| 23-7029 |
Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion |
Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 21-5525 |
Thomas Richardson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati… |
| 20-5517 |
Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
Whether due process requires that every statutory element of an aggravating circumstance be proven beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 19-5153 |
Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification |
Whether the trial court should have excluded Carlton Hritsco's identification of Christopher Ramirez |
| 18-8002 |
Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc… |