| 25-6472 |
Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-offense direct-review due-process felony-murder retroactive-application substantive-change |
Roberto Lopez -Ortiz is serving life in prison for an offense that no longer exist s. He fully preserve d his challenge to second -degree felony -murd… |
| 25-562 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend… |
| 25-5078 |
Lawrence J. Turner v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-performance direct-review ineffective-assistance issue-preservation legal-standard reasonableness-test |
Whether, in assessing direct-review counsel's performance based upon the omission of a preserved issue, lower courts should either apply the clearly s… |
| 24-6428 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure cert-petition constitutional-adjudication direct-review judicial-mandate supreme-court-rule |
Whether a petitioner's direct review is impacted by a new Supreme Court rule when lower courts enter an amended judgment before the Supreme Court's fi… |
| 24-5529 |
Jose Muyet v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction |
Does the concurrent sentence doctrine permit a federal court to decline review of a collateral challenge to a federal criminal conviction, even one ca… |
| 23-7742 |
Clifton William Batts v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure direct-review due-process finality habeas-corpus |
Question not identified |
| 23-7266 |
Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings |
Whether a conviction can be obtained, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury to convict, when the r… |
| 23-6255 |
David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause |
Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of 'direct … |
| 23-6067 |
Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-protection constitutional-rights direct-review due-process gideon-v-wainright habeas-corpus issue-preclusion res-judicata |
If legal claims preserved by a state court during direct review share the same constitutional protections as the right to an appeal from a final judgm… |
| 23-5712 |
Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to the state court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing on his claim of actual … |
| 23-307 |
Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity |
Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding |
| 22-7215 |
Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-04-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction |
Did the trial court have jurisdiction to convict the petitioner? |
| 22-6512 |
Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court |
Whether the lower Florida state court's error in failing to correctly calculate the date that petitioner's direct review of his case became 'final' de… |
| 22-5973 |
Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Can ineffectiveness or incompetence of counsel on direct review result in a Sixth Amendment violation? |
| 21-5934 |
Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are part of the 'direct review' process under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(… |
| 21-5268 |
Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution |
Whether newly declared constitutional rule of criminal procedure apply retrospectively |
| 20-7523 |
Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-03-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Is Petitioner convicted by a non-unanimous verdict, whose case is not yet final, entitled to the benefit of the holding in Ramos? |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express 'Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code' in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6113 |
Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court |
When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a 'new judgment' pursuant to th… |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 should apply to defendants whose convictions and sentences remain pending on direct review |
| 19-6602 |
Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance |
Whether a cell phone is a 'tracking device' under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b) |
| 19-5989 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity |
Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi… |
| 18-9072 |
Dewey Lee McBride v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights direct-review due-process judicial-bias legal-claims ninth-circuit standing unbiased-judge |
Whether Mr. McBride's direct review continued until his claims were decided by an unbiased judge |
| 18-7657 |
Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial |
Was the petitioner deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial? |
| 18-7510 |
Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process constitute a process to seek 'other collateral review'? |
| 18-7310 |
Kadeem Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity |
Should the district court judge issue or deny a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5117 |
Glendrict Frazier v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity |
Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987) (holding that on direct review a new constitu… |