AEDPA-deference

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25-516 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-27 Pending aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") prevents federal courts from granting habeas petitions for constitutional violations regar…
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
24-6579 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance habeas-corpus judicial-review state-proceeding Does a brief written by the prosecution in a State habeas proceeding, and then rubber-stamped by State judges, qualify as a judgment entitled to defer…
24-5163 Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and instead …
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…
23-682 Alabama v. Marcus Bernard Williams Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) AEDPA-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits merits-review procedural-grounds state-court-adjudication Does a state-court adjudication on the merits lose its entitlement to AEDPA deference if it is affirmed on procedural grounds?
22-7005 Lino Alberto Chavez v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference anders-review anders-v-california federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-appeals post-conviction-relief smith-v-robbins state-court-procedure state-court-procedures Whether the district court must apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision that Anders review is not required in a Rule 32 proceeding
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
22-6242 William Burke v. Jerry Jefferson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act cumulative-errors due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-trial-rights right-to-jury-trial strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals fail to adhere to the Strickland-standard-of-review
21-7513 Jonathan Carvalho v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-effective-death-penalty-act arbitrary-decisions constitutional-reliability due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard lower-courts supreme-court trial-court-procedure Does the Supreme Court's leeway and the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) deference for lower courts to determine due process violatio…
21-6752 Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied IFP AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a proce…
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?
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Denial of constitutional rights to impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel
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…
20-6338 James H. Smith v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-charges deficient-performance federal-claim ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-misconstrue trial-court Can an attorney demonstrate deficient performance in representing a client while also facing serious criminal charges in the same court
20-5941 Charles Victor Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) aedpa-deference capital-punishment constitutional-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus Massiah-claims punishment Sixth-Amendment state-court-review Williams-v-Taylor Did the circuit court err in holding that a federal habeas court may never hold a hearing on a punishment issue without first considering 28-U.S.C-225…
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 …
19-6346 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?
19-5695 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?
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…
18-1421 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
18-8341 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a…
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…