credibility-findings
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-651 | John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence | Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim | |
| 22-982 | Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Danny Lee Jones | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (9) | capital-case capital-punishment credibility-findings district-court district-court-deference habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review strickland strickland-standard | Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the dis… |