constitutional-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
23-5146 Santos Rosales Martinez v. Iowa Iowa 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rule habeas-corpus iowa-constitution iowa-courts judicial-discretion new-rule-of-law schlup-test schlup-v-delo schmidt-v-state Whether the Iowa Courts have failed to properly adjudicate the Petitioner's actual-innocence claims
22-7041 Deandre Markee King v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity Whether actual innocence requires a court to bypass a collateral-attack waiver
21-6750 Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o…
21-5542 Camilo Jose Arango Latorre v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2021-08-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rule discriminatory-act due-process fair-trial perjured-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the nonretroactive application of the constitutional rule of Ramos v. Louisiana, in this case being substantive and/or discretionary for the s…
21-5268 Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution Whether newly declared constitutional rule of criminal procedure apply retrospectively
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…
20-251 Willie Gipson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent Ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity state-collateral-review Teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review
20-5334 Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability
19-8838 Magdaleno Medina, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255h aggravated-assault-as-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states constitutional-rule johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-barrier section-2244b4 successive-motion violent-felony williams-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,reckless-conduct,serious-bodily-injury,successive-habeas-petition,jurisdiction
18-9670 Charles L. Trice v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 9th-amendment conflict-in-circuits constitutional-rule due-process due-process-interpretation eleventh-circuit-conflict griffith-v-kentucky ninth-amendment second-amendment self-defense self-defense-right weiand-decision Whether the Florida post-conviction court unreasonably applied Griffith v. Kentucky in determining that Trice's convictions were final when the Florid…
18-5735 Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-23 Denied IFP apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane Whether the Apprendi-Alleyne rule should be applied retroactively
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
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987) (holding that on direct review a new constitu…
18-5030 Shawn Williams v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Dismissed IFP congress constitutional-rule due-process evidence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt supervisory-authority Whether Boukin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), is a Constitutional Rule of Court, mandated on the District Court or merely the exercise of its superv…