| 25A867 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
|
alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a new trial when the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence identifying an alternative suspect pri… |
| 25-6660 |
Demetrius Franklin v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial |
Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) so clearly misapply Buck's standard for granting a COA as to call for r… |
| 25-866 |
Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright |
Michigan |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct |
Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence violates a litigant's due-process rights under Brady v. Maryland and Moone… |
| 25-862 |
Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation capital-murder due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review |
Where the Petitioner, the State, and the habeas court all agree that a conviction is unconstitutional and must be reversed, does it violate due proces… |
| 25-838 |
Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly reversed a district court's denial of qualified immunity by relying on potentially false or suppressed evidenc… |
| 25-841 |
Henry Troy Wade v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indictme… |
| 25-816 |
Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether defendants raising Brady violations that can show the government suppressed evidence are entitled to production of that evidence in discovery … |
| 25-6496 |
Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pinholster-exception |
Does the Cullen v. Pinholster decision permit an exception for federal courts to consider newly developed evidence when state court representation was… |
| 25A761 |
Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-02 |
Application |
|
brady-violation constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state appellate court to provide reasoned explanation when rejecting a lower court's favorable fact-findings… |
| 25A750 |
Joseph Allen Maldonado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Application |
|
brady-violation criminal-procedure invited-error post-conviction-relief recantation rule-33 |
Whether an appellate court may invoke the invited error doctrine to preclude substantive review of a trial court's application of a novel legal standa… |
| 25-6257 |
Eric L. Ramos v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial supreme-court-review |
Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important federal question regarding disclosure of evidence at trial in violation of constitutional … |
| 25A625 |
Louisiana, ex rel. Darrell J. Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
|
brady-violation exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review |
Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose impeachment and exculpatory evidence constituted a Brady violation that prejudicially undermined the fai… |
| 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 Douglas Krusley qualifies for equitable tolling due to prison lockdowns and inability to access legal resources when filing a federal habeas c… |
| 25-5997 |
Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment judicial-bias napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Should the Court grant a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct involving knowingly false witness testimony and hidden benefits in a capital murd… |
| 25-516 |
Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Pending |
|
aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether AEDPA deference is unconstitutional under Loper Bright and whether a defendant must discredit evidence admitted due to constitutional errors t… |
| 25-5940 |
Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence deprived Powers of his right to a fair trial in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 25-5919 |
Kevin Griffin v. New York |
New York |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant |
Did the State Courts violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights by knowingly using false testimony, suppressing Brady material, and … |
| 25A455 |
Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Application |
|
badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop |
Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits racially discriminatory traffic enforcement as a modern badge or incident of slavery |
| 25-5864 |
Rodney E. Barnett v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-writ brady-violation confrontation-rights due-process ends-of-justice witness-perjury |
Does the 'ends of justice' doctrine warrant abuse of writ defense by state, and did the state violate Brady and defendant's due process rights in the … |
| 25-423 |
Daniel Jon Fouliard v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bail-jumping brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech |
Whether prosecutors violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by prosecuting protected forms of non-violent free speech as felonies, and whether… |
| 25-378 |
Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Is a police officer liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for nondisclosure of material exculpatory evidence and for violating fair trial rights through sugge… |
| 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 |
Whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting constitutional errors under Brady and Napue and depriving the jury of critical evide… |
| 25-237 |
Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment |
Whether the State's failure to disclose a centerpiece witness's psychiatric hospital admission constitutes a Brady violation warranting relief under d… |
| 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 |
Did Coggins' Public Defender's joint defense agreement without his knowledge constitute ineffective assistance of counsel, potentially leaving him wit… |
| 25-5428 |
Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a defendant can obtain exculpatory evidence withheld by prosecutors and challenge due process violations through habeas corpus when potentiall… |
| 25-5300 |
In Re Onofre Serrano |
|
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression ninth-circuit probable-cause |
Whether the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily concluded that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right, and whethe… |
| 25A160 |
Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder dna-evidence due-process prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the prosecution's suppression of exculpatory DNA evidence and alternative suspect information violated the defendant's due process rights unde… |
| 25-5191 |
Steven Edward Stein v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's determination that 'equally accessible' evidence has not been suppressed by the State is contrary to Brady and its… |
| 25-5183 |
Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation dna-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence |
Whether DNA evidence that is not conclusively exculpatory but potentially undermines the prosecution's case constitutes a Brady violation requiring re… |
| 25-51 |
Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Granted |
Relisted (11) |
aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review |
Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of 'nuance' and 'exhausti… |
| 25-5097 |
Michael Bell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Giglio in his initial § 2254 motion, should a second-in-time mot… |
| 25-5070 |
Kedrick Johnson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-disclosure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing legal-disclosure witness-testimony |
Did the State violate Brady v. Maryland when it failed to disclose a June 8, 2010, supplemental police report that would have made key witness Stephen… |
| 25-5045 |
Raymond Dean Ordoukhanian v. Leah Wommack Chaney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-immunity |
Whether prosecutors who intentionally alter facts and evidence with bad faith should be immune from legal consequences when exculpatory evidence is di… |
| 25-1 |
James Skinner v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-07-01 |
Pending |
Amici (7)Relisted (5) |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-precedent post-conviction-relief |
Did Louisiana courts err in refusing to apply Wearry to Mr. Skinner's Brady claims? |
| 24-7495 |
Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurred when discovery was not properly provided and multiple constitutional rights were allegedly violated |
| 24-7496 |
Allen Odell Woods v. Keithe Turner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment |
Whether counsel's performance was constitutionally deficient in failing to raise Brady claims, locate key witnesses, impeach state witnesses, and chal… |
| 24-7397 |
John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-murder diligence-standard evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering evidence inadmissible despite prosecutorial suppression under Brady v. Maryland, and whether… |
| 24-7401 |
Alvaro Quezada v. James Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim state-court-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a COA here so clearly misapply Glossip's mandate regarding Napue and Buck's modest standard for granting a C… |
| 24-7395 |
In Re Isaac Gray |
|
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel |
Did the State court err in denying trial counsel's effectiveness in multiple instances, including challenging peremptory challenges, filing sentence m… |
| 24-7368 |
In Re Anthony Floyd Wainwright |
|
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state court's Brady analysis violated due process by improperly relieving the State of its obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence fro… |
| 24-7365 |
Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent misapprehension of Brady v. Maryland and its progeny deprives Mr. Wainwright of due process rights, and… |
| 24-7036 |
Jose Padilla-Galarza v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard |
Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the First Circuit conflicts with Slack v. McDaniel and involves substantial constitution… |
| 24-7031 |
Christopher William Kuehner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation evidence-sufficiency in-concert-element predicate-offenses subpoena-disclosure user-profile-access |
Is the failure to disclose exculpatory subpoena returns until post-trial a Brady violation warranting conviction vacatur; does the 'in concert' elemen… |
| 24-6910 |
In Re Edward Greeman |
|
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus speedy-trial warrantless-arrest |
Whether the warrantless arrest violated due process and if arresting officers had jurisdiction, whether exculpatory evidence was withheld from the Gra… |
| 24-6704 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper standard for Brady claims by requiring proof of state possession of evidence and mater… |
| 24-6566 |
Felix O. Brown, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process jury-communication state-suppression |
Can newly discovered material evidence revealing an unauthorized communication with a deliberating jury violate a defendant's constitutional rights an… |
| 24-6494 |
Brandon Green v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-stop-and-frisk due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Second Circuit's affirmation of Mr. Green's conviction, despite overwhelming evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, violates due process an… |
| 24-6455 |
Ernest Murphy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit |
Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's 'favorable' definition that is incongruent with well-established Const… |
| 24-6365 |
Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-tort court-order-disobedience due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the 5th Circuit and District Court committed reversible error by not considering the prejudice suffered from the causal link of disobedience b… |
| 24-6273 |
Darren R. Reiner v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-discretion probable-cause |
Whether a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge abused judicial discretion by preventing defense counsel from alleging potential evidence withholding and whet… |
| 24-6275 |
Johnny Hamilton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-protection due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-emergency reckless-conduct |
Does Georgia's reckless conduct statute provide adequate notice of prohibited conduct and raise constitutional concerns under due process and Brady v.… |
| 24-6150 |
Reginold Cavoy Steed v. Johnny Fitz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure electronic-docket judicial-review post-conviction presentence-report |
Does the omission of the presentence report from the Criminal Court's electronic docket constitute a Brady violation? |
| 24-6032 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-findings witness-cooperation |
Does the decision below, which misstates and fails to afford any presumption of correctness to a state court's factual findings in a habeas case, warr… |
| 24-5990 |
Darius Rush v. James Corrigan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression trial-counsel |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated when trial counsel failed to challenge potentially coerced evidence and suppressed … |
| 24A464 |
Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a new trial or resentencing where the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence … |
| 24A465 |
Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose potentially exculpatory text messages and cellphone evidence constitutes a Brady violation when the evidenc… |
| 24-5935 |
Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest |
Whether the warrantless arrest violated due process and whether exculpatory evidence was withheld from the Grand Jury |
| 24-496 |
William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Did Wyoming state courts misapply the Brady v. Maryland rule by concluding that the prosecution's withholding of material exculpatory evidence did not… |
| 24-5807 |
Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State's failure to disclose impeachment evidence constitutes cause sufficient to excuse the petitioner's prior non-presentation of due pro… |
| 24-5791 |
Paul David Storey v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
brady-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State's suppression of favorable evidence and presentation of false arguments at a death penalty case's penalty phase violates due process… |
| 24-5662 |
In Re Noel Brown |
|
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus |
Whether the intentional withholding of exculpatory evidence by prosecution and failure to allow cross-examination of an arresting officer constitutes … |
| 24-5424 |
Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Oklahoma |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State of Oklahoma violated due process by suppressing material exculpatory evidence and retroactively applying an expanded judicial interp… |
| 24-5427 |
Michael Stapleton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation circuit-split constitutional-violation double-jeopardy indictment-defect sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the district court violated constitutional rights by denying relief on indictment charges, charging the same crime across multiple indictments… |
| 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? |
| 24-5217 |
Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the Third Circuit's Brady materiality test—under which suppressed evidence is immaterial if it contradicts the prosecution's trial evidence—co… |
| 23-7813 |
John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 23-7794 |
Michael T. Washington v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-assistance |
Is state-attorney-undisclosed-substantial-assistance-motion-newly-discovered-evidence-resulting-in-brady-violation |
| 23-7771 |
Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court |
Is the Idaho state court in violation of the Brady-v-maryland rule by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing the th… |
| 23-7736 |
Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination |
When the existence of at least an informal, tacit, or unspoken deal between the prosecutor and his star informant-witness in a capital trial is self-e… |
| 23-7722 |
Christopher Harry West v. Brian Emig, Warden |
Delaware |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation carter-v-illinois constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harrington-v-richter post-conviction post-conviction-review second-challenges state-law-procedural-requirement suppression-requirement |
due-process-violation |
| 23-7699 |
Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment |
Whether evidence of an uncharged crime can be used as direct evidence |
| 23-7669 |
Anthony Bender, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency police-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-sentence witness-testimony |
whether-the-government's-failure-to-disclose-the-dash-camera-video-constituted-a-brady-violation |
| 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… |
| 23-7590 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus miller-el-standard plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion |
Where reasonable jurists could debate whether a petitioner is entitled to Rule 60 relief where the State has concealed evidence |
| 23-7563 |
Sanford Benjamin Gloster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brady-doctrine brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process giglio-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Does the admission of false evidence constitute Giglio/Brady violations under Due Process Clause |
| 23-7424 |
Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions |
Whether an unreasoned blanket denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 and Supreme Court precedents |
| 23-7379 |
Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the lower court erred in denying COA on the claim of prosecutorial misconduct |
| 23A983 |
Robert Brumfield, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
acquitted-conduct brady-violation criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from enhancing a criminal defendant's sentence based on acquitted conduct that could c… |
| 23-7286 |
Francis Arthur v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment |
| 23-1044 |
Juan Balderas v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' summary dismissal of Juan Balderas's subsequent habeas petition violated due process |
| 23-7008 |
Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights |
Was Martin entitled to production of documents, did a Brady violation occur when favorable material evidence was withheld/discarded, was Martin entitl… |
| 23-1013 |
Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
|
brady-violation brady-violations drug-trafficking invited-error invited-error-doctrine jury-instructions napue-violation napue-violations ruan-v-united-states section-841 state-of-mind |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the petitioners' drug distribution conviction despite the conflict with Ruan v. United States |
| 23-6982 |
Paulius Telamy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression favorable-evidence postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence |
Whether, under Brady v. Maryland, the prosecution suppressed favorable evidence |
| 23-6864 |
In Re Solomon Roberts |
|
2024-02-29 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance parole-revocation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a hearing before revoking probation |
| 23-6822 |
Robert P. Brozenick v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule brady-violation deprivation-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-advocacy judicial-misconduct maleng-v-cook strickland-v-washington wrongful-conviction |
Would this honorable court allow any caselaw that would irresponsibly assists in the wrongful conviction of any U.S.Citizen convicted by Judicial advo… |
| 23-6777 |
Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application |
Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case? |
| 23-6436 |
Luis Manso v. Patricia McGill, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation court-of-appeals evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington strong-evidence |
Does Strickland-v-Washington allow the Court-of-Appeals to dismiss the defendant's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on strong-evidence of… |
| 23-680 |
In Re Frander Salguero |
|
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-duty due-process false-evidence judicial-power mandamus mandamus-petition napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether mandamus should compel the prosecutor to fulfill his constitutional duty and correct the known false record |
| 23-6257 |
Randall Scott Jordan v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady brady-violation criminal-history due-process impeachment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility witness-impeachment |
Did the prosecution's suppression or withholding of state's key witness' prior violent criminal history that was favorable to accused for impeachment … |
| 23-610 |
Frander Salguero v. California |
California |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedures material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding |
| 23-6023 |
David Sattazahn v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation due-process giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-bagley witness-bias witness-inducement |
Whether prosecutors must disclose inducements provided to witnesses, even in the absence of an agreement with express terms |
| 23-5994 |
James Jordan McClain v. Tammy Campbell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation equitable-tolling first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder self-defense voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that extraordinary circumstances for equitable tolling must make earlier filing 'impossible' |
| 23-5861 |
Joseph Pierre v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right |
Whether the Courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this court |
| 23-5750 |
Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court |
Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective-assistance-of-counsel issues were defaulted conflict with precedents |
| 23-5586 |
Nestor Leon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure document-submission due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-dismissal petition-process standing subpoena-duces-tecum |
Did the Eleventh Circuit clerk err in dismissing the petitioner's case after the petitioner provided all requested documents? |
| 23-119 |
Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-criminal-distinction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process speeding-infraction speeding-infractions state-power |
Whether a state may deprive a citizen of his right to due process and ignore this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) by treating … |
| 23-5300 |
Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 23-5225 |
Leonard Sapp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court due-process fair-trial government-misconduct imminent-danger |
Was Leonard Sapp afforded a fair trial when the Government shifted the burden of proof to the Defense during trial? |
| 23A63 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
|
brady-violation due-process-clause habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence |
Whether a state court's denial of a Brady claim alleging prosecutorial suppression of material impeachment evidence, without explanation or argument, … |
| 23-5147 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-to-disclose criminal-procedure critical-state's-witnesses due-process impeachment-evidence local-prosecutor's-office material-impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Is the continuing duty to disclose material impeachment evidence regarding critical state's witnesses pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963… |
| 23-5109 |
Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility |
Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the proper materiality standard under Brady v. Maryland |
| 23-5013 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
brady brady-violation civil-rule-60b due-process evidence evidence-suppression indigent-defendant new-trial new-trial-motion possession suppression |
Whether a Brady violation requires suppression to be dependent upon possession |
| 22-7739 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process firearms-statute jurisdiction speedy-trial standing tenth-amendment witness-impeachment |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) constitutional and was Tenth Amendment jurisdiction maintained for firearms alleged in this case? |
| 22-1185 |
Anthony James Scott v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mistrial mistrial-request prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Carroll County Superior Court and the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia err when they held that the Carroll County District Attorney's … |
| 22-7681 |
Jason Harriman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
whether-the-government-violated-constitutional-rights |
| 22-7671 |
Eduardo Catarino Palacios v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation chain-of-custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure |
Was the prosecutor allowed to override the habeas court's findings of fact and conclusions of law? |
| 22-1142 |
Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the trial court err in holding the Prosecution did not have possession of the 'it was placed' note ultimately produced by the FBI? |
| 22-7457 |
Bruce Allen Buckner v. Daniel Porter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-stay constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice stay |
Does a stay in one civil proceeding pending the outcome of a criminal case extend to all other civil proceedings stemming from the same criminal case? |
| 22-7466 |
Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-05-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18)Relisted (12)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-punishment due-process evidence-suppression false-testimony kyles-v-whitley materiality napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
whether-the-state's-suppression-of-the-key-prosecution-witness's-admission-he-was-under-the-care-of-a-psychiatrist-and-failure-to-correct-that-witness… |
| 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… |
| 22-7337 |
Toforest Onesha Johnson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-murder death-penalty post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct reward-payment suppressed-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the State suppress evidence under Brady in the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case? |
| 22-981 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-of-access right-of-access-to-court |
Whether the court of appeals erred and violated petitioner's due process right |
| 22-7156 |
James Anthony Rogers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the prosecutor's conduct in this case violated the petitioner's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-6984 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure diligence-requirement due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-diligence procedurally-unrelated-case prosecutorial-disclosure unpublished-case |
Whether a defendant must show that his attorney could not have obtained undisclosed exculpatory evidence through diligence |
| 22-798 |
William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-material prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether the prosecutor's failure to disclose a promise of non-prosecution to eyewitness testimony violates the Brady rule |
| 22-781 |
Fabio Ochoa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effect brady-violation conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process giglio-material ineffective-assistance multiple-counsel plea-negotiations |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's categorical rule barring a showing of adverse effect in the multiple-counsel context adequately protects defendants fro… |
| 22-6779 |
Jong Sung Kim v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule brady-violation de-novo-review due-process fifth-amendment giglio-rule giglio-violation sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether due process and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require circuit courts to review Brady and Giglio violation claims de novo, rather than for an … |
| 22-6735 |
Echo Dixon v. New York |
New York |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-exercise habeas-corpus misnomer |
Whether the People of the State of New York interfered with Petitioner's first and fourteenth amendment free exercise rights |
| 22-6741 |
Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct self-help |
Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed evidence through own efforts to establish Brady violation |
| 22-6670 |
Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment |
| 22-6623 |
Jarmell Raymond Mayweather v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-violation informant-falsification prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant |
Whether the government omission of evidence that was contrast affiant's Search Warrant Application (SWA) statements constituted a Brady and Franks vio… |
| 22-686 |
Crosley Alexander Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
admissibility AEDPA brady-v-maryland brady-violation comity constitutional-exhaustion federal-appellate-review federalism habeas-corpus prosecutorial-disclosure state-court-deference state-court-factfinding |
Whether a federal habeas court can redefine a state court claim to conclude it was not properly exhausted |
| 22-6609 |
James D. Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right by denying petitioners 28 USC § 2255 motion to vacate… |
| 22-632 |
Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming im… |
| 22-6494 |
Jesse Welch v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-3.850 |
Should the petitioner be held responsible for counsel's error and prevented from presenting newly discovered evidence for review, that very well could… |
| 22-6500 |
Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-01-09 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2)Relisted (21)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty ve… |
| 22-6476 |
Robert Fratta v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard selective-disclosure state-procedural-ground texas-code-criminal-procedure |
Whether § 5(a)(1) is an adequate and independent state procedural ground to bar review of a Brady claim |
| 22-6463 |
Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction brady-violation certificate-of-appealability district-court-jurisdiction due-process eighth-circuit-court exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel title-28-usc-2253 title-28-usc-2255 |
Jurisdiction-to-address-non-adjudicated-claims |
| 22-6304 |
Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel |
Was petitioner in custody when interrogated? |
| 22-519 |
Shawn Rogers Malloy v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-remedy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-nobles |
Does the prosecution's retention of, failure to quarantine, and failure to disclose possession of a criminal defendant's legal strategy notes, prepare… |
| 22-6183 |
James Bauhaus v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-md brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial false-conviction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review |
Does congress illegally nullify the Due Process amendment and the Fair Trial Guarantee of the Supreme Law of this Land |
| 22-6136 |
Juan Martin Figueroa v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation compulsory-process due-process ethical-standards fair-trial habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
whether-the-prosecutor-deprived-figueroa-of-due-process-compulsory-process-and-a-fair-trial |
| 22-6055 |
Murray Hooper v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state has a duty to provide a defendant access to admitted exculpatory evidence |
| 22-6061 |
Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effect, an automatic means of excusing unconstitutional law enfor… |
| 22-422 |
Kendall Streb v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion brady-violation civil-procedure criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-concealment government-misconduct hearing prosecutorial-misconduct witness-payments |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a hearing into the government's alleged discovery violations |
| 22-5796 |
James Edward Rose v. South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-citizen standing ucc-1-308 |
Whether the petitioner's reserved rights under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and status as a 'private man' exempt him from criminal prosecution an… |
| 22-5763 |
Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment due to a Brady violation |
| 22-5678 |
Eugene Roberts v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment giglio-violation internal-affairs internal-affairs-report right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Virgin Islands Supreme Court violated Appellant's constitutional right to due process and right to counsel |
| 22-5635 |
Vladimir Vladimirovic Brik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process federal-procedure gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance material-evidence second-petition successive-petition |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the dismissal of petitioner's material Brady claim as 'second or successive' under §2255(h) |
| 22-5560 |
Tyrone Learone McCurdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process perjury prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial witness-tampering witness-testimony |
Has the prosecutor suborned perjury? |
| 22-5495 |
Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's denial of petitioner's delayed application for leave to appeal was contrary to the well-established law in People… |
| 22-186 |
Troy Mansfield v. Williamson County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
brady-violation brady-vs-maryland circuit-split criminal-justice due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the due process right recognized in Brady requires the disclosure of exculpatory evidence (or at the very least, evidence of factual innocence… |
| 22-5473 |
Nuzzio Begaren v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-informant disclosure-requirements due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Orange County District Attorney's Unlawful Scheme to Secretly Use and Failure to Disclose a Criminal Informant Violated Brady? |
| 22-5319 |
Gary Lee Rollins v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process immunity-agreement napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Does a court commit prejudicial error under Brady v. Maryland and Napue v. Illinois when it makes erroneous factual findings and unreasonable legal co… |
| 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 |
| 22-5195 |
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 |
| 22-5193 |
Shaidon Blake v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard |
Did the courts err in their interpretation and application of Strickland v. Washington in petitioner's case, failing to find ineffective assistance of… |
| 22-5164 |
Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Appeals Court ruling deprived petitioner of his right under Brady v. Maryland, where the Government had violated its obligation to turn ov… |
| 22-5048 |
George A. Pilola v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpation fingerprint fingerprint-evidence napue-v-illinois napue-violation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Should CERTIORARI be granted to review the failure of the prosecution to turn over fingerprint evidence and the untruthfulness of the detective and pr… |
| 21-8264 |
Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling |
| 21-8085 |
Frank Jarvis Atwood v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory-evidence materiality-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability |
Did the State withhold material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland? |
| 21-8045 |
Marcellus Overton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea materiality materiality-standard plea-withdrawal reasonable-defendant rule-11 united-states-v-dominguez-benitez |
When a defendant seeks to withdraw his or her guilty plea based upon the Government's failure to timely disclose exculpatory evidence, is the 'materia… |
| 21-8016 |
John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement |
Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma… |
| 21-7978 |
Patrick Clay Kunkel v. California |
California |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation confrontation-clause double-jeopardy due-process newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Where petitioner received a conviction for premeditated attempted murder and attempted manslaughter of two individuals, were such that petitioner was … |
| 21-7925 |
Robert Wallace Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability |
| 21-1428 |
Donald L. Blankenship v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help |
Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed, exculpatory evidence through independent efforts to establish a Brady violation |
| 21-7780 |
Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California |
California |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability |
Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose exculpatory and impeachment evidence related to a police officer's prior criminal conduct violates the defe… |
| 21-7718 |
Mark A. Winger v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process materiality materiality-standard perjury post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-agurs witness-perjury |
Whether a State prisoner's post-conviction petition claim of a Brady violation alleging perjury by a State's witness at trial, whose false testimony p… |
| 21-7732 |
Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest |
Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation |
| 21-7605 |
Lwane A. Mansell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in denying claim one of the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 as procedurally barred |
| 21-7551 |
In Re Mark Jendrzejewski |
|
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-withholding false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Due-process-violation-by-prosecutor |
| 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… |
| 21-7016 |
Tony Gonzalez v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion brady-violation cellphone-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jury-selection jury-venire motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment standing |
Did the trial Justice err, when the Jury Venire challenge, had been inappropriately addressed, concerning a proper sixth Amendment challenge? And Tria… |
| 21-7009 |
Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictiveness |
Whether a defendant who demonstrates that a prosecutor willfully injected into a plea colloquy a more serious and concealed criminal charge based on t… |
| 21-1038 |
John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing |
Whether the video evidence of criminal and constitutional violations by law enforcement was improperly suppressed |
| 21-6864 |
Dennis Devone Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation crim-r-33-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-petition res-judicata |
Whether a petitioner who files a post-conviction petition asserting ineffective assistance of counsel is barred by res judicata from raising similar a… |
| 21-6804 |
Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl… |
| 21-6519 |
Jesse Driskill v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations constitutional-claims constitutional-review due-process evidence-destruction factual-findings independent-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether Missouri's verbatim adoption of the prosecution's factually deficient findings without independent review fails to provide adequate due proces… |
| 21-6475 |
Mark Hollingsworth v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony jury-argument napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial |
Did the Maryland State Courts err in finding that the Prosecutor did not violate Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959) when the Prosecutor argued to … |
| 21-6472 |
Anthony Mungin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process exculpatory-evidence postconviction-motion postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Can Florida, consistent with Due Process and Brady v. Maryland, condone the prosecution's withholding of material exculpatory evidence beyond the time… |
| 21-6411 |
Harley David Sharp v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Is a Brady Violation claim procedurally barred from Federal review? |
| 21-762 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-violation criminal-prosecution good-faith-defense medical-practitioner medical-practitioners misbranding pharmacist prescription prescription-validity scope-of-practice |
Mens rea-requirement-for-misbranding |
| 21-6326 |
Farand Skinner v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review |
Did the Kentucky Supreme Court violate Mr. Skinner's rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and issue a decision contrary … |
| 21-5917 |
Darius Murphy v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-deference state-court-procedure statutory-deference |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied 28-U.S.C-2254(d) |
| 21-5897 |
Shahram Shakouri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense state-law state-law-interpretation |
whether-unknowing-use-of-false-testimony-violates-due-process |
| 21-5733 |
Eric Westry v. Victor Leon |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical-assault, threatening-behavior, physical-resistance, false-na… |
| 21-349 |
Kent Eric LeBere v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-claim brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction |
Whether the lower courts should fully decide whether the state knew or should have known that the testimony about Mr. LeBere's 'confession' was false |
| 21-282 |
Brian Russell Turner v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arizona-v-youngblood body-camera-footage brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-standard |
Whether the Supreme Court of Mississippi Erred in Denying Petitioner's Claim that the Prosecution Withheld Exculpatory Evidence Pursuant to Brady v. M… |
| 21-5339 |
Joseph Miller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant-evidence slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising claims of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal … |
| 21-5311 |
Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Does a District Court Judge have the power and/or right to ignore an order of suspension of all persistent felony enhancements? |
| 21-5316 |
In Re Taryn Christian |
|
2021-08-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
autonomy brady-v-maryland brady-violation counsel-strategy habeas-corpus mandamus mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment strickland |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to autonomy over the objective of one's defense, as recognized in McCoy v. Louisiana, applies retroactively on colla… |
| 21-151 |
Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (16) |
brady-violation burden-of-proof due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state courts disregarded Supreme Court precedent by requiring the petitioner to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the prosecut… |
| 21-5102 |
Jaime Meza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence |
Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to determine materiality |
| 21-20 |
Jack Albert Chappell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-handling fair-trial government-witness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether prosecutorial misconduct and mishandling of evidence constitutes a Brady violation when the government failed to disclose critical information… |
| 21-5035 |
Ronald Pyles v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Ohio |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation civil-rights due-process ethical-standards ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal witness-testimony |
Question not identified |
| 20-1783 |
Jacob Christine v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
and an ex-post-facto violation jury instruction errors ada-pleading-5th bagley-exception brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process jury-instruction pcra-hearing pinholster self-defense unavailable-declarant |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability or grant reargument in the instant matter |
| 20-8279 |
Kirk Cottom v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation computer-logs due-process expert-evidence fabrication falsification indictment ineffective-assistance perjured-testimony perjury |
Is it a due process violation for the government to obtain an indictment based on perjured testimony about fabricated and falsified computer logs? |
| 20-8262 |
Francisco Hilt and Sean Alexander v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process entrapment firearms-possession impeachment-evidence informant-disclosure sting-operation |
Does the government's suppression of an informant's identity and impeachment evidence in a sting operation violate Rovario v. United States, Smith v. … |
| 20-8216 |
Justin Michael Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction for carjacking and possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence when t… |
| 20-8173 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling government-misconduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity standing |
Whether the Government sought to diminish the likelihood of Petitioner's finding of a Brady violation, by interjected a manufactured declaration to mi… |
| 20-8129 |
Joseph Miller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den… |
| 20-8090 |
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… |
| 20-1608 |
North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best |
North Carolina |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
|
alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review |
Does an appellate court violate the core principles of Brady in post-conviction review |
| 20-8029 |
Steven D. Warren, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-application |
Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the … |
| 20-8001 |
In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. |
|
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
Whether Mr. Pizzuto is entitled to habeas relief or an extraordinary writ due to the State's suppression of evidence and presentation of false testimo… |
| 20-8004 |
L. M. C. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cause-of-death child-endangerment due-process expert-testimony failure-to-provide-necessities judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal murder murder-of-a-child w-va-code-61-8d-2a |
Is it a violation of due process for a trial court to deny a motion for judgment of acquittal when there is no proof of cause of death in a prosecutio… |
| 20-7985 |
Taji Jemal Lee v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process were violated by the prosecution's knowing concealment of material exculpatory e… |
| 20-7928 |
Brandon Robinson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-proceedings brady-violation discovery-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-record |
Was counsel ineffective under Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present a Martinez claim in the petitioner's appellate proceedings? |
| 20-7894 |
Winston A. McKenzie v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering material-exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-proceeding standing |
Whether Petitioners conviction is invalid when the evidence presented was legally insufficient to sustain a conviction |
| 20-7850 |
Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington |
Whether the state courts denied due process, equal protection, and access to courts by misapplying Brady v. Maryland, Napue v. Illinois, and Stricklan… |
| 20-7759 |
Roderick Williams v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-relief |
Whether the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence results in a Brady violation warranting the grant of habeas relief? |
| 20-7674 |
Kuantau Reeder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Whether the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal failed to correctly apply clearly established federal law as announced by this Court when it held… |
| 20-7611 |
Jamar Garrison v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit |
should-a-writ-of-certiorari-issue-to-review-the-brady-and-rule-16-due-process-violations |
| 20-7574 |
Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Rymer's state trial violated his right to effective assistance of counsel and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-7536 |
Timothy L. Coleman v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-habeas capital-punishment confessed-murderer due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase right-to-appeal right-to-due-process |
Whether a federal appellate court violates a capital habeas petitioner's rights by refusing to consider additional arguments and authorities in suppor… |
| 20-7397 |
William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur… |
| 20-7254 |
Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedent in concluding that petitioner's Brady-claim failed for lack of prejudice |
| 20-7195 |
Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence |
Whether the petitioner's convictions were obtained in violation of due process |
| 20-7039 |
Thomas Patrick Keelan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-impeachment giglio-rule homosexuality jencks-act new-evidence perjured-testimony |
Does an overview of facts collected at trial, sentencing, restitution, direct and collateral review, (and from startling new evidence), which exposes … |
| 20-6984 |
Ralph Frank Esposito, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression structural-error witness-testimony |
Whether the State of Arizona violated the Defendant's rights to due process under the 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution and under specif… |
| 20-6939 |
Thomas Nevius v. Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 20-6890 |
Chong Leng Lee v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-rights brady-violation court-reporter-act criminal-procedure dismissal due-process evidence-destruction fair-trial transcripts |
Is dismissal available to remedy a Brady violation and did Chong establish a Brady violation that warrants dismissal? |
| 20-6725 |
Larry Durant v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6663 |
Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York |
New York |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti… |
| 20-6570 |
Brandon Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti… |
| 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? |
| 20-736 |
Adam Frasch v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to determine if a violation has occurred pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83… |
| 20-686 |
Michael Shock v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions |
| 20-652 |
George Georgiou v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability counsel-waiver due-process napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct rule-8c witness-testimony |
Whether the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability should be reversed and remanded |
| 20-630 |
Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct |
Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state … |
| 20-6250 |
Kyle A. Box v. New York |
New York |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence favorable to the defense violates due process |
| 20-6163 |
Angelique Bankston v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement material-omissions professional-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the government fabricated probable cause and made material omissions in the affidavit, violating the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-547 |
Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states |
Whether the First Circuit applied a novel, harsher standard for issuing a certificate of appealability, denying due process and effective assistance o… |
| 20-5956 |
Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the… |
| 20-5830 |
Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims |
| 20-5635 |
Daniel Thomason Smith v. Warden, FCI Beaumont |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
allocution brady-violation conflict-of-interest due-process exculpatory-evidence false-witness identity-theft judicial-misconduct medicare-fraud mens-rea savings-clause |
Question not identified |
| 20-5354 |
Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio-and-Brady-violations |
| 20-5360 |
Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Should newly discovered Brady/Napue evidence be considered by federal courts or returned to state court? |
| 20-156 |
Kevin Edward Connors v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
brady-v-maryland brady-violation cold-record credibility-determinations due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
whether-due-process-prohibits-superior-court-from-rejecting-inferior-court's-fact-findings-based-on-credibility |
| 20-5318 |
Dimitri Rozenman v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bad-faith brady-violation disclosure-requirement due-process evidence-preservation tampering youngblood-standard |
Whether the U.S.D.C. erred in its finding that, in order to obtain relief under Arizona v. Youngblood, Petitioner needs to prove either that evidence … |
| 20-5221 |
Arthur James Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-trial criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-test trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present evidence that significantly undermines the State's case is deficient performance that resul… |
| 20-5159 |
Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment |
Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 20-5124 |
Allen Fitzgerald Calton v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion materiality petition-review |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abused its discretion and erred in denying Petitioner's State Application For Writ Of Habeas Corpus on the… |
| 20-5125 |
In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton |
|
2020-07-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus |
Whether the resolution of petitioner's Brady violation claim by the state courts resulted in a decision that was contrary to or involved an unreasonab… |
| 20-5035 |
Octavius McLendon and Henry Lee Bryant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brady-violation constitutional-infirmity joint-trial new-trial-relief principal-conviction |
Where a Brady violation has rendered constitutionally infirm the conviction of a defendant who was alleged to be the principal in the commission of an… |
| 20-5086 |
Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis exculpatory-evidence giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-test trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence, which significantly undermines the State's evidence is deficient perf… |
| 20-5065 |
Brett A. Bogle v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-punishment due-process false-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation impeachment microscopic-hair-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence |
Whether the prosecution violates Giglio v. United States and/or Brady v. Maryland |
| 19-8701 |
Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition |
Whether the State of South Carolina commits a final byte power against the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a second or successive habeas … |
| 19-8643 |
Wallace Eugene Evatt, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the judge and prosecutor failed to disclose evidence related to the victim's suicidal tendencies and prior suicide attempts, in violation of B… |
| 19-8581 |
Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Should federal courts provide uniform guidance in analyzing harm from unconstitutionally obtained confessions in death penalty cases? |
| 19-8577 |
Shane Roscoe v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation confrontation-right confrontation-rights due-process forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay hearsay-statements ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of due process is violated when the prosecution withholds impeaching evidence |
| 19-8533 |
Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Megan Anne Chambers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 standing |
Whether the petitioner can seek relief under 42 USC §1983, 1985, or 1986 for alleged conspiracy to withhold exculpatory evidence |
| 19-8516 |
Craig Mrazek v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
automatic-reversal brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court's denial of petitioner's assertion of a Brady claim, specifically per se conflict, violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee to reasona… |
| 19-8439 |
Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation catch-me-if-you-can criminal-procedure due-process kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality-standard new-trial-motion perjury rule-33 trial-perjury |
Brady-violations |
| 19-8392 |
Juan Balderas v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-procedures |
In a death penalty case, where a state provides a post-conviction procedure for challenging the unresolved constitutional violations that occurred at … |
| 19-8326 |
Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability |
When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply … |
| 19-8301 |
Stephen J. Mocco v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability sixth-amendment slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel townsend-hearing townsend-v-sain |
Whether the standard announced in Slack v. McDaniel compels issuance of a certificate of appealability where prima facie evidence demonstrating a Sixt… |
| 19-8278 |
In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence |
|
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,… |
| 19-8267 |
Jon Cascella v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony |
Whether permitting a blanket claim of Fifth Amendment privilege and total exclusion of a confidential informant's testimony without independent inquir… |
| 19-8222 |
Steven Mason v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance |
Whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's late disclosure of exculpatory and impeaching information did not prejudice the defend… |
| 19-8168 |
Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation court-procedure due-process fabricated-facts first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition judicial-misconduct libel-and-defamation newly-discovered-evidence redress-of-grievances right-to-petition slander |
Whether Justise has a right to have the facts and issues he presents to a court for redress actually addressed, and what remedy he has if this right i… |
| 19-8110 |
DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground |
Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Independent or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's claim of prosecutorial… |
| 19-1159 |
Michael Bouchard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment |
Whether the 2009 amended version of 18 U.S.C. §1014 was retroactively applied in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 19-8064 |
Rubin Rurie Weeks v. Stan Payne, Warden, et al. |
Missouri |
2020-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process forcible-rape habeas-corpus kidnapping prosecutorial-misconduct void-judgment |
Due-process,forcible-rape,kidnapping,brady-violation,dna-evidence,void-judgment |
| 19-7985 |
Charles Ray Hooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-v-united-states brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct |
Must a defendant continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling after being granted a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 19-7813 |
Michael C. Jamerson v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus napue-standard napue-vs-illinois perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated its obligation under Brady v. Maryla… |
| 19-7703 |
Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing |
Question not identified |
| 19-7627 |
Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias |
| 19-7593 |
Young Yi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-production due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standard-of-review |
Whether the government violated its Brady obligations by producing voluminous documents without identifying one document as Brady material |
| 19-7578 |
Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information |
Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? |
| 19-7534 |
Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's refusal to re-invest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider petitioner Scott's petition for writ of error co… |
| 19-7476 |
Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards |
Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was 'thorough? |
| 19-7364 |
Ernest William Singleton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage |
Whether the jury relied on an invalid conviction for distributing Ultram in finding the defendant guilty of money laundering |
| 19-7378 |
Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict civil-rights civil-rights-violation discriminatory-arrest due-process free-speech manuel-v-city-of-joliet probable-cause second-amendment self-defense |
Was the California Court of Appeal in conflict with other circuits on the issue of probable cause and Second Amendment rights? |
| 19-7340 |
Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct |
Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u… |
| 19-7289 |
Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines |
Issues being raised |
| 19-7292 |
Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler |
Did Montgomery v. Louisiana announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supremacy Clause applies to… |
| 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… |
| 19-845 |
Charles Huggins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process |
| 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? |
| 19-6964 |
David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights |
Issue being raised |
| 19-6905 |
John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance |
Whether the withholding of recorded statements by the government violates due process and Brady v. Maryland |
| 19-6909 |
Efrain J. Rosa v. R. L. Rhodes, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation conviction-reversal criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Has the government's suppression of exculpatory evidence violated due process under the Fifth Amendment? |
| 19-6495 |
Brent Curtis Schwertz v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
accidental-discharge americans-with-disabilities-act brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness firearms-examination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel strickland-standard |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 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 |
| 19-6237 |
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… |
| 19-6110 |
Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York |
New York |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does a state appellate court have a duty to resolve a federal claim of ineffective assistance of counsel claim under the Federal performance/prejudice… |
| 19-6023 |
Jeffrey Guy Ringle v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prejudice withholding-evidence |
Did the majority below err in applying this court's decision in Giglio v. United States to hold that Petitioner could not show prejudice, solely becau… |
| 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… |
| 19-5692 |
Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction |
Has US Congress constrained or given flexibility for USA Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of justice as surfaced within a reach to be c… |
| 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… |
| 19-5635 |
Shango Jaja Greer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the District Court improperly condone the prosecutor's profligate misconduct? |
| 19-5470 |
Spencer Tracy Holloway v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process federal-question liberty-interest michigan-state-law post-conviction prosecutorial-disclosure sixth-judicial-circuit state-law supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court for Oakland County decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of Brady v… |
| 19-5305 |
Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing |
Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception |
| 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? |
| 19-5224 |
Lee Chang v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment |
Was recorded evidence by law enforcement and presented by the prosecutor given in a timely manner as well as can it be considered a Brady violation du… |
| 19-87 |
Jerome Burgess v. Phil Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-appeal exculpatory-evidence georgia-supreme-court ineffective-assistance mental-competency plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Georgia Supreme Court err in failing to find that Petitioner's appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance? |
| 19-5069 |
Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing |
Whether the court of appeals followed the dictates of this court's decision in Buck v. Davis, explaining that the COA stage is not coextensive with a … |
| 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… |
| 19-5023 |
Jason Keith Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability |
| 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… |
| 18-9751 |
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… |
| 18-9754 |
Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict? |
| 18-9666 |
Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated |
| 18-9591 |
Brandon Wayne Taylor v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-evidence standing state-law-conflict texas-law |
When evidence is illegally obtained in violation of California laws can Texas legally benefit from this illegal act by allowing this evidence in a Tex… |
| 18-9409 |
Fermin Guerrero v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-errors criminal-trial-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant-testimony strickland strickland-standard strickland-violation |
Does the Constitution require a cumulative assessment of multiple constitutional errors at a criminal trial? |
| 18-9298 |
Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information fundamental-fairness jury-trial post-conviction-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether intentional pre-trial withholding of exculpatory information violates the Confrontation Clause |
| 18-9199 |
Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing |
Did the trial court abuse its discretion in denying relief from judgment based on a violation of the right to an impartial jury and ineffective assist… |
| 18-9194 |
Noah Espada v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal |
Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl… |
| 18-9177 |
Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 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 |
| 18-9134 |
Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony |
Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence |
| 18-9051 |
Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question that conflicts with this Court in Brady v. Maryland… |
| 18-9028 |
Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors |
Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Constitutional Violations |
| 18-8997 |
Troy Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon … |
| 18-8927 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bench-court-relationship brady-v-maryland brady-violation complaining-witnesses constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct state-government |
Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two complaini… |
| 18-8942 |
Jeffrey Akard v. Robert E. Carter Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
412-Rape-Shield-law-conflict Brady-materials brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process habeas-corpus habeas-relief impeaching-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-shield-law sentencing-claims strickland-standards |
Was Petitioner's 94 year sentence for rape related charges based only on accuser's testimony, in violation of Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process, warrant hab… |
| 18-8816 |
Charles Ray Hooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus merits-adjudication miller-el voluntariness |
Where an appellate court decides that circuit precedent precludes the use of a Brady violation to challenge the voluntariness of a guilty plea, does t… |
| 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… |
| 18-8546 |
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… |
| 18-8576 |
Yusef Allen v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-requirements brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction conviction-integrity criminal-conviction criminal-justice-system due-process integrity integrity-of-justice judicial-review prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the gross actions of prosecutorial misconduct were so egregious as to render the defendant's conviction unconstitutional |
| 18-8495 |
Leroy Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-of-interest death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
Whether counsel's ineffectiveness conflicts with the holding in Missouri v. Frye |
| 18-1193 |
Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct |
Prosecutorial misconduct in post-conviction DNA testing |
| 18-8425 |
Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals brady-violation civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal-timeliness-dismissal-rules- constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression new-trial-motion procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rules-of-court standing timeliness |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court rule erroneously in dismissing petitioner's appeal as being untimely under Rule 5:9(a) of the Supreme Court of Virginia… |
| 18-1158 |
Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial |
| 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 |
| 18-8218 |
Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression |
Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v… |
| 18-8174 |
Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order |
Should federal habeas corpus rule 8(a) require a written order from a federal district court judge when not appointing a magistrate judge to oversee a… |
| 18-8118 |
Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering |
Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial |
| 18-8036 |
Edmund Boyle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a court of appeals should remand a habeas action where the lower court fails to fully adjudicate the underlying habeas claims on the merits an… |
| 18-7769 |
Demetrius Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching |
Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial? |
| 18-7792 |
Anthony Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-violation brady-violation-disclosure circuit-court-split constitutional-disclosure constitutional-due-process due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit-decision second-or-successive successive-habeas-petition |
Whether the Second Circuit's decision that petitioner's second-in-time Brady claim is successive conflicts with applicable decisions of this Court |
| 18-1022 |
Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
Whether the State's failure to disclose threats and promises made to witnesses violated due process |
| 18-7771 |
Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements |
Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial when the state court overruled his motion to suppress statements and allowed videotaped sta… |
| 18-7571 |
Gabriel Cervantes Valencia v. Dave Davey, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction |
Whether the Civcurh, Districk and Strode Courts denials and akesmissals of Petihwners BRADY VIOLATION Claim violate pebbroners bye Process Rights Guav… |
| 18-7527 |
David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states |
Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether Mr.… |
| 18-7099 |
Richard Allen Ratushny v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
Brady-v-Maryland brady-violation conflict-of-interest crimen-falsi due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment welfare-fraud |
Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel? |
| 18-7137 |
Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
May withholding exculpatory and impeaching evidence be disregarded and/or used to obtain or sustain a conviction? |
| 18-7150 |
Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression |
Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later inco… |
| 18-7069 |
John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Commonwealth commit misconduct when it intentionally withheld various forms of material evidence in violation of the 14th Amendment? |
| 18-7038 |
William Owens v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence police-report prosecutorial-misconduct victim-credibility |
whether-state-withheld-material-evidence |
| 18-7020 |
Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-giglio-violation brady-violation capital-case constitutional-rights due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-suppression habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-successive-petition |
Where a numerically-second § 2254 motion raises an actionable Brady/Giglio violation |
| 18-757 |
Teddy Chuang v. California |
California |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brady-vs-maryland california-penal-code-141 constitutional-mandate due-process evidence-concealment exculpatory-evidence penal-code-violation prosecutable prosecutorial-misconduct trombetta trombetta-standard trombetta-v-california |
Whether a case is prosecutable when the District Attorney commits a felony in violation of California Penal Code § 141, which violates Brady v. Maryla… |
| 18-6872 |
Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence |
Can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct? |
| 18-6789 |
Delroy McLean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether an immigration judge is a protected person under 18 U.S.C.S. § 115(a)(1)(B) |
| 18-6842 |
Matthew Davis, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Matt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3500-material brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence sentencing witness-testimony |
Whether the Government failed to properly discharge its obligations under Brady v. Maryland |
| 18-6826 |
Carlos David Caro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
§-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc… |
| 18-674 |
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
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brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor cre… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6752 |
David McGuire v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies |
When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process … |
| 18-645 |
Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) requir… |
| 18-6727 |
John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias |
Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital defen… |
| 18-6475 |
Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias |
Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias |
| 18-6486 |
In Re Steve G. Hernandez |
|
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment |
What is the constitutional violation of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-6428 |
Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit incorrectly denied a certificate of appealability |
| 18-6436 |
Jorge Cintron v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence standing trial-procedure |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in denying a Certificate of Appeability and in evaluating the claims under Brady violation |
| 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… |
| 18-6396 |
Guillermo Solorio, Jr. v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b)(2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure evidence-suppression federal-statute habeas-corpus hidden-evidence second-or-successive-petition |
Whether a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus based on Brady v. Maryland Evidence That Was Hidden from a Criminal Defendant — Until After Appeal and … |
| 18-6214 |
Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the federal habeas courts should evaluate the summary denial of a California habeas petition based on whether the petitioner failed to allege … |
| 18-6190 |
Simone Swenson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-v-united-states brady-v-maryland brady-violation deference-to-district-court due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment-dismissal judicial-deference judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error supervisory-powers |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in reinstating the indictment despite the district court's finding that the prosecutor's misconduct destroyed the integrity … |
| 18-410 |
Corey D. Yates v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
|
brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence |
Whether a defendant must show he did not know of and could not have reasonably obtained the suppressed evidence to establish a Brady violation |
| 18-6155 |
Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions |
| 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 |
| 18-5979 |
Malik Derry v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated |
| 18-5938 |
Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence |
Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with the… |
| 18-5855 |
Derrick Knight v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure brady-violation constitutional-rights effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial withholding-evidence |
Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of appellate counsel? |
| 18-5807 |
Peter R. Rubens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady brady-violation cross-examination due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation |
Does Webb v. Texas apply when it is the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office who systematically threatens, coerces, intimidates, and actually off… |
| 18-5783 |
Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense |
Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet? |
| 18-5639 |
Daniel Castleman, aka Chingachgook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-evidence-rule brady-violation confrontation-clause documentary-evidence due-process evidence evidence-certification federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the government commit prosecutorial misconduct and was counsel ineffective for failing to object or move to exclude GX-DC-2 |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Whether the District Court erred in ignoring undisputed facts establishing a Brady violation before allowing conflicted defense counsel to withdraw |
| 18-5527 |
Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the alleged Brady violation was not material |
| 18-5446 |
Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5453 |
Mark Elliott v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process due-process-brady-v-maryland favorable-to-accused hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct remand-for-coa right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment |
whether-under-brady-and-its-progeny-the-prosecution's-intentional-nondisclosure-of-petitioner's-requested-911-audio-recordings-requires-his-conviction… |
| 18-5456 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena |
Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou… |
| 18-73 |
Scott Carpenter v. Douglas Jordan |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 brady-violation brady-vs-maryland civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-vs-humphrey invalidation section-1983 statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction |
Does a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful conviction claim for unconstitutionally withholding exculpatory evidence accrue when a conviction is invalidated or w… |
| 18-50 |
Linda Carty v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
brady-violation brady-violations capital-case capital-murder constitutional-error constitutional-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process habeas-review heightened-scrutiny strickland-standard strickland-violation |
Whether the Constitution requires a court on habeas review in a capital case to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional er… |
| 18-36 |
Gregory Brice v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
|
alternate-suspect brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence motive motive-evidence new-trial post-trial-confession suppressed-evidence |
Whether the government violated its obligations under Brady v. Maryland by suppressing evidence showing that the leading alternate suspect had a power… |
| 18-5113 |
Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering |
Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5070 |
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… |
| 18-5005 |
Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence |
Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different? |
| 18-5014 |
Marcus Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error |
Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go… |
| 25A494 |
Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
|
Denied |
|
brady-violation capital-murder due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-cooperation |
Whether the prosecution's intentional concealment of a cooperation agreement with a key witness constitutes a Brady violation that undermines the fund… |