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25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's …
25-6334 Robert Ruben Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-request district-court exculpatory-evidence government-assertion judicial-review post-trial-motion Did the district court erroneously rely on the government's bare assertion that no exculpatory evidence existed in denying a post-trial motion for dis…
25A625 Louisiana, ex rel. Darrell J. Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2025-11-26 Application brady-violation exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose impeachment and exculpatory evidence constituted a Brady violation that prejudicially undermined the fai…
25-6072 William Douglas Marcum v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-denial due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment merit-systems-protection-board perjured-testimony 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the Merit Systems Protection Board relies on perjured testimony, denies discovery…
25-5940 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-22 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right …
25-5887 Dorice Moore v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence 1. Why was the DNA allowed to be down played by the state without defense providing proof of its importance at the crime scene? 2. If the state did n…
25A429 Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas Texas 2025-10-15 Application constitutional-rights death-row exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief texas-criminal-procedure Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated a death-row inmate's constitutional rights by denying postconviction relief without adequate cons…
25-5843 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure Question not identified.
25-423 Daniel Jon Fouliard v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bail-jumping brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech 1) It is ideal for the Supreme Court to review Fouliardv. Wisconsin to clarify the constitutionality of "bail jumping" because non-violent, non-argume…
25-378 Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Pending Amici (1) brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 The Circuit Courts of Appeals are in conflict on the question of whether and when a police officer may be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a v…
25-5653 Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel 1. If PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE AN IMPARTIAL JURY BECAUSE A JUROR CONCEALED RELEVENT INFORMATION ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE…
25-5453 George T. Rodgers, aka Gary Adams, aka Jeffrey Reid, aka Jim Johnson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-08-22 Denied IFP body-worn-camera exculpatory-evidence grand-jury identification-error perjury search-warrant 1. Detective Josh Pavlov of the Bordentown Township Police Dept, applied for and obtained a search warrant for the home of the defendant's father unde…
25-5428 Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct 1) How does a defendant obtain the evidence that proves his innocence when the prosecutor knowingly presents false evidence and refuses to turn over t…
25A210 Samuel Peter McElmeel v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights email-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional right to access to courts and preservation of potentially exculpatory evidence is violated by the impending…
25-5277 Oliser Hernandez-Villalobos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence speedy-trial unlawful-seizure Whether a judge may force an accused to choose between his due process right to exculpatory evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1969), or h…
24-7024 Jesse Scott Fulcher v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether a state court's failure to disclose material exculpatory evidence violates a criminal defendant's fundamental right to due process as guarante…
24-6574 Mark A. Marchetti v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance exculpatory-evidence fair-trial trial-procedure Whether a trial court's failure to introduce available exculpatory evidence violates a defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective…
24A744 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to adequately investigate and p…
24-6328 Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance Whether a factual basis supporting a criminal conviction can be verifiably false and still result in a valid conviction; whether an attorney accepting…
24-6279 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure exculpatory-evidence first-degree-murder habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Where there was suppressed exculpatory evidence, in the form of a proffer letter demonstrating that a key prosecution witness who provided significant…
24-6263 William S. Hurt, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-10 Denied IFP due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals post-conviction-dna statutory-rights Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violated the petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA testing statute and F…
24-6148 Ronald Lee Neels v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a federal district court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural grounds constitutes a violation of the defendant's constitutional r…
24A584 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated by the prosecution's failure to timely disclose po…
24-6014 Ronald Cox v. Ronald S. Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying relief for ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment by failing to recognize counsel's f…
24-563 Karl W. Nichols v. Lance Wiersma Seventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-standard circuit-split constitutional-law due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence Whether the Seventh Circuit's McCarthy framework for evaluating exculpatory evidence preservation is incompatible with Supreme Court precedent and oth…
24A465 Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose potentially exculpatory text messages and cellphone evidence constitutes a Brady violation when the evidenc…
24-496 William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Did Wyoming state courts misapply the Brady v. Maryland rule by concluding that the prosecution's withholding of material exculpatory evidence did not…
24-5721 Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus serial-killer-confession Did the state court contravene Chambers and Holmes by excluding serial killer Smith's confession and condemning an innocent man to the fate of dying i…
24-5662 In Re Noel Brown 2024-09-30 Denied IFP brady-violation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus Whether the intentional withholding of exculpatory evidence by prosecution and failure to allow cross-examination of an arresting officer constitutes …
24A268 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause summary-judgment warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to immediately release a suspect from custody when probable cause dissipates due to newly discov…
24-5467 Joseph Miller v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated the respondent's due process rights and constitutional protections
24-5398 William Michael Talley v. Texas Texas 2024-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying habeas corpus relief where potentially exculpatory evidence was withheld and the petitioner's c…
24-5346 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether a state's post-conviction DNA testing statute violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights when it imposes procedural barriers to acc…
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…
23-7813 John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-27 Dismissed IFP administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-7777 Robert King Via, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment accomplice-testimony constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence witness-testimony Does the uncorroborated testimony of alleged accomplices outweigh a defendant's 6th Amendment right to present evidence in his favor?
23-7739 Cary Joseph Heath v. Texas Texas 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication new-trial trial-fairness witness-testimony Whether the petitioner is responsible for the deaths of the victims, given the testimony of the forensic psychologist that the petitioner was drugged …
23A1094 Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement probable-cause summary-judgment Whether law enforcement officers must consider exculpatory evidence when determining probable cause for an arrest, resolving a potential circuit split…
23-7614 Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly ripe…
23-7623 Estephen Castellon v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment speedy-trial warrant-execution Whether the failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence under the Trombetta and Youngblood standards, coupled with delays in trial proceeding…
23-7561 Charles Hyde v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence standing supreme-court Whether the Appellate Court erred in denying Hype's petition for a writ of certiorari
23-7514 Christopher E. Glass v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights trial-counsel Whether the Court should allow into evidence, over Petitioner's objection, statements made by Petitioner during interrogation by police, where Petitio…
23-7496 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP access-to-court access-to-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing Whether the failure of the counsel to pursue an appeal or motion the petitioner would have otherwise pursued violate the Sixth Amendment prejudice the…
23-7286 Francis Arthur v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment
23-7152 Sean Burton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-05 Denied IFP brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial whether-the-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania-violated-the-brady-rule
23-7136 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-04 Denied IFP confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process …
23-1044 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2024-03-21 Denied abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' summary dismissal of Juan Balderas's subsequent habeas petition violated due process
23-7019 Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence fair-trial jurisdiction venue Whether the Court of the County of Chesterfield, Commonwealth of Virginia was allowed to prosecute this case when precedent supports the Petitioner's …
23-7008 Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights Was Martin entitled to production of documents, did a Brady violation occur when favorable material evidence was withheld/discarded, was Martin entitl…
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
23-6777 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case?
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition?
23A640 Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth Second Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction Whether a state court's application of the harmless error doctrine to post-conviction DNA evidence violates a criminal defendant's constitutional righ…
23-6438 Jean Jocelyn Merilien v. Andrew McFarlane, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-disclosure Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that Petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion did not satisfy the requirements for relief under that rule
23-6381 Roy Jackson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-12-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence extraordinary-circumstances guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act…
23-6344 Michael Broomer v. Delaware Delaware 2023-12-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment trial-counsel Questions Presented
23-649 Lisa Price, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nickie Miller v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (13) 42-usc-1983 brady-v-maryland civil-rights court-order due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-discretion prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether absolute immunity extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence
23-6063 Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness
23-6015 Kwame Ali Askia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-rule constitutional-law continuing-offense exculpatory-evidence federal-rules federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-protocol statute-of-limitations Whether the court of appeals has discretion to correct an error only if there is 'an error' that is 'plain' and that 'affects substantial rights'
23A404 Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence and defiance of a…
23-5735 Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview Third Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction What constitutes the violent felony of the first degree (Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury) under 18 Pa. C.S. §2702(a)(1)?
23-5647 Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the State presents evidence at trial that is later discovered to be false or mi…
23-5491 Saundra S. Brooke v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether the lower court abused her discretion
23-5180 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate the defendant's history of mental illness and mental health issues, including as it related to the alle…
23-5163 Michael Joseph Formica v. Virginia Virginia 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence impeachment judicial-discretion standing Whether the Circuit Court for the City of Corvallis violated the Fourth Amendment by failing to compel the Multnomah County District Attorney's office…
23-5151 Tony A. Berger v. Wood County Sheriff's Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP brady-rule consent-to-search due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement-authority minor-interrogation parental-rights prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure witness-credibility Whether assistant district attorneys have authority to deny exculpatory evidence
23-5083 James Calfee v. Texas Texas 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-powers judicial-discretion Did Potttoner cits to due Process of the Courkeentn Wendt wf We ducted stude's Const. Wo lated
23-5054 Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison Whether the Oklahoma state courts had jurisdiction to prosecute the petitioner after the federal court refused to hear the case and dismissed the char…
22-7889 Tyree Lawson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel rule-60b stone-v-powell Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and denied his clai…
22-1142 Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia Georgia 2023-05-24 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct Did the trial court err in holding the Prosecution did not have possession of the 'it was placed' note ultimately produced by the FBI?
22-1015 Leon A. Brown, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-courts burns-v-wilson circuit-split exculpatory-evidence military-habeas-corpus military-justice-act military-justice-act-of-1983 uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court should overrule Burns v. Wilson
22-992 Clay Melton Denton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied adverse-inference criminal-procedure due-process evidence-spoliation exculpatory-evidence government-failure jury-instruction spoliation When is a defendant entitled to a spoliation instruction for lost potentially exculpatory evidence?
22-7230 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a hearing on a successive habeas corpus petition that raises a claim of actual innocence based on newly discov…
22-7080 James A. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-rights malicious-prosecution state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether an innocent petitioner should be granted relief when the state convicted against exonerating evidence with malice and indifference
22-6984 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure diligence-requirement due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-diligence procedurally-unrelated-case prosecutorial-disclosure unpublished-case Whether a defendant must show that his attorney could not have obtained undisclosed exculpatory evidence through diligence
22-798 William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-02-23 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-material prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the prosecutor's failure to disclose a promise of non-prosecution to eyewitness testimony violates the Brady rule
22-6822 Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-21 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim?
22-6772 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Was the Fourth Circuit's finding of no materiality of the suppressed evidence inconsistent with this Court's clearly established precedents?
22-6741 Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct self-help Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed evidence through own efforts to establish Brady violation
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…
22-6476 Robert Fratta v. Texas Texas 2023-01-06 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard selective-disclosure state-procedural-ground texas-code-criminal-procedure Whether § 5(a)(1) is an adequate and independent state procedural ground to bar review of a Brady claim
22-6463 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction brady-violation certificate-of-appealability district-court-jurisdiction due-process eighth-circuit-court exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel title-28-usc-2253 title-28-usc-2255 Jurisdiction-to-address-non-adjudicated-claims
22-600 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-standard brady-claim brady-rule exculpatory-evidence gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus napue-claim napue-rule panetti-v-quarterman Is the stringent gatekeeping standard under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) consistent with AEDPA and Panetti v. Quarterman?
22-6368 Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California 2022-12-19 Denied IFP attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process
22-6156 Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction
22-6055 Murray Hooper v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-15 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state has a duty to provide a defendant access to admitted exculpatory evidence
22-5916 Randy Lee Lassiter, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial Whether the government's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated the petitioner's due process rights and right to a fair trial
22-5900 Robert Bethel v. Ohio Ohio 2022-10-25 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence united-states-v-ruiz Whether there is a fundamental difference between material exculpatory and impeachment evidence when a guilty plea is involved, and does due process r…
22-5796 James Edward Rose v. South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-citizen standing ucc-1-308 Whether the petitioner's reserved rights under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and status as a 'private man' exempt him from criminal prosecution an…
22-5763 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment due to a Brady violation
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court erred in possessing the legal significance of the exculpatory material of the three sworn affidavits tending to exonerate …
22-5508 Hanford Chiu v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections
22-186 Troy Mansfield v. Williamson County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Amici (6) brady-violation brady-vs-maryland circuit-split criminal-justice due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the due process right recognized in Brady requires the disclosure of exculpatory evidence (or at the very least, evidence of factual innocence…
22-5473 Nuzzio Begaren v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-informant disclosure-requirements due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Orange County District Attorney's Unlawful Scheme to Secretly Use and Failure to Disclose a Criminal Informant Violated Brady?
22-5428 Norman Lafonte Pryor, aka Nc LaFonse Pryor v. Ronald Erdos, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to adequately communicate with the petitioner and pursue a …
22-77 David Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence material-evidence materiality-standard third-party-confession Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when another person's confession stating that he and someone else committed the criminal act, wi…
22-5182 Bakhtiyor Jumaev v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence original-public-understanding sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the judge-made and ahistorical balancing test for assessing a deprivation of the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial set out in Barker v…
22-5188 Jamshid Muhtorov v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-balancing sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the judge-made and ahistorical balancing test for assessing a deprivation of the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial set out in Barker v…
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…
22-5037 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2022-07-06 Denied IFP banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct May courts impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims
22-5030 Paul John Denham v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-07-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-protections due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-bias post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant's post-conviction habeas petition alleging the district attorney's office engaged in multiple intentional frauds to appea…
21-8264 Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling
21-8085 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-08 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory-evidence materiality-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability Did the State withhold material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland?
21-8045 Marcellus Overton v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea materiality materiality-standard plea-withdrawal reasonable-defendant rule-11 united-states-v-dominguez-benitez When a defendant seeks to withdraw his or her guilty plea based upon the Government's failure to timely disclose exculpatory evidence, is the 'materia…
21-1428 Donald L. Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Amici (1) brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed, exculpatory evidence through independent efforts to establish a Brady violation
21-7780 Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California California 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose exculpatory and impeachment evidence related to a police officer's prior criminal conduct violates the defe…
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?
21-7651 Manuel Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel where defense counsel failed to adequately understand and present the significance of…
21-7499 David Lopez Gonzales v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland cullen-v-pinholster due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fifth-amendment habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct Does Cullen v Pinholster bar consideration of new evidence in federal habeas proceedings when the prosecutor presented false testimony to rebut the de…
21-7255 James Robert Hope v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence jurisdiction jury-instructions mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts erred in finding that Mr. Hope was not prejudiced by mistrial counters due to his failure to object to the trial court's lack…
21-7214 Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review Whether the petitioner had a claim of actual innocence that was not fairly considered by the lower courts
21-7067 Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance Whether the government was obligated to respond and contest the merits of the July 3, 2022 motion, rather than moving to dismiss on the basis of untim…
21-7009 Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictiveness Whether a defendant who demonstrates that a prosecutor willfully injected into a plea colloquy a more serious and concealed criminal charge based on t…
21-6973 Larry Lee Jacks v. Warden Lynch Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland case-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion for a new trial based on the government's failure t…
21-6712 Jermar Jamie Fuller v. Texas Texas 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure disclosure disclosure-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence prejudice prejudice-inference speedy-trial speedy-trial-analysis Did the court of appeals err in determining that the delay caused by the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence did not weigh against the St…
21-6472 Anthony Mungin v. Florida Florida 2021-12-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process exculpatory-evidence postconviction-motion postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Can Florida, consistent with Due Process and Brady v. Maryland, condone the prosecution's withholding of material exculpatory evidence beyond the time…
21-6411 Harley David Sharp v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing Is a Brady Violation claim procedurally barred from Federal review?
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims
21-6375 Thomas Dudney v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability
21-6326 Farand Skinner v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-18 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review Did the Kentucky Supreme Court violate Mr. Skinner's rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and issue a decision contrary …
21-6091 Harold Cook v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-investigation criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty witness-statement witness-statements Whether Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny require the prosecution to create a record of and preserve apparently exculpatory witnes…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
21-5917 Darius Murphy v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-deference state-court-procedure statutory-deference Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)
21-5841 Rafiq Sabir v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP arabic-language-expert brady-claim brady-v-maryland district-court-discretion exculpatory-evidence factual-dispute government-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-amend rule-33 Could-reasonable-jurists-debate-whether-the-district-court-abused-its-discretion
21-5774 Joseph Hilton Dierks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present evidence that …
21-5705 Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett First Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al…
21-5568 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blood-evidence blood-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity Was evidence favorable to the defendant excluded?
21-5500 John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.0.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi…
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…
21-5278 Kevin T. Heard v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony fair-trial sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when his attorney was 'not functioning as counsel' d…
21-5024 Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2021-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for relief
20-1825 Jeffrey McClatchy v. Texas Texas 2021-07-01 Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process entitles a defendant to exculpatory information pre-plea
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses
20-8350 Curtis Lee Holliman v. Texas Texas 2021-06-21 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error standing Whether the state of Texas acknowledged that attorney Kirby Taylor and the petitioner were in a sexual romantic relationship for 10 years prior to the…
20-7893 Anthony Edward Bridget v. California California 2021-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether it is allowed for a judge to tell a jury who is biased to continue their belief in the defendant without a trial to defend against newly disco…
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
20-7858 Michael Armendariz v. Leon Martinez, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Does the state have an absolute preserve trial evidence which the state allegedly shows supports a conviction, even if the evidence is only partially …
20-7740 Jason Robert Vickers v. Kenneth Diggs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether a criminal defendant can challenge an indictment and/or conviction after a coerced guilty plea
20-7759 Roderick Williams v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-relief Whether the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence results in a Brady violation warranting the grant of habeas relief?
20-7713 Anthony Keenan Sharp v. Lawrence Long, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fair-trial freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and freedom from unlawful …
20-7699 DeAngelo Horn v. Florida Florida 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas pretrial-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct Whether courts may impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims that focuses on the defense rather than the government
20-7687 Ronald James Hamilton, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-04-07 Denied IFP capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence fingerprint-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct punishment-trial witness-testimony Did the trial prosecutors deny Mr. Hamilton Due Process by failing to disclose exculpatory fingerprint comparison results relevant to an extraneous ca…
20-7664 Jessie Willie Green v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence identification-procedures ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated due to issues with identificati…
20-7584 In Re Terril Lee Graham 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-threats due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech public-defender Is California Penal Code 422, Criminal Threats, an invalid statute, prohibiting the exercise of 1st Amendment free speech rights?
20-7325 Eric Todd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial
20-7295 Isidro Sauceda v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence ineffective-counsel lesser-included-offense ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists willits-instruction Whether the Ninth Circuit utilized an unduly burdensome certificate-of-appealability standard that contravenes Supreme-Court-precedent
20-6800 Harry Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-v-maryland constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence materiality prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness How does a court determine whether evidence that the prosecution did not share with the defense before trial is 'favorable' under the standard announc…
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Did the trial court err in reviewing prisoner Williams' initial motion for post-conviction relief for violations of the 6th Amendment right to effecti…
20-6711 Pat Dee Leatherman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the defendant's statement was clearly used against him in violation of the 5th Amendment
20-669 Billy John Bell v. Texas Texas 2020-11-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bad-faith due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory state-destruction trombetta trombetta-test youngblood youngblood-standard When a defendant has proven that the state has destroyed evidence that is material and exculpatory, does he bear the extra burden of proving the actio…
20-630 Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state …
20-6247 Jermont Cox v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability default-rule exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan rule-60(b)(6) Whether a district court deciding a Rule 60(b)(6) motion in habeas corpus proceedings may ignore new exculpatory evidence when assessing the substanti…
20-6250 Kyle A. Box v. New York New York 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence favorable to the defense violates due process
20-6232 Brian Dwight Peterson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel trial-procedure Whether a defense attorney has an obligation to show the defendant live video calls in a capital case and hire a private investigator that the trial c…
20-6168 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Florida Florida 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fraud free-speech government-misconduct standing Whether clear contradictions between Universal Human Rights and State and Federal constitutional articles and amendments, which provide the non-denial…
20-6163 Angelique Bankston v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement material-omissions professional-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the government fabricated probable cause and made material omissions in the affidavit, violating the Fourth Amendment
20-6045 Aaron E. Choat v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review exculpatory-evidence impeachment ineffective-assistance non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-retroactivity witness-impeachment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6036 Torrey Washington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-5866 Shawn Kristi Dicken v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner denied discovery pursuant to Brady v. Maryland 373 U.S. 83 violating her V, VI and XIV Const. Amends.?
20-5765 Daniel F. Borden, Sr. v. Gary Swarthout, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct Whether exculpatory material evidence that would exonerate a person is required to be disclosed by the prosecution
20-326 Mitchell J. Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government's knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged ev…
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request Does a state trial court deprive a criminal defendant of their constitutional right to self-representation?
20-5623 Maksim Stefanyuk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct spoliation trial-rights When a defendant's requested exculpatory evidence is destroyed by the government prior to trial, should the trial proceed?
20-5635 Daniel Thomason Smith v. Warden, FCI Beaumont Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP allocution brady-violation conflict-of-interest due-process exculpatory-evidence false-witness identity-theft judicial-misconduct medicare-fraud mens-rea savings-clause Question not identified
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview Whether an attorney provided effective assistance of counsel
20-5128 Vernon Chapman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-consequences Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel when the attorney did not follow the advice of several experts advising him on how to…
20-5086 Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2020-07-16 Denied IFP brady-violation cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis exculpatory-evidence giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-test trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence, which significantly undermines the State's evidence is deficient perf…
20-5064 Tony Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process exculpatory-evidence Landgraf-v-USI-Film-Prods preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity rico-conspiracy statute-of-limitations witness-evidence Should the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of Lovasco be addressed?
19-8909 Grant Ruffin Haze v. Katy Poole, Administrator, Scotland Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-tampering Did the prosecution's intentional and repeated abuse of the witnesses and the selective theft of the petitioner's exculpatory legal materials, conceal…
19-8916 Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden Missouri 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood brady-v-maryland constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence first-degree-assault impeachment-evidence missouri-prosecution napue-v-illinois Does the State of Missouri have the authority under the Constitution of the United States to charge, try, and convict the petitioner of first-degree r…
19-1457 Matthew Hudak v. Illinois Illinois 2020-07-06 Denied brady-obligations due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-material guilty-plea impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution's Brady obligations allow the prosecution to deliberately suppress relevant impeachment or exculpatory material before a guilt…
19-1430 Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations
19-8806 David Lawrence Dixon v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-evidence destruction-of-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment re-testing state-destruction trial Was Appellant denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the biological evidence used in his trial was destroyed before Appellant could…
19-8795 Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective-assistance-of-counsel
19-8769 Daryll Shumake v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence
19-8701 Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition Whether the State of South Carolina commits a final byte power against the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a second or successive habeas …
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by…
19-8643 Wallace Eugene Evatt, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the judge and prosecutor failed to disclose evidence related to the victim's suicidal tendencies and prior suicide attempts, in violation of B…
19-8601 William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers
19-8532 Lester B. Lynch v. Beth Cabell, Warden Virginia 2020-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct strickler-v-greene Were the petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when the Commonwealth failed to provide the trial court with exculpatory evidence?
19-8533 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Megan Anne Chambers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 standing Whether the petitioner can seek relief under 42 USC §1983, 1985, or 1986 for alleged conspiracy to withhold exculpatory evidence
19-8518 Dexter C. Newson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-law due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-present-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment by the state court's refusal to compel the productio…
19-8409 Thanksnieky Phuong v. Rick Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied IFP asportation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence insufficient-evidence kidnapping robbery Whether the evidence was insufficient to establish that the petitioner committed a kidnapping for robbery, and whether the conviction violates the pet…
19-8360 Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland Ninth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony Question not identified
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-8278 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,…
19-1213 Buck Leon Hammers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences from his exe…
19-8251 Kevin Duane Talkington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-instructions jury-selection Counsel's failure to strike biased juror,counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence,court's failure to provide oral verbatim ju…
19-8216 Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a precedent-setting error in interpreting the requirements for 'bad faith…
19-8222 Steven Mason v. United States District of Columbia 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance Whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's late disclosure of exculpatory and impeaching information did not prejudice the defend…
19-8205 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2020-04-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review Whether [Mr. Brunson's] right to discover exculpatory evidence is still enforceable
19-8164 Eric T. Tolen v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP brady-claim disbarment exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure manifest-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel trial-court withheld-evidence Whether the Lower Court committed a manifest error of law
19-1118 Jeffrey Todd Palumbo v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-03-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-testimony doyle-v-ohio due-process exculpatory-evidence first-time-account impeachment miranda-rights Miranda-warnings prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure uncharged-misconduct Whether a prosecutor violates Doyle v. Ohio by eliciting the fact that an exculpatory story is being told for the 'first time' at trial
19-1094 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2020-03-05 Denied brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-diligence exculpatory-evidence giglio-claim giglio-v-united-states jailhouse-informant jailhouse-informants materiality materiality-standard perjury prosecutorial-misconduct whether-a-defendant-advancing-a-brady-claim-must-demonstrate-due-diligence
19-7813 Michael C. Jamerson v. Jason Lewis, Warden Missouri 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus napue-standard napue-vs-illinois perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated its obligation under Brady v. Maryla…
19-7642 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence federal-evidence judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court standing Were petitioner's due-process rights denied, since she is a female, and an applicant?
19-7614 Jason Perry v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court Whether the Courts violated Rule 2 (a) Governing Section 2Z84Y Cases?
19-7583 Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure Whether Tiffany R. Byrd #61935 was entitled to relief on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on trial counsel's failure to investigate an…
19-7593 Young Yi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-production due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standard-of-review Whether the government violated its Brady obligations by producing voluminous documents without identifying one document as Brady material
19-7519 Ericka Hernandez-Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-detection criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment holistic-analysis inculpatory-evidence law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-inference reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness requires that a determination of reasonable suspicion be based upon an explicit identificat…
19-7355 Herman L. Gaines v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-collusion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Was the petitioner denied due process and effective assistance of counsel?
19-7270 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Sayed with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence tested
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings Whether new evidence establishes the petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust
19-7274 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct wearry-v-cain witness-testimony Did the lower courts err in failing to properly review and conclude that the prosecution's withholding of exculpatory and impeachment evidence favorab…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o…
19-7171 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner?
19-843 Daniel K. Holtzclaw v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-06 Denied defense-counsel-exclusion dna-evidence due-process ex-parte-hearing exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fair-trial forensic-expert in-camera-hearing materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct What is the standard of materiality applicable in assessing the prejudicial impact of potential exculpatory evidence relating to the State's chief for…
19-818 Jerry L. Carr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General District of Columbia 2019-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence-concealment exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct legal-procedure standing torture Was Petitioner Jerry Lee Carr's constitutional and civil rights violated?
19-7026 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
19-7039 Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence constitute a Brady violation?
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra.Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
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?
19-6837 Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony Whether the state of Delaware can withhold exculpatory evidence relating to the state's office of medical examiners officials, denying true evidence f…
19-6549 Jose Laureano Salgado v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment ongoing-disclosure pending-appeal prosecutorial-misconduct Does this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) require the Government to disclose, while an appeal is pending, exculpatory or impe…
19-6446 William L. Edwards v. Texas Texas 2019-10-30 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Why was Willian, Cdwards Neyerallewed +e present the Vl avidenco that eXonerates him te a yery :
19-6362 Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Are criminal defendants required to plead and prove their due diligence as an additional element under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its …
19-6351 Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i…
19-6111 Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights district-court-orders due-process exculpatory-evidence extraterritorial-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-witnesses out-of-country-witnesses strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Does the failure of defense trial counsel to follow specific orders from the District Court constitute ineffective assistance of counsel?
19-411 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (8) brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment materiality self-incrimination suppressed-evidence witness-testimony When assessing under the Brady materiality standard whether 'disclosure of the suppressed evidence to competent counsel would have made a different re…
19-5815 Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief sought …
19-5821 Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence prior to trial
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing Whether the life of my pregnant companion & fetus was not being protected from imminent danger from real threat by two young men with burglary tools i…
19-5694 Craig Farley v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied IFP consciousness-of-guilt constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-trial exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-identification-evidence phone-records sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Is there any reasonable argument that trial counsel satisfied the Strickland standard when he failed to introduce crucial lack of identification evide…
19-5642 John Emmett Brown, Jr., and Derrick Louis Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense exculpatory-evidence government-disclosure materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony In the context of a duress defense, is the government's untimely disclosure of exculpatory evidence material under Brady v. Maryland?
19-5514 In Re Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa 2019-08-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction public-defender wrongful-conviction Whether the Blue Caste that rested on a Wrongful Conviction of an innocent person because of Ineffective Counsel Lack Knowledge and Understanding of t…
19-5352 Hal Bernard Black v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-liability notice-requirement procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts erred in holding that there is no 'fair trial' at all when a defendant is denied the right to present a complete defense by t…
19-5336 John S. Benchick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporting due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct mandatory-victims-restitution-act prosecutorial-misconduct restitution right-to-appeal trial-record trial-transcript unbiased-prosecutor witness-testimony Does the Defendant have a right to a true and correct record of his trial
19-87 Jerome Burgess v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-appeal exculpatory-evidence georgia-supreme-court ineffective-assistance mental-competency plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Georgia Supreme Court err in failing to find that Petitioner's appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance?
19-5189 Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Sentencing Court Erred in Calculating the Defendant's Sentencing Guidelines Range
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?
18-9666 Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated
18-9580 Bobby Ray Devers v. Iowa Iowa 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-procedure post-conviction-relief pro-se-claims procedural-due-process state-public-defender-system statutory-rights summary-judgment uniform-procedure Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process are violated by the denial of participation in the statutory right to a uniform post …
18-9548 Kevin Terrell Tatum v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence recantation sufficiency-of-evidence summary-judgment witness-recantation Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment against the appellant when there are material, unresolved facts in dispute
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-9477 Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constitutional 14th Amendment?
18-9298 Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information fundamental-fairness jury-trial post-conviction-evidence witness-testimony Whether intentional pre-trial withholding of exculpatory information violates the Confrontation Clause
18-9268 Manuel Antonio Mejia Rivera v. Donna Kay McKinney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment void-conviction witness-testimony Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Mr. Rivera's procedural request for a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in violation of Supreme Court preced…
18-9181 Kwame Ali Askia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence government-oversight indictment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations Question not identified
18-9134 Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment Has the State of Louisiana committed Constitutional Error in its refusal to Order production of Dr. Laga's grand jury testimony to petitioner?
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
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…
18-8564 Kelvin Wayne Heath v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-act-on-production-of-out-of-state-witnesse witness-tampering Whether the trial court erred in convicting the petitioner despite the lack of testimony from a key witness and the prosecutor's misconduct in handlin…
18-8462 William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury was sufficiently material to provide the …
18-8405 Mohammed Suleiman Roble v. United States District of Columbia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney-ineffectiveness due-process exculpatory-evidence government-evidence ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings reasonableness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does Strickland v. Washington require the government's evidence to be weak to find a criminal defense attorney ineffective under the Sixth Amendment?
18-8353 David A. Hicks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus spoliation-of-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Government can destroy evidence a defendant has sufficient reason to believe is necessary to prove innocence in an anticipated § 2241 Moti…
18-7769 Demetrius Hill v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial?
18-7480 Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Did Trial Defense Counsel violate the Petitioner's 6th Amendment rights?
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…
18-7281 Olandio Ray Workman v. John Vandermosten, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-charges indigent-defense legal-mail medical-care prison prison-conditions right-to-counsel standing Did the District Court in Greenville, South Carolina deny me due process when they didn't finish school and let me know yet?
18-7235 Jason Eugene Bush v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment investigative-agencies kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-disclosure Whether Arizona follows the rule of Kyles v. Whitley requiring prosecutors to investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence from all participating inv…
18-7229 Telisa De'Ann Blackman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-claim brady-giglio-napue brady-rule burden-of-proof exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-writ giglio-claim giglio-rule napue-claim napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petitions Should a prisoner be substantively disadvantaged by having to meet a higher burden of proof on her Brady/Giglio/Napue claims because the prosecution h…
18-854 George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process requires the government to disclose exculpatory evidence before entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant
18-7172 Tomas Marco Keen v. Washington Washington 2018-12-27 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Does the prosecutor have a duty to disclose exculpatory information relating to threatened--but not filed--charges during plea negotiations?
18-7170 Jonathan Yancey v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection exculpatory-evidence first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen…
18-798 Joanna Joy Blauch v. Colorado Colorado 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error evidentiary-standards exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington waiver-of-rights Does ruling the substantive nature of materially relevant documentary evidence with apparent exculpatory value effected non-existent, without applying…
18-7150 Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later inco…
18-772 Erasmo Aviles, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-testimony government-interests immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination witness-immunity Does due process require a court to compel the government, on pain of dismissal, to seek immunity for an essential defense witness if government's int…
18-7038 William Owens v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence police-report prosecutorial-misconduct victim-credibility whether-state-withheld-material-evidence
18-757 Teddy Chuang v. California California 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation brady-vs-maryland california-penal-code-141 constitutional-mandate due-process evidence-concealment exculpatory-evidence penal-code-violation prosecutable prosecutorial-misconduct trombetta trombetta-standard trombetta-v-california Whether a case is prosecutable when the District Attorney commits a felony in violation of California Penal Code § 141, which violates Brady v. Maryla…
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence
18-6872 Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence Can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct?
18-6842 Matthew Davis, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Matt v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3500-material brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence sentencing witness-testimony Whether the Government failed to properly discharge its obligations under Brady v. Maryland
18-6826 Carlos David Caro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP §-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc…
18-6727 John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital defen…
18-6619 Dominic C. Robinson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP but the text you've provided appears to be incomp comprehensible text of a SCOTUS petition garbled I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." or unreadable. Without a clear appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence jury-instructions miranda-rights standing Whether jury instruction 5/4A was improper?
18-6570 Timothy J. Kaprelian v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest plea-agreement plea-bargaining Is a criminal defendant who pleads no contest entitled to exculpatory evidence that the state concealed and suppressed
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Whether the circuit court erroneously violated petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evide…
18-6546 Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i…
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence
18-6376 Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei…
18-6336 Chamontae Walker v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-16 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty Is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty to disclose evidence favorable to the accused if the defense could obtain the evidence throug…
18-6105 John Patrick Wallace v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exculpatory exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal witness witness-rights Was the petitioner denied an impartial tribunal under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
18-6021 Patricia Burney v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony federal-due-process harmless-error jailhouse-informant state-court-denial state-law trial-prejudice Whether the state court's denial of petitioner's due process claim, wherein he alleged that the state's destruction of exculpatory evidence fatally pr…
18-325 Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted…
18-5933 Mary Wilkerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence juror-dishonesty juror-misconduct kyles-v-whitley materiality post-trial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct rule-of-evidence Whether, under Brady v. Maryland and Kyles v. Whitley, the courts may consider information that arises after trial in determining the materiality of s…
18-5796 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence Where must a court of appeals grant a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action where at least one judge votes in its favor?
18-5705 George Easterly v. Florida Florida 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent
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…
18-5523 Chris Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-evidence false-testimony miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence new-reliable-evidence Claim of actual innocence given that the state presented false evidence at trial, namely fraudulent testimony from law enforcement officers
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou…
18-131 Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Whether Appellant Terry Should Have Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability as Evidence Exists in the Record That His Trial Attorney Was Clearly In…
18-73 Scott Carpenter v. Douglas Jordan Sixth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 brady-violation brady-vs-maryland civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-vs-humphrey invalidation section-1983 statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction Does a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful conviction claim for unconstitutionally withholding exculpatory evidence accrue when a conviction is invalidated or w…
18-5215 Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and testimony that wou…
18-5175 In Re Terrence Matthew Brown 2018-07-09 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence exceptional-circumstances exculpatory-evidence false-information loan-application loan-applications mortgage-brokers mortgage-fraud subprime-lending subprime-mortgage underwriting-regulations underwriting-standards Does present case demonstrate that subprime mortgage lenders in early to mid-2000's systematically abandoned underwriting regulations and encouraged l…
18-36 Gregory Brice v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-06 Denied alternate-suspect brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence motive motive-evidence new-trial post-trial-confession suppressed-evidence Whether the government violated its obligations under Brady v. Maryland by suppressing evidence showing that the leading alternate suspect had a power…
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5075 Felix A. Okafor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP beyond-reasonable-doubt-standard Blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states Brady-v-Maryland concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence glover-v-united-states in-re-winship kyles-v-whitley ray-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-determination sixth-amendment May a conviction that is admittedly a violation of the concurrent-sentence-doctrine be allowed to stand in light of Ray-v-United-States
18-5 Dennis Riley v. Ohio Washington 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-discovery discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence internal-investigations investigative-officer-misconduct plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct whether-defendant-entitled-to-impeachment-or-exculpatory-evidence-after-pleading-guilty
18-5070 Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default Whether petitioner's actual innocence claim overcomes the procedural default of his federal habeas claims challenging the constitutionality of his sta…