deference-to-state-courts

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7839 Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime Whether a federal court must defer to a state's highest appellate court's 'least culpable' interpretation of a state crime and follow this Court's dir…
19-1105 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened Supreme Court precedent in holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals made an unreasonable determinatio…
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the Fifth Circuit's 'unreasonable application' inquiry proper?