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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 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…