| 25-6781 |
Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 |
1. Procedural Due Process I Rule 60(b) Jurisdiction
Whether the Due Process Clause pennits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion
be… |
| 25-6600 |
Naveed Rasheed Shike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression judicial-review legal-dismissal suppression-motion |
I. Whether Shike's suppression motion should have been granted?
II. Whether Shike's indictment should have been dismissed? |
| 25-838 |
Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity |
1. Whether Petitioner Heid's two grounds for
challenging the arresting officers' defense of qualified
immunity defense constitute a valid "Franks
chal… |
| 25-6567 |
Rajeri Curry v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
edwards-rule evidence-suppression fourth-amendment interrogation-violation poisonous-tree-doctrine right-to-counsel |
Where the police violated the rule announced in Edwards v. Arizona by continuing to question petitioner after she twice invoked her right to counsel, … |
| 25-816 |
Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct |
Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny, prosecutors have an obligation to disclose evidence favorable to the accused, either bec… |
| 25-6524 |
Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop |
1. Following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and while preparing to search an apartment within a large apartment complex, police obs… |
| 25-6312 |
Fred Baskin v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
I. Whether the Fourt h Amendment is violated and requires
suppression of evidence, when the police conduct a
warrantless search of the arrestee's ba… |
| 25-6155 |
Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct stare-decisis |
1. Should the unsettled issue in Heck v. Humphrey and Spencer v. Kenma^where this court has not definitively ruled that criminal defendants may use a … |
| 25-525 |
Damion Anthony Delapena v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining |
1. Does federal habeas petitioner make a "substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right" under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) where his trial at… |
| 25-5777 |
In Re Tyrone Moore |
|
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct preliminary-hearing |
1. Why did the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), Clark County District Court, District Attorney's office and Prosecutors office violat… |
| 25-241 |
Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
I. Whether the trial court's summary denial of
Petitioner's facially sufficient ineffective
assistance of counsel claim without an
evidentiary hear… |
| 25-5406 |
Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant |
I. Mr. Whiteside moved to suppress the evidence related to the firearms because the affidavit did not establish a nexus. Did the district court improp… |
| 25-5300 |
In Re Onofre Serrano |
|
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression ninth-circuit probable-cause |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily concluded that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right?
2. Whe… |
| 25A105 |
Ismael Bimbow v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through a warrantless search lacking exigent circumstances and potentially b… |
| 25-5191 |
Steven Edward Stein v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's determination that "equally accessible" evidence has not been suppressed by the State is contrary to Brady and … |
| 25-5005 |
Tawsif Tajwar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cumulative-error evidence-suppression jury-instructions mental-state sixth-amendment trial-court |
Whether a determinative response by the trial court to a jury question posed during deliberation regarding a question of fact results in prejudice to … |
| 24-7512 |
In Re Walter Drummond |
|
2025-06-26 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression miranda-rights unlawful-arrest |
Did the Florida Supreme Court err in denying the respondent's motion to suppress evidence due to an unlawful arrest and Miranda rights violation? |
| 24-7397 |
John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-murder diligence-standard evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering evidence inadmissible despite prosecutorial suppression under Brady v. Maryland, and whether… |
| 24-7277 |
Derek Michael Mims v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence-suppression judicial-review motion-to-suppress probable-cause warrant-validity wiretap-application |
Whether a district court judge who makes probable cause and necessity findings in connection with a wiretap application may later review its own findi… |
| 24-6957 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Whether the trial court erred by precluding Addie Brice's civil suit statement from evidence and improperly withholding crucial testimony |
| 24-6930 |
Demetris Sean Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court effective-assistance-counsel evidence-suppression fourth-circuit |
Whether the District Court erred by allowing evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights and whether the Fourth Circuit Court… |
| 24-6704 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper standard for Brady claims by requiring proof of state possession of evidence and mater… |
| 24-821 |
Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance |
Whether Mr. Lewis's state court appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to present obvious and significant constitutional challenges to the admi… |
| 24-6455 |
Ernest Murphy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit |
Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's 'favorable' definition that is incongruent with well-established Const… |
| 24-798 |
Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute |
Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f… |
| 24-6365 |
Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-tort court-order-disobedience due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the 5th Circuit and District Court committed reversible error by not considering the prejudice suffered from the causal link of disobedience b… |
| 24-6171 |
Demajio J. Ellis v. Linda Carper, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-review district-court-decision evidence-suppression motion-to-suppress summary-judgment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision to deny defendant's motion to suppress evidence and gran… |
| 24A585 |
Trinidad Alvarado v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment methamphetamine-possession search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through an allegedly illegal search and seizure in a state criminal prosecut… |
| 24-5990 |
Darius Rush v. James Corrigan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression trial-counsel |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated when trial counsel failed to challenge potentially coerced evidence and suppressed … |
| 24-484 |
Michigan v. David Allan Lucynski |
Michigan |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
evidence-suppression fourth-amendment legal-mistake police-conduct probable-cause reasonable-standard |
Whether all unreasonable mistakes of law by police constitute deliberate or reckless conduct requiring evidence suppression |
| 24-5424 |
Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Oklahoma |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State of Oklahoma violated due process by suppressing material exculpatory evidence and retroactively applying an expanded judicial interp… |
| 24-198 |
Michigan v. Floyd Russell Galloway, Jr. |
Michigan |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
deterrence-doctrine evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception police-misconduct prosecutorial-responsibility |
Is exclusion of reliable, probative evidence of guilt warranted to deter an outside officer's misconduct where there are other deterrents that do not … |
| 24-5217 |
Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the Third Circuit's Brady materiality test—under which suppressed evidence is immaterial if it contradicts the prosecution's trial evidence—co… |
| 23A975 |
Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of a vehicle during a traffic stop based on an officer's alleged reasonable suspicion of c… |
| 23-7334 |
William Charles Froemming v. City of West Allis, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
checks-and-balances civil-procedure court-access court-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct judicial-transparency legal-transparency perjury transcripts |
Whether a court can deny access to recordings of proceedings, thereby eliminating any checks and balances for accuracy of the transcripts produced |
| 23-6982 |
Paulius Telamy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression favorable-evidence postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence |
Whether, under Brady v. Maryland, the prosecution suppressed favorable evidence |
| 23-6825 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial judicial-integrity prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness |
Question not identified |
| 23-6773 |
Rita R. Smith v. Mount Sinai Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidence-suppression labor-relations termination termination-dispute workplace-policies workplace-retaliation |
Why was I not allowed to submit proof of where & when job assignment |
| 23-6436 |
Luis Manso v. Patricia McGill, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation court-of-appeals evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington strong-evidence |
Does Strickland-v-Washington allow the Court-of-Appeals to dismiss the defendant's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on strong-evidence of… |
| 23-6371 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights clearance-system constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-suppression obstruction-of-justice sixth-amendment |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1695 |
| 23-6319 |
Lacarl Dow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause suppression-of-evidence warrant-application |
Did the affiant officer intentionally or recklessly make false or misleading statements or omissions in support of the warrant |
| 23-6193 |
Steven Vincent Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search |
Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab… |
| 23-610 |
Frander Salguero v. California |
California |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedures material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding |
| 23-6066 |
Kirk Lamar Williams v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violations due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial |
Whether the State of Washington violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel |
| 23-5952 |
Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Did the district court improperly deny suppression and did the appellate court improperly affirm the district court? |
| 23-5247 |
In Re David Jackson |
|
2023-07-31 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights |
| 23-5227 |
Luis Roman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel |
Why were the defendant indicted and tried at a bench trial in violation of 725 ILCS 5/109-3? |
| 23-36 |
Liam C. Lattin v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-by-case case-by-case-analysis categorical deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment social-cost suppression |
Whether the social cost of suppression is determined on a case-by-case basis or has been resolved categorically by this Court's Fourth Amendment juris… |
| 23-5043 |
Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness |
Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the jury? |
| 23-5013 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
brady brady-violation civil-rule-60b due-process evidence evidence-suppression indigent-defendant new-trial new-trial-motion possession suppression |
Whether a Brady violation requires suppression to be dependent upon possession |
| 22-7466 |
Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-05-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18)Relisted (12)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-punishment due-process evidence-suppression false-testimony kyles-v-whitley materiality napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
whether-the-state's-suppression-of-the-key-prosecution-witness's-admission-he-was-under-the-care-of-a-psychiatrist-and-failure-to-correct-that-witness… |
| 22-7372 |
Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings |
When Article I, Section 9 of the North Carolina Constitution states that 'every person restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy to inquire in… |
| 22-7318 |
Shannon Miles Lancaster v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidence-suppression fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance involuntary-plea plea-involuntariness south-carolina-homeland-security-act strickland strickland-standard suppression-motion |
Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Petitioner a certificate of appealability, where the St… |
| 22-7264 |
Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing |
Whether an illegal search and seizure took place |
| 22-7217 |
Antoine Bryant, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant search-and-seizure suppression warrant-requirements |
Whether a no-knock search warrant issued, without any evidence of an exigent circumstance, should result in the evidence being suppressed under the Fo… |
| 22-7111 |
Tony Khong v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-vs-maryland de-novo-review evidence-suppression giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-vs-whitley materiality ninth-circuit united-states-vs-bagley |
Did the Ninth Circuit's de novo disposition of Petitioner's Brady claim in the habeas corpus context, which focused exclusively on Bagley's earlier tu… |
| 22-6798 |
Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression |
Whether a defendant must show inability to discover favorable evidence through due diligence to establish 'suppression' under Brady v. Maryland |
| 22-6747 |
Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching |
Did the Trial Judge's labeling petitioner as a sex offender to the jury when he had never been charged with such offenses and was charged with drug of… |
| 22-6623 |
Jarmell Raymond Mayweather v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-violation informant-falsification prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant |
Whether the government omission of evidence that was contrast affiant's Search Warrant Application (SWA) statements constituted a Brady and Franks vio… |
| 22-6525 |
Keith D. Arline, Jr. v. California |
California |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence williams-v-traylor |
Whether the California Supreme Court rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Brady-v-Maryland,Kyl… |
| 22-6500 |
Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-01-09 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2)Relisted (21)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty ve… |
| 22-6430 |
Alex Bugno v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure |
Are search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring suppre… |
| 22-6183 |
James Bauhaus v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-md brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial false-conviction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review |
Does congress illegally nullify the Due Process amendment and the Fair Trial Guarantee of the Supreme Law of this Land |
| 22-6187 |
Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search |
Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence? |
| 22-6171 |
Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression government-misconduct grand-jury grand-jury-subpoena prosecutorial-misconduct subpoenas |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii sanctioned the abuse of process and violation of the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment … |
| 22-6012 |
Paige Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure utah-v-strieff |
Is it error to apply the attenuation test articulated in Brown v. Illinois to determine whether evidence discovered during an illegal search should be… |
| 22-5974 |
Draco Aurum Rat v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-issues fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether a prosecutor who misrepresents witness testimony, asks false leading questions, and solicits false testimony has committed a fundamental error… |
| 22-5813 |
Katherine Elizabeth Langhorst v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining search-and-seizure trial-procedure |
Was the evidence seized in this cause/case 'Fruits of The Poisonous Tree'? |
| 22-5745 |
Deron Devaughn Mahone v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-application |
Whether a reasonable officer would have known that Officer Stewart's warrant affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have … |
| 22-5684 |
Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 22-5450 |
Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Whether the district court erred in finding that Crump received effective assistance of trial counsel |
| 22-5273 |
Bradley Beauchamp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation |
Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articulabl… |
| 22-85 |
Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris |
Oregon |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegation? |
| 22-5164 |
Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Appeals Court ruling deprived petitioner of his right under Brady v. Maryland, where the Government had violated its obligation to turn ov… |
| 22-5058 |
Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by … |
| 22-5050 |
Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision creates conflict with other Circuits regarding the admissibility and materiality requirements under Brady v. Ma… |
| 21-7964 |
Estevan Saucedo v. California |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics |
Was Appellant's Confession Admissible Since He Was Coerced by Illegal Police Tactics? |
| 21-7747 |
Michael G. Peters v. Kenneth M. Hoyt, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation corporate-cover-up due-process evidence-suppression free-speech government-action legal-dispute petition-clause standing takings |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances, including the right to file lawsuit… |
| 21-7724 |
Anthony Fields v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop |
Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple… |
| 21-7667 |
Daniel Irving v. California |
California |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial innocence-evidence judicial-discretion presumption-of-innocence publication-of-decisions unpublished-decisions |
Shouldn't it be illegal to suppress evidence? |
| 21-7508 |
Draven Greene v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles |
| 21-1035 |
Joshua Harris v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial in-limine tax-court |
Whether the U.S Tax Court and the Second Circuit conflicts with the United States Constitution, Amendment 6 and the Fourteenth Amendment to a fair and… |
| 21-6885 |
Miguel Gonzalez Segovia v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment pretrial-motion probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-stop |
Whether the Court erred when it denied Mr. Gonzalez Segovia's pretrial motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to the vehicle stop |
| 21-6688 |
Freddie McNeill, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-claim brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression judicial-review materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility witness-reliability |
Whether a reviewing court considering a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must assess the reliability and credibility of the witnesse… |
| 21-6593 |
Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony |
Whether the state court decision by which 'clearly established federal law' is measured is rendered when the state court issues its mandate |
| 21-6546 |
Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc… |
| 21-6324 |
Jesus Alfredo Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure communication-interception criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression probable-cause title-iii wiretap |
Whether the district court erred in authorizing a wiretap of Petitioner's communications under Title III and in failing to suppress the evidence inter… |
| 21-6209 |
Angelo Cobbins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression intellectual-capacity motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel trial-court waiver |
Whether the ruling on the Motion to Suppress was error as it was demonstrated the Petitioner did not possess the intellectual capacity to waive his Cu… |
| 21-6041 |
Eric Benson Skeens v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether the state courts erred when they allowed the state and its agents to tamper with, suppress, and withhold evidence favorable to the petitioner,… |
| 21-5660 |
Kevin McBride v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-conviction police-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence wrongful-conviction |
When fraudulent police reports deceive the lower court into a false conviction, shouldn't the fraud precede the false conviction and be overturned imm… |
| 21-5661 |
Raymond Moya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 |
| 21-282 |
Brian Russell Turner v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arizona-v-youngblood body-camera-footage brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-standard |
Whether the Supreme Court of Mississippi Erred in Denying Petitioner's Claim that the Prosecution Withheld Exculpatory Evidence Pursuant to Brady v. M… |
| 21-5456 |
Yarlin Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress? |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 21-5394 |
Michael Nathaniel Boyd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the court should grant certiorari, vacate the circuit's ruling, and demand further consideration in light of Strickland v. Washington and Napu… |
| 21-5262 |
In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi |
|
2021-07-29 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination |
Deprivation of federal habeas review |
| 21-5183 |
Robert McMillian v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-evidence california criminal-procedure district-of-columbia due-process evidence-suppression judicial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court |
Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the withholding of material Brady evidence is inconsistent with opinions f… |
| 20-8472 |
Rocky Leandro Orosco v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress warrantless-search |
Is Mr. Orosco entitled to a hearing to challenge the 'obtainment' of his cell phone? |
| 20-8228 |
John Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery? |
| 20-1677 |
Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo… |
| 20-8127 |
Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence |
Does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the 'but for' cause of the subsequent discovery of contraband or is it the prosecution's… |
| 20-8001 |
In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. |
|
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
Whether Mr. Pizzuto is entitled to habeas relief or an extraordinary writ due to the State's suppression of evidence and presentation of false testimo… |
| 20-7897 |
Steve L. Stanaland, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence firearm-possession right-to-counsel second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one's home in a desolate area far from law enforcement |
| 20-1314 |
Joshua Gregory Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation legal-procedure paid-citation sixth-amendment traffic-stop unlawful-search |
Whether Counsel's decision not to suppress evidence unlawfully seized from a traffic stop because a traffic citation was paid, then relying on that pa… |
| 20-7397 |
William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur… |
| 20-7329 |
Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop |
| 20-7078 |
Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant |
WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA… |
| 20-1053 |
Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources |
Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny |
| 20-6984 |
Ralph Frank Esposito, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression structural-error witness-testimony |
Whether the State of Arizona violated the Defendant's rights to due process under the 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution and under specif… |
| 20-6771 |
Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application |
Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search |
| 20-6676 |
Hernandez Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
alibi alibi-defense brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-procedure criminal-appeal due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression strickland-v-washington |
Whether suppression of (some) evidence is sufficient according to the procedures mandated by Brady v. Maryland |
| 20-6683 |
Reynaldo Diaz-Guzman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the court of appeals erred and abused its discretion in rejecting the challenge to the indictment and argument for dismissal for lack of subje… |
| 20-6621 |
Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in deferring to the Superior Court's finding that Ms. Smith was not prejudiced by her appellate counsel's failure to rais… |
| 20-6558 |
Sonya Bamberg v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-proceedings right-to-appeal right-to-counsel |
Whether a judge who did not preside over the trial may certify a supplemental record of testimony from witnesses eight years after a conviction when t… |
| 20-6440 |
Benjamin K. Toscano v. Nancy Adam, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication medical-negligence medical-treatment pain-and-suffering procedural-due-process spinal-injury |
Does respondent have the right to submit fabricated documents? |
| 20-6321 |
Alexander Cameron v. John F. Walrath, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence false-forensic-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-fabrication witness-tampering |
Can the State convict an innocent defendant for crimes committed by a person that does not exist? |
| 20-6161 |
Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping |
Whether a wiretap order that fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order is insufficient on its face, thereb… |
| 20-6127 |
Jermaine Antwan Tart v. Jamese Vigus, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression housing judicial-procedure pleadings summary-judgment video-evidence |
How can the case be closed without any decision on one of the due process claims? |
| 20-5814 |
Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 20-5727 |
Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-5606 |
Keith A. Brown v. Alberto Ramirez |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment incompetent-defendant motion-to-suppress suppression-of-evidence |
When the state fails to carry its burden of proof in a motion to suppress hearing, is the remedy suppression of the evidence or can the state have a s… |
| 20-5494 |
Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review |
Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 20-5360 |
Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Should newly discovered Brady/Napue evidence be considered by federal courts or returned to state court? |
| 20-5273 |
Andrew Hargett, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence |
| 20-5023 |
Carter Vincent Anderson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeal erred in review of claim presented which clearly show ineffective assistance of counsel on both trial a… |
| 19-8919 |
Scott Clevenger v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence-suppression miranda-rights right-to-counsel self-incrimination suppression-of-evidence |
Whether Petitioner's self-incriminating statements that was given while he was in custodial interigation without him first being notified of his Miran… |
| 19-8859 |
Brian A. Maus v. Scott Eckstein, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal client-rights counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance no-merit-brief |
Can appellant counsel withdraw off of the petitioners case, because the petitioner wouldn't agree to allow appellate counsel to file a no-merit brief? |
| 19-8747 |
Robert Neil Coronado v. Amanda Stinson, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-integrity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
Was a procedural due process violation committed by the Court of Appeals in failing to grant a rehearing on the probability of admission of evidence o… |
| 19-8494 |
Michael Lustig v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure standing |
Whether failure to suppress evidence resulting from an illegal search amounted to a violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 19-8344 |
Brett Combs v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury |
Whether the state court's fact-finding process was undermined by ignoring evidence supporting the petitioner's claim |
| 19-8025 |
Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the Arkansas Court of Appeals erred in finding that the admission of an allegedly involuntary statement was harmless error |
| 19-8014 |
Michael Artis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two persons absent probable cause of crimin… |
| 19-7925 |
Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court abused discretion in denying petitioner's request for counsel |
| 19-7893 |
Nicholas Roos v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-case evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining psychological-evaluation red-flags strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel-performance |
Did Arkansas Supreme Court misapply Strickland-v-Washington |
| 19-1055 |
Dustin Moss v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number |
Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war… |
| 19-1030 |
Karen Bishop v. Palm Beach County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
-animal-seizure -due-process -judicial-discretion -property-rights -statutory-interpretation #NAME? animal-welfare due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion property-rights suppressed-evidence vague-definition-of-fitness vagueness |
How can a definition or determination of fitness be assessed when the Florida Statute 828.073(4)(a) provides a vague description of fitness, puts the … |
| 19-7682 |
Eric Beverly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application |
Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it… |
| 19-7578 |
Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information |
Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? |
| 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… |
| 19-7513 |
Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in its rulings on ineffective assistance of counsel claims |
| 19-7419 |
Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the trial court abused its authority by revoking a community supervision because of a new honest mistake charge which was ultimately dismissed… |
| 19-7282 |
John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest? |
| 19-7035 |
Michael B. Lowry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Does the government bear the burden of proving that the attenuation doctrine applies to preclude suppression of evidence after an illegal search or se… |
| 19-7037 |
Shannon Bradley v. Thomas A. Cox, Jr. |
Georgia |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure trial-court-jurisdiction unlawful-search unlawful-seizure |
Whether the trial court lawfully obtained its jurisdiction to be heard? |
| 19-6963 |
Roland A. Prenatt v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment attorney-accountability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment mental-health probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-speedy-trial,due-process,right-to- speedy-trial |
Whether the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the accused the right to a speedy trial, and why the judge and attorney can waive this… |
| 19-6909 |
Efrain J. Rosa v. R. L. Rhodes, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation conviction-reversal criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Has the government's suppression of exculpatory evidence violated due process under the Fifth Amendment? |
| 19-6841 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure delayed-sealing evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment sealing statutory-compliance suppression surveillance-law title-iii title-iii-intercept unforeseen-emergency wiretap wiretap-procedure wiretap-suppression |
Should a wiretap that was not sealed until 30 days after interception ended, and 21 days after the order expired, be suppressed where that delay was n… |
| 19-6729 |
Cedric Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights |
Can my motion to suppress be denied even after I invoked my right to remain silent? |
| 19-6491 |
Matthew Shaffer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing |
Whether the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing and suppress evidence obtained under a search warrant |
| 19-6381 |
Anthony Tyrone Brown v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-activity-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel were violated |
| 19-6095 |
Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement |
Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva… |
| 19-5902 |
Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause |
Whether the actions taken by law enforcement, including arrest and detention without a judicial determination of probable cause, violate the petitione… |
| 19-5855 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-suppression government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct public-officials standing state-officials |
Whether Michigan public officials failed to perform their duties and deprived petitioner of due process of law? |
| 19-5801 |
Emory Chiles v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5474 |
Terry Lee Carlson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard plain and unambiguous language in the search warrant limiting searches to the computers located in t… |
| 19-5152 |
Daryll Keith Shumake v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights court-filing due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-access legal-materials prison-litigation prisoner-rights prosecutorial-misconduct |
How did the law waive the petitioner's right to confrontation? |
| 18-9771 |
Dennis William Robinson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression fair-trial iada-violation jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial suppression-of-evidence |
Did State Court violate Petitioner's constitutional rights? |
| 18-9702 |
Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search |
Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va… |
| 18-9397 |
Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search |
Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus… |
| 18-9051 |
Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question that conflicts with this Court in Brady v. Maryland… |
| 18-8971 |
William T. Liepe v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search |
Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl… |
| 18-8909 |
David Lee Gentles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1385 constitutional-violation evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-search law-enforcement-limits posse-comitatus-act search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence |
Should a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 1385) serve as a foundation for suppression of fruits of the resulting illegal sear… |
| 18-8927 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bench-court-relationship brady-v-maryland brady-violation complaining-witnesses constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct state-government |
Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two complaini… |
| 18-8928 |
Alberto Julio Guillen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure standing |
Whether a warrantless entry and search, where the totality of the circumstances indicates that exigent circumstances had occurred, or was recovering e… |
| 18-8942 |
Jeffrey Akard v. Robert E. Carter Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
412-Rape-Shield-law-conflict Brady-materials brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process habeas-corpus habeas-relief impeaching-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-shield-law sentencing-claims strickland-standards |
Was Petitioner's 94 year sentence for rape related charges based only on accuser's testimony, in violation of Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process, warrant hab… |
| 18-8815 |
Scott Randall Reich v. Mike Slagle, Correctional Administrator, Mountain View Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial standing witness-testimony |
Has rules of evidence precluded by Speedy Trial Act from being used to impeach witness testimony? |
| 18-1238 |
Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute |
Denial of due process in dismissal of case without considering evidence, denial of discovery, improper consolidation of cases, judicial bias and misco… |
| 18-8508 |
Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight… |
| 18-8425 |
Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals brady-violation civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal-timeliness-dismissal-rules- constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression new-trial-motion procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rules-of-court standing timeliness |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court rule erroneously in dismissing petitioner's appeal as being untimely under Rule 5:9(a) of the Supreme Court of Virginia… |
| 18-8402 |
Jesse Allen Dauenhauer, aka Jesse A. Dauenhauer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,exclusionary-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence washington-state-law |
Should the District Court have suppressed the evidence of firearms in the Defendant's car because the search and seizure was inadmissible under Washin… |
| 18-8218 |
Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression |
Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v… |
| 18-8127 |
Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal |
Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated |
| 18-7525 |
Delexsia Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 |
Should the analysis utilized in Old Chief v. United States control in determining whether prejudicial information should have been excluded in the def… |
| 18-7527 |
David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states |
Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether Mr.… |
| 18-915 |
Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search |
Whether producing identification without being requested justifies search for weapons several minutes later |
| 18-7395 |
Wilfred H. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence |
Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does the materiality standard require that the suppressed evidence directly go to proving any count again… |
| 18-7248 |
Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition |
| 18-6917 |
Rodolfo Portela v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance |
| 18-6844 |
Christopher John Kerr v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight search-and-seizure standing void-warrant warrant-validity |
Should a void ab initio warrant issued by a judge be treated as if it never existed and, consequently, should evidence obtained pursuant thereto not b… |
| 18-6696 |
Octavio Torres Ortega v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-to-suppress public-defender speedy-trial trial-counsel witness-credibility |
did-the-trial-court-err-in-denying-a-judgment-of-acquittal |
| 18-6686 |
Grady Pederson v. Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process evidence-suppression sex-offender-registry standing statute-of-limitations |
Why was the State of Minnesota allowed to suppress evidence since 11/01/1995? |
| 18-6531 |
Tyler G. Eppes v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence evidence-suppression inevitable-discovery military-magistrate personal-bags scope-of-search scrivener's-error search-authorization search-warrant serivener's-error |
Was this an error? |
| 18-6486 |
In Re Steve G. Hernandez |
|
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment |
What is the constitutional violation of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-6431 |
Justin Jenkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search |
Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence from illegal searches |
| 18-6396 |
Guillermo Solorio, Jr. v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b)(2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure evidence-suppression federal-statute habeas-corpus hidden-evidence second-or-successive-petition |
Whether a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus based on Brady v. Maryland Evidence That Was Hidden from a Criminal Defendant — Until After Appeal and … |
| 18-410 |
Corey D. Yates v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
|
brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence |
Whether a defendant must show he did not know of and could not have reasonably obtained the suppressed evidence to establish a Brady violation |
| 18-5901 |
Willis Maxi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment illegal-search knock-and-talk law-enforcement-entry motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence and statement? |
| 18-5690 |
Darren Taylor v. Thomas Schweitzer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gps-data search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity to litigate his claim of being denied his constitutional right t… |
| 18-5535 |
Paul Lynn Schlieve v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland case-dispositive-motion due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment materiality prosecutorial-duty suppression-motion suppression-of-evidence |
Does the prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory evidence under the Fifth Amendment include evidence that is favorable and material to a Fourth Amen… |
| 18-5570 |
Ilich Vargas v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County |
California |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-informants due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether district attorneys/prosecutors have a free-standing obligation to investigate and inquire into the backgrounds of criminal jailhouse informant… |
| 18-5526 |
Michael P. Lough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5327 |
Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan |
| 18-5255 |
Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the suppression of evidence of inducements provided to Commonwealth witnesses violates Brady v. Maryland, where the defense could have used th… |
| 18-5201 |
Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-58 |
Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed |
| 18-5004 |
Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe |
| 18-5010 |
Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews |
California |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence |
Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition… |