attorney-abandonment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5364 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied IFP attorney-abandonment fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-motion maples-v-thomas rule-60b-motion Did the Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion by misinterpreting a Rule 60(b) motion as a jurisdictional Rule 4(a) motion, and did the circuit court's de…
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review?
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…
23-5617 Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP abandoned-clients attorney-abandonment capital-punishment civil-procedure court-procedure dilatory-removal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-delay stay-of-execution Whether a District Court can deny a stay of execution when it has been dilatory in removing attorneys who abandoned their clients until a month before…
23A38 Joseph Gamboa v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete AEDPA-statute-of-limitations attorney-abandonment capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion Whether a Rule 60(b) motion alleging abandonment by counsel can attack a defect in the integrity of habeas proceedings and excuse compliance with AEDP…
22-6119 Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-abandonment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b)(6) motion based on the unreasonable application of the constitutional …
21-5275 Alan Gregory Ender v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability attorney-abandonment civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances notice-of-appeal rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) Did the Eleventh Circuit err when not considering attorney abandonment to be an extraordinary circumstance warranting relief from a final judgment pur…
20-5527 Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, was the intent to apply it to Capital cases only for purposes of Attorney …
19-7540 Random Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 attorney-abandonment attorney-neglect confrontation-clause due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-proceedings reasonable-diligence state-postconviction Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling
18-1087 Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could find…
18-6718 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-abandonment due-process excusable-neglect pro-se pro-se-defendant rule-4(b) rule-4b sixth-amendment Whether the Appellate Court violated Mr. Edwards' Sixth Amendment due-process rights and Supreme Court precedent by strictly applying Rule 4(b) where …