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25A754 Martez Abram v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-30 Application appellate-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal indigent-defendant mississippi-supreme-court supreme-court Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court's denial of a direct appeal violated the petitioner's constitutional right to meaningful appellate review
25-6347 Jim Lundi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest direct-appeal ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy waiver-of-counsel Whether the appointment of appellate counsel who fails to investigate direct appeal issues constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel and whether a…
25A692 Eliel Nunez Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Application criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-appellate ninth-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction on direct appeal
25-5677 Juan De Dios Alvarez-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-motion Whether an indigent and incarcerated defendant with minimal education and no English comprehension, raising a colorable ineffective assistance of coun…
25-5592 Brijesh Goel v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights direct-appeal knowing-voluntary on-the-record right-to-counsel waiver Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Petitioner's constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal by failing to make an on-the-record finding th…
24A1254 Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-20 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal direct-appeal federal-conviction ninth-circuit supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly affirmed federal criminal convictions and sentencing in a case involving potential procedural or substantive lega…
24A1249 Andrew Charles Beard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence cyberstalking direct-appeal plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement Whether a cyberstalking conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2) categorically qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for sentencing enhancement purposes
24-7392 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the gen…
24A1094 Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari constitutional-review death-penalty direct-appeal penalty-proceeding Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals properly applied constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Smith's capital conviction and death sentence…
24-7092 Michael Dwayne Tryals v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rule-criminal-procedure mandatory-rules trial-court-violation Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) can be remedied on direct appeal, through equitable tolling, or as an…
24-821 Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance Whether Mr. Lewis's state court appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to present obvious and significant constitutional challenges to the admi…
24-6431 Norman Seneka Bowers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP direct-appeal judicial-discretion jurisdictional-delay retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether Amendment 821 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be applied retroactively on direct appeal and whether a district court may rea…
24-6308 LaDon Maurice Green v. Florida Florida 2025-01-15 Denied IFP constitutional-claim counsel-performance direct-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction-relief Whether the Florida Supreme Court has the authority to review a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel after a direct appeal when the claim was no…
24A534 Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California California 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeal criminal-appeal direct-appeal penal-code Whether a state court's partial denial of a criminal defendant's direct appeal under California Penal Code § 1237(a) violates the defendant's constitu…
24A318 Allen Ward Cox v. Florida Florida 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete capital-collateral constitutional-rights death-penalty direct-appeal ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief Whether the Florida Supreme Court's denial of direct appeal relief violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to effective appellate review in a …
24A230 Aaron Christopher Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete anders-procedure criminal-appeal direct-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied Anders v. California procedural standards in dismissing a criminal defendant's direct ap…
24-5189 Brandon Alexander v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof direct-appeal evidence-admission harmless-error inadmissible-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment When a defendant asserts IAC on direct appeal in Ohio for failing to object to inadmissible evidence and is able to demonstrate deficient performance,…
23-7516 Anthony Roy Spain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-20 Denied IFP creek-nation criminal-procedure direct-appeal flores-ortega ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma sixth-amendment Were trial counsel ineffective for failing to consult with Mr. Spain about taking a direct appeal from his conviction, where doing so would not have b…
23-1218 Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard conflict with this Court's harmless-error standard?
23-7436 Eagles Denashu Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-claim right-to-counsel Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
23-7185 Lawrence Northern v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Wisconsin 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-of-choice direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-v-machner strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Question not identified.
23-1092 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc-pro-tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's-choice
23-1078 Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing
23A874 Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete 18-u-s-c-3231 certiorari criminal-appeal direct-appeal district-court ninth-circuit Whether a federal district court's denial of a direct criminal appeal under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 can be challenged through a subsequent petition for certi…
23-6994 Donald M. Reynolds v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification Whether a federal prisoner's direct appeal for sentencing issues must be remanded to the district court for resentencing when a retroactive amendment …
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition?
23-6425 Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase whether-the-fifth-amendment's-due-process-clause-permits-courts-to-find-a-plea-agreement-waiver-that-is-silent-as-to-brady-v-maryland-constitutes-a-kn…
23-720 Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-04 Denied Amici (1) appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Whether a plea agreement that includes a general appellate waiver bars a direct appeal when a defendant has pled guilty to conduct that was not crimin…
23A621 Darryl Heffner v. Timothy Heffner, et al. Texas 2024-01-04 Presumed Complete appellate-review direct-appeal fact-finding property-dispute stay-of-proceedings trial-court-jurisdiction Whether a trial court may conduct further fact-finding proceedings during a pending direct appeal when the underlying case has already received a fina…
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 …
23-6014 Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan law
23-5906 Carey Ackies v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance procedural-prerequisites sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Ackies has satisfied all procedural prerequisites necessary to file COA?
23-5334 Mario Iglesias-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence grand-jury-transcripts habeas-corpus jackson-standard reasonable-doubt rule-6e sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court of appeals reviewing a defendant's direct-appeal challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction must a…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
23-5162 DeMario B. Griffin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction mandate-recall right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first direct appeal under the Fifth Amendment?
23-5124 Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel Whether the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, requests for inclusion of psychiatrist's testimony, and other information as to the preserved issue…
22-7768 Nidal Ayyad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen…
22-7121 Christopher Barret v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur Whether district courts must conduct full de novo resentencing following vacatur of one or more counts
22-806 John Doe v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin…
22-6522 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-courts hobbs-act ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof Does a federal district court possess meaningful discretion to define 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' in jury instructions?
22-5871 Timothy Steel v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied IFP anders-v-california constitutional-error direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari Is a petitioner entitled to effective assistance of successor counsel to file a 2254 writ of habeas corpus despite the statute of limitations
22-315 Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting…
22-5545 Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the cas…
22-5500 James R. LaPoint v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-record constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fair-trial Hardy-v-United-States incomplete-record Mayer-v-City-of-Chicago sentencing-review Do the State courts violate a defendant's 14th-Amendment-right-to-due-process-and-to-a-fair-and-complete-direct-appeal-when-they-become-aware-of-a-mat…
22-5503 Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons…
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance?
22-5032 Steven Louis Barnes v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether denial of an evidentiary hearing viol collateral-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedy Is there a distinction between remedies in raising ineffectiveness of constitutional counsel on direct appeal, where constitutional counsel is allowed…
21-7962 Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability, which deprives the petitioner of a direct appeal from the …
21-7875 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-right direct-appeal due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-deficiency notice-of-withdrawal notice-requirement prosecutorial-misconduct tax-deficiency Right To Counsel
21-7709 David C. Morris v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-28 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization Whether res judicata may bar correction of a sentence of 'natural life' that does not exist and is not authorized by statute, which constitutes cruel …
21-7539 John P. Higley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal-out-of-time case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact ineffective-assistance Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Higley's 14th Amendment right to Due Process?
21-7420 Isiah Pierce v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States apply where the ineffective assistance of counsel claim was first litigated and decided in a consider…
21-7341 Jerry Fruit v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law direct-appeal fourth-amendment full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus stone-v-powell trial-litigation Whether habeas corpus petitioners have been afforded the opportunity for full and fair litigation of their Fourth Amendment claim
21-1042 David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the 'reasonableness' standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland-v-Washington,-Hill-v-Lockhart permits a …
21-6727 Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej…
21-6680 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit whether-the-tenth-circuit-violated-the-antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act
21-6559 George Russell Kayer v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP capital-murder competency-determination direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-specialist sentencing-hearing trial-counsel Whether a state court's decision on direct appeal is based on an unreasonable determination of facts when it concludes that a defendant refused to coo…
21-6466 Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence Whether a district court violates Pepper v. United States when it refuses to allow a defendant to proffer evidence of post-sentencing rehabilitation a…
21-6220 Jehoni Kierre Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP 2255-motion abuse-of-discretion amendment civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal Whether the District Court denying petitioner's request to Amend is in conflict with The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 15?
21-6134 Victor Rosales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal douglas-v-california due-process evitts-v-lucey indigent-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Does a Texas prisoner have a constitutional right to appointment of effective assistance of counsel in collateral proceedings
21-5934 Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations Whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are part of the 'direct review' process under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(…
21-5883 Davon Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-proceeding direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement remand sixth-amendment Whether a defendant on direct appeal should receive a remand for an evidentiary hearing upon showing a colorable Sixth Amendment ineffective-assistanc…
21-5490 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2021-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deadly-weapon direct-appeal due-process guilty-plea intoxication plea-agreement retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the trial court and criminal court of appeals of Texas violated established federal law as determined by the United States Supreme Court
21-5453 Charles J. Senke v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel Whether a district court's failure to inquire into an indigent defendant's colorable motion for substitution of counsel is cognizable on direct appeal…
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and Mr…
20-8472 Rocky Leandro Orosco v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress warrantless-search Is Mr. Orosco entitled to a hearing to challenge the 'obtainment' of his cell phone?
20-8319 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure criminal-counsel direct-appeal due-process florida-bar-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation plea-bargaining torture Can same criminal counsel misrepresenting defendant in the same L.T. case, and other cases in the trial court documenting instances of 'torture' to in…
20-8236 Brady Lee Ray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-06-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process first-degree-robbery fourteenth-amendment kentucky-supreme-court sentencing-errors supreme-court-rule uscs-supreme-court-rule-10 wanton-endangerment Did Kentucky Supreme Court Violate Section C of USCS of Supreme Court Rule 10 and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution
20-8129 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den…
20-7968 Charles Ahumada v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions Should the constitutional right to counsel exist for petitions for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in a Circuit Court, after an adverse opinion …
20-7954 David Armando Butler v. Florida Florida 2021-05-07 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process florida-district-court standing trial-court written-order Whether the Florida District Court of Appeal denied the petitioner due process in failing to grant him a direct appeal on the merits by virtue of the …
20-7868 Douglas Kelly v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error…
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia violate clearly established federal law and petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights when it failed …
20-7405 Jorge Rangel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP direct-appeal drug-cases first-step-act mandatory-minimum plain-error rehaif Does the First-Step-Act apply to defendants on direct-appeal?
20-6880 Victor Esquivel, aka Youngster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief constructive-denial criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-merit-brief preserved-objections right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel Whether Esquivel's Right to Counsel Was Constructively Denied
20-6869 Tavarius D. Radford v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP courtroom-closure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance partial-closure public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts whether-public-trial-right-violated
20-6831 David Garcia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal duty-to-adjudicate existing-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits sixth-amendment Whether a circuit court of appeals has a duty to adjudicate the merits of a Sixth Amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim raised by a defend…
20-6787 Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Does Congress' express 'Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code' in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con…
20-6808 Thomas Traficante v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Traficante's constitutional challenges to his risk condition of supervision as unripe on …
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Whether petitioner is entitled to a copy of the state habeas evidentiary hearing record under the Due Process Clause
20-6148 Smith Merinord v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act applies to cases pending on direct appeal at the time of its enactment
20-6050 James Anthony Martin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-liability direct-appeal due-process federal-law legal-interpretation massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court supreme-court-decisions supreme-judicial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court misinterpreted federal law in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on direct…
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-5610 Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing Whether a defendant whose conviction was final before Ramos v. Louisiana, but who is still on direct appeal from resentencing, is entitled to the bene…
20-5510 Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the governing provisions in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals precedent case law, In re Goddard, has unlawfully created an arbitrary or ambi…
20-5385 Judy Harmon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-violations direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-powers procedural-default sister-circuits Whether there appears to be a disparity within the Sister Circuits use of jurisdictional powers and discretion, ruling over Ineffective Assistance of …
19-8908 Preston Pope v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 davis-decision direct-appeal first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance notice-to-client rule-28(j)-letter writ-of-certiorari Does the Criminal Justice Act of 1964 require notice to client for writ of certiorari?
19-8881 George A. Foote, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment anders-procedure appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal davis-hatton-procedure direct-appeal due-process state-procedure Did the Indiana appellate court overstep its authority in supporting counsel depriving a direct appeal as of right, without following Anders or equal …
19-8464 Jamal Mitchell, aka Boo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancillary-proceeding civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process forfeiture-order intervening-change-in-law rule-41g rule-60b standing Does an order have to be first challenged on direct appeal before the order can be later challenged in an ancillary proceeding based on an intervening…
19-8417 Dante C. Stone v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-syndication direct-appeal due-process government-corruption ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal
19-1172 Mark Targowski v. Zachary Lee Rawlins Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process evidence evidence-standard jury per-curiam reasonable-jury standing verdict writ-of-certiorari Whether no reasonable jury could have reached the same verdict based on the evidence submitted.
19-8005 Harrison Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies where Petitioner's sentence is not final and he would no longer be subject to multiple, mand…
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense
19-7644 George Jones v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal credibility direct-appeal expert-witness expert-witness-credibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies prejudice sentencing-discrepancy trial-court-discretion Has prejudice been shown-where defense counsel fails to investigate the credibility of the Defense's expert witness
19-7531 Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal?
19-7197 Darryl William Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C…
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con…
19-7168 Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied IFP burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to the effective assistance of appellate counsel
19-7150 Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to reveal indisputably false testimony and coaching to the 4-year-old child who gave the false testimony
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-6953 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Question not identified
19-6790 Mark Gerth v. Warden, Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reopened-appeal right-to-counsel Whether Petitioner had a constitutional right to counsel
19-6549 Jose Laureano Salgado v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment ongoing-disclosure pending-appeal prosecutorial-misconduct Does this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) require the Government to disclose, while an appeal is pending, exculpatory or impe…
19-566 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-30 GVR 922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation Whether a sentence is 'imposed' within the meaning of §401(c) of the First Step Act when it is first issued by the district court, or when it becomes …
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion If it can be proven that the relied upon convictions in a Termination of Parental Rights action are unconstitutional and unreliable, does deference & …
19-527 Paul Huskisson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule take into account the flagrancy and deliberate nature of the underlying Fourth Amendmen…
19-6259 Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing whether-an-indigent-defendant-is-entitled-to-equitable-toll-where-he-was-denied-the-right-to-challenge-his-sentence-and-convictions-by-way-of-direct-a…
19-6264 Orane Nelson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the judgment should be vacated and the case remanded to the Second Circuit for consideration of whether § 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 ap…
19-6213 Marcus Bartholomew Booker v. Texas Texas 2019-10-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-habeas post-conviction-habeas-corpus right-to-access state-court-proceedings trial-ineffectiveness trial-records Does an indigent defendant have a right to access to a free Clerk's and Reporter's Records in a state post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding when th…
19-5968 Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler Where a state, through operation of its laws, requires some capital defendants to be represented by the same public defender at both trial and on thei…
19-5974 Duane L. O'Malley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-operating-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules criminal-procedure criminal-rule-33 direct-appeal due-process judicial-assignment motion-appeal newly-discovered-evidence panel-reassignment recharacterization standing Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals violate Circuit Operating Rule 6(b) when failing to reassign panels?
19-5234 Stephen P. Dowdney, Jr. v. Washington Washington 2019-07-18 Denied IFP anders-procedure anders-v-california appellate-review direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection mccoy-v-court-of-appeals Does Washington state use the Anders v. California procedure to circumvent a meaningful direct (first) appeal, effective assistance of counsel, due pr…
19-5209 Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conviction direct-appeal due-process federal-exhaustion habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence speedy-trial state-court-remedy Does the timely and legally sufficient filing of a Notice of Appeal of a Directly Appealable post-conviction Statutory Speedy Trial motion preclude th…
19-5128 Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is…
18-9789 Dan Pizarro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum Whether Pizarro is entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sentences applicable to his drug trafficking …
18-9642 Jeffrey Benton v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal class-v-united-states criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy face-of-the-record guilty-plea indictment united-states-v-broce waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea and waives appeal can raise a double-jeopardy argument on direct appeal
18A1203 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-death-row second-circuit supreme-court-review Whether a federal death-row inmate may challenge the constitutionality of his federal convictions through a direct appeal to the Supreme Court
18-9190 Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment Whether review should be granted because state court's summary denial of petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking belated direct appeal or reinstat…
18-9070 Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses had a valid Fifth Amendment pr…
18-8952 Boris Murphy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest deficient-performance direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Did the Fourth Circuit review the District Court's error in denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2255 claim de novo that was based on conflict of interest a…
18-8690 Dagoberto Ontiveros v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-appeal anders-v-california appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights direct-appeal due-process legal-ethics legal-frivolity right-to-counsel Whether a finding of frivolity is required when rejecting a criminal defendant's direct appeal under Anders v. California
18-8565 Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas Texas 2019-03-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington Whether a trial attorney's failure to object to the omission of a required jury instruction raises the burden of proof on direct appeal, where the out…
18-8510 Travis Thaniel v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts Does the federal law of Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017) have retroactive application in the state of Maryland?
18-8516 John E. Drummond v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim
18-8482 Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit…
18-8091 Alvin Jakelyn Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conclusively-apparent-from-the-record direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure standard-of-proof standard-of-review summary-rejection Whether the court of appeals summary rejection of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on direct appeal by placing the burden on the defendant a…
18-8010 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner is eligible for resentencing under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) when amendments relevant to the case were enacted by the Sentencing Co…
18-7967 James Dalton Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh…
18-7974 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, should apply to this case on direct review
18-7900 Jorge Ernesto Blanco-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-citizen-defendant padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining plea-colloquy supervisory-power Whether a trial court commits error when it takes a guilty plea from a criminal defendant when the trial court is on specific notice that defense coun…
18-7876 Jordie L. Callahan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation
18-7849 Jesus Pacheco Estudillo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights direct-appeal effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing facts procedural-due-process relevant-facts sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right To The Effective Assistance was Violated When Counsel Failed to File A Direct Appeal
18-6998 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith civil-appeal civil-rights court-of-appeals direct-appeal docket-fee docket-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant indigent-litigants pro-se-litigation south-carolina Whether Bounds v. Smith 430 U.S. 817 97 S.Ct. 1491 (1977) requires the waiver of the docket fee in a civil on direct appeal to Indigent litigants who …
18-6831 David Errol Willock v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal habeas-corpus postconviction-relief remand rule-of-lenity statute-of-limitations Whether the correct calculation of the statute of limitations in a habeas corpus action under 28 USC 2254 where the petitioner has filed for state pos…
18-616 Roger Nepal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th…
18-6627 David Timothy Curry v. Florida Florida 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts Where a state appellate court is required to address every issue that was presented when they decline to review a lower court's decision
18-6435 John Rogers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel direct-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the State of Louisiana stripped John Rogers of his Constitutional Right to Representation by counsel on his claim of 'ineffective assistance o…
18-6241 Edward Jewell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Does this Court's holding in Mathis v United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of whether a prior convictio…
18-6031 Noah R. Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just…
18-5647 Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed …
18-202 Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who waives the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence can implicitly waive his right to collaterally attack his c…
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority Whether the undisputed and clear violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal results in an exceptio…
18-5500 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-framework statute-of-limitations Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) should have been granted to consider whether a federal prisoner's failure to file a timely amended 2255 m…
18-5510 Quincy Andre Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution appeal-waiver direct-appeal due-process fundamental-error fundamental-errors mandatory-guidelines plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement can prohibit a defendant from challenging on direct appeal unforeseeable fundamental errors committed by …
18-5498 Willie Beasley Curtis v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus habitual-offender plea-bargain plea-bargain-standards retroactive-sentencing standing sua-sponte unprecedented-error Whether the Supreme Court has a duty to consider unprecedented errors that are important to the public interest
18-130 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-conflict summary-denial trevino-v-thaler Whether the Indiana Supreme Court correctly concluded that Indiana's procedures governing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised on …
18-5226 Richard Lugo v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether appellate counsel's ineffectiveness deprived petitioner of his right to direct appeal
18-5216 Johnny Allen Martin v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-violation counsel-right criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance statutory-provisions threshold-determination Does the petitioner have a nonwaivable constitutional right to (a) effective/conflict-free assistance of counsel on direct appeal from his or her conv…
18-5094 Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser…
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987) (holding that on direct review a new constitu…
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F…