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25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habeas …
25-6581 Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Dea…
25-748 Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending aedpa jury-deliberations jury-instruction pretrial-suppression seibert-rule state-court-findings Did the Second Circuit violate AEDPA by finding a state jury instruction invalid under Seibert when the Supreme Court has never held that Seibert's ru…
25-726 Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for 'circumstances' that render state proceedings 'ineffective' can ap…
25-6306 Mark Anthony Gooding v. Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus pleading-amendment statutory-limitation Whether a detainee who filed a defective pleading during the statutory period of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and missed …
25A657 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Application aedpa constitutional-claims due-process habeas-review ineffective-assistance word-limitation Whether the district court and state appellate courts improperly applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) standard of review …
25A523 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application aedpa de-novo-review deferential-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied de novo review instead of the deferential standard of review required under the Antiterrorism and Effecti…
25-5937 Timothy Simms v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-review habeas-corpus judicial-prerogative legislative-limitation separation-of-powers Whether the Habeas Corpus provisions of the AEDPA constitute a legislative usurpation of the Judicial prerogative to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, in…
25-5718 In Re Christopher J. Bradford 2025-09-25 Denied IFP aedpa cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default second-successive-petition Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing a second or successive habeas corpus petition under AEDPA's gatekeeping provision and cause and preju…
25-5548 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP AEDPA due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect state-prisoner Whether the Federal Courts have correctly applied habeas restrictions introduced by the AEDPA to state prisoners' ARCVP Rule 60(b)(4) Motion based on …
25-5486 Bruce Anderson v. Kenneth Lizotte, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance second-petition Whether a federal habeas petition claiming ineffective assistance of counsel constitutes a 'second or successive petition' under AEDPA's gatekeeping p…
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes a court's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and barred from 2254 Habeas Corpus review for failure to…
25-5286 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa circuit-court-mandate clearly-established-law exceptional-circumstance habeas-corpus supreme-court-review May a subsequent decision of this Court calling into question the correctness and integrity of a circuit court's judgment qualify as an exceptional ci…
25-5271 Soleiman Mobarak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-law ex-post-facto presumption-of-innocence subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Actual Innocence Exception applies to non-statutory offenses and whether a void state court judgment triggers AEDPA filing deadlines
25-5262 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied IFP aedpa competency-to-be-executed ford-claim habeas-corpus mental-functioning second-or-successive-petition Does a competency to be executed claim based upon common law 'idiocy' that presents a petitioner's current mental functioning and supported by recent …
25-52 Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation Did the Fourth Circuit violate the party presentation principle, improperly circumvent AEDPA's exhaustion requirement, and flout the AEDPA merits stan…
24-1316 Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit applied an overly stringent standard in assessing the district court's disposition of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 22…
24-7513 Tracy A. Roberson v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-review fourth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-construction stone-v-powell Whether the Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) expressly overruled Stone v. Powell and allows state prisoners to litigate Fourth Amen…
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) permits federal habeas review of a state court conviction when the petitioner's clai…
24-7262 Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim When a state court issues a reasoned merits decision on only one component of a multi-component claim, does AEDPA require federal habeas courts to def…
24-7065 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error state-court Whether a state court's denial of a hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim can amount to an unreasonable determination of facts under A…
24-7040 Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does Jones v Hendrix overturn Bousley v United States regarding actual innocence claims and § 2241 procedures?
24-6941 Michael Wayne Reynolds v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa clear-and-convincing evidentiary-hearing factual-deference habeas-corpus state-court-review When a state court refuses to conduct an evidentiary hearing, will its factual findings be entitled to deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), and mus…
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner 'fairly presents' her federal claim when the petitioner raises the substance of a federal constitutional claim in st…
24-826 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Relisted (8) aedpa cause-and-prejudice federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether a federal court must apply the deferential review provisions of AEDPA to the state court's adjudication of an ineffective assistance of counse…
24-6228 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandate-recall Whether a court of appeals can recall its mandate to revisit the merits of a prior decision when a petitioner demonstrates actual innocence and a fede…
24A582 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) applies to procedural default analysis in reviewing claims of juror misconduct that …
24-584 Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) aedpa due-diligence factual-predicate federal-review habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether obtaining new support for a previously available claim constitutes a new 'factual predicate' that restarts the one-year habeas petition filing…
24-421 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit exceed its powers under AEDPA in concluding that 'every fairminded jurist would agree' that the Ohio court violated the Constitu…
24-5671 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of counsel substitution replicates the Christeson error and fails to address a potential conflict of interest i…
24-5410 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Jones v. Hendrix can be applied retroactively, undermining habeas corpus review and potentially violating cons…
24-5263 Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federal c…
24A142 Terry Royal, Warden, et al. v. William Witter Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete aedpa federal-review habeas-corpus magwood-exception second-successive-petition state-court-judgment Whether a state court judgment modifying a ministerial error in a criminal judgment constitutes a 'new judgment' that allows a petitioner to file a se…
24-5238 Robert Castle v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus houston-v-lack post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule statute-of-limitations Should Federal Courts apply the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) to state post conviction pleadings to commence t…
24-5183 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup What constitutes as 'new' evidence
24-5190 Matthew Aaron Safrit v. Mike Slagle, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review state-courts statutory-interpretation Question not identified
24-5180 Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Arkansas courts applied an incorrect standard for resolving petitioner Whiteside's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in sentenci…
24-5018 Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Ninth Circuit's denial of relief rest on a misapprehension of what constitutes clearly established federal law under this Court's decision in …
23A1140 Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus state-postconviction wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas court must strictly limit its review to the specific reasons provided by a state postconviction court under AEDPA or may cons…
23-1329 Francisco De Aragon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response Waived aedpa certificate-of-appealability habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does Strickland require cumulative-effect-of-errors evaluation,does-AEDPA-deference-apply-to-state-court-findings-favorable-to-petitioner,does-actual-…
23A1118 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete aedpa capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference Whether, under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a federal court must apply double deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(1) and…
23-7563 Sanford Benjamin Gloster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-doctrine brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process giglio-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-default Does the admission of false evidence constitute Giglio/Brady violations under Due Process Clause
23A1056 George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Presumed Complete aedpa clearly-established-law habeas-corpus plurality-opinion sixth-circuit state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals may apply a Supreme Court plurality opinion as 'clearly established law' under the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat…
23-7467 Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Question not identified
23-7206 David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa equitable-powers habeas habeas-corpus initial-petition sixth-circuit successive-petition unexhausted-claim unripe-claim Does limiting second-in-time initial habeas petitions to only petitions that raise (a) a claim that was unripe when the first petition was filed, or (…
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether the denial of a state prisoner's constitutional right to the writ of habeas corpus permits equitable tolling of the AEDPA statute of limitatio…
23-6912 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Rehearing Relisted (10)IFP aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards Whether a jury's consideration and reliance on extrinsic evidence as part of a jury experiment violates the clearly established federal law requiring …
23-974 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations Whether the federal habeas corpus statute of limitations begins to run from the finality of a deferred adjudication order or the finality of the judgm…
23-6784 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-split constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus rigid-approach statute-of-limitations totality-of-circumstances Equitable Tolling under AEDPA
23-6755 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review Whether the rule announced in Wetzel applies where the rationales offered by the state court are so dependent upon one another that they cannot be acc…
23A737 Byron Ray Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete aedpa alternative-perpetrator child-sexual-abuse habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to present alternative perpetrator evidenc…
23-6695 Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law
23-6684 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court Question not identified
23A709 David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Interim Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete abuse-of-writ aedpa banister-doctrine habeas-corpus sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether the Sixth Circuit's standard for determining whether a second-in-time habeas petition is initial or successive conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
23-6501 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa brady-claim brady-rule federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation Whether Brady claims are 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) when the suppressed evidence comes to light only after the dismissal of a…
23-6276 Danny Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa bitemark-evidence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-rights forensic-science habeas-corpus judicial-resources newly-ripened-claims second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition Is a habeas petition 'second or successive' when the factual predicate giving rise to the petitioner's claim occurs long after the petitioner filed hi…
23-6255 David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of 'direct …
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
23A496 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision Whether a state court's decision can be considered an 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when the defendant was denied a full and …
23-6107 Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations Whether exceptions to the AEDPA one-year time limitations rendered the district court's 2015 dismissal for untimeliness of Cua's habeas petition and d…
23-6094 Dena Inez Minton v. Miranda Richardson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus legal-documents prisoner-rights procedural-due-process standing Why is the petitioner being denied relief, when there has been a significant infringement of petitioner's Constitutional Rights
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?
23-5996 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Relisted (9)IFP aedpa capital-sentencing constitutional-error death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance jury-argument jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence Whether the lower court was bound by Darden v. Wainwright under AEDPA
23-5990 Kirk A. Simmons v. Thomas Scarantino Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241 aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure entrapment-defense federal-criminal-procedure government-fraud government-misconduct habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review Does fraud by the federal government obstruct a defendant's entrapment defense?
23-5864 Alfred Starling v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute constitutional-violations equitable-tolling gateway-claim habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the lower courts erred in holding that reasonable jurists would not debate whether Petitioner's First Federal Habeas Corpus petition was untim…
23-5829 Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an in…
23A309 Aaron Mohanlal v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete AEDPA habeas-corpus local-rules page-limits pro-se-prisoner section-2254 Whether a federal district court may dismiss a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 with prejudice based on non-compliance with local page li…
23-323 Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (10) abandonment aedpa gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus indigent-representation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b) second-or-successive-petition Whether a Rule 60(b) motion claiming that habeas counsel's abandonment prevented the consideration of a petitioner's claims should always be recharact…
23A271 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques Whether a state court violates the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by applying a legal standard different from that required by the Fift…
23-5637 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a COA for failure to properly consider the framework in which successive petitions are mandated to be reviewed
23A250 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-18 Presumed Complete AEDPA death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 in affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief ba…
23-5479 Lee Edward Peyton v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-inquiry habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review pro-se-petition standing summary-denial Whether the complete failure to conduct a Faretta-compliant inquiry with the accused in the face of a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se …
23-5420 Bruce Wanzo, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit Whether appointment of counsel on appeal for briefing, and the actions of counsel in detracting from the intended issues raised in the Certificate of …
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
23-5280 Robert A. Griffin v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60-motion Whether Mr. Griffin is entitled to a COA
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review whether-dismissal-without-prejudice-of-federal-habeas-corpus-prematurely-filed-counts-as-first-filing-under-aedpa
23-5155 Jeremiah Lyle VanTassel v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-default prosecutorial-vouching standing time-limits Does fraud upon the court trigger equitable tolling?
23-31 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is inconsistent with the statutory text and in direct conflict with this Cour…
23-5032 L. Brian Whitfield v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pro-se standing state-prisoner Whether a district court abused its discretion by failing to use its own factual finding as proof that a claim was actionable
22-1234 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author…
22-7551 John Foster Norris v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus application under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 based on a determination that the pet…
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the actual-innocence gateway applies only where a petitioner can prove that she is 'morall[ly]' or 'completely' innocent of any crime, or whet…
22-7270 Lamont McKoy v. Todd Ishee, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process federal-court-deference federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-findings Whether the presumption of correctness under § 2254(e)(1) requires a determination on a factual issue by a state court or whether merely presenting a …
22-7166 Anthony H. Warnick v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit Can subject matter jurisdiction be raised at any time?
22-709 DeAngelo Montez Moody v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus precedent precedential-interpretation state-court-review state-courts strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Section 2254(d)(1) prohibits lower federal courts from considering precedent from courts other than the Supreme Court in determining whether a…
22-6629 Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-deference federal-constitutional-claim habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision state-court-review state-law-evidentiary-rule strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether AEDPA deference applies to state-court reasoning not articulated in the decision
22-686 Crosley Alexander Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived admissibility AEDPA brady-v-maryland brady-violation comity constitutional-exhaustion federal-appellate-review federalism habeas-corpus prosecutorial-disclosure state-court-deference state-court-factfinding Whether a federal habeas court can redefine a state court claim to conclude it was not properly exhausted
22-6607 Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of lack…
22-6507 In Re Michael Kenny Carter 2023-01-10 Denied IFP a.e.d.p.a. aedpa civil-rights congressional-authority due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim procedural-barrier writ-suspension Is the A.E.D.P.A. second or successive provision unconstitutionally suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as applied to incarcerated individuals wh…
22-6474 Cody Jay Riley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process hiv incarceration penological-interests scientific-evidence Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests?
22-600 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-standard brady-claim brady-rule exculpatory-evidence gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus napue-claim napue-rule panetti-v-quarterman Is the stringent gatekeeping standard under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) consistent with AEDPA and Panetti v. Quarterman?
22-6310 Terence Sandy McCray v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure pennsylvania-v-ritchie psychiatric-records second-circuit-court-of-appeals When a trial court reviews complainant's psychiatric records for Brady material, must it disclose all records that may affect the outcome, or can it r…
22-6234 Rex Gainey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-law covid-19 covid-19-impact district-court-discretion habeas-corpus prison-law-library pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Should district courts adopt a holistic approach to late habeas filings caused by COVID-19 conditions?
22-6177 Sanders McDaniel Carter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-vs-maryland certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus rule-60 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard
22-6160 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit improperly applied Weaver v. Massachusetts and AEDPA, and whether the Michigan trial court violated…
22-490 Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen Fourth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's…
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Florida courts of appeals provide for evidentiary hearings to determine Strickland's mixed question of law and fact
22-5910 In Re Mark Lewis 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance can render a judgment of co…
22-5873 Nicholas Levi Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-materials one-year-time-limit prison-lockdown Did the district error in holding that defendant violated AEDPA's one-year time limit for filing §2255 motion, even though prison was locked-down with…
22-5667 Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the Batson standard by requiring a defendant to establish that a juror removed peremptorily is st…
22-5548 In Re David Moore 2022-09-12 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-court-jurisdiction successive-petition successive-petitions unconstitutional-conviction Did Congress intend to preclude as successive under the AEDPA a state prisoner habeas claim that he is held unconstitutionally upon conviction and sen…
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's 'unreasonable determination of the facts' clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5312 Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, is habeas corpus still the remedy to correct the judgment entry of commitment when …
22-5173 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brecht certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-determination rule-60(b) state-court-prejudice Has the Fourth Circuit Court of appeals effectively side stepped the COA inquiry, without expressly saying so, where the court has declined to analyze…
22-5058 Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Relisted (5)IFP aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by …
21-8264 Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling
21-1587 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting habeas relief based on an alleged misapplication of its own circuit precedent
21-8207 Jamal A. Azeez v. Cedrick Robertson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-evidence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence judicial-conspiracy standing statute-of-limitations Whether the lower court condoned systemic injustice knowing that the petitioner is 'factually innocent'
21-1558 John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability
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?
21-7871 Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard?
21-7746 David Piper, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion aedpa aedpa-deadline certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Court of Appeals denying Piper's 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence for a Certificate of Appealability reasons were…
21-7670 In Re Oscar Smith 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa capital-punishment constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus suspension-clause Whether the AEDPA bars federal review of a death row inmate's claim of actual innocence based on newly discovered DNA evidence, in violation of the Su…
21-7628 Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally slight, dissemble, and neglect a pro se applicant's petition
21-6959 Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a)
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless …
21-6720 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law When does AEDPA grant habeas petitioners complete relief or just review?
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment Does a United States Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the District Court's putative Final J…
21-6238 Donald Broadnax v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP AEDPA aedpa-deference due-process federal-habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief state-evidentiary-rules state-postconviction-proceedings Does AEDPA deference apply to state postconviction evidentiary rules?
21-679 Tim Shoop, Warden v. August Cassano Sixth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Relisted (14) aedpa criminal-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment timely-invocation Should the Court summarily reverse the Sixth Circuit's award of habeas relief?
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition Whether AEDPA's restrictions on second or successive habeas petitions apply retroactively to petitioners who filed pre-AEDPA federal habeas litigation
21-6101 Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28-U.S.C.-2254-petition based upon an improper standard-of-review
21-6036 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't properly grant a Certificate of Appealability to an improperly dismissed § 2255 Motion/Case asserting Actual In…
21-538 Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic Did the Seventh Circuit misapply 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in holding that the failure to apply Cronic violated 'clearly established Federal law, as determined…
21-527 Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute Whether the Supreme Court has abandoned its precedent in Norton v. Shelby County regarding the void ab initio doctrine
21-5920 In Re Jason Brooks 2021-10-06 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal habe…
21-5901 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C…
21-5719 Edward Zinner v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court government-failure-to-admit-or-deny habeas-corpus hazel-atlas prosecutorial-misconduct when-prosecutors-conspire-with-known-conflicted-defense-counsel
21-5582 Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the state court unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedents in concluding that trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to challenge an eyewit…
21-5558 William Paul Langrum, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation pre-trial-investigation presumption-of-prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard whether-the-facts-supporting-the-first-and-fourth-grounds-became-or-could-have-become-known-prior-to-the-date-on-which-the-conviction-became-final
21-5479 Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation Does the plain meaning of 'properly filed' in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j…
21-5454 In Re Samuel L. Quinn 2021-08-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-discretion procedural-technicality statute-of-limitations Do the court of Appeals abuse its discretion by refusing to recall mandate for miscarriage of justice, not acknowledging the guiding general principle…
21-5466 Roxman C. Castro v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-procedure statute-of-limitations whether extraordinary Circumstances exist te warrant equitable tolling when, through no fault of his oun, Petikoner mceived notica of his State habeas…
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin ac…
21-5115 In Re Lisa A. Biron 2021-07-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process gatekeeping-mechanism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-duty notice-of-appeal standing threshold-function Whether a § 2255-Certificate of Appealability applicant must file a notice of appeal for the circuit court to obtain jurisdiction to consider the appl…
21-5058 Joseph Andrew Phipps v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses Does Petitioner have a due process right to jury instructions on lesser included offenses?
20-1704 RonRico Simmons, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa evidentiary-hearing government-impediment habeas-corpus limitations-period pro-se timeliness Whether a court can summarily dismiss a pro se habeas petition as untimely for failure to adequately allege a causal connection
20-1613 John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a fe…
20-1605 Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA cases
20-8026 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts the opportunity to review federal claims, is this failure the proximate cause of the injury as a matter o…
20-7982 Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, giv…
20-7957 Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether courts should employ the 'stop clock' method or require a showing of diligence throughout the entire tolling period for equitable tolling of A…
20-7813 Richard Allen Benson v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-21 Dismissed IFP aedpa aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence prima-facie state-law When a federal habeas court examines for reasonableness a silent state court habeas denial pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (AEDPA) and Harrington v. R…
20-7511 Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district cour…
20-7371 Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in time-barring Mr. Marsh's Section 2254 petition despite his proper filing of a state habeas petiti…
20-1207 Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a 'second or successive' petition under the Antite…
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in upholding the state court's finding of premeditation under Jackson v. Virginia
20-1121 James Saylor v. Taggart Boyd, Interim Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure due-process gateway-claim habeas-corpus standing summary-judgment Whether summary judgment may be utilized to dispose of a federal habeas petition
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one-year statute of limitations for filing a Federal Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus statutorily or equitably tolled when a State Co…
20-7110 David Falcon v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alibi-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-hearing miranda-rights police-misconduct police-testimony right-to-counsel strickland-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel
20-1084 Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (8) aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court
20-6972 Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given …
20-1009 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry v. David Martinez Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) aedpa evidentiary-development federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Whether AEDPA's bar on evidentiary development under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) applies to a federal court's merits review of a claim when a court excuses…
20-988 Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson Third Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the review required under AEDPA § 2254 and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011) is violated by reliance upon a 'some ambiguity' standard …
20-6906 Charles Hamilton v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-restrictions counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights federal-law sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a State Court's erroneous denial of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Right to be represented by counsel of choice resulted in a decision…
20-6826 Melissa Dean-Baumann v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP aedpa due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-exception state-habeas-petition Whether the California courts' denials bar Dean-Baumann's federal claims
20-958 Rickey Leon Scott v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aedpa civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation precedent stare-decisis When a Justice contributes the necessary fifth vote to a majority opinion but also writes a concurrence interpreting that opinion, should lower courts…
20-6798 Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon Third Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether, during review of the Petitioner's habeas corpus application in the United States District Court, the Petitioner was entitled to de novo revie…
20-6645 Joe Cervantes, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jury-trial notice-of-charges void-for-vagueness void-statutes Does AEDPA deprive federal courts of the power and obligation to review claims not previously known and could not have been known through reasonable d…
20-6523 Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a 'protected-class-of-citizen's' claim for relief?
20-628 Samuel Anstey v. Ralph Terry, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa arson-investigation due-process fire-science habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief summary-judgment Whether a petitioner whose conviction was based substantially on discredited arson investigation techniques can survive summary judgment under 28 U.S.…
20-633 Byron David Smith v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) aedpa antiterrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the AEDPA, applies to all phases of a criminal trial or only to pretrial suppression hear…
20-597 Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) within the context of de…
20-588 Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton Sixth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state proceedings?
20-6146 Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, Lisenba v. People of State of California, and Estelle v. McGuire qualifies as 'clearly establi…
20-6065 Delmar Reinheimer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act collateral-consequences collateral-consequences-of-conviction exhaustion-doctrine failure-to-advise federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), is a claim of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel regarding col…
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for filing a habeas petition begins when the new judgment entered following resentencing becomes final
20-5956 Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the…
20-5963 Daniel Edward Murray v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-time-calculation hipaa hipaa-restrictions ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel medical-records medical-records-disclosure plea-agreement plea-agreements pro-se pro-se-litigation If there is a set of plea agreements taken at the same time and the court of appeals reverses a part of the appealed agreement, does this start the AE…
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise 2020-09-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Whether the Court should grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling c…
20-5731 In Re Brent L. Alford 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa article-i-section-9 constitutional-impediment great-writ habeas-corpus state-prisoner statutory-tolling Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(d)(1)(B) effectively suspend the Great Writ in…
20-5563 Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied IFP aedpa atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia certificate-of-appealability death-penalty habeas-corpus hall-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he is intellectually disabled
20-5529 Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied IFP aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred in denying a motion to amend a petition under the AEDPA, as the Eleventh Circuit has required that a motion to amen…
20-5460 Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) requires a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus relief to file his federal p…
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 …
20-5391 Inez Lambert v. Rob Paersson Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-petition Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have been granted
20-5276 Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law…
20-5224 Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations Must a habeas petitioner make a threshold showing of reliability before the reviewing court will consider the evidence in totality to determine whethe…
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
19-8921 Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard May a court assessing Strickland prejudice dismiss the significance of evidence of brain damage, on the ground that it makes only a 'limited additiona…
19-8925 Robert T. Lundberg v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel katz-expectation-of-privacy katz-v-united-states police-interrogation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Should the decision in Lundberg v. State be entitled to deference under AEDPA?
19-8701 Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition Whether the State of South Carolina commits a final byte power against the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a second or successive habeas …
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-1255 Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA
19-8272 Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-04-16 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review capital-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court's reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel's p…
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Does a state court's act lulling a petitioner into believing he has tolled limitations—and resulting in running out his federal limitations period—war…
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process Question in Conflict with the Certiorari Decis…
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursued ac…
19-8122 Allan Widdifield v. Kevin Mazza, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights discrimination due-process habeas-corpus kentucky legal-resources time-limits Why are the United States District Judges for Kentucky in total disarray with the other Judges in the 6th Circuit concerning the AEDPA's time limits f…
19-1167 Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment AEDPA anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of- cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-trial-errors due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence statute-of-limitations trial-errors Whether Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terroris…
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-7913 Pooroushasb Parineh v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-remedies statutory-tolling Whether the petitioner filed a timely habeas corpus petition after exhausting state remedies
19-7835 Miguel Rodriguez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc, 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the Unit…
19-7849 Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department First Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power What is Arbitrary power—restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause—if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used to …
19-7850 Bobby Drew Autry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-error due-process false-imprisonment final-judgment habeas-corpus plea-bargain statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Does the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 one year statute of limitations violate the suspension clause of the U.S. Const…
19-7818 Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington Whether district court required to give deference to state appellate court's finding of historical facts
19-7725 William Desmond Conrad v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alleyne assistance-of-counsel attorney-negligence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation descamps habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance precedent pro-se pro-se-rights sixth-amendment Is 'the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance of counsel ?
19-7555 In Re Eugene French 2020-02-05 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction-question newly-discovered-evidence original-jurisdiction successive-petition Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case where…
19-979 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality Whether a State's interest in a judgment's finality is forfeited when the state fails to elicit the truth or fails to correct evidence it should know …
19-941 Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Amici (2) aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether Georgia's requirement that a capital defendant prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violates the Eighth Amendment
19-7350 Billy Battenfield v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-21 Denied IFP aedpa appeal-waiver criminal-procedure critical-stage garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-sentencing retroactivity statute-of-limitations Whether Garza v. Idaho adopts a new watershed rule of procedure that applies retroactively on state collateral review
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Jones' successful Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart the one-year AEDPA filing deadline, so as to mak…
19-7284 Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions Could reasonable jurists debate whether the state court decision to affirm Petitioner's sentence is contrary to or an unreasonable application of the …
19-7256 Joseph Eugene Osborne v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute-of-limitations civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-predicate habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness Do suspicions trigger AEDPA's statute of limitations even if they would be insufficient to state a factual predicate for a claim under AEDPA?
19-7177 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen…
19-7207 Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea Did the Court violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3A1.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directive…
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Whether non-capital habeas corpus petitioners in the Eleventh Circuit are being treated so fundamentally differently than similarly situated prisoners…
19-6833 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief state-court-interpretation state-federal-conflict Whether a U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals are bound by a State Supreme Court's interpretation of its own post-conviction DNA testing statute …
19-6526 In Re David Paul Worthington 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-1151-1153 aedpa aedpa-limitations article-1 article-6 criminal-procedure indian-law indian-treaties state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaties-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions-in-treat…
19-6429 William Jovian Davis v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (7)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review pro-se strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
19-6346 Paul Malone v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment aedpa aedpa-deference attorney-perjury due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disorders perjury plea-voluntariness strickland-v-washington trial-attorney-perjury Does deference provided from AEDPA and Strickland v Washington apply when there is evidence of trial attorney perjury before the court?
19-501 Shawn C. Rutland v. Warden, Smith State Prison Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-tolling assistance-of-counsel discretion-of-district-courts district-court-discretion equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly created a new bright-line rule that equitable tolling of AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations automatically…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered?
19-6156 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6)IFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed …
19-407 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post-conviction relief
19-5986 Brian Whitaker v. Florida Florida 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa aedpa-standard arbitrary-governmental-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief procedural-bar Do the guarantees of equal protection and due process of law extend to individuals seeking postconviction relief?
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell 2019-08-23 Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions in tr…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference?
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…
19-5524 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,…
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations Is it an extraordinary circumstance if counsel filed a motion three months after the AEDPA's limitations period expired?
19-5332 Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference Does federal habeas law allow the application of a 'some evidence' standard in upholding state court factual determinations?
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doubly-deferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis?
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…
19-5217 Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 GVR IFP ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar Whether due process is violated when a court sentences a defendant to a term of imprisonment that exceeds the otherwise-applicable statutory maximum s…
18-9751 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2019-06-21 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa brady-violation castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process question in conflict with the Certiorari decis…
18-9719 Jason M. Lund v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins? And does the error warrant summary relief?
18-9676 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona Whether the Fifth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in Buck, Miller-El, and Slack by first deciding the merits of Mr. Halprin's claims befor…
18-9540 Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year…
18A1262 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus plea-agreement writ-of-certiorari Whether federal courts can restrict second or successive habeas petitions under the AEDPA's savings clause when a prisoner claims factual innocence or…
18-9524 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report rehabilitation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the AEDPA was violated
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court is objectively unreasonable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) in concluding a capital defendant was not prejudiced by counsel's failu…
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18-1421 Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street Whether the state court's admission of an accomplice's inculpatory statement, accompanied by limiting instructions, violated the Confrontation Clause
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 Whether the denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitutes a defect in the integrity of the federal habeas …
18-9251 Willie James Atkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-legislation civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery-rule equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment materially-indistinguishable standing Does the Doctrine of 'Equitable Tolling' due to claims of 'Fraudulent Concealment' of obviously important facts, extend to AEDPA legislative cases?
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction Should Petitioner's state collateral review requests be considered as pending to toll the AEDPA 1-year limitations period?
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9002 David Curtis Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa de-novo-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Petitioner was prejudiced under the Sixth Amendment due to trial counsel's failure to object to a concededly erroneous jury instruction an…
18-8984 Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error Whether a retrospective competency determination where mental incompetence is the impediment is permissible under AEDPA(4)(B)
18-8958 Sheila Davalloo v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication AEDPA equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-claims state-created-impediment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations Does the uncommon circumstances of this case rise to the level of an extraordinary circumstance warranting equitable tolling of the AEDPA statute of l…
18-8871 Roy L. Rambo v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act asset-freezing counsel-of-choice criminal-prosecution due-process personal-assets sixth-amendment state-court-ruling Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a habeas petitioner can obtain Rule 60(b) relief despite a prior adjudication on the merits
18-8701 Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida Florida 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the decision of McQuiggin v. Perkins applies retroactively
18-8592 Wendell Arden Grissom v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP accuracy-of-factfinding aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-proceedings federal-court-deference heightened-standard-of-reliability procedural-fairness To what extent, if any, should a federal court defer to prior state court factfinding and adjudication under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pen…
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…
18-1181 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Relisted (2) aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent Whether a state prisoner's conviction is constitutional under current Supreme Court precedent, even if it violated now-overruled precedent at the time…
18-8321 Noah Richard Lovell, III v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process free-standing-innocence-claim habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review signing-statement standing supreme-court teague-v-lane Should the Sixth Circuit have granted a certificate of appealability on the question of whether a free standing claim of innocence is a constitutional…
18-8132 Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a constitutional error reviewed under plain error standards is an adjudication on the merits; and whether AEDPA deferential standards of revie…
18-8058 Joel Elias Sanchez v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights crane-v-kentucky criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense self-defense Did excluding this evidence violate Sanchez's clearly established right under Crane?
18-7867 Meria James Bradley v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-rights due-process evidence-withholding federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-findings state-court-proceedings state-court-review Whether defense counsel withheld evidence that could have shown the petitioner was actually innocent
18-7792 Anthony Donato v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-violation brady-violation-disclosure circuit-court-split constitutional-disclosure constitutional-due-process due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit-decision second-or-successive successive-habeas-petition Whether the Second Circuit's decision that petitioner's second-in-time Brady claim is successive conflicts with applicable decisions of this Court
18-7743 Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the Anti-ferrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 vitiates citizens' 1) Privilege to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 2) Right to p…
18-7710 Jose Garcia Mejia v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-processing aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-error Were Petitioner's constitutional Rights violated during trial?
18-7656 Armando Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability coa coa-standard due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b Whether a District court deprives a habeas corpus petitioner of his Constitutional rights to Due Process
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…
18-7396 Alonzo Fishback v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa credibility credibility-of-counsel deference-to-state-court due-process federal-review federal-review-of-state-court-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentencing sixth-amendment state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-review Whether the federal court must accept that trial counsel's performance was adequate simply because trial counsel testified his performance was adequat…
18-7374 David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a court may indulge 'post hoc rationalization' for counsel's decision making that contradicts the avai…
18-7229 Telisa De'Ann Blackman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-claim brady-giglio-napue brady-rule burden-of-proof exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-writ giglio-claim giglio-rule napue-claim napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petitions Should a prisoner be substantively disadvantaged by having to meet a higher burden of proof on her Brady/Giglio/Napue claims because the prosecution h…
18-7155 Alfredo Provencio v. Joe Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aedpa custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether defendant's incriminating statements and body language should be excluded as custodial interrogation without Miranda advisement
18-756 William Gittere, Warden, et al. v. Jose Lorente Echavarria Ninth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied aedpa compensatory-bias due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct law-of-the-case Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's application of the law of the case in the state habeas appeal was an adjudication of Echavarria's compensatory bias…
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition
18-6943 Gregory Dean Banister v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP aedpa appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se rule-59(e) successive-petition Whether Gonzalez v. Crosby extends to Rule 59(e) motions
18-6872 Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence Can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct?
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…
18-673 Terrence Edwin Prince v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) and whether applying AEDPA's restrictive provisio aedpa brady-claim brady-rule due-process federal-courts gatekeeping-provisions habeas habeas-corpus retroactivity second-in-time-petition second-or-successive Whether a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition is 'second or successive' under AEDPA
18-6745 In Re Donald L. Spencer 2018-11-20 Denied IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act district-court-judge due-process federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations tolling-provision Whether the Honorable Richard Williams, U.S. District Court Judge has a clear duty to afford Petitioner the full one-year statute period from the enac…
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 …
18-6450 Justen Russell v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal appellate-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-health-confinement mental-illness right-to-appeal state-created-impediment Does the complete failure by court and counsel to advise a defendant of his right to appeal and the time period in which to do so constitute a 'state-…
18-6326 Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether the lower courts' rulings directly conflict with the holdings in (1) McQuiggin v. Perkins; (2) Cronic v. United States, and (3) Cuyler v. Sull…
18-6250 Curtis Nairn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th and 14th Amendment rights unexhausted and meritless which violated Petitioner's 5th aedpa amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-claims constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-default section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied Petitioner's §2254 petition as procedurally barred by AEDPA, unexhausted and meritless…
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel…
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while men…
18-6012 Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional due to prosecutorial m…
18-5990 Omar Odale Brockman v. Erick Balcarcel, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA aedpa-statute-of-limitations certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction us-v-cotton Does petitioner Brockman properly assert that Sup. Ct. R. 10(c) warrants him certiorari relief?
18-5888 Jared Morrison v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitation constitutional-violations deferred-adjudication due-process habeas-corpus mcquiggin-perkins mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice schlup-v-delo Whether a Mcquiggin v. Perkins actual innocence gateway can be denied
18-5842 Ricky B. Chhea v. Theresa DelBalso, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no substantive text was provided in your mess I cannot generate a meaningful question presented please provide the full text of the petition. aedpa civil-rights discovery due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus notes-of-testimony right-to-appeal standing statute-of-limitations Is equitable tolling warranted, where a petitioner is denied access to the notes of testimony and discovery, even after properly and timely invoking h…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-56 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill Sixth Circuit 2018-07-10 GVR Relisted (9) aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c…
18-5159 Allen Golden v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 aedpa suspension-clause aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus non-violent-crime non-violent-crimes suspension-clause Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its order and the Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation regarding the suspension of habe…
18-5161 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the state court's application of the Jackson standard of review in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence violated clearly established fed…
18-5087 Peter Wilson v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing state-prisoners statute-of-limitations Whether the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) violates due process by depriving state pr…
18-5090 Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the wrong legal standard in evaluating the petitioner's judicial misconduct claim
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules
25A174 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied aedpa chevron-doctrine constitutional-review federal-judiciary habeas-corpus supreme-court-deference Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) deferential standard of review for state court decisions violates the constitution…