-v-texas Whether this Court's opinion in Webb v. Texas applies to prosecutors as well as judges
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a habeas applicant has 'failed to develop the factual basis' of a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) when the state court did not hold an evid…
18-5694 Taumu James v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court clearly-established-federal-law due-process fair-application federal-law habeas-corpus identification-evidence state-suggestion Does Perry govern the due process analysis if identification evidence is challenged based on the fact that it does not purport to identify the person …
18-5666 Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability to state prisoner Arthur Dennison to challenge the denial of his …
18-5499 Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred Whether a federal court failed to hold an evidentiary hearing on habeas corpus if, among other factors, the petitioner was unable to develop the factu…
18-5472 In Re Alan James Hedrick 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins permits a state court prisoner to rely on 'actual innocence' as a gateway to pursue constitutional claims that were previ…
18-62 Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 where the child is suffering a se…
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5068 Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Does defense counsel's failure to investigate and present available affirmative evidence of mental disease or defect constitute ineffective assistance…