| 25-6768 |
In Re Mark Anthony Morris |
|
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol… |
| 25-6774 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest state-procedural-rule |
Where a state has created liberty interests that give death-sentenced prisoners with credible claims of innocence vehicles for proving their innocence… |
| 25-6616 |
Okechukwu Desmond Amadi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling governmental-intervention statute-of-limitations |
Whether the dismissal of an out-of-time appeal upon the government raising a statute of limitations defense, without providing defendant a full and fa… |
| 25-6611 |
James E. Frantz v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations constitutional-error habeas-corpus judicial-discretion substantive-claim |
1) Did the District Court error by failing to recognizing substantive claims as cognizable under habeas corpus and failing to exercise its equitable a… |
| 25-821 |
Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
|
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim… |
| 25A752 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-29 |
Application |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-664 |
Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
|
actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence |
Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden… |
| 25A653 |
Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min… |
| 25-6229 |
Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner |
WHETHER PETITIONER QUALIFIES FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING DUE TO INABILITY TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ON THE MERITS OF BEING ACTUALLY INNO… |
| 25-5987 |
Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE;
Whether the district court and the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Ground One, actual-innocence claim as to hi… |
| 25-5969 |
James Logan Diez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review cross-examination due-process judicial-discretion transcript-error |
1] Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abuse its discretion when it refused Review after Petitioner discovered approx. 20-25 min. of Cross-Examina… |
| 25-5806 |
Ricky Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court abused its discretion and the Eleventh Circuit affirmance of the lower court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing as… |
| 25A368 |
Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard |
Whether 'new evidence' under the Schlup actual innocence standard requires newly discovered evidence unavailable at trial or encompasses all evidence … |
| 25-5756 |
In Re Jody M. Johnson |
|
2025-09-29 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony habeas-corpus |
1) Should Writ's D.S. Supreme Court grant Writ of Habeas Corpus petition, where the U.S Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner'… |
| 25-324 |
Richard William Kleinhammer v. California |
California |
2025-09-18 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment |
Self representation for a postconviction collateral appeal was denied applying People v. Scott as a policy which is at loggerheads with actual innocen… |
| 25-5682 |
Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-error jury-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting confessed constitutional
errors under Brady and Napue and giving not weight to t… |
| 25-5669 |
Stanislav Steven Yelizarov v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeal-waiver ineffective-counsel miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement resentencing |
When a criminal defendant is resentenced after a conviction is vacated because he is actually innocent of the charge, does an appeal waiver in the ple… |
| 25A263 |
Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention |
Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent … |
| 25-5484 |
Corey Blaine Coggins v. Eric Cox, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance joint-defense-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Did Coggins ' Public Defender 's (Weber) entering into a joint defense
agreement with Coggins ' co-defendant 's (Tabor) lawyer without Coggins '
… |
| 25-5452 |
In Re Andrew James Johnston |
|
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-privilege filing-restrictions habeas-corpus merits-determination section-2255 |
1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including issuance of a writ of habeas corpus from this Court, to protect the privilege of habeas corpu… |
| 25-5403 |
In Re Michael Jay Harris |
|
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question No. 1 Should Mr. Harris be permitted to raise his claims of prosecutorial
misconduct based on newly obtained and never before presented evid… |
| 25A187 |
Simon Hessler v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
Whether the actual innocence standard permits equitable tolling of the statute of limitations for a federal habeas petition based on a credible claim … |
| 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 |
1. Novel Issue : Is the Actual Innocence Exception to a procedural bar limited t cases where petitioners are convicted, but actually innocent of crime… |
| 25-85 |
Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver |
1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec… |
| 25-5174 |
James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation |
WHTHER THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE ISSUED AND/OR GRANTED
A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (C0A) FROM THE DISTRICT COURT'S
DETERMINATION THAT THE … |
| 25-5099 |
Franklin Ray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeal-waiver due-process plea-agreement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
After this Court re-interpreted the Aggravated Identity Theft statute in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 132 (2023), Petitioner was factually in… |
| 25-5085 |
Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction |
1. Questia (9) /ReseuTeD - wien, on Nor THE SUPREME CounT OF RD Can Procedyfa lly Barked By ICTUAL TANCE Clzagse, ON TNR Z D625, 0) Spal PezeTEosser's… |
| 25-5065 |
In Re Derrick L. Johnson |
|
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence |
REffiritenfs WflV'F tefilioN&tJfJ COMl^V^LAMof^CoiJ^ifoMoF^ Utifeb
CeuRfUftS ToRiSblClioiU Mteiu REfrfion/EA SEEK^AiJEublCATfBfJo^TffS Mer/1s QFUM
Pe… |
| 24-7424 |
Wilberto Arellano v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-tolling |
Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Equitable Tolling Based on His Claim of Actual Innocence |
| 24-7427 |
Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden |
Georgia |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar |
Whether Georgia's Habeas Corpus Act violates constitutional protections when procedural bars prevent meaningful review of a potentially wrongful convi… |
| 24-7224 |
Devon Delehoy v. South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus kidnapping procedural-default |
Whether a person can be considered held against their will in various scenarios involving voluntary movement and interactions |
| 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? |
| 24-7017 |
Jose Antonio Cortez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus |
Can a State allow a Judgment & Sentence of Conviction to stand when the offense was factually and legally impossible to have been committed or lacks l… |
| 24-6954 |
John Stephen Routt v. Michael Miller, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-petition |
Did the Court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability by merging Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2254 (d)(1) and (2) with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (c) and… |
| 24-6896 |
In Re Nicholas Lee Blair |
|
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b |
Whether a Rule 60(b) motion can rectify a dismissed 28 U.S.C. § 2255 application when new circuit precedent validates the petitioner's actual innocenc… |
| 24-6834 |
Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Tami J. Schult |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural default can be overcome by a showing of actual innocence |
| 24A274 |
Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or… |
| 24-6680 |
Victor Charles Rogers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus |
Whether a court can deny a certificate of appealability (COA) when filing actual innocence claims and whether DNA evidence showing the petitioner is n… |
| 24-6513 |
Tavon Johnathon Magee v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-standard habeas-relief sixth-amendment |
Has Petitioner Magee made a proper showing of actual innocence to have his constitutional claims addressed on the merits, and should the Supreme Court… |
| 24-816 |
Phillip Joshua Yellin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability credibility-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit |
Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the Supreme Court's established process for issuing a Certificate of Appealability by refusing to issue a COA based on Ye… |
| 24-6328 |
Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance |
Whether a factual basis supporting a criminal conviction can be verifiably false and still result in a valid conviction; whether an attorney accepting… |
| 24-6272 |
In Re Benjamin Shipley |
|
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger V. United States retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(3)(A) to a … |
| 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… |
| 24-6195 |
Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's piecemeal review of a factual record requires Supreme Court intervention to reaffirm the gateway actual innocence standard… |
| 24-6180 |
Carl Hubbard v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court gateway-claim habeas-corpus judicial-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not applying Schulp v. Del© precedent and denying petitioner's actual innocence gateway claim desp… |
| 24-6132 |
In Re David Charles Thatcher |
|
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Mr. Thatcher's actual innocence and constitutional violations require vacatur of his petition and whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to grant… |
| 24-5940 |
Charlton Beasley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)-conviction actual-innocence davis-decision procedural-default section-2255 statute-of-limitations |
Did Beasley overcome procedural default under § 2255 when filing within one year of the Davis Supreme Court decision, and is he entitled to relief for… |
| 24-500 |
Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar |
Whether the actual innocence exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by a procedural bar should… |
| 24A429 |
Earl Francis Hart v. Charles Daniels, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence criminal-conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus savings-clause section-2241 |
Whether a federal prisoner can collaterally challenge his criminal convictions under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 by invoking the savings clause of § 2255(e) base… |
| 24-5753 |
Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence |
Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts a… |
| 24-5707 |
Gary E. Peel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-conviction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by affirming federal convictions for non-criminal conduct and denying an evidentiary hearing when n… |
| 24-5673 |
Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Whether the lower courts violated the Fourteenth Amendment by denying Petitioner's claim of actual innocence and right to review evidence supporting h… |
| 24-5644 |
Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence |
Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to legal or statutory innocence when an individual is convicted under… |
| 24-5532 |
Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion |
When a § 2255 petitioner demonstrates through a retroactive constitutional rule that he is innocent, must an otherwise valid collateral-attack waiver … |
| 24-5517 |
Charles Bonner v. Bryan Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights heck-v-humphrey judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct post-trial-judgment |
Whether a judge can waive judicial immunity by fabricating a post-trial judgment and sentence that falsely purports jury findings, and whether success… |
| 24-5493 |
Francisco Jose Lopez v. California |
California |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence collateral-estoppel dna-testing due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief |
Did the doctrines of collateral and judicial estoppel bar the State from trying Petitioner for being the lone single shooter after convicting Andres R… |
| 24-5494 |
Brian Scott Witham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 |
Whether a § 2255 petitioner who pleaded guilty to a charged offense based on conduct that is not a crime and who later seeks to rely on actual innocen… |
| 24-5259 |
Isiah Williams v. Raymond Shanley |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing gateway-claim rule-52 |
Whether the Court of Appeals exceeded its authority under Rule 52(a) F.R.C.P. in dismissing Petitioner's actual innocence claim without an evidentiary… |
| 24-5239 |
John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure |
Why was COLEMAN denied equal protection of law? |
| 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 |
| 24-5108 |
Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error |
Whether a petitioner must show 'civil disability' to obtain a writ of error coram nobis, |
| 24-5083 |
Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations trial-by-jury |
Whether prosecutors and Petitioner's pretrial sheriff's department Custodians violation of a Scheduled trial by jury, which in all likelihood may have… |
| 24-5079 |
John W. Patton v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript |
Due-process |
| 23-7840 |
Douglas Lemon v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation disclosure-of-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence-disclosure fitness-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to lack of a fair fitness evaluation, failure to disclose evidence, ineffective assis… |
| 23-7796 |
Stewart Bitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction |
| 23-7789 |
In Re Glenn A. Holder |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error |
Wrongful-conviction |
| 23-1288 |
Nicholas Newman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with another p… |
| 23-7614 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim |
When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly ripe… |
| 23-7545 |
Bobby Tatum v. Darren Galloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence child-victim-testimony civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel video-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial |
| 23-7447 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing writ-of-error |
Did the lower court abuse its discretion by denying appellant's petition for writ of actual innocence without looking at the totality, or assessing wh… |
| 23A953 |
Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence administrative-error filing-deadline habeas-corpus pro-se time-bar |
Whether a federal habeas petition can be deemed timely when administrative errors prevented the petitioner from receiving critical court correspondenc… |
| 23-7199 |
In Re Joseph R. Dickey |
|
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence federal-prisoners habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. 2241(b)(1) apply to federal prisoners filing habeas corpus petitions under 28 U.S.C. 2255? |
| 23-7180 |
Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-package state-law-ground |
Whether Texas Court of Criminal Appeal's is applying Sec.4 {TCCP Art.11.07] as adequate & independent state law ground |
| 23-7148 |
Arnold Ancrum v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process federal-magistrate-act habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether petitioner's 6th and 14th amendment rights were violated |
| 23-7062 |
Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 23-7064 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 |
Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective |
| 23-6939 |
Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
whether-28-usc-b-2-b-ii-actual-innocence-standard |
| 23-6915 |
Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice |
Whether the actual innocence exception applies to claims of innocence in the guilty plea context |
| 23-6924 |
Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error |
Does a federal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S.C… |
| 23-6735 |
Fuhai Li v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability change-in-law conflict-of-interest fraudulent-conduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall new-evidence |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion to recall its mandate when petitioner has demonstrated actual innocence or a change … |
| 23-6709 |
Martin Akerman v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard have the right to challenge the legality of his detention and seek relief through a 28 U.S.C. § 2255… |
| 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 |
| 23-6644 |
Matthew Lane Durham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief trial-review |
Whether a federal prisoner can bring a free-standing claim of actual innocence to seek a new trial |
| 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? |
| 23-6529 |
In Re Raymond Ramirez |
|
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence scientific-evidence successive-petition |
Whether the court of appeals clearly abused its discretion and deprived the Petitioner of his constitutional rights to Due Process under the 14th Amen… |
| 23-6293 |
Shallon Hawkins v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court |
Did the United States District Court err by denying my claims for procedural default relief under Schlup, Glenn, fundamental fairness, newly discovere… |
| 23-651 |
John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim |
| 23-6241 |
Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court erred in excluding exculpatory electronic evidence that could have proven the petitioner's actual innocence |
| 23-6265 |
Timothy Dean Stone v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review schlup-standard state-procedural-ground state-procedural-grounds texas-criminal-procedure texas-law writ-application |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' holding that Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 11.07 section 4(a)(2) precluded consideration of th… |
| 23-6236 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. Warden, FCI Marianna |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions constitutional-challenge federal-prisoner felker-v-turpin habeas-corpus successive-petition |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) applies to claims in 28 U.S.C. 2255 motions |
| 23-6203 |
Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establishes the gateway claim of actual innocence under Schlup v Delo and M… |
| 23-6171 |
Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction |
Whether Oklahoma Courts can exercise criminal jurisdiction over veterans detained in state custody based on state medical examiners' opinions when fed… |
| 23-6183 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing |
Whether a claim of attorney abandonment of material omissions in the record may justify the granting of a motion to recall the mandate of an appellate… |
| 23-6065 |
Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § 2255… |
| 23-6001 |
Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, where the evidence presented at tri… |
| 23-5970 |
Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal |
Does the Seventh Circuit's holding conflict with Schlup, 513 U.S. 298, and House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518 (2006), because it turned on whether the eviden… |
| 23-5945 |
Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether inadequate assistance of counsel at initial-review collateral proceedings may establish cause for a prisoner's procedural default of a claim o… |
| 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… |
| 23-5736 |
In Re Travis J. Guttu |
|
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-deadline criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-innocence |
Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? |
| 23-5712 |
Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to the state court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing on his claim of actual … |
| 23-346 |
Torriano Walpool v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
actual-innocence credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review trial-court-findings |
Did this action by the Court of Criminal Appeals deny Petitioner's Due Process rights? |
| 23-5611 |
David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden |
Nevada |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts |
In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evidenc… |
| 23-5590 |
In Re Jamar L. Williams |
|
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present newly discover… |
| 23A236 |
Rodney Reed v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-relief texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether a state court's denial of postconviction relief based on newly discovered evidence of actual innocence violates the Due Process Clause or cons… |
| 23-5549 |
Hope White v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right |
Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-created r… |
| 23-5542 |
Stephen James Hood v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether Virginia's ruling as to Va. Code § 19.2-327.10 violates the rights of Hood, and those similarly situated, under the Due Process, Equal Protect… |
| 23-5447 |
Antonio Chimney v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence common-law constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence great-writ habeas-corpus laches writ-of-right |
May Laches be used to deny an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus that is based on Actual and Factual Innocence? |
| 23A132 |
Jerry S. Wilson v. Dan Cromwell, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
actual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default reasonable-doubt |
Whether the actual innocence standard established in Schlup v. Delo requires courts to assess newly discovered evidence by asking whether reasonable j… |
| 23-5146 |
Santos Rosales Martinez v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rule habeas-corpus iowa-constitution iowa-courts judicial-discretion new-rule-of-law schlup-test schlup-v-delo schmidt-v-state |
Whether the Iowa Courts have failed to properly adjudicate the Petitioner's actual-innocence claims |
| 22-7895 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certiorari-appeal civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing |
Whether the trial court had a duty to put on the record a colloquy that the defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his right to te… |
| 22-7860 |
Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice |
Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents |
| 22-7790 |
Lancey Darnell Ray v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
active-duty-service-members actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forensic-pathology medical-examiners military-jurisdiction state-medical-examiners veterans |
Whether Oklahoma Courts can exercise criminal jurisdiction over active duty service members and dependents, and Veterans, based on opinions of state m… |
| 22-7724 |
Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing |
Whether the petitioner's physical injury and resulting disability are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| 22-7719 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. |
Nebraska |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing |
Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve… |
| 22-7678 |
Gary E. Peel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence child-pornography due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel takings-clause |
Whether the government can criminalize the possession of non-obscene photographic materials depicting only an adult |
| 22-7639 |
Hulon Verser v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility |
Whether the post-conviction court erred in denying the petitioner's post-conviction petition after an evidentiary hearing, where the newly discovered … |
| 22-7555 |
Tyrell Rakeem Mobley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus manifest-injustice standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to manifest injustice |
| 22-7573 |
Donald Lee Kissner v. Matt Macauley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus standing |
Did the district abuse its discretion in challenging the elected official and denying pending relief as untimely |
| 22-7548 |
Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions |
Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment considered not denied where state actors purposefully fail to provide procedural protections and falsify… |
| 22-7546 |
Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome |
Does a conviction based on a discredited scientific theory violate due process? |
| 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… |
| 22-7382 |
Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona |
Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-7368 |
Parnell R. May v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation due-process forensic-testimony new-scientific-evidence reasonable-doubt |
Whether the new scientific evidence of Parnell May's actual innocence of causing the death of Marvin Meeks is sufficient to establish that no reasonab… |
| 22-7351 |
Leonard Scaggs v. A. Ciolli, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 actual-innocence habeas-corpus jury-instructions rosemond-decision savings-clause section-2241 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-rosemond |
Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Rosemond was available to petitioner in a motion filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 under the 'savin… |
| 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 … |
| 22-7226 |
Travis J. Guttu v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-deadline due-process ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice no-trial plea-agreement procedural-innocence record sixth-amendment-right |
Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? |
| 22-7230 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a hearing on a successive habeas corpus petition that raises a claim of actual innocence based on newly discov… |
| 22-7169 |
Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review |
Whether the standard of review for actual innocence claims should be resolved by this Court to address a circuit split |
| 22-7139 |
Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden |
First Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower court's lack of factual predicate jurisdiction pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) motion could not be adjudicated |
| 22-7080 |
James A. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-rights malicious-prosecution state-misconduct wrongful-conviction |
Whether an innocent petitioner should be granted relief when the state convicted against exonerating evidence with malice and indifference |
| 22-7041 |
Deandre Markee King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity |
Whether actual innocence requires a court to bypass a collateral-attack waiver |
| 22-7042 |
Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act |
Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction |
| 22-7032 |
Scott Lynn Fishbein v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability defense-counsel due-process false-information guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Should a certificate of appealability have been issued for review of an appeal of the denial of a 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition based on ineffective assist… |
| 22-7036 |
Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make … |
| 22-7021 |
Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the district court err… |
| 22-6923 |
In Re Jesse Brown |
|
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim defense-theory evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel legal-default post-conviction-relief standard-of-review trial-counsel |
Whether the Petitioner is entitled to a 'actual innocence' defense theory |
| 22-6886 |
Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-standard brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-error federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois postconviction-discovery schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations |
Can a District Court erroneously declare timely and proven Brady-Napue claims untimely |
| 22-6713 |
Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cognizable constitutional claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-6697 |
Ervin Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aggravated-assault borden-precedent borden-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process forcible-assault sentencing-review supreme-court |
Whether Petitioner is actually innocent of his aggravated and forcible assault offense, in light of Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)? |
| 22-6604 |
In Re Daniel Sheehan |
|
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit has improperly reduced the 2241 gateway via 2255(e) through abuses of discretion in creating conflicting dicta that contradi… |
| 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? |
| 22-6449 |
Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether the warrantless blood draw violated the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-607 |
Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue… |
| 22-581 |
Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession |
Whether Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c) violates the Due Process Clause by excluding a third-party confession that is recanted and inconsistent wi… |
| 22-6370 |
Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing |
whether-the-court-of-appeals-for-the-ninth-circuit-rendered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-controlling-precedent-of-the-united-states-supreme-court |
| 22-569 |
In Re Christopher Dunn |
|
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process freestanding-actual-innocence habeas-corpus lincoln-v-cassady missouri post-conviction-relief |
Does innocence matter? |
| 22-6350 |
Raul Alvarez v. New York |
New York |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Must a client object in open court to invoke their Sixth Amendment right to maintain actual innocence as the objective of their defense? |
| 22-6320 |
Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. |
Maryland |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition |
Whether the lower courts erred in holding that the petitioner did not meet the burden of establishing the respondents' deliberate indifference in viol… |
| 22-6252 |
In Re James E. Hitchcock |
|
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims amounted to a suspension of the writ |
| 22-6219 |
Bruce Wood v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability coa conflict-with-court-precedent due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60 rule-60-motion |
When Petitioner's exculpatory evidence infers an innocent man is imprisoned |
| 22-512 |
Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim can show that the remedy by §… |
| 22-6159 |
Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony |
Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional rights in post-conviction proceedings for full development, presenta… |
| 22-6103 |
Serdar Tatar v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b |
Whether the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion |
| 22-5756 |
Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application |
Does the Schlup v Delo, 513 US 298 (1995), actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the proced… |
| 22-5738 |
Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment |
Whether the appellate court erred in possessing the legal significance of the exculpatory material of the three sworn affidavits tending to exonerate … |
| 22-5742 |
Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits |
Whether a state that permits pro se criminal appeals must provide a complete and sufficient record for the appeal, as required by the Due Process and … |
| 22-5596 |
Roberta Ronique Bell v. Warden, FCI Dublin |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2241-relief actual-innocence co-conspirator due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-due-process separate-proceedings |
WHETHER THE DENIAL OF AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING IN SUPPORT OF § 2241 RELIEF CAN BE BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON THE RECORD DEVELOPED BY AN ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATOR… |
| 22-5539 |
Sean David Pickett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 |
Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitioner c… |
| 22-5430 |
Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts |
Whether the lower courts abused their discretion and erred in light of Supreme Court precedent |
| 22-5432 |
Terence Valentine v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-development habeas-corpus jury-trial jury-verdict state-courts |
Whether a state court must allow evidentiary development of actual innocence claims and assess the totality of the case |
| 22-5434 |
Zane D. Crowder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence child-protection forensic-interview gateway-standard habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence mcquiggin-v-perkins new-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations |
Whether the new evidence relied upon by the Petitioner meets the gateway actual innocence standard set forth in McQuiggin v. Perkins |
| 22-5360 |
Wayne Chin v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accused-autonomy actual-innocence attorney-client-relationship autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unwelcome-defense |
Whether a defense counsel can override an accused's final and informed decision for an actual innocence defense and impose an unwelcome defense upon t… |
| 22-5284 |
Michael Duntae Fagans v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial |
Whether Fagans is entitled to relief or an evidentiary hearing |
| 22-5294 |
Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
Does this court have jurisdiction & power to grant certiorari, excused limitation bar, correct fundamental miscarriage of justice, denial of COA by 5t… |
| 22-5256 |
In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan |
|
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error |
Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue? |
| 22-5269 |
Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing |
Whether an actual innocence claim applies to a lesser offense? |
| 22-5195 |
C. Raymond Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations brady-violation brady-violations due-process herrera herrera-claim house-v-bell ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp |
Federal & State Court Split on Newly Reliable Evidence |
| 22-5206 |
Shain Duka v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction |
| 22-32 |
John Hart v. County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence voiceprint-analysis |
Where a criminal defendant has compelling evidence of actual innocence in the form of exculpatory expert voiceprint analysis, does that defendant rece… |
| 22-5066 |
John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) debatability review under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) allows a circuit court to deny debatability of a constitu… |
| 22-5039 |
Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state courts denied his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and actual i… |
| 21-8284 |
In Re Matthew Lee Staszak |
|
2022-06-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process forensic-report habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus obstruction-of-justice writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Supreme Court should issue the writ of mandamus to mandate the lower court's review of a forensic report surrounding petitioner's substant… |
| 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' |
| 21-7982 |
In Re Mo Savoy Hicks |
|
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence deceptive-testimony excited-testimony excited-utterance forensic-evidence forensic-exposition fourth-amendment legal-relief miscarriage-of-justice perjury |
Does the novel issue, Forensic Exposition, demonstrate deceptive testimony and establish actual innocence? |
| 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? |
| 21-7716 |
Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review |
Whether Welhee Jackson is entitled to relief on an evidentiary hearing where the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United S… |
| 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… |
| 21-7671 |
Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness |
how-does-the-u.s.-court-of-appeals-for-the-10th-circuit-justify-affirming-the-decision-of-the-district-court |
| 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 |
| 21-7592 |
Detrick Deroven v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment |
Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment… |
| 21-7580 |
Amos Lamar Burch v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-7524 |
Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition |
Should petitioner's due-process right to meaningful-review of 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence claims be foreclosed by 8th-circuit's local-rule-47a(a) sum… |
| 21-7428 |
Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does the actual innocence exception apply to a noncapital sentence? |
| 21-7335 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus state-procedural-law |
Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applicatio… |
| 21-7284 |
Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation |
Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to 28 … |
| 21-7314 |
William Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution |
Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, prono… |
| 21-7214 |
Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review |
Whether the petitioner had a claim of actual innocence that was not fairly considered by the lower courts |
| 21-7131 |
Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the courts below erred in denying Jones a certificate of appealability |
| 21-7029 |
David Pedder v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus substantial-availability-test |
whether-federal-habeas-petitioner-deprived-of-constitutional-rights-to-due-process |
| 21-6886 |
Roberto Martinez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason plea-withdrawal presumption-of-innocence rule-11 |
Whether a defendant who enters a plea of guilty, but moves to withdraw such plea prior to sentencing, while at the same time properly articulating a p… |
| 21-6869 |
Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition |
Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim … |
| 21-6847 |
John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit |
Whether a pro-se-state-prisoner-adequately-alleged-gateway-actual-innocence-claim |
| 21-6823 |
Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review |
Whether the district court must determine the credibility and reliability of new evidence of actual innocence before assessing its legal effect |
| 21-6832 |
Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review |
whether-the-supreme-court-overruled-boykin-v-alabama |
| 21-6795 |
Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief |
Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe… |
| 21-970 |
Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
Whether 'new' evidence, as referred to in Schlup v. Delo and McQuiggin v. Perkins, means evidence that was not available at the time of trial or, unde… |
| 21-6733 |
Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit |
Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability |
| 21-6703 |
Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-6554 |
Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review |
Whether §2255 is inadequate or ineffective when binding precedent forecloses relief even when a meritorious claim of actual innocence is proven |
| 21-6500 |
Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
When a citizen of the United States becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation for homicide and is induced to give false statements, does the due-p… |
| 21-780 |
Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause |
Whether a person violates the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, by taking a motor vehicle not in the presence of its owner and without any… |
| 21-6203 |
Michael Walker v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60(b)(6) strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that a petitioner asserting actual innocence in a Rule 60(b)(6) motion was not entitled to relief on the ba… |
| 21-6205 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law |
Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under 18 U.S.C. §16(b) |
| 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… |
| 21-6017 |
Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas |
Questions presented |
| 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… |
| 21-5858 |
Enrique E. Quintana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver |
actual-innocence,plea-agreement,waiver,indictment,collateral-attack,commerce-clause,gonzales-v-raich |
| 21-5859 |
Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations |
Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right |
| 21-5866 |
Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction |
Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing court's decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence |
| 21-5809 |
In Re Dwayne Stoutamire |
|
2021-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing |
Whether the facts presented establish the petitioner's constitutional right to free-standing actual innocence claims under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 29… |
| 21-5812 |
Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find that appellant Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez is 'actually innocent' of violating … |
| 21-5769 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Has the 11th Circuit constructed a legal framework that acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus? |
| 21-5722 |
Gregory Dew v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar |
Is a petitioner denied due process when the courts fail to review all relevant evidence in the overall, newly supplemented record for an actual innoce… |
| 21-5699 |
Al-Kareem Rasool-Rachmaan Collier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated during the criminal proceedings against him |
| 21-5700 |
Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard |
actual-innocence,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,capital-case,forensic-pathology,procedural-default,habeas-corpus |
| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 on the question of factual and actual innocence depa… |
| 21-5600 |
Linda Hardison v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication |
Can the district court and the appeals' court overlook a blatant error of law when the petitioner presented all documentary evidence and declarations … |
| 21-5516 |
In Re Freddy Perkins |
|
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement |
Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent' under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and 851… |
| 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… |
| 21-5424 |
Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-5435 |
In Re Antonio Crawford |
|
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus |
Can a federal prisoner seek 28 USC 2254 habeas corpus relief to challenge the conviction based on a claim of actual innocence? |
| 21-5395 |
In Re Christopher Burgess |
|
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar |
Should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both 'actual-innocence' and 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel… |
| 21-5411 |
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… |
| 21-5403 |
Charles Edwin Tumlinson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-petition standing |
Should lower federal courts be allowed to violate Supreme Court case law and deny pro-se applicants relief for fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice clai… |
| 21-5285 |
In Re Ivar Voits |
|
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violations constitutional-claim due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does it appear that Petitioner Mr. Voits lacked an 'adequate and effective' opportunity to test the validity of his constitutionally substantial actua… |
| 21-5256 |
In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. |
|
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence brady brady-disclosure circuit-split due-process impeachment-evidence newly-discovered-evidence newly-presented-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
whether-the-prosecutor's-obligation-under-brady-to-turn-over-evidence-stands-independent-of-the-defendant's-knowledge |
| 21-107 |
Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was counsel's performance deficient, and did the courts below apply the right standard? |
| 21-5148 |
Gregory Dew v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar |
Is a petitioner denied due process when the courts fail to review all relevant evidence in the overall, newly supplemented record for an actual innoce… |
| 21-73 |
Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28-U.S.C.-§-2254-proceeding |
| 21-5129 |
Gary E. Peel v. Barbara Zarrick |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review district-court due-process federal-criminal federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus non-capital standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a stand-alone (a/k/a free-standing) claim of 'actual innocence' is cognizable in a federal non-capital criminal case |
| 21-5103 |
Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default |
Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadline… |
| 21-5026 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure procedural-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's fundamental right to a fair trial |
| 20-8463 |
Luther Pete Haynes v. Mona D. Houston, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus illegal-extradition new-evidence |
Whether the state court abused its discretion in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing, violating the petitioner's due process rights to review n… |
| 20-8448 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does the saving clause under 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) permit a federal prisoner to proceed in a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2241 when the remedy under 28… |
| 20-8360 |
Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Was military appellate court obligated to accept late ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 20-8255 |
Kenneth Darnell Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel more-usual-remedy procedural-bar writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis |
| 20-8205 |
In Re John L. McKenzie |
|
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether Petitioner is illegally confined due to fabricated evidence and false testimony |
| 20-8155 |
Frederick Wayne Smith v. California |
California |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence autonomy civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie sixth-amendment successive-petitions |
Should the May 2, 1995 Order to Show Cause/Prima Facie case; The NOV 05 2018 Superior Court writ of habeas corpus/Prima facie showing of violation of … |
| 20-8164 |
Michael Mosley v. John Rich, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-counsel schlup-v-delo sixth-amendment |
Whether the new credible and compelling evidence of actual innocence, combined with the alibi, constitutes a 'truly persuasive showing of actual innoc… |
| 20-8088 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington |
Whether the lower court erred in denying appellant's motion |
| 20-8090 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel larrison-v-united-states newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct recantations witness-recantation |
Whether Petitioner Is Entitled To An Acquittal Or New Trial On The Newly Discovered Exonerating Evidence Showing Actual Innocence Based On Recantation… |
| 20-8031 |
Major Hudson, III v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default rule-60 |
Whether a misdemeanor vs. felony distinction is an extraordinary circumstance under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 20-8016 |
Rico Blackwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether a defendant can ever show cause and prejudice to avoid the procedural default bar on a meritorious Davis challenge to a § 924(c) conviction? |
| 20-7989 |
Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal erred in its unelaborated denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 20-7955 |
Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection |
| 20-7962 |
Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds |
Should courts procedurally time-bar a pro-se-inmate's habeas-corpus petition when a prison-official with a serious-health-illness is responsible for t… |
| 20-7904 |
Bruce Simmons v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence bousley-v-united-states constitutional-claim due-process federal-law mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice murray-v-carrier schlup-v-delo writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the principles of due process are offended |
| 20-7916 |
Shomas T. Winston v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-v-delo |
Whether a petitioner should be allowed to assert a claim of actual innocence as a gateway to overcome procedurally defaulted constitutional claims wit… |
| 20-1528 |
Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals denies due process by refusing to use equitable tolling for a coram nobis petition based on actual innocence |
| 20-7845 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states |
Whether a court should consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the charged offenses in evaluating error under Yates v. United States |
| 20-7809 |
Julian J. Miller v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-of-court access-to-court actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-bar ineffective-assistance statute-of-limitations |
Does §2244(d)(1)(A) apply to a habeas petitioner's access-of-court claim that is barred by Heck & can't accrue until the state habeas corpus remedy is… |
| 20-7769 |
James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 20-7763 |
Brian David Hill v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus indecent-exposure procedural-defect state-custody supervised-release |
Where the Virginia Supreme Court didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus should apply to the case of Brian David Hill being convicted… |
| 20-1439 |
Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus |
Whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition solely because a petitioner's factual allegations contradict a guilty plea |
| 20-7751 |
Efrain Lopez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying Lopez's COA on his speedy-trial-violation, due-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel, and false-testimony cl… |
| 20-7767 |
Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process enactment-of-2255 fair-trial resentencing |
what-constitutes-a-fundamentally-just-resentencing-under-28-usc-2255 |
| 20-7690 |
Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? |
| 20-7692 |
Donald Violett v. John R. Grise |
Kentucky |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence attorney-client-privilege civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus state-court-review void-judgment |
Can a state court convict and incarcerate a petitioner on dismissed and fabricated charges based on new evidence? |
| 20-7666 |
Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 20-7653 |
Jeffrey Denton v. John Davids, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence procedural-gateway prosecutorial-misconduct trial-confidence |
Whether petitioner can pass through the gateway to argue merits of underlying claims |
| 20-7646 |
Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not… |
| 20-7563 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution |
whether-federal-court-has-authority-to-order-release-of-state-prisoner |
| 20-7564 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation |
Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim |
| 20-7470 |
Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure |
Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error |
| 20-7439 |
Michael Luis Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement |
Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-7389 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington |
Whether the district court applied an incorrect standard of review |
| 20-7390 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law |
Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under the 'residual clause' of 18 U.S.C. §16(b) |
| 20-7392 |
James Jermaine Woodfork v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence appeals constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-claim oklahoma |
Did the Oklahoma Appeals Court violate the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to due process by refusing to acknowledge the petitioner's claim of actual… |
| 20-7395 |
Antonio E. Wills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum |
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den… |
| 20-7328 |
Alberto Matias-Martinez v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan state-impediment statutory-limitations |
Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that Mr. Matias-Martinez's § 2254 habeas application was timely filed, or in the alternate, that he … |
| 20-7330 |
James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error |
whether-petitioner's-constitutional-right-to-due-process-was-denied |
| 20-7331 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default |
Whether the state failed to provide the inmate with the necessary medical care and treatment as required, violating his constitutional rights |
| 20-7322 |
Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions |
Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 4-8, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery |
| 20-7279 |
Ong Vue v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to… |
| 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 |
| 20-7093 |
Noel Christopher Turner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins statutory-provisions |
Are the lower Courts misinterpreting and applying the United States Supreme Courts decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins? |
| 20-7086 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying a death penalty sentencing review in a non-death penalty case |
| 20-7030 |
Devaron Antoine Love v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct |
Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual-innocence to overcome a procedural-default |
| 20-6997 |
Joe D. Bryan v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process |
Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution? |
| 20-7000 |
Felix Brown v. Keith Foley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim equity federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-default rule-60 |
Does the United States Supreme Court require a showing of actual innocence to pursue an independent action in equity under Fed. Civ. Proc. R. 60(d)(J)… |
| 20-6919 |
Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction |
| 20-6940 |
Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing |
Whether the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of an unconstitutional state law that is nev… |
| 20-6829 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se |
Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? |
| 20-6805 |
Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel |
Did the trial court err in reviewing prisoner Williams' initial motion for post-conviction relief for violations of the 6th Amendment right to effecti… |
| 20-918 |
In Re Johnathon Kelly |
|
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence |
Whether the petitioner's actual innocence claim is unconstitutionally restricted by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and Fede… |
| 20-6630 |
Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing |
Whether the lower courts should be sanctioned for protecting the unconstitutional imposition of void and obsolete statute |
| 20-6581 |
Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law |
Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable |
| 20-6547 |
David Franklin McNees, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the federal and state courts abuse their discretion in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial and Ginther hearing? |
| 20-6485 |
Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding in a case where the prosecution's theory was based on … |
| 20-6448 |
Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement |
Whether courts have jurisdiction to consider habeas claims when the remedy under Section 2255 is inadequate |
| 20-6363 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … |
| 20-6308 |
John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 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.… |
| 20-597 |
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… |
| 20-6082 |
Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-6048 |
David J. Godine, III v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification ninth-circuit pro-se-petition strickland-claim |
Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal? |
| 20-497 |
Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner? |
| 20-6024 |
Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 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… |
| 20-5786 |
William Earl Sweet v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and the Suspension Clause require that an individual have a fair opportunity to show actual-innocence in state-court and … |
| 20-5633 |
Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Whether the district court committed legal error when it determined that the newly presented evidence does not qualify for consideration under the act… |
| 20-5609 |
In Re Gary Wayne Barnes |
|
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
Can the claim of Actual innocence be reviewed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and 2… |
| 20-5496 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo |
Whether evidence of actual innocence provides a legal reason to reopen 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion proceedings to establish constitutional violations |
| 20-5518 |
Lewis J. Vance v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal wrongful-conviction |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidenc… |
| 20-5465 |
In Re Francisco Felix |
|
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial |
| 20-5451 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution |
When Petitioning for Federal Habeas Relief, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where Conceding Guilt Nevertheless Could Not Have Legally Au… |
| 20-189 |
Robert Barnes v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gateway-claim habeas |
Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner had established a gateway-claim of actual-innocence so that his defaulted constitutiona… |
| 20-5387 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
accessory-after-the-fact actual-innocence due-process guilty-verdict post-conviction-relief principal-crime |
Whether a defendant is barred from raising a claim of actual innocence |
| 20-5342 |
Rigoberto Avila, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-standard conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony innocence post-trial-developments post-trial-review scientific-evidence |
Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have proven f… |
| 20-5325 |
Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Shane Cooknell conviction violates the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when the court denied his request for a co… |
| 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… |
| 20-5188 |
Adelso Barnes v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-exception criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-consultation miscarriage-of-justice plea-change right-to-counsel |
Whether an affirmative statement entitles Mr. Barnes to the consultation required by Roe v. Flores-Ortega |
| 20-5179 |
Alberto Guillen v. Patrick McTighe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-involuntariness witness-investigation |
Question not identified |
| 20-5163 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity |
Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi… |
| 20-5127 |
Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the trial court deny Mr. Espinoza before trial his right to counsel, a fair process, confrontation, and the right to present a defense that would … |
| 20-48 |
Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies |
Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con… |
| 20-5060 |
Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the Fifth Circuit's substantive law in considering a § 2241 petition claiming actual innocence |
| 19-8656 |
Michael Jacoby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 |
Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated |
| 19-8483 |
Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Does new evidence of actual innocence require that it was not available at trial or not presented to the jury? |
| 19-8475 |
In Re Tarvares James Watson |
|
2020-05-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief |
Whether petitioner's conviction resulted in the conviction of one who was actually innocent |
| 19-8413 |
Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision |
Whether the Alabama state courts and federal district court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in denying habeas relief to the petit… |
| 19-8346 |
Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard |
Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding? |
| 19-8313 |
Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Did the lower courts err in determining Petitioner's reliance on McQuiggin v. Perkins |
| 19-8314 |
Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent when the socks clearly show he acted within his wants, and whether the defendant's exercise of his rights to … |
| 19-8319 |
Tarvares James Watson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction |
Whether petitioner's conviction resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent? |
| 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… |
| 19-1209 |
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… |
| 19-8206 |
Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment |
Should state courts be allowed to hide behind procedural bars when the record indicates the accused was denied constitutional rights? |
| 19-8207 |
In Re David Dwayne Brown |
|
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review default-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-v-delo |
Whether the petitioner's claim of actual innocence, supported by newly discovered evidence, entitles him to a de novo review of the merits of his defa… |
| 19-8186 |
Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault |
Whether defendant is not guilty due to lack of rape and murder cover-up, resulting in an irrational conviction from due process violations and an unfa… |
| 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… |
| 19-8130 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
Correcting-erroneous-denial-of-extraordinary-writ |
| 19-8072 |
Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard |
Whether petitioner established actual innocence to overcome the untimeliness of his habeas corpus petition |
| 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 |
| 19-7923 |
Barlow Smith v. Terry Kennedy |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process errors-made-by-court-of-appeals errors-made-by-district-court federal-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice no-evidence no-evidence-claim summary |
Is the petitioner actually innocent? |
| 19-7831 |
Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the abstention doctrine supports the district court's dismissal of the case while the case was under state court review |
| 19-7861 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering |
Whether the 'actual innocence' gateway to federal habeas review allows a federal habeas petitioner to overcome the 'in custody' requirement |
| 19-7870 |
Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test |
Whether newly presented evidence of insanity would constitute 'actual innocence' to allow passage through Schlup's actual innocence gateway |
| 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… |
| 19-7792 |
In Re David Lopez |
|
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial to the defendant |
| 19-7749 |
Andrey L. Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-review res-judicata strickland-v-washington |
Does the State affirmative defense of Res Judicata defeats Amendment Fifth; Sixth; Eighth, and Fourteenth of the United States Constitution? |
| 19-7710 |
George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings |
Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner's actual-innocence claim |
| 19-7666 |
Donniel Woods v. Aaron Joyner, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holdin federal-habeas-relief herrera-v-collins independent-constitutional-violation newly-discovered-evidence state-criminal-proceeding actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-criminal-proceeding |
Has the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 |
| 19-7562 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Does the Fourth Circuit's non-traditional definition of the categorical approach permit an overbroad definition of 'serious drug offenses' for career … |
| 19-946 |
William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of innocence beyond all reasonable doubt and the conviction occurred be… |
| 19-7386 |
Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ |
Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light … |
| 19-7314 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify … |
| 19-7316 |
Shawn R. Bough v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence corroborating-evidence due-process gateway-evidence precedent reasonable-juror self-preservation sixth-amendment timeliness |
Does the Sixth Circuit's failure to analyze the claim in consideration of the overwhelming corroborating innocence proof in Mr. Bough's case, in conju… |
| 19-7312 |
In Re Mo Savoy Hicks |
|
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings |
Whether new evidence establishes the petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust |
| 19-7274 |
Gregory Bartko v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct wearry-v-cain witness-testimony |
Did the lower courts err in failing to properly review and conclude that the prosecution's withholding of exculpatory and impeachment evidence favorab… |
| 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? |
| 19-7244 |
David Anson Alandt v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-claims constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding executive-clemency habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal |
Whether Arkansas' criminal court system provides a remedy for claims of actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence |
| 19-851 |
Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default |
Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t… |
| 19-7154 |
In Re Corey Devon Eaton |
|
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve |
whether-plea-agreement-involuntary |
| 19-7155 |
Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of authority, prohibits petitioner's 28 USC 2241's statu… |
| 19-7039 |
Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute |
Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence constitute a Brady violation? |
| 19-7048 |
Bernardo Costa v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-criminal-procedure |
Whether a defendant has a federal constitutional right to effective assistance of first post-conviction counsel |
| 19-6987 |
Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo |
Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis to deny Petit… |
| 19-6995 |
Richard Alan King v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent |
Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied? |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Does Dimaya require all counts to be reviewed? |
| 19-6960 |
Ulriste Tulin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction |
Does an inaccurate Jury Instruction on the content of the indictment violate due process of law? |
| 19-664 |
Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis |
Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice |
| 19-6733 |
George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 |
Whether the Court's decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins constitutes a change in relevant decisional law that justifies relief under Federal Rule of Civil… |
| 19-6708 |
Daniel Wert v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 actual-innocence administrative-remedy atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sandin-v-conners section-2241 standing |
Whether the district court had jurisdiction over the actual-innocence claim, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2241, even though no good time credit was t… |
| 19-6614 |
Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6566 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
New York |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-possession-of-a-weapon criminal-possession-of-weapon criminal-procedure due-process home-exception ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loaded-firearm penal-law penal-law-265.15(4) standing void-for-vagueness |
Whether New York State residents are always actually innocent of felony and attempted felony criminal possession of a weapon offenses if they possess … |
| 19-6467 |
Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court |
Whether the actual innocence exception to the procedural default doctrine applies to excuse the petitioner's failure to raise certain claims in state … |
| 19-6441 |
In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch |
|
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard |
| 19-6251 |
In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-fraud fraudulent-conviction habeas-corpus impeaching-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suborned-testimony witness-tampering wrongful-conviction |
Whether newly discovered evidence of fraudulently concealed impeaching evidence and constitutional violations warrants reversal of petitioner's convic… |
| 19-6237 |
Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claims of prosecutor… |
| 19-6200 |
Michael Scott Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio… |
| 19-6123 |
Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error |
Does the Fifth Amendment compel a court of appeals to remedy its inadvertent affirmance of unrecognized structural error that was apparent from the re… |
| 19-6122 |
Jermaine Stevenson v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence presumption-of-innocence state-court-judgment void |
Can a habeas corpus petitioner that is presumed guilty pursuant to a state court judgment make a showing of actual innocence with newly discovered evi… |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-5997 |
Robert Williams, Jr. v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence capital-murder cause-of-death constitutional-rights death-certificate due-process forensic-evidence judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence skull-injury stab-wound x-ray |
Whether the cause of death affected the jury's judgment in a capital murder case |
| 19-5951 |
Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing |
Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 19-5934 |
Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations |
Whether petitioner can establish a gateway claim of actual innocence based on a constitutional claim of insufficiency of evidence |
| 19-5912 |
Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether the state courts' refusal to grant Leon's request for DNA testing because it violates his right to due process and equal protection of the law… |
| 19-5914 |
Lena Lasher v. Roger Stavis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence best-evidence-rule civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-defense due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-malpractice |
Should a civil action be granted to correct the District Court's error in misrepresenting a precedent? |
| 19-5911 |
Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'saving clause' of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a congres… |
| 19-5759 |
Travis Lavoy Jenkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing |
Whether a petitioner can bring a habeas corpus petition challenging a conviction based on a claim of actual innocence, even if the petitioner is not i… |
| 19-5729 |
Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether Flowers's trial counsel was prejudicially ineffective for failing to present alibi evidence,whether Flowers presented sufficient proof of actu… |
| 19-5679 |
Maria Aide Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review |
Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post-conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c… |
| 19-5659 |
Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution |
Whether the government can use a joint task force and the same prosecution team to prosecute a citizen in state and federal court at the same time |
| 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… |
| 19-5667 |
John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus |
Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; wh… |
| 19-231 |
Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent |
Was DAVIS improperly included? |
| 19-5569 |
Gary L. Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-review wrongful-conviction |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner due process by prohibiting him from proving his actual innocence |
| 19-5551 |
Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest |
Is actual innocence a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 19-5463 |
Jesse Dean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley |
Whether the District Court had jurisdiction |
| 19-5433 |
In Re Steven Bleau |
|
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether Bleau was deprived of his constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause and Sixth Amendment when his newly presented exculpatory evidence… |
| 19-5435 |
Steven Eason v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on… |
| 19-5374 |
Benson Coriolant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit… |
| 19-5375 |
Sean Daniels v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was Mr. Daniels denied effective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 19-5321 |
John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules |
Does the 'actual innocence' exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been… |
| 19-5240 |
James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation |
Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket |
| 19-5239 |
Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings |
| 19-5200 |
In Re Isidro Roman |
|
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel below the standard mandate of the United States Constitution Amendment Six? |
| 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… |
| 19-5170 |
Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions |
Whether a petitioner with an 'actual innocence' claim can be barred from review and treated as if successive petitions that have not been adjudicated … |
| 19-5131 |
Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
statute-of-limitations |
| 19-5092 |
Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence court-of-appeals district-court gateway-claims habeas-corpus house-v-bell |
Did the district court and the court of appeals misapply this Court's holdings concerning habeas petitioners' gateway claims of actual innocence as de… |
| 19-5051 |
Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus |
Whether Arizona had jurisdiction over events that occurred wholly, and investigated exclusively by agencies under exclusive federal organization? |
| 19-5007 |
Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility |
Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in… |
| 19-5012 |
Frank Sarcona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-issues constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals err in relying on procedural bar instead of the underlying constitutional issues by blocking a federal… |
| 19-5018 |
Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt |
Whether the willful and serial denial of attempts to demonstrate actual innocence, by the courts and counsel, presents at a minimum the debatable qual… |
| 18-9822 |
Bryan K. Noel v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a meaningful question presented actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidence-exclusion habeas-corpus penumbra wrongful-conviction wrongly-excluded-evidence |
Does the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus entail a penumbra of the Due Process of Law protections when credible and reliable evidence is wrongly exc… |
| 18-9846 |
Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction |
Must the Petitioner who is actually innocent be given the same constitutional consideration as citizens who succeeded him? |
| 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? |
| 18-9690 |
Curt M. Lockett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions |
Should 4 habeas petitioners' claims of actual innocence, supported by the facts of the record, be subject to doctrines of abuse or successive use of t… |
| 18-9680 |
Elester Middlebrook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims |
Does a corroborated claim of actual-innocence constitute an extraordinary-circumstance that justifies reopening the habeas-proceedings to adjudicate t… |
| 18-9576 |
Alvin Weekly v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review |
Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constituti… |
| 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… |
| 18-9475 |
Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations |
Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual-innocence claim to establish cause to … |
| 18-9481 |
Jerry Eugene Shrubb v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal cerebellar-degeneration constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel miranda-violation petition-for-allowance-of-appeal sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Has the Appellant been denied Due Process of Law in that no Court has reasonably observed the actual claims raised by the Appellant? |
| 18-9278 |
In Re Edmond McClinton |
|
2019-05-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct |
There was no probable cause for arrest |
| 18-1433 |
Milton Balkany v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler |
Whether a lower court can apply a default rule or ignore precedent on actual innocence and ineffective assistance of counsel claims |
| 18-9288 |
In Re Sherman Lamont Fields |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction |
Do petitioner have a Constitutional Right to be set free Immediately in light of the overwhelming evidence showing that he was framed for the crime(s)… |
| 18-9289 |
In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike |
Whether petitioner is actually innocent of being eligible for a third-strike sentence under 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g) |
| 18-9163 |
Phillip L. Horrell v. Michael D. Downey, Sheriff, Kankakee County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing voluntary-plea |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims and denying an evidentiary hearing |
| 18-9110 |
Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances |
What spectrum of evidence is required to prove actual innocence claim? |
| 18-9076 |
Bobby Glenn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition herrera-v-collins mcguiggins-v-perkins mcquiggins-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar procedural-default |
Whether petitioner's untimely first habeas petition for actual innocence claim is procedurally barred despite reliable proof of innocence |
| 18-8993 |
Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability |
Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability (COA) met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence" |
| 18-8967 |
In Re Larry L. Brinson |
|
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence all-writ-jurisdiction all-writs constitutional-review constitutional-rights gate-keeping gate-keeping-order gatekeeping-order habeas-corpus jurisdiction successive-habeas-corpus successive-petition supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States Supreme Court has jurisdiction under habeas corpus and all writ jurisdiction to review circuit court's gate keeping order de… |
| 18-8972 |
Wardell Nelson Joiner, Jr. v. John Sutton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial false-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus schlup-standard schlup-v-delo time-of-death wrongful-conviction |
Did the courts below err in applying Schlup v. Delo to hold that Petitioner's compelling new evidence was insufficient to establish reasonable doubt? |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o… |
| 18-8717 |
Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel |
Does the blanket denial of a certificate of appealability by the district court violate the rule announced in Slack v. McDaniel? |
| 18-8687 |
Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway |
Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard does not require absolute certainty about the petitioner's guilt or inno… |
| 18-8705 |
In Re Keith Bryan Webb-el |
|
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus human-rights illegal-confinement standing suspension-clause |
Whether the Petitioner Webb-EL's habeas corpus petition raising claims of actual innocence and illegal confinement warrants Supreme Court review |
| 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 |
| 18-8651 |
Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir… |
| 18-8624 |
Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test |
Whether trial counsel's failure to make a timely objection or file a pretrial motion to dismiss a fatally flawed indictment can validate a 'constituti… |
| 18-8607 |
Johnnie Sterling v. Chuck Dwyer |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance manifest-injustice mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact procedural-due-process |
Should the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-8546 |
Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
Whether the state court denied due process by failing to appoint conflict counsel when post-conviction counsel undermined petitioner's claims, and whe… |
| 18-8567 |
Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review |
Did the panel so clearly misapprehend section 2253's modest standard as to call for summary reversal? |
| 18-8449 |
Juan Bustos-Chavez v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence alibi alibi-evidence due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review murray-v-carrier procedural-review |
Whether the actual innocence exception established by Murray v. Carrier applies to alibi evidence |
| 18-8356 |
In Re Steven Eason |
|
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions |
Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus… |
| 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… |
| 18-8337 |
David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington |
Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable… |
| 18-8296 |
Keith Alexander v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-petition reasonable-doubt standing third-circuit-review |
Whether the Third Circuit was in error in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of Pro Se petitioner's arguments |
| 18-8252 |
Freddie Taylor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mistrial structural-error |
Whether the United States District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the petitioner relief pursuant to the issues raised in a petiti… |
| 18-8182 |
Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment |
Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and … |
| 18-8155 |
Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner |
Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed… |
| 18-8100 |
Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions |
Whether Senica Franklin's conviction and sentence should be reversed and set aside based upon newly discovered evidence |
| 18-8022 |
Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation |
| 18-1079 |
Javier Flores Gaytan v. Michael Hardee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-standard criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial summary-witness wire-recording |
Whether a State may obtain a criminal conviction and 37-year prison sentence against a defendant where the primary evidence of guilt was a wire-record… |
| 18-7821 |
Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter |
Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint? |
| 18-7731 |
Anthony Ciavone v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence competency-hearing court-jurisdiction due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defects supervisory-power |
Whether Supervisory Power of this Court is necessary to investigate and correct an extrinsic fraud upon the lower courts |
| 18-7747 |
Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing |
Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA)" |
| 18-7681 |
In Re Erasmo Aguinaga |
|
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause |
Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization |
| 18-7578 |
Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings |
| 18-7581 |
Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 |
Does the Eleventh Circuit too narrowly restrict a district court's § 2241 corpus jurisdiction? |
| 18-7495 |
Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952) |
| 18-940 |
Jamal Martinez Hancock v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence schlup-v-delo state-prisoner triggering-events |
Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial constitutes 'new' evidence for purposes of the 'actual-innocence' gateway that permits … |
| 18-7477 |
Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief |
Was trial counsel ineffective for not raising issue of actual innocence? |
| 18-7444 |
Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause |
Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding… |
| 18-7373 |
Warren Ray Patton v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief |
Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected due p… |
| 18-7247 |
In Re Dennis Roger Bolze |
|
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining |
Whether the district court erred in denying Bolze's 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion for relief from counsel's ineffective assistance in advising him to plead g… |
| 18-7260 |
In Re Vernon Shawn Daniels, Jr. |
|
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit 4th-circuit actual-innocence due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus without authorization |
| 18-848 |
Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on her ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 18-7200 |
Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense is an actual innoc… |
| 18-7188 |
Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation |
Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa… |
| 18-7168 |
Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas |
| 18-7060 |
Brian William Schumaker v. Hector Joyner, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process judicial-notice jury-instructions prudential-consideration theory-of-defense void-for-vagueness |
Whether the lower courts erred in recharacterizing and failing to fully consider the petitioner's constitutional claims of actual innocence and theory… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-7028 |
Jameel Simpson v. James Erkerd, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction |
Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest |
| 18-6953 |
Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution |
Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f… |
| 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 |
| 18-6923 |
Donatos Sarras v. Unknown Party |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-motion suspension-clause |
Whether pro se petitioner's rights under the Suspension Clause and the Fifth Amendment (Due Process) were impeded or impinged and he may proceed with … |
| 18-6890 |
In Re Joseph C. Garcia |
|
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress |
Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress tha… |
| 18-6861 |
John Wilborn v. Kelly Ryan, Warden |
First Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding probable-cause probable-cause-transcript prosecutorial-misconduct |
Where John Wilborn made an actual innocence claim, did the Commonwealth violate John Wilborn's rights by withholding the probable cause transcript fro… |
| 18-6769 |
Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief |
Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourteen… |
| 18-6783 |
Gino Velez Scott v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-giglio brady-violation due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-misconduct habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion |
Where a numerically-second § 2255 motion raises an actionable Brady-Giglio violation that the government suppressed until after the conclusion of the … |
| 18-6625 |
Darnell Bernard Blagmon v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitution recantation state-court state-court-procedure witness-recantation writ-of-innocence |
Did the state court violate petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process by making this ruling without having held an evidentiary hearing? |
| 18-6610 |
Mark Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition |
Whether the petitioner should be allowed to present newly discovered evidence of actual innocence in a successive post-conviction petition, despite th… |
| 18-6639 |
Stuart Dizak v. Brandon Smith, Superintendent, Mid-State Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence conspiracy-charge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-notes perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state court failed to return the defendant to the courtroom upon receipt of two substantive jury notes, and whether the actual charge of c… |
| 18-6470 |
In Re Gary Malone |
|
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether a single district court and circuit court judge can entertain a second successive 2254(b) petition when the second application is a continuati… |
| 18-6511 |
In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah |
|
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy |
Whether the court should expand the framework in United States v. Hahn on appeal waivers |
| 18-543 |
State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions |
Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits … |
| 18-6419 |
William L. Whipple v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct skinner-v-switzer |
Whether additional DNA testing was wrongfully denied to demonstrate innocence (actual innocence exception) pursuant to the holding in Skinner v. Switz… |
| 18-6397 |
Angel Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated |
| 18-6374 |
William Carl Welsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal |
Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when… |
| 18-6350 |
Zavien Brand v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was compelled to consider the petitioner's subsequent pro se demonstration of actual innocence |
| 18-6332 |
Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding? |
| 18-417 |
W. Scott Harkonen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the … |
| 18-6201 |
Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits |
whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners |
| 18-6146 |
Charles Neuman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 |
Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause |
| 18-6090 |
Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Common Pleas Court abuse their discretion by denying Williams an evidentiary hearing to review the merits of h… |
| 18-380 |
Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review |
Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court |
| 18-6086 |
In Re Daniel Clate Acker |
|
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction |
Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the… |
| 18-6054 |
In Re Michael Boone |
|
2018-09-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process |
Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive-Due-Process, Double-Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe… |
| 18-357 |
Dragomir Taskov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and constitutional violations are barred as untimely due to prosecutorial interference, miscarriag… |
| 18-6033 |
Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence equitable-principles indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners ineffective-assistance post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-interference state-law-limits |
Where there are inherent state law limits placed upon post-conviction counsel and hence indigent petitioners' ability to present his/her substantial p… |
| 18-5950 |
Artis Ryan Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence of … |
| 18-5971 |
Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire |
| 18-5932 |
Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction |
Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction? |
| 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 |
| 18-5867 |
Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review |
Whether the Petitioner has presented a credible claim of actual innocence to warrant reversal of the offenses of carjacking, home-invasion-first-degre… |
| 18-5785 |
In Re Clifford Winkles |
|
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing |
Whether Petitioner Clifford Winkles was improperly denied relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 due to procedural barriers, despite demonstrating actual innoc… |
| 18-5805 |
George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing petitioner's application for Certificate of Appealability as untimely despite petitioner showi… |
| 18-5629 |
Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability? |
| 18-5596 |
George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure |
Was the federal court required to accept petitioner's factual allegations as true when the state court made findings against the petitioner without a … |
| 18-5565 |
Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties |
whether-the-state-writ-of-habeas-corpus-is-valid |
| 18-5499 |
Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred |
Whether a federal court failed to hold an evidentiary hearing on habeas corpus if, among other factors, the petitioner was unable to develop the factu… |
| 18-5507 |
Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing |
Whether the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV-2 (genital herpes) is sufficient … |
| 18-5523 |
Chris Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-evidence false-testimony miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence new-reliable-evidence |
Claim of actual innocence given that the state presented false evidence at trial, namely fraudulent testimony from law enforcement officers |
| 18-5519 |
Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing |
Whether extraordinary circumstances exist that should afford Mr. Templeton equitable tolling of any time limit within which he had to file the underly… |
| 18-5472 |
In Re Alan James Hedrick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred |
Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins permits a state court prisoner to rely on 'actual innocence' as a gateway to pursue constitutional claims that were previ… |
| 18-5392 |
Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in ruling that Mr. Carter's claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 are jurisdictionally barred from consideration because they … |
| 18-5337 |
Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation |
Whether petitioner Shawn Johnson was denied due process and a fair trial due to newly discovered evidence of actual innocence and ineffective assistan… |
| 18-5356 |
Joaquin H. Ciria v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-procedure,fraud,rule-60(b),actual-innocence, fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-mechanism rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition timeliness |
Whether Rule 60(b) is the correct procedure for raising claims of fraud committed upon the court |
| 18-100 |
Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Georgia |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction |
When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state court… |
| 18-5270 |
Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's actual-innocence claim |
| 18-5220 |
Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland |
Does the Due Process Clause guarantee an indigent petitioner the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel during actual innocence proceeding… |
| 18-5215 |
Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and testimony that wou… |
| 18-5206 |
Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing |
Whether a defendant can be actually innocent of a sentence in a non-capital case, whether a prior mistrial renders nugatory all prior proceedings, and… |
| 18-5157 |
In Re Jose Luis Arevalo |
|
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt |
Whether the due process clause was violated by failure to prove every element of money laundering beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-5175 |
In Re Terrence Matthew Brown |
|
2018-07-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence exceptional-circumstances exculpatory-evidence false-information loan-application loan-applications mortgage-brokers mortgage-fraud subprime-lending subprime-mortgage underwriting-regulations underwriting-standards |
Does present case demonstrate that subprime mortgage lenders in early to mid-2000's systematically abandoned underwriting regulations and encouraged l… |
| 18-5176 |
In Re Winex Eugene |
|
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure |
Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement |
| 18-5148 |
Marcus Blalock v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process |
Whether petitioner was denied his right to due process when the trial court failed to follow the law of the case doctrine from a previous appeal, deni… |
| 18-30 |
Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
actual-innocence,coram-nobis,due-process,federal-criminal-procedure,harmless-error,statute-of-limitations |
| 18-5064 |
In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes |
|
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings |
Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus, from this court for a claim of actual innocence with regard to double ex post facto vi… |
| 18-5070 |
Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default |
Whether petitioner's actual innocence claim overcomes the procedural default of his federal habeas claims challenging the constitutionality of his sta… |
| 18-5059 |
David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 24A349 |
Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas |
Texas |
|
Denied |
|
actual-innocence capital-punishment changed-science due-process forensic-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome |
Whether a state court's refusal to review new scientific evidence challenging a capital conviction based on now-discredited forensic theories violates… |
| 25A335 |
In Re Blaine Milam |
|
|
Denied |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a potentially innocent defendant based on now-discredited forensic evidence and testimony |