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25-5932 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-10-22 Denied IFP choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an error of the most fundamental character, properly before t…
25-5786 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review I. Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and then rigidly applying a post-conviction custody re…
25-85 Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver 1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec…
25-5008 Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines 1. DESPITE THE RECORD SHOWING THAT PETITIONER IS FACTUALLY INNOCENT OF DISTRIBUTING MORPHINE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT C…
24-7393 Walter Aceituno v. United States First Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis effective-assistance-counsel immigration-consequences padilla-standard permanent-ban sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defense attorney is required to advise a client of a permanent immigration re-entry ban under Padilla v. Kentucky and the Sixth Ame…
24-7114 Daniel Flint v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is 'in custody' or could have-but did not-raise the same claim in a timel…
24-1037 Antoine Douglass Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived confidentiality-statute coram-nobis judicial-review personal-jurisdiction records-disclosure statutory-immunity Whether a program or person holding records is entitled to judicial review when invoking the Confidentiality records statute under 42 C.F.R. § 2.66(b)
24-957 William Stenger v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Amici (1) article-three circuit-conflict coram-nobis jurisdictional-inquiry restitution-order statutory-jurisdiction Whether a court exercising 'hypothetical statutory jurisdiction' exceeds its power under Article III and whether a district court may issue a writ of …
24-6191 David Godwin Frank v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review coram-nobis ineffective-assistance judicial-precedent procedural-delay writ-of-error Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling denying a writ of error coram nobis based on delay and lack of diligence is irreconcilable with controlling precede…
24-544 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly limited the post-conviction remedy of a writ of coram nobis and created ambiguity in its scope
24-5108 Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error Whether a petitioner must show 'civil disability' to obtain a writ of error coram nobis,
23-7752 Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars the filing of a coram nobis petition following full service of his sentence
23-1309 Karnail Singh v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response Waived breach-of-plea-agreement coram-nobis corum-nobis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement relief sixth-amendment Whether the denial of corum nobis relief was erroneous given that Petitioner suffered ineffective assistance of counsel
23-6640 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata Did the South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's writ of error coram nobis?
23-121 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error Whether a district court may require an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of coram-nobis
22-7745 James William Walker v. Montana Montana 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan Did the Montana judicial branch violate US Supreme Court precedent by denying petitioner relief under United States v. Morgan?
22-1124 Christian Gilbert Tony Nadal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coram-nobis declaratory-judgment due-process federal-question fraud habeas-corpus machine-gun-regulation machine-guns second-amendment silencers Are catalogues advertising illegal machineguns and silencers fraudulent?
22-7543 Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes 'valid reasons…
22-6980 In Re Michael Blodgett 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP amg-v-ftc coram-nobis criminal-conviction due-process frap-rule-21 judicial-error mandamus mandamus-relief restitution stare-decisis vertical-stare-decisis Where the record reveals uncontested facts that the Eighth Circuit committed more than seventeen structural errors over thirty years in three related …
22-485 Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v…
21-8166 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Did the presentation of gruesome photographs to each grand juror violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?
21-7373 Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis Whether Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system
21-7143 Johnny Brett Gregory v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 constitutional-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge petition-rights post-conviction-relief supervised-release writ-of-certiorari Does a person serving a term of supervised release have a constitutional right to avail themselves of a writ of coram nobis under 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) …
21-7125 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure coram-nobis criminal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 writ-of-coram-nobis Whether a lower court has a duty and obligation to correct a miscarriage of justice caused by fraud on the court, regardless of a harmless error of mi…
21-5806 Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram-nobis-relief should remain unresolved
21-5785 Gregory Albert Darst v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights coram-nobis due-process irs-records judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing Does a pattern and practice exist whereby appellate courts refuse to adjudicate every issue presented by the Class of unrepresented litigants appealin…
20-1710 Zafar Bakhramovich Yadigarov v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-writ appellate-procedure coram-nobis delay due-process judicial-discretion legal-diligence legal-standards procedural-standard sound-reasons writ-of-error What constitutes a legally sufficient standard of diligence for pursuing coram-nobis-relief
20-1656 Carmen Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis?
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment Whether the court of appeals denies due process by refusing to use equitable tolling for a coram nobis petition based on actual innocence
20-1301 Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief Whether the federal courts have the proper standard for granting coram nobis relief
20-7007 Vernon Allen Collins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the appellate court adoptions of the district court dispositive procedural conclusions erred in holding Collins had failed to prove Article II…
20-6395 Howard Griffith v. New York New York 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification Whether the documents that a defense counsel is entitled to have access to prior to an initial Sex Offender Registry hearing also refer to the documen…
20-6076 Harold Pena v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis due-process indictment-defect jurisdiction-errors jurisdictional-error marpol-violation material-evidence material-evidence-suppression summary-affirmance Appropriate standard of review for Eleventh Circuit's grant of summary affirmance
20-5225 Dion Alexander v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver clearly-erroneous coram-nobis garza-v-idaho plea-agreement type-c-plea Can an appeal waiver in a Type-C plea agreement bar a claim that the district court's rationale for approving the agreement was clearly erroneous?
19-7534 Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's refusal to re-invest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider petitioner Scott's petition for writ of error co…
19-7269 James Patton Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process federal-law frivolous frivolous-claim judicial-review statute-of-limitations summary-disposition transactional-immunity Whether summary disposition is appropriate when considering a petition for writ of coram nobis
19-848 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 coram-nobis decisionmaker-influence escobar-clarification false-statements fraud fraud-prosecution materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar Do Escobar's clarifications apply to the materiality requirement for False Statements prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(8)?
19-7008 Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether deportation automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release?
19-6886 Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law?
19-664 Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice
19-6572 Derrick Hills v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-proceeding coram-nobis criminal-matter federal-criminal-matter federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge united-states-v-morgan Whether Rule 12(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is applicable to coram nobis civil proceedings that challenge jurisdiction in a feder…
19-6461 Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland Maryland 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors Whether a writ of error coram nobis petition can be barred under the two-prong test of the laches defense that challenges the constitutionality of a c…
19-6049 Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted
19-130 In Re Randolph George 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus Whether a petitioner can challenge a restitution order or order imposing costs of imprisonment based on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim in …
19-5287 Robert Daley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli…
18-9783 Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali…
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-06-03 Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as t…
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-9260 Frederick E. Braxton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause eyewitness perjury trial-judge witness-credibility Is Due Process and/or Equal Protection Clauses of the XIVth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violated when the sole eyewitness to a crime is the vic…
18-1385 Ruben Delhorno v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a Padilla constitutional waiver may be inferred without an evidentiary hearing by mere passage of time where defendant sought neither a direct…
18-9124 Garland D. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 Does jurisdiction exist to correct an illegal sentence at any time?
18-8382 Guy Ennis Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda…
18-6846 Luis A. Pena v. Maryland Maryland 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness Whether the Maryland appellate courts erred or abused their discretion
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-253 Michael Felix v. New York New York 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment
18-5701 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis Did the Second Circuit err by dismissing petitioner's appeal?
18-144 Keith Byron Baranski v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility Whether, without briefing, a Court of Appeals may substitute the 28 U.S.C. §2255 standard for second or successive' motions by prisoners in custody fo…
18-30 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis actual-innocence,coram-nobis,due-process,federal-criminal-procedure,harmless-error,statute-of-limitations
18-5100 Ras Rahim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme Whether the writ of coram nobis is the proper avenue for a federal inmate to challenge a portion of a consecutive sentencing scheme when the federal p…
18-14 Carlos Donjuan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness Whether the Petitioner was denied due process and equal protection when the court failed to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea under Padilla v. Ken…