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25-6793 Roman Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-11 Pending IFP autonomy-right capital-murder criminal-defense guilt-concession law-of-parties sixth-amendment 1. Whether McCoy v. Louisiana prohibits only explicit admissions of guilt, or also bars functional concessions — such as conceding elements, condition…
25A867 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama 2026-02-02 Application alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
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 1. Where the Petitioner, the State, and the habeas court all agree that a conviction is unconstitutional and must be reversed, does it violate due pro…
25A645 Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona Arizona 2025-12-03 Application capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard third-party-culpability Question not identified.
25-5992 In Re Roger Larry McCluer 2025-10-30 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining 1. WHETHER OR NOT COUNSEL'S ADVICE TO PETITIONER, TO FOREGO A TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER, WHEN THE STATE THREATENED TO RE-VISIT THE "CAPITAL MURDER" …
25-5953 Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama Alabama 2025-10-24 Pending IFP adverse-inference capital-murder criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment prosecutorial-conduct right-to-silence In the sentencing phase of a capital trial, where the defendant exercises his right to remain silent and to plead not guilty, does the Fifth Amendment…
25A438 Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas Texas 2025-10-16 Presumed Complete capital-murder certiorari death-row due-process eighth-amendment indigent-defendant Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision upholding the trial court's denial of Mr. Bluntson's request to represent himself because he allegedly…
25-5773 Karina Yohera Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-10-01 Denied IFP capital-murder court-of-appeals due-process jury-punishment lesser-included-offenses procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals, Thirteenth Judicial District, Corpus Christi, Texas err by affirming the trial court's order that no jury punishment hearing…
25A290 Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama Alabama 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete authentication capital-murder confrontation-clause evidentiary-authentication protection-order service-of-process Question not identified.
25A226 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder claim-preclusion criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge res-judicata underlying-felony Question not identified.
25A196 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review capital-murder criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence texas-criminal-law Question not identified.
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar (1) Was the novel state procedural ground for denying the false evidence claims in the initial habeas application inadequate? (2) Was the state proce…
25A160 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder dna-evidence due-process prosecutorial-misconduct 1) whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may hold that Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claims and Brady-related prosecutorial claims are time an…
25A101 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A52 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete capital-murder dna-evidence due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
25-5004 Delano Hale v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-defense forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance strategic-decision strickland-standard In a capital murder case focused on the circumstances of the decedent's death, where forensic evidence is known to comprise the State's main evidence,…
24-7487 Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2025-06-24 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, as set forth in Beck v. Alabama, when th…
24A1253 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel Question not identified.
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 1) Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering any evidence that can be obtained from witnesses per se available via the exercise of rea…
24-7172 Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas Texas 2025-05-12 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit sentences which are disproportionate? If so, is Life Without Parole disproportionate for a capital murder convict…
24-6472 Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama Alabama 2025-02-05 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief strickland-standard Under the extreme circumstances of this case, can a state court deny a Strickland claim on the merits without conducting an evidentiary hearing?
24-6403 Brian Dale Nixon v. Texas Texas 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence trial-location The Petitioner's capital murder trial was held in this facility: The Supreme Courts of Oregon and Washington held this is inherently prejudicial and e…
24-6194 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied IFP capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Either Donald Deardorff or Millard Peacock committed capital murder by killing Ted Turner while robbing, burgling, and kidnapping him—the other was gu…
24A545 Bartholomew Granger v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete capital-murder constitutional-deficiency critical-stage ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24A523 Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama Alabama 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing postconviction state-review Question not identified.
24A513 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-sentence eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24A362 Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell Utah 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete capital-murder ineffective-assistance mitigation-witness religious-testimony strickland-standard trial-strategy Question not identified.
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Question not identified.
23A1146 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state …
23-7448 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-05-10 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of h…
23A970 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining Question not identified.
23A878 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-03 Denied capital-murder confession corroboration due-process false-testimony post-conviction 1. Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due proce…
23-7119 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appointed-counsel capital-murder conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan flat-fee-contract ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland When Brian Dorsey faced capital-murder charges, he was appointed counsel who were paid a very low flat fee of $12,000 each. Chris Slusher, having rece…
23-7128 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied IFP accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief Whether, when both the state trial court and the federal district court agree that a habeas petitioner has pleaded a claim that, if true, would warran…
23-934 Areli Escobar v. Texas Texas 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (4) capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence 1. Whether due process of law requires reversal, where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the State no longer seeks to defend it. 2…
23-6738 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether, under Strickland v. Washington , a death row inmate is precluded from establishing prejudice from his trial counsel's deficient performance d…
23-635 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure 1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never …
23-6001 Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Question not identified.
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?
22-7229 Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2023-04-06 GVR IFP capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina Whether Petitioner's guilty pleas were involuntary due to the trial judge's misrepresentation that life with the possibility of parole was a sentencin…
22-6612 Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase Whether the trial court violated the defendant's right to a public trial by removing spectators from the courtroom?
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel
22-487 Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation
22-6021 George Guo v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error Question not identified
22-5487 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2022-09-01 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure evidence-admission massiah-v-united-states penalty-phase right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action state-agent Did the TCCA err in holding that the State upheld its 'affirmative obligation to not act in a manner that circumvents the [Sixth Amendment] protection…
22-5108 Zachery Keesee v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-statute arkansas-supreme-court capital-murder conviction due-process first-impression nonjurisdictional-argument separation-of-powers Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court violated due process
21-8263 John Matthias Watson, III v. Nevada Nevada 2022-06-29 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy mccoy-precedent mccoy-v-louisana right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel unauthorized-concession Is it a concession of guilt by trial counsel which violated Mr. Watson's longstanding right to autonomy and the Sixth Amendment holding of McCoy v. Lo…
21-1601 Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas Texas 2022-06-28 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (7) capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict…
21-8083 In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood 2022-06-07 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the death penalty for a murder that does not fall within the narrow class of murders designated …
21-7929 Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas Texas 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut…
21-1411 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2022-05-03 Denied Amici (2) brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State's knowing use of perjury is relevant to determining whether the perjured testimony was material to the verdict
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's inadvertent act was 'strategic'
21-6559 George Russell Kayer v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP capital-murder competency-determination direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-specialist sentencing-hearing trial-counsel Whether a state court's decision on direct appeal is based on an unreasonable determination of facts when it concludes that a defendant refused to coo…
21-6202 Charles Gregory Clark v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP capital-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan shackling shackling-claim specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the trial court's requirement that Charles Gregory Clark be visibly restrained during his entire capital murder trial without a hearing and ne…
21-6073 John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-10-27 Denied IFP accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant Whether a pro se defendant must be informed of the prosecution's theory of his own criminal liability when pleading guilty to a death-eligible homicid…
21-6065 Michael Belcher v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-26 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decom…
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appellate courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of jurisdiction over a previously exempt juvenile for capital murder vio…
20-1496 Ali Mohamed Elatrache v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions jury-trial lesser-included-offenses procedural-default trial-by-jury whether-petitioner-was-deprived-of-due-process-and-jury-trial
20-7687 Ronald James Hamilton, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-04-07 Denied IFP capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence fingerprint-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct punishment-trial witness-testimony Did the trial prosecutors deny Mr. Hamilton Due Process by failing to disclose exculpatory fingerprint comparison results relevant to an extraneous ca…
20-6915 Scott Lee Peterson v. California California 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a verdict of guilt returned by a jury from which all prospective jurors opposed to the death penalty have been im…
20-6202 Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation Did 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought?
20-6171 Kenneth Emanuel Baptiste v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-29 Dismissed IFP capital-murder capitol-murder constitutional-error due-process fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions reconsideration severance-motion stolen-property trial-procedure Was instructing the Jury with CALJIC No. 2.15 in error
20-491 Sandy Perez Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2020-10-15 Denied capital-murder criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter texas-law Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar conviction for intentional injury to a child following acquittal for capital murder, but convict…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Whether in Mr. Wardlow's case to grant certiorari, vacate the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and remand for reconsideration in the m…
19-8003 Bradley Deon Hoover v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice alibi-defense capital-murder due-process preindictment-delay statute-of-limitations Whether the lack of reasonable justification for an excessively delayed prosecution must be considered when the accused, at no fault of their own, suf…
19-7481 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas Texas 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is …
19-7354 Lawrence Martin v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-court capital-murder constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearing jurisdiction perjury prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether state court violated A.C.A. 5-10-202
19-5997 Robert Williams, Jr. v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-murder cause-of-death constitutional-rights death-certificate due-process forensic-evidence judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence skull-injury stab-wound x-ray Whether the cause of death affected the jury's judgment in a capital murder case
18-9614 Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded …
18-9464 Charles William Finney v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by requiring the jury to find only aggravating factors …
18-9270 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin…
18-9252 Kevin Foster v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause
18-9214 Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama Alabama 2019-05-09 Denied IFP autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence Whether the admission of a gruesome and unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking probative value and showing post-crime mutilation by the medi…
18-7576 Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-25 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility Does a capital murder conviction and death sentence violate due-process, trial-by-jury, and reliable-process rights when a law-enforcement witness who…
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-01-15 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv…
18-6821 Michael Brandon Kelley v. Alabama Alabama 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-law capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sexual-abuse state-law Did the state court's failure to apply state-law double-jeopardy protections in Petitioner Kelley's case result in a violation of Kelley's constitutio…
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-6182 Randolph Moore v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2018-10-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland capital-murder capital-punishment crucial-evidence due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus outcome-of-trial prosecutorial-misconduct withheld-evidence witness-tampering Whether the Brady v. Maryland standard requires a defendant to prove that withheld evidence is crucial, would affect the outcome, or affirmatively und…
18-6175 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homi…
18-404 The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access apply to the substantive motion papers, hearing transcripts and court orders filed in a ca…
18-6115 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-09-27 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application Whether Petitioner's death sentence can remain intact even though his jury was not instructed that the State had to prove all of the elements of capit…
18-5841 Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Whether the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State apply to a 1981 homicide prosecution
18-5553 Christopher Williams v. Texas Texas 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur…
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity Whether a death sentence can remain intact when the jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5376 Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings Whether Petitioner's death sentences for two 1994 homicides can remain intact given that his jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital mur…
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…
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
25A494 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied brady-violation capital-murder due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-cooperation Whether the prosecution's concealment of a cooperation agreement promising a 35-year sentence to the key witness against petitioner, combined with fal…
25A847 Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas Texas Denied autopsy-report capital-murder confrontation-clause medical-examiner sixth-amendment surrogate-testimony Question not identified.