capital-conviction

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A15 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas 2025-07-03 Presumed Complete capital-conviction constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied constitutionally adequate standards of review in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence
24A33 Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama Alabama 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review capital-conviction constitutional-rights criminal-appeal death-penalty due-process Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals violated the defendant's constitutional rights by improperly denying his direct appeal in a capital case
23-6360 In Re Burt Setts 2023-12-27 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment capital-conviction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the holding that the petitioner was not entitled to a grand jury indictment
21-6435 James Worley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-29 Denied IFP capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth,…
18-9468 Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's nunc pro tunc judgment cures a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, and whether the first federal habeas…