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25-6808 William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2026-02-13 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement pro-se-pleading sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether a state court judge must adhere to the principle that a pro se pleading must be construed liberally? 2. Whether the trial judge misconstru…
25-6577 Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida Florida 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre…
25-6561 Joshua Demien Magee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-13 Pending IFP collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto mississippi-supreme-court procedural-standards 1) Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may ignore the ex post facto clause by applying new decision rendered in Howell v. State, 358 So. 3d 613, 615…
25-6541 Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-12 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines 1. whether a state 's application ano enforcement of its Procedural Bars via its highest appellate Court in Certain Cases resultin annihilation Ano …
25-676 In Re John A. Shepardson 2025-12-10 Pending Response Waived attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s…
25-6278 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-argument ex-post-facto fifth-circuit peugh-v-united-states subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-booker Did the fifth Circuit have subject matter jurisdiction on direct appeal to consider an ex post facto constitutional argument that was never raised. D…
25A642 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit Whether a state's lifetime sex offender registration requirement constitutes an unconstitutional ex post facto punishment or a permissible regulatory …
25-5842 Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-5625 Fred Krug v. New Jersey State Parole Board New Jersey 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto parole-law retroactive-application sentencing-benefit Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause protects against the retroactive removal of a substantial sentencing benefit that is conferred after the date of offe…
25-5605 David Joseph Pittman v. Florida Florida 2025-09-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Phillips v. State , 299 So.3d 1013 (Fla. 2020) , denying some capital defendants the retroactive effec…
25A188 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete bank-fraud constitutional-interpretation ex-post-facto financial-institution prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits prosecuting a defendant under an expanded statutory definition of 'financial institution' that did not exis…
25-5271 Soleiman Mobarak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-law ex-post-facto presumption-of-innocence subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Novel Issue : Is the Actual Innocence Exception to a procedural bar limited t cases where petitioners are convicted, but actually innocent of crime…
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing (1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,…
24-7505 Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether consecutive sentences for two alternative pleadings of the same aggravated assault statute violate double jeopardy principles, and whether the…
24-7498 Dasahn Crowder v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto second-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial after a conviction was vacated due to failure to present evidence on an essential element in ligh…
24-7474 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-20 Denied IFP arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti…
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground Whether defense counsel's failure to request a pretrial immunity hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth …
24-6967 Robert Lee Crider v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims ex-post-facto felony-conviction habitual-criminal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying Crider's Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misunderstanding his constitutional claims and ap…
24-6793 Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. Kentucky 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as 'a matter of grace or gift' exempt parole hearing rules from ex post facto challenges under Garner v. Jon…
24-912 Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida Florida 2025-02-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto removal-provision sex-offender-registration state-courts Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether applying a more onerous sex offender registration removal provision violates ex post facto co…
24-6509 Antonio Alejandro Charlemagne, aka Antonio Gutierrez-Farah, aka Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-rules constitutional-violations due-process ex-post-facto interim-hearing parole-board Whether the Parole Board retroactively applied rules and standards in violation of due process and ex post facto guarantees when denying petitioner's …
24-6374 James Clifford Goodwin, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion congressional-intent constitutional-challenge ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance restitution Whether it is an abuse of discretion to impose a judgment that does not adhere to congressional mandates or statutes when the defendant committed an o…
24-6242 Kent Booher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights Did the Court of Appeals err in its plain error review when it held that appellant had not suffered an effect on his substantial rights that may have …
24-482 Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause
24-458 Laurie Weinlein v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legislative-extension restitution retroactive-application victim-compensation Whether the retroactive enlargement of a restitution liability period violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
24A338 Joseph Blea v. Hector Rios, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application statute-of-limitations vested-rights Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits retroactive application of an amendatory act extending a statute of limit…
24-395 William Edward Neilly v. Michigan Michigan 2024-10-09 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (8) constitutional-law criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legal-interpretation punishment restitution Whether restitution ordered as part of a criminal sentence constitutes punishment under the Ex Post Facto Clause
24-5496 Jose Manuel Galan v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jury-instructions penal-code Did the admission of evidence of child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) violate Petitioner's due process rights, and did the trial court er…
24-5447 Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation Whether the retroactive application of Oklahoma's two-stage parole hearing process violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution
24-5410 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Jones v. Hendrix can be applied retroactively, undermining habeas corpus review and potentially violating cons…
24A77 Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard Seventh Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete career-offender collateral-review ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix sentencing-enhancement Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause precludes applying the Supreme Court's Jones v. Hendrix decision to bar a federal prisoner's habeas corpus claim chal…
23-7639 Louis C. Bouie v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Pennsylvania 2024-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP drug-treatment-program due-process ex-post-facto executive-branch judicial-review sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers stare-decisis statutory-construction Did the Pennsylvania High Court unconstitutionally permit the statutory construct at 61 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105 to grant the executive branch carte blanche s…
23A1044 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state court from disgorging an attorney's fees without finding harm to clients or assessing the attorney's ab…
23-7494 Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Ohio 2024-05-17 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness Is it repugnant to convict a US citizen for innocent acts not criminalized by statute?
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability violates the established 'Slack v. McDaniel' standard to determine a substantial showing of the d…
23-7284 Neal Merrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement Due-process-violation
23-6935 Dennis James Gaede v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto excessive-punishment grand-jury north-dakota Whether Gaede's 8th and 14th Amendment Rights to Due Process and to be Free from Excessive Punishment were Violated
23-6903 Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat…
23-951 Gordon Blake v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto notice statute-of-limitations substantial-sexual-conduct vagueness Whether Ex Post Facto protections were denied by the extension of the state statute of limitations by an unforeseeable judicial interpretation of a st…
23-6620 Bruce A. Quarles v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights diligence-requirement due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60 rule-60(d)(1) timely-filing Is an imposition of a diligence requirement upon a timely filed Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(d)(1) motion a violation of the rule?
23-6539 In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his compelling claims of …
23-6432 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings Whether or not Pelytwuner is innocent of being Hebi toa! Cxiwminal olfeudtr and of the sentence of FO years () ve , im posed under the vetrcact ve app…
23-6205 Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri…
23-6070 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core
23A362 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2023-10-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation ex-post-facto habitual-criminal prior-conviction retroactive-law sentencing-enhancement Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits California from retroactively modifying a prior conviction to enhance a defendant'…
23-5753 Ben J. Latham v. Alaska Alaska 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the retroactive application of a punitive ex post facto law is prohibited under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-313 Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida, Board of Trustees, et al. Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process ex-post-facto injunction-order small-claims standing standing-to-appeal statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant whether-an-injunction-order-under-florida-vexatious-litigant-law-requires-reversal
23-5531 Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Oregon 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing Is the Ex Post Facto Clause violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date and exchange it with an indeterminate release date bas…
23-5373 Ronald Barnett v. Florida Florida 2023-08-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers sexual-predator statute-of-limitations Whether the Third District Court of Appeal and Florida Supreme Court violated the laws governing the separation of power by creating an unwritten ex p…
22-7680 Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec…
22-7678 Gary E. Peel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence child-pornography due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel takings-clause Whether the government can criminalize the possession of non-obscene photographic materials depicting only an adult
22-7532 In Re Rex Gard 2023-05-11 Denied IFP criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred?
22-7326 Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unreasonably denied the petitioner's due-process, effective-assistance-of-counsel, cruel-and-u…
22-7295 Saleem D. Williams v. Annettia Toby, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit ex-post-facto full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-denial standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit lacked proper jurisdiction to rule on a case and allow that ruling to stand
22-7071 Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction Is it a denial of due process when a state imports a due process right and then acquiesces the defendant was denied this right and then arbitrarily ta…
22-7000 Nickless Whitson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution still guarantee a criminal defendant the right to effective assistance of counsel, to prote…
22-6913 In Re Robert B. Read, Jr. 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus rules-of-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial court have implied subject-matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner for the indicted felony offense?
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the verdict form agreed upon by the jury failure to specify 'GUILTY' as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of Guilt?
22-6403 Marco D. Martin v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel electronic-monitoring ex-post-facto lifetime-electronic-monitoring plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment whether-petitioner-was-denied-constitutional-rights
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Whether the Respondent's arbitrary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is constitutional
22-6196 Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing Whether the TN U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's ex-post-facto-claim
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment whether-an-attorney's-conflict-of-interest-deprived-petitioner-of-his-rights-under-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments-to-effective-assistance-and-due…
22-6010 Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional due to a change in the law during the appeals process
22-6021 George Guo v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error Question not identified
22-413 Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1?
22-5824 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings Whether the Georgia statute OCGA 42-1-12 violates the Due Process Clause and the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution
22-5747 Demmerick Eric Brown v. Karen D. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ex-post-facto good-time-credit good-time-credits mandatory-parole parole parole-board-policy retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sentencing-modification Whether retroactive application of a parole board policy to revoke the good time credits of a parolee violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
22-5443 Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 'imminent danger' of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) apply to the time suit was filed or during any later review of the case
22-168 Ryan James Deroo v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process evidence evidence-rule ex-post-facto hearsay hearsay-exception medical-records retroactive-modification state-rule Whether a retroactive modification of a state rule of evidence allowing certain medical records to be admitted as admissible hearsay which was previou…
22-113 Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas Texas 2022-08-04 Denied Response Waived common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law
22-5151 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations Whether the State of Michigan's interpretation of its statute of limitations to revive an expired offense violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due…
22-5073 Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Arizona did not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause by sentencing Mr. McGill to death under the later-enacted s…
21-8189 Serge Francois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law ex-post-facto fraud managed-care network-application pharmacist-fraud pharmacy utilization-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit reversibly erred in affirming the conviction of a pharmacist for completing accurate pharmacy network applications with n…
21-8184 Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality whether-effective-assistance-of-counsel-was-denied
21-8077 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment Whether reasonable jurists would determine there was sufficient evidence to support convictions
21-7897 Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings whether-the-court-has-misinterpreted-an-ex-post-facto-violation-within-the-context-of-parole
21-7905 Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-18 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' use of a new non-retroactivity doctrine to deny Petitioner's subject-matter jurisdiction claim is vali…
21-7792 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness whether-the-retroactive-application-of-mississippi-statute-creates-a-significant-risk-of-prolonging-the-petitioner's-stay-in-prison
21-1377 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-04-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived cover-up due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause punitive-damages retroactive-legislation sexual-abuse-claims statute-of-limitations Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause allows retroactive legislation that was enacted with an avowedly punitive purpose, imposes additional punitive liabil…
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review Can convictions of aggravated-sexual-battery be sustained when the state-failed-to-prove-elements
21-7436 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding plaintiff failed to state a claim regarding encroachment upon plaintiff's c…
21-1254 Allen Bregman v. Florida Florida 2022-03-16 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco Whether United States v. Gouveia departed from the two-tier test for determining a due-process violation
21-7379 Patrick Joseph Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto native-american native-american-rights post-conviction-proceedings procedural-bar standing state-court-review terry-v-oklahoma Did the State of Oklahoma's refusal to provide the relief directed by this Court in Terry v Oklahoma, 141 S, Ct. 191 (2020), rise to the level of a Co…
21-7362 Kyle Kurtz v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt rules-of-court self-defense Are the rules promulgated by the United States Supreme Court being enforced?
21-7197 Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas Kansas 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su…
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity Does the ex post facto prohibition preclude a state from charging a defendant with a newly defined capital crime under a retroactivity provision
21-6774 Brandon Shane Harris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-post-facto Whether petitioner's 27-year sentence for trafficking should be vacated or reduced to the 20-year statutory maximum
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense …
21-6226 K. Jeffery Knapp v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-shift constitutional-scrutiny ex-post-facto restoration-statutes rights-restoration unconditional-discharge Whether the Ninth Circuit's failure to address Colorado's restoration statutes withstands constitutional scrutiny
21-5930 Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa Is the VWPA or MVRA the controlling law regarding payment of the Order of Restitution, and is the Ex Post Facto Clause being violated?
21-160 Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied
21-62 Paul Poupart v. Louisiana, et al. Louisiana 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court retrospective state-collateral-review Has the State of Lovisiana and its Judicial Officers created and/or imposed an ex post facto law violating the Petitioner's federal due process rights…
20-8380 David Simmons v. Earl Houser, Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure constitutional-claim dna-registration due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application state-supreme-court Whether the district court erred in failing to give deference to the state supreme court's determination that petitioner's administrative remedies had…
20-8344 Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights Does the Due Process Clause require any charging element being in the indictment and presented to a Grand Jury?
20-8224 Don Wayne Basey v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-division criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional rights were improperly infringed upon by COVID-19 prison policies
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-06-02 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appellate courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of jurisdiction over a previously exempt juvenile for capital murder vio…
20-7977 Bobby Carl Terrick v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto sentence-enhancement sentencing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the imposition of a sentence enhancement created after the commission of the offense
20-7931 Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity Whether violation of the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution is harmless if the specific definition of the conduct was done by the court
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the trial court's errors in allowing modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements violated the defendant's Fifth a…
20-7831 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights controlled-substances-act defective-indictment drug-definition ex-post-facto food-drug-cosmetics-act indictment-defect lack-of-physical-evidence Did the Appellate Court deny the Plaintiff her constitutional rights by denying her Appeal 18-2693 (L) without addressing the District Court's violati…
20-7748 Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida Florida 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration Whether the designation of the petitioner as a sexual offender pursuant to Florida Statutes §943.0435 is illegal as applied to the petitioner
20-7732 Tina LaSonya Brown v. Florida Florida 2021-04-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto jury-finding jury-findings sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedure for imposing a death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, or Fourteenth Amendments
20-7715 In Re Richard DeCaro 2021-04-12 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated
20-1409 Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely be…
20-7637 Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing Can a state corrections arbitrarily change a defendant's prison sentence, nearly two decades later, even after having initially structured said court-…
20-1325 Wesley Perkins v. John Lipscombe, Judge, County Court at Law No. 3, Travis County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration consent-doctrine due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation transportation-code Statutory Challenge-Pleading Standard
20-7517 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-03-22 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments denationalization due-process ex-post-facto genocide jurisdiction slave-labels slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-7366 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2021-03-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition Whether the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners from seeking successive habeas corpus writs to raise due process claims
20-7338 Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the illegal mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner
20-6994 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-02-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law denationalization due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto slavery slavery-labels What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-6904 Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme Whether a court evaluating an ex post facto challenge to a statute that has previously been found to be nonpunitive and has since been amended should …
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review
20-497 Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner?
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether federal law renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in legal error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania committed legal error by failing…
20-5677 In Re Jimmy Wren 2020-09-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus Whether 28 USC §2244 deprives similar-situated-litigants of due-process
20-5454 Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings Whether a specified § 333.7 C1 stage-1, Cig bl Le Review' initial hearing' can be considered a actual product for a mandated judicial individualized P…
20-5176 Nicholas Harris v. California California 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 violate the Ex Post Facto Clause and/or the Due Process Clause?
19-8837 Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range
19-8636 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it …
19-8357 Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana Montana 2020-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing to address Louis's claims of …
19-8279 Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi…
19-8258 Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional
19-8260 Alvin Fulton v. New York New York 2020-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses Whether issuance of the writ is agreeable to the usages and principles of law, whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the 2009 amended version of 18 U.S.C. §1014 was retroactively applied in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause
19-7141 Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction When the legislature has not spoken in language that is clear and definite and has affixed the punishment for an offense, can a state court limit the …
19-7147 In Re Khayree Smith 2020-01-03 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment chattel-property chattel-slavery civil-rights constitutional-rights denationalization due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge racial-classification slavery slavery-abolition status What branch of law authorized States to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, Colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
19-6915 Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the United States breached its Plea Agreement and failed to abide by the defendant's sentence and suffering process
19-6824 Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SORNA …
19-6660 Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law Question not identified.
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling Whether the retroactive application of California Penal Code Section 667(c)(2) violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation Does Daniel v. Fulwood, Case No. 12-5327/Citation 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. Cir. 2014), apply to my parole-eligible sentence, where which was given December …
19-412 Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. Maine 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law Whether the Constitution requires remand when an appellate court overturns its own precedent
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
19-374 Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2019-09-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y…
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations Whether the ex post facto clause is violated when a newly modified state parole regulation is applied
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the judge abuse discretion by categorically denying career offenders benefits under the First Step Act?
19-5858 Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator Did the Seventh Circuit fail to address an ex post facto violation and failure to issue a Certificate of Appealability?
19-298 Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law Does an automatic life-without-parole sentence for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment?
19-5739 Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine Does the 'separate sovereigns' doctrine permit multiple punishments that are exempted from the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual p…
19-5690 Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double…
19-141 Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana Indiana 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden…
19-5110 Barry Bays v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a 'control…
19-5041 Matthew Jamison v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review conflict-with-other-states constitutional-law due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto federal-constitutional-rights federal-question retroactive-application vested-rights Did S.C. Supreme Court decide on an important federal question in ways conflicting with decision of other state?
18-9794 Paul Vallejo v. Texas Texas 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-fairness state-action statute-of-limitations Does the ex post facto clause and 'fundamental fairness' prohibit the state from removing a potential statute of limitations defense?
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Honorable Judge Brian C. Wimes and the U.S. Attorney James Bohling utilized two inapplicable statutory enhancements enacted after the offe…
18-1525 Jose Andrade v. City of Hammond, Indiana, et al. Indiana 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel ineffective-representation property-rights sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of ex post facto law, which affected petitioner's property and due p…
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-29 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Whether the order promulgating the 1992 amendments to Rule 32 constituted violations of guarantees against ex post facto law and due process under the…
18-9378 In Re Tae Hon Chon 2019-05-22 Dismissed IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio…
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether New York's Robbery Statute § 160.15 qualifies as a Crime of Violence under the Career Offender Guideline § 4B1.2
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen…
18-9060 Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 Ex Post Facto Clause-application
18-8975 Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the California Supreme Court err in imposing the one strike statute of Penal Code section 667.61, when Souley was convicted of only one kidnapping…
18-8887 Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex-post-facto-clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due-process at …
18-8779 Yamura D. Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure
18-8446 Patrick J. Werner v. City of Green Bay, Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process due-process,ex-post-facto,residency-restrictions,s ex-post-facto public-outrage residency-restrictions sexual-offender Whether Respondent's Ordinance conformed with Due Process or is this Petitioner denied this based on his original offense, which was committed about 2…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent, its own stare decisis, and create a circuit split by failing to recall its ma…
18-1111 James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. Wisconsin 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders Whether lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders based on decades-old convictions and the possibility of future crimes is reasonable under the Fourth …
18-7941 Trevor Little v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts' Fourth Circuit violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, when it still …
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-7856 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act commutation-and-reduction-of-sentence due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue parole-revocation sentence-expiration successive-writ suspension-clause time-sensitive Whether the omission of successive-writ exceptions for prisoners seeking federal habeas corpus relief for expired sentences or unlawful parole revocat…
18-7827 Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder…
18-7744 Corey Clark v. Alabama Alabama 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity Does the state of Alabama ACV 2014-169 violate the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution?
18-927 Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation …
18-7423 Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations What constitutes a specific DNA profile for the purposes of tolling the statute of limitations?
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
18-7351 Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev…
18-7315 James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination Whether the trial court and administrative agency denied petitioner due process and equal protection rights by terminating him from a program without …
18-7134 Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and…
18-6981 Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
18-6906 David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed puni…
18-6579 In Re Patricia Ann McQuarry 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointment-affidavit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-irregularity constitutional-law constitutional-result due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedies remedy secret-grand-jury standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unsigned-indictment vague-statutes Can an unconstitutional action by the government bring about a 'constitutional result?
18-6572 Douglas Wayne Thompson v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Eighth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment buck-v-davis civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6-relief trial-tactics Whether the courts below erred in ruling that Petitioner must seek permission to file a second and successive petition
18-522 Michael Ishee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio Whether a statute proscribing the mere possession of child pornography is facially unconstitutional if it contains no element of scienter
18-6289 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2018-10-12 Dismissed IFP and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing Whether the retroactive application of an ex post facto law that enhances a criminal sentence violates the constitutional rights to freedom, liberty, …
18-454 Derek L. Dinger v. United States Armed Forces 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules Whether applying a new rule allowing court-martial to sentence retired Navy and Marine Corps personnel to a dishonorable discharge violated due proces…
18-444 Montana v. Ronald Dwight Tipton Montana 2018-10-09 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-v-bull criminal-prosecution dna-evidence ex-post-facto sex-crimes statute-of-limitations stogner-v-california Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause bars revival of a statute of limitations for a rape case where DNA evidence identifies the suspect after the limitati…
18-386 Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings Whether the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction is controlled by this Court's decisions upholdin…
18-5991 Johnny Ray Bennett v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether the 2002 enactments violate the ex-post-facto-clauses,whether the trier-of-fact lost-subject-matter-jurisdiction,whether ex-post-facto-violati…
18-5947 Stevie Andre Roberson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations texas-supreme-court Whether district court's decision to deny petitioner's areas autonomy is barred by statute of limitation of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Pen…
18-308 Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
18-5767 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-27 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus vi…
18-5737 Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying a 'Fifth Circuit Principle' that discretionary parole rules do not violate ex post facto clause
18-5750 Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing Whether the United States Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits a state from convicting a defendant for a statutory sexual offense based on pa…
18-5764 Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in…
18-194 Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-08-14 Denied community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution?
18-5498 Willie Beasley Curtis v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus habitual-offender plea-bargain plea-bargain-standards retroactive-sentencing standing sua-sponte unprecedented-error Whether the Supreme Court has a duty to consider unprecedented errors that are important to the public interest
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light of …
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity Whether a death sentence can remain intact when the jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5284 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2018-07-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the Third District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of appellate review by not addressing his pet…
18-5261 Vester L. Patterson v. California California 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations May a defendant be tried and punished for offenses that were statutorily barred by the statute of limitation's?
18-5257 Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-07-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Commission on Offender Review (formerly the Florida Parole Commission) unconstitutionally operates under Florida Senate and House …
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-11 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings Whether the state courts erred in not declaring the unconstitutional mandatory minimum sentencing statute retroactively applicable to cases on collate…
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings Whether Petitioner's death sentences for two 1994 homicides can remain intact given that his jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital mur…
18-39 Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington Washington 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola…
18-5139 Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial and vacating his sentence, and whether the court violated the Double J…
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus, from this court for a claim of actual innocence with regard to double ex post facto vi…