conviction-challenge

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6552 In Re Kevin Othell La Ferney 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge due-process judicial-review state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can arbitrarily deprive a defendant of constitutional rights by maintaining a conviction without subject matter jurisdiction
24A774 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete conviction-challenge death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying a death row prisoner's habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction a…
24-14 James R. Zuegel v. Marco Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim conviction conviction-challenge probation section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Does this Court's opinion in Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1 (1998), permit an individual, who has completed his probation, to pursue a 42 U.S.C. section…
23A919 Jurgen Marku v. Florida Florida 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's decision affirming Marku's convictions violated his constitutional due process rights or was othe…
22-6477 Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced…
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Whether the state Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas' adjudication denying Petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus was contrary to or involved an unreasona…
21-7668 Russell Haley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who pleads guilty has the right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's deficient pe…
21-5589 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing Whether the United States District Court has jurisdiction to grant relief for a writ of habeas corpus
21-5435 In Re Antonio Crawford 2021-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus Can a federal prisoner seek 28 USC 2254 habeas corpus relief to challenge the conviction based on a claim of actual innocence?
21-5365 Mark Lee Wilkinson v. Siobhan Burtlow, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction conviction-challenge habeas-corpus new-judgment petition-filing sentence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation successive-petitions time-limitation whether-new-judgment-restarts-one-year-time-limitation
20-7816 Lassissi Afolabi v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix Third Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2246 18-usc-2255(e) 18-usc-2423(b) constitutional-review conviction-and-sentence-enhancement conviction-challenge criminal-statute due-process savings-clause sexual-abuse-of-a-minor supreme-court-interpretation Whether the generic federal definition of sexual abuse of a minor defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2246 applies to 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b) statute
20-7761 Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant who has not served over a year in prison can assume his prior conviction was vacated for purposes of a felon-in-possession charge
20-6079 In Re Dale McKenzie 2020-10-20 Denied IFP constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior Georgia conviction was void, an…
20-6000 Sara G. Kielly v. New York New York 2020-10-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing Whether a defendant is required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly plead constitutional conditions and treatment in prison on the plea…
20-372 Richard Louis Arnold Phillips v. Kevin Chappell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-challenge due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey partial-reversal section-1983 standing Does a plaintiff remain 'Heck barred' from seeking §1983 relief when their conviction is partially reversed, vacating the only sentence imposed, but p…
19-7144 James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing Can a federal prisoner challenge their sentence or conviction under 28 U.S.C. Sect. 2241 motion when their post Section 2255 motion is inadequate or i…
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 …
18-9074 Aaron Francois v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-constitution sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error Whether the evidence was sufficient to establish that the murder and underlying felony of armed robbery formed a continuous transaction without a sign…
18-1320 Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied 28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence should be considere…