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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A792 Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-08 Application clemency felony-conviction firearm-rights fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights second-amendment Whether a state law permanently barring firearm rights restoration for individuals with prior forcible felony convictions violates the Second and Four…
25-6133 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-17 Denied IFP clemency constitutional-law due-process federal-rights post-conviction supremacy-clause Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of appl…
24A274 Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-03-18 Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or…
23-7381 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Arizona Office of the Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights clemency constitutional-claims constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection executive-clemency habeas-corpus special-action special-action-relief Whether the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his request for a commutation hearing without …
23-6831 Thomas E. Creech v. Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP clemency clemency-hearing constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process false-evidence harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Does the State's intentional presentation of false evidence at a clemency hearing violate due process?
23-5667 Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment clemency clemency-proceedings due-process executive-discretion meaningful-access notice notice-requirements procedural-fairness unenforceable-rules Whether the right to minimal Due Process required in clemency proceedings is satisfied
22-7750 Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the difference between new convictions and the role of law in the FIRST STEP Act and how constraints on the release of prisoners violates the …
22-7412 Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-29 Denied IFP clemency clemency-process criminal-justice due-process harbison-v-bell herrera-v-collins judicial-review mercy-standard parole-authority standing Whether a standardless clemency process satisfies the Court's mandate in Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard
22-6004 Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied IFP civil-rights clemency clemency-services court-order due-process habeas habeas-petition indigent-capital-defendants mental-health mental-health-crisis statutory-interpretation Whether courts are required by McFarland v. Scott to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of the statute
20-688 Orlando Cordia Hall v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-11-19 Denied access-to-counsel clemency clemency-process covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process execution-notice federal-death-penalty-act right-to-counsel ultra-vires Whether the government should be allowed to move forward with Petitioner's execution on November 19, 2020?
19-8792 John Hummel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3599 clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty discretionary-review expert-assistance expert-services legal-representation reasonably-necessary statutory-funding unusual-character-or-duration When a death-sentenced inmate's appointed attorney shows that expert services have likely utility and are of unusual character or duration, but cost m…
19-7572 Abel Revilla Ochoa v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clemency clemency-process constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing state-actor Whether a state actor can insulate unconstitutional policies and practices from judicial review
19-5651 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th…
18-1331 William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records Sixth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial Whether the Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records has the authority to remove an unjust summary court-martial sentence from a service member's …
18-6893 Joseph C. Garcia v. Carmella Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP clemency clemency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity minimal-guarantees parole-authority state-law texas-law woodard-precedent Whether Texas's failure to provide Garcia with a clemency proceeding that comports with Texas law violates the minimal due process rights—including th…
18A1346 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia Presumed Complete capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of prosecutorial misconduct and death ineligibility
18A1345 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia Presumed Complete clemency constitutional-rights death-penalty dna-testing execution-stay forensic-evidence Whether a death row inmate has a constitutional right to forensic DNA testing of critical evidence that could potentially demonstrate his ineligibilit…