constitutional-ruling

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7543 Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the fili…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin…
19-6401 Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-10-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 gives the court of appeals error correction power to set aside or reverse a lower court's decision that is clearly inco…
19-5354 Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealabili…