| 24-6541 |
Bartholomew Granger v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-writ criminal-procedure federal-constitutional-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-law-ground |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained abuse-of-writ ruling constitutes an adequate and independent state-law ground for denying pos… |
| 21-7663 |
Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa… |
| 21-5713 |
Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework |
Does the Court have the power to review a State Collateral Review Court's failure to give Retroactive Effect to new substantive rules of Federal Const… |
| 20-6201 |
Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law |
Should a certificate of appealability have issued? |
| 19-6955 |
Shondell J. Paul v. New York |
New York |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede… |
| 18-9372 |
Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul… |