| 24-460 |
Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power |
Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants the Court's supervisory inte… |
| 23-1364 |
Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power |
Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou… |
| 23-6713 |
Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st… |
| 23-805 |
Christopher Paul George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and Miller-El, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, … |
| 22-834 |
Harshad Shah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability categorically ignored the petitioner's habeas issues and conflicted with S… |
| 22-6153 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review |
What is the correct mechanism and procedure to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court to the appellate court after Certiorari denial? |
| 22-5736 |
Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order to compel discovery |
| 22-5259 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent |
Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in distegard of the rule announced in Buck v Davis" |
| 21-7837 |
Cedric D. Burns v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court |
| 21-7262 |
Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas-proceeding federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-60(b) |
Whether a COA is required to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) Motion |
| 21-6585 |
Freddy Crespo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule on certificates of appealability conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 21-527 |
Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
|
aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether the Supreme Court has abandoned its precedent in Norton v. Shelby County regarding the void ab initio doctrine |
| 20-644 |
Terrence Pendergrass v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal |
Did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability where the district court conducted a merits analysis in s… |
| 20-6184 |
I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit |
whether-the-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-violated-buck-v-davis |
| 19-8291 |
Willis J. Yazzie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to advise a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the me… |
| 19-7503 |
Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-6934 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) motion? |
| 19-6106 |
Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order |
Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis |
| 19-5711 |
Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings |
Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon… |
| 19-5171 |
Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Texas future-dangerousness special issue fails on vagueness grounds as applied to Mr. Saldajfio, as a statute incapable of reasoned applic… |
| 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 … |
| 18-9453 |
Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciotta's appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct… |
| 18-9443 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first |
| 18-9264 |
Robert Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence |
DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER |
| 18-8935 |
Scott B. Miserendino, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law bribery-conviction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act question-not-identified section-2255-petition standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-8891 |
Warner Bernard Crider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit |
Was Crider denied a COA improperly, where the Sixth Circuit's decision is contrary to Buck v. Davis? |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8259 |
Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Was the Sixth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability erroneous? |
| 18-7809 |
James Were v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide… |
| 18-7741 |
Robert Sills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) was improper" |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 18-7048 |
Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 18-6572 |
Douglas Wayne Thompson v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment buck-v-davis civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6-relief trial-tactics |
Whether the courts below erred in ruling that Petitioner must seek permission to file a second and successive petition |
| 18-6235 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review |
Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis, it is sufficient for obtaining a Certificate of Appealability under … |
| 18-6024 |
Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit |
Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contravene Buck v. Davis |
| 18-6010 |
Babubhai Patel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-5871 |
Samuel Posa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process eleventh-circuit self-representation tharpe-v-sellers |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5727 |
Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell |
Whether Maples v. Thomas requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context |
| 18-5716 |
Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law |
Whether the district court and 5th circuit court of appeals erred in denying Ray a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5597 |
David E. Miller v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis capital-punishment civil-rights due-process federal-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan rule-60b6 trevino-v-thaler |
Whether the change in law announced in Martinez and Trevino, when coupled with a particularly substantial deprivation of a capital defendant's right t… |
| 18-5522 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition |
Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc… |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding in Buck v. Davis |