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25A824 Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Application circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 Whether a federal court can review a collateral challenge to a restitution order under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 when the defendant is no longer in custody
25A775 Cosea Bell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-01-05 Application collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application Whether a state court's procedural bar against successive post-conviction applications violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to meaning…
25-6454 Derek Capozzi v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-retroactivity residual-clause section-2255 sentence-enhancement Whether a criminal defendant must prove the sentencing court relied 'solely' on the abrogated residual clause to qualify for sentence enhancement reli…
25-6136 Damien Antione Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending IFP appellate-waiver collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Whether it violates federal constitutional due process for a defendant who pleads guilty and waives the right to appeal or seek collateral-review for …
25A469 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-24 Application appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-vagueness plea-agreement section-924(c) Whether a defendant's general appeal waiver in a plea agreement can preclude challenges to a conviction based on an unconstitutionally vague statutory…
25A281 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete collateral-review due-diligence federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2255 successive-petition Whether a federal prisoner may file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 without demonstrating new evidence or a retroactive constituti…
25-5608 Gary Jordan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review government-misconduct guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment structural-error Can a defendant collaterally attack his guilty plea via 28 U.S.C. § 2255 as unconstitutional based on surreptitious pre-plea government misconduct wit…
25-5457 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-08-25 Dismissed IFP appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a conflict exists between 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and procedural jurisdictional standards for tolerable collateral jeopardy subject-matter juri…
24-7392 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the gen…
24-7157 Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana Indiana 2025-05-07 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule post-conviction-relief state-court-procedure Whether the Indiana Supreme Court is violating due process by foreclosing both State and Federal review by failing to allow the development of an inef…
24-6675 Pierre Cornelius Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-court Whether the principles of substantial limitation on collateral review in habeas corpus cases pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 apply to habeas corpus cases…
24-6496 In Re Maestro M. Faison, aka Maestro Matthew Faison 2025-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-rule eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus supreme-court-retroactivity Whether the Supreme Court's Erlinger decision is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 or § 2255
24-6272 In Re Benjamin Shipley 2025-01-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger V. United States retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(3)(A) to a …
24-704 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review competency-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the procedural-default doctrine bars a competency-based due process claim when a petitioner raises that claim for the first time on collateral…
24-505 Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a Supreme Court statutory interpretation case that was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings constitute cause to excuse procedural…
24-5788 Nico Allen-Antonio Cogdill v. Texas Texas 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-due-process trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
24-371 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for ineffective assistance of trial counsel …
24-5529 Jose Muyet v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction Does the concurrent sentence doctrine permit a federal court to decline review of a collateral challenge to a federal criminal conviction, even one ca…
24-5308 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether a federal circuit court is patently wrong in denying a Certificate of Appealability in a capital case where a state habeas petitioner identifi…
24A77 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete career-offender collateral-review ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix sentencing-enhancement Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause precludes applying the Supreme Court's Jones v. Hendrix decision to bar a federal prisoner's habeas corpus claim chal…
23-7647 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-review-proceeding post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel successive-petitions Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings?
23A976 Michael Edwin Harding v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete collateral-review federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance post-conviction pro-se section-2255 Whether a federal prisoner can obtain collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 when procedural barriers prevent timely preparation of a post-convictio…
23-1171 Terrance Guinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-law due-process factual-innocence federal-habeas firearm-possession firearms rehaif retroactive-application statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner is entitled to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) based on his claim that his conviction for possessing a f…
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 207.010 violates the due process clause of the Federal Consti…
23A853 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete collateral-review crime-of-violence first-step-act ineffective-assistance plea-agreement section-924c Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a § 924(c) charge precludes collateral review of the underlying crime of violence in light of the Supreme Court's…
23A818 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-review davis-decision retroactive-application section-2255 successive-motion Whether a federal prisoner may seek collateral review of a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based on a new substantive rule announced in United State…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own rules of criminal procedure retroactively by applying a new rule to Petitioner's post-conviction proceedings
23-6658 Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a revocation hearing under Morrissey v. Brewer and Gagnon v. Scarpelli, and the right to effective assi…
23-6564 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-rule habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan state-procedural-framework tennessee Did the decision in Martinez v Ryan require claims to be raised beyond the initial collateral proceeding for exhaustion purposes in Tennessee and othe…
23-6303 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP case-consolidation civil-rights collateral-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-process legal-nomenclature miranda-rights procedural-posture retroactivity review-denial state-vs-federal Whether the state's admission of inadequate Miranda warnings under Roberts v. State constitutes a retroactive application of the law
23-6249 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2023-12-13 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition
23-6115 Rakeem Barber v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-procedure state-courts Is Arizona's collateral review scheme adequate to vindicate the constitutional rights of non-capital defendants?
23-6007 Daniel A. Rocha v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance procedural-rules time-limitations Does Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 358 (1968), and its progeny, require a state court to advise an indigent defendant of the procedural rules and ti…
23A426 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete collateral-review en-banc-petition exhaustion-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default successive-petition Whether the Supreme Court should recognize an exception to procedural default rules for successive petitions in state post-conviction proceedings base…
23A314 Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete attorney-client-communications collateral-review guilty-plea prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion tollett-v-henderson Whether a defendant who entered a guilty plea may challenge his conviction on direct appeal or collateral review based on claims of prosecutorial misc…
23A172 Bradley Wayne Berry v. Kirt Guerin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete collateral-review constitutional-right jury-verdict retroactive-application sixth-amendment unanimous-jury Whether the Sixth Amendment requires retroactive application of the Ramos v. Louisiana unanimous jury verdict rule to state criminal convictions on co…
22-1021 John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whose law governs the scope of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) and § 2241
22-7325 Noel Brown v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review court-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-appeal standing Did the denial of appellant's motion for in forma pauperis violate Rule 24(A)(5) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure?
22-7195 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
22-6724 In Re Christopher Cobb 2023-02-07 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US » 142 §.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review
22-656 Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina…
22-6538 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-17 Denied IFP capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford state prisoners some adequate corrective process for the hearing and determination of claim…
22-512 Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim can show that the remedy by §…
22-6191 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-01 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Right to counsel
22-5329 Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner entitled to review under 28-U.S.C-2241 because diligent counsel could not have raised this …
22-5173 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brecht certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-determination rule-60(b) state-court-prejudice Has the Fourth Circuit Court of appeals effectively side stepped the COA inquiry, without expressly saying so, where the court has declined to analyze…
22-5032 Steven Louis Barnes v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether denial of an evidentiary hearing viol collateral-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedy Is there a distinction between remedies in raising ineffectiveness of constitutional counsel on direct appeal, where constitutional counsel is allowed…
21-7987 Keith Rose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining standing Whether the right recognized in Class v. United States extends to collateral review
21-7666 Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2A1.1 to be treated as an element when that finding is …
21-1357 James S. Tyler, III v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2022-04-18 Denied Amici (1) capital-defendant collateral-review criminal-procedure mccoy right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substantive-rule teague-bar Where a capital defendant objected to his attorney's concession of guilt, does the explicit text of the Sixth Amendment and longstanding right to coun…
21-7497 In Re Willie T. Murphy 2022-03-30 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance legal-counsel martinez-v-ryan prisoner-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a prisoner have a right to effective assistance of counsel in a collateral proceeding which provides the first occasion to raise a claim of ineff…
21-7198 Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the Sixt…
21-7080 Galvin Gibson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland collateral-review criminal-appeal due-process hung-jury napue-claim napue-v-illinois section-2255 strickler-v-greene united-states-v-gibson united-states-v-houston WHETHER BRADY AND NAPUE CLAIMS WHICH RELATE TO A FIRST TRIAL WHICH RESULTED IN A HUNG JURY ARE COGNIZABLE IN A § 2255 MOTION OR WHETHER THE APPEAL OF …
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless …
21-6871 Alan Price v. Florida Florida 2022-01-14 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule Whether McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review?
21-6667 Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel Whether state courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that he had voluntarily waived the …
21-872 Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law whether-aedpa's-one-year-statute-of-limitations-should-be-equitably-tolled
21-857 Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-09 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not challenge their convictions on the ground that the statute of conviction did not criminalize their activity due to…
21-847 Jonathan Ian Burns v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity supreme-court Whether this Court's decision in Lynch applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona
21-6538 In Re Kenny Blanc 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 collateral-review constitutional-law federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 …
21-6539 In Re Kenny Blanc 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 …
21-846 John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court Whether the rule in Simmons v. South Carolina, as applied in Lynch v. Arizona, must be applied retroactively to cases pending on collateral review
21-785 Richard Riccardi v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states Whether the exception to the procedural default rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957) applies
21-6331 Byron White v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-18 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6283 Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of assault with a dangerous weapon too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring viole…
21-6252 Ryder Shane Altman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f…
21-6200 Jesus Ruiz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless
21-6134 Victor Rosales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal douglas-v-california due-process evitts-v-lucey indigent-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Does a Texas prisoner have a constitutional right to appointment of effective assistance of counsel in collateral proceedings
21-6099 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2…
21-5967 Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver Does an unconditional guilty plea waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) on the grounds that Davis rendered it…
21-467 Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. Oklahoma 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (1) collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-5453 Charles J. Senke v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel Whether a district court's failure to inquire into an indigent defendant's colorable motion for substitution of counsel is cognizable on direct appeal…
21-5375 Douglas Coley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-13 Denied IFP collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri…
21-5313 In Re Juan Luis Leonor 2021-08-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-retroactivity-test retroactivity second-degree-murder state-v-ronald-smith sudden-quarrel-provocation supreme-court-review teague-standard Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court's decision not to hold State v. Ronald-Smith retroactive confines the petitioner to a lesser remedy than what the U…
21-5181 Gerald Patrick Thomas, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP collateral-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan retroactivity teague-bar teague-v-lane trevino-v-thaler Does Teague v. Lane bar Federal Habeas court from reviewing the merits of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim because Martinez v. Ryan an…
21-5144 Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a post-conviction motion asserting a claim that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States because it was dictated by the res…
21-62 Paul Poupart v. Louisiana, et al. Louisiana 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court retrospective state-collateral-review Has the State of Lovisiana and its Judicial Officers created and/or imposed an ex post facto law violating the Petitioner's federal due process rights…
20-8305 Gersu Guisao v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding martinez-v-ryan material-witnesses new-evidence newly-discovered-evidence procedural-standard Did the initial review collateral counsel breach his fiduciary duty by waiving three of four claims that included critical expert and material witness…
20-1717 Harris County Hospital District v. Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights class-action collateral-review cy-pres due-process judicial-procedure settlement-class standing Whether the scope of collateral review of class action judgments comports with the Due Process Clause
20-1686 Bobby Lee Hampton v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-06-04 Denied collateral-review constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel teague-v-lane Whether the exceptions to the Teague v. Lane rule for retroactive application of new constitutional rules of criminal procedure apply to the rule anno…
20-8158 In Re Larry E. Starks 2021-05-27 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 collateral-attack collateral-review constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether the denial of review on jurisdictional claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
20-7939 Cedric Jones, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerk-signature collateral-review court-order due-process judicial-procedure mandamus official-misconduct procedural-validity recusal standing Whether an appellate court clerk can sign a valid order without a judge's signature
20-7926 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7876 Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7822 Trevon Wiley v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection non-unanimous-verdict ramos-precedent retroactivity sixth-amendment state-criminal-procedure teague-standard unanimous-verdict Does the Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana apply to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the retroactivity framework establi…
20-7826 Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing Whether the district Court and Eighth Circuit erred in determining that Mr. Johnson's 2255 motion was not effective in cases on collateral review file…
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas 2021-03-12 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire Does a state's initial-review post-conviction collateral procedures meet constitutional standards when they fail to provide prisoners the opportunity …
20-7357 Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy retroactivity right-of-autonomy sixth-amendment teague-rule teague-v-lane Does McCoy apply retroactively?
20-7353 Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's right to present a complete defense
20-7125 Rashan Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7107 Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule Whether NELSON V. COLORADO, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that has …
20-7083 Jeremy Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence rehau-v-united-states retroactive-application Whether a criminal defendant has substantial due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution
20-6970 Charles Maxwell v. Ohio Ohio 2021-01-28 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-justice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pleading-requirements state-statutes Should the constitutional guarantees afforded to prisoners be tied to the constitutional violations raised, instead of to the manner in which a state …
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida 2021-01-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual-disability on the merits for cases on coll…
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6600 Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6518 Blaine Milam v. Texas Texas 2020-12-03 Denied IFP briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review?
20-6509 Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6415 Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se…
20-6092 Nathan L. Hill v. Warden of Lee County, U. S. P. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP albeyne-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation Whether this Court's holding in Albeyne v. United States set forth a rule of statutory interpretation that could be used for collateral review
20-6045 Aaron E. Choat v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review exculpatory-evidence impeachment ineffective-assistance non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-retroactivity witness-impeachment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6054 Alex Cori Tribue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirement prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different conviction that it did …
20-6022 Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different ACCA predicate prior co…
20-5806 Anthony Rogelio Griego v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254d2 28-usc-2254e1 collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus Hill-v-Lockhart's-prejudice-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity strickland-standard Whether the state court's decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Strickland-v-Washington's-deficient-performance-analysis
20-5728 Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review
20-302 Steven Dotson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sen…
20-5378 James Lynn Styers v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review eddings-standard eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit second-or-successive-petition Whether the Arizona Supreme Court is required to consider all available mitigation evidence during reweighing on collateral review to correct an Eddin…
20-26 Wesley Ira Purkey v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied capital-punishment collateral-review federal-capital-prisoners federal-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-default trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel Whether federal capital prisoners whose substantial claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel were defaulted by ineffective § 2255 counsel may…
19-8548 Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing Whether a second or successive motion to vacate a federal sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2) must rely solely on a new and retroactive rule of cons…
19-8469 Viengxay Chantharath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) altered the statutes: 21 U.S.C. § 851 enhancement for prior drug convictions
19-8306 Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review whether-petitioner-is-entitled-to-rule-60-b-6-relief
19-8213 Jesus Rodriguez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP collateral-review cullen-v-pinholster due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pinholster-ruling sixth-amendment Whether receiving inadequate representation at a first collateral review proceeding triggers the exception of Martinez v. Ryan
19-8199 Dwight Bullard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.…
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud Whether the relaxed pleading standard for claims where evidence lies within the defendant's exclusive possession applies to claims under Section 10(b)…
19-7816 Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fact-based claim of ineffecti…
19-7780 Frank Harper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Harper was denied effective assistance of counsel
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules Whether Hail v. Florida and Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review
19-7190 Ernesto Benavides Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP appeal collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Has Petitioner been denied the right to a meaningful appeal of his motion to suppress evidence under Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368 (1964), that occur…
19-6951 Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, did not meet…
19-6949 James R. Royal v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Is McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct.1500(2018) a watershed rule of criminal procedure which must be applied retroactively on collateral review?
19-6845 David Steward v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision that applies …
19-6842 Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes Seventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit court of …
19-683 Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule Whether a federal prisoner may proceed through § 2255(e)'s saving clause to seek collateral review under § 2241 when that prisoner has demonstrated a …
19-6643 John Forrest v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court Can a successive §2255 motion under Johnson open the door and allow for collateral review of enumerated clause predicates invalidated under Descamps a…
19-6379 Timothy Edward Holz v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied IFP career-offender collateral-review crime-of-violence johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentence-enhancement mandatory-sentencing pre-booker pre-booker-mandatory residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.2a Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), invalidated U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(a)---the career offender guideline's residual…
19-6336 Eddie Jennings v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui…
19-6195 Alejandro Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. ___, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019) holding 18 U.S.C. §…
19-6054 John Hemby v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui…
19-5931 Darryl Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights collateral-relief collateral-review constitutional-rights counsel-consultation due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal roe-v-flores-ortega waiver Did the Pennsylvania courts err in denying collateral relief where prior counsel was ineffective for failing to consult fully with the petitioner, Dar…
19-5872 Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated?
19-5658 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel standing state-collateral-review state-post-conviction-proceedings state-proceeding Whether the due process clause requires appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners where state collateral review is the first opportunity a prisone…
19-5603 Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Was defense counsel's advice constitutionally inadequate?
19-5483 Grant Thomas McAdams v. Washington Washington 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-review constitutional-protection due-process federal-constitution insufficient-evidence intent-to-commit-theft post-conviction-relief pro-se pro-se-petition standing state-court-procedure washington-state Does the Due Process protection of the federal Constitution apply to Washington State's collateral review procedures?
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-5433 In Re Steven Bleau 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment Whether Bleau was deprived of his constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause and Sixth Amendment when his newly presented exculpatory evidence…
19-5391 Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant can satisfy burden of proof for 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a fed…
19-5221 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether collateral review is available to obtain relief under 28 USC § 2255 in the circumstances presented
19-5041 Matthew Jamison v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review conflict-with-other-states constitutional-law due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto federal-constitutional-rights federal-question retroactive-application vested-rights Did S.C. Supreme Court decide on an important federal question in ways conflicting with decision of other state?
18-9546 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether States must apply a 'watershed rule' under Teague v. Lane in post-conviction proceedings
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-29 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Whether the order promulgating the 1992 amendments to Rule 32 constituted violations of guarantees against ex post facto law and due process under the…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collateral…
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US…
18-9210 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9211 Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9217 Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations Whether the 'right' in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a pet…
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to determ…
18-1304 Richard Ashbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule Whether the courts below erred by failing to hold that this Court's decision in Burrage announced a substantive rule that courts must apply retroactiv…
18-8718 Anthony C. Barrett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex…
18-8654 Karyea Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing the appeal on Mathis applicability to Karyea Williams on collateral review?
18-8534 Gino Carlucci v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.0.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera…
18-8516 John E. Drummond v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim
18-8435 Roy Allen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague,…
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on the denial of the …
18-8261 Cordell Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a …
18-8156 In Re Dennis Bowden 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-8169 In Re Alfredo Aguirre 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-8099 In Re Henry Lee Bryant 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 1654 by refusing to allow Mr. Bryant to represent himself in the appeal of the collateral proceeding?
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Retroactive application of Birchfield v. North Dakota rule on warrantless blood tests
18-8073 Tony D. Thompson v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-time-appeal procedural-default standing withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the trial court and the Georgia Supreme Court abused their discretion by failing to reach the merits of petitioner's out-of-time appeal
18-1077 Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Does Hall v. Florida apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
18-8027 Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied IFP case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-7983 Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly imp…
18-7943 Robert David Watson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability collateral-review luis-v-united-states new-rule retroactivity section-2255 supreme-court-rule teague-analysis teague-v-lane Whether Luis v. United States is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review
18-7751 Brian Bolton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states Whether the government's arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), is 'procedural…
18-7860 Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule Does the Alleyne rule apply retroactively on collateral review?
18-7804 Denandias Watson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced or § 3559(c)-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause throu…
18-1016 Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules Was the new standard from People v. Stevens a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court interpreting the federal Constitution?
18-7725 Ralph Francis DeLeo v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review due-process judicial-proceeding luis-v-united-states new-watershed-rule powell-v-alabama retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-rule-10 watershed-rule Should this Court exercise its supervisory power under Supreme Court Rule 10 and grant review of petitioner's case?
18-7586 Zachary T. Frey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the unconstitutional residual clause by relying on post-sentencing case law
18-7510 Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-01-24 Denied IFP 42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process constitute a process to seek 'other collateral review'?
18-7538 Jeffrey Russo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause Whether the 'right' recognized in Johnson v. United States triggers the statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) for a petitioner seeking t…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court Should this Court revisit its precedent to consider whether death-sentenced inmates are entitled to the effective assistance of counsel on initial col…
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a Louisiana state criminal case has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in a first post-conviction procee…
18-7507 In Re Dwight Carter 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the 11th Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the gatekeeping standard contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C), wh…
18-7426 Terry Lamell Ezell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states procedural-burden retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states Where the sentencing record is silent or unclear on which ACCA clause the court relied, do individuals asserting a Johnson claim bear the burden to pr…
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding…
18-7448 Charles Foxx v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-7453 Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-7279 Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller …
18-7254 Alvin E. Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Is automatic reversal required where a defendant was denied counsel of choice due to the ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-7238 Antron Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination or by surveying…
18-7210 Gordon Prailow v. Maryland Maryland 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that are …
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis Whether the U.S. District and Appellate Courts violated Castro v. United States, 124 S.Ct., by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-7097 In Re Leigh Jesse Quinto 2018-12-20 Denied IFP bond-case bond-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process federalism habeas-corpus new-rule retroactivity standing supreme-court Did the Supreme Court's decision in Bond v. United States establish a new rule of constitutional law?
18-791 Kyle James Moesch v. Texas Texas 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-rights douglas-v-california due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a prisoner who raises a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings is entitled to the assistanc…
18-6984 Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner was entitled to file an application for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 and/or 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) in light of McFadden v. U.S.
18-6989 Jessie Lee Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states May a § 2255 defendant prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based upon the residual clause through a process of elimination?
18-6915 Carlton Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender guid…
18-6936 Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause through a process of elimin…
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity Whether a juror's racial bias affected a death sentence
18-6760 David Junior Upshaw v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination and rely on post-sentencing…
18-6682 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Texas Texas 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP collateral-review due-process due-process-rights habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-procedures trial-ineffectiveness trial-rights When a State chooses to create a mechanism for post-conviction relief, what due process is required to afford a habeas applicant an adequate and effec…
18-614 In Re George Houston 2018-11-09 Denied alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the individualized drug quantity or the amount of drugs attributable to the conspiracy as a whole can trigger the mandatory minimum sentence f…
18-6624 Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-08 Denied IFP batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied just as well to two white jurors, and the proof that the prosecutor's…
18-6599 Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-6537 In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-6548 Salvatore Leone v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher…
18-6435 John Rogers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel direct-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the State of Louisiana stripped John Rogers of his Constitutional Right to Representation by counsel on his claim of 'ineffective assistance o…
18-6375 Michael Whisby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-provision collateral-review mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness stokeling-v-united-states vagueness-doctrine violent-felony Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-6370 Charles Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states May a § 2255 defendant prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based upon the residual clause through a process of elimination?
18-6385 Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause through a process of elimination o…
18-6387 Spencer Bowens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro…
18-6328 Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states Whether a defendant in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding may prove that his enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause of the…
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness Is the issue of great import to potentially thousands of prisoners similarly situated and does it have significant impact on the public?
18-6281 Terry E. Callins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness Whether Mr. Callins filed his § 2255 motion within one year of the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court
18-6284 Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-420 United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circuit precedent may later seek…
18-5876 Steven Sanford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson
18-5821 Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief
18-5687 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar Whether rights generated by federal procedural and substantive due-process prohibit the state from concluding direct review
18-5730 Terrence Denmark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,statutory-interpretation,retroa retroactivity statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-confinement Should there be a two-part test for the 28 U.S.C. § 2241 instead of a Five-part test, and should the test be based on (1) illegal; unconstitutional co…
18-5674 Roger Clay Swain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness Whether federal prisoners who were sentenced under the mandatory career-offender guideline filed timely § 2255 motions within one year of Johnson v. U…
18-217 Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (9) collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama
18-5654 Willie Lee Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mathis v. United States is retroactive to cases on collateral review
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Whether a new substantive rule of constitutional law must be applied retroactively to final cases
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Does Section 2255(f)(3) toll the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson applies in a similar situation?
18-5422 Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-5268 Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an…
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an initial-review-collateral-proceeding?
18-5217 Audy Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence in light of Johnson w…
18-5222 Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions Whether a petitioner who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, which was enhanced by two later invalidated state convictions, may a…
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-11 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings Whether the state courts erred in not declaring the unconstitutional mandatory minimum sentencing statute retroactively applicable to cases on collate…
18-5191 Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) can consider the current understanding of the nat…
18-5149 Francisco Cubero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term Whether the district court's failure to correctly inform the defendant of the direct consequences of pleading guilty prejudiced the defendant
18-5166 Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when…
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…