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25A671 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-09 Application death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se Whether the procedural complexities of maintaining separate pro se and counseled federal habeas dockets can constitute ineffective assistance of couns…
25-426 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent Whether a state-court decision is 'contrary to' federal law where its reasoning and outcome contradict materially indistinguishable Supreme Court prec…
25A187 Simon Hessler v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the actual innocence standard permits equitable tolling of the statute of limitations for a federal habeas petition based on a credible claim …
25-51 Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Granted Relisted (11) aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of 'nuance' and 'exhausti…
24-7333 Daniel Del Brumit v. David Rogers, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-habeas indian-law post-conviction-review state-retroactivity treaty-interpretation Whether Congress can render the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Art. 4 void through state post-conviction proceedings and AEDPA review
24-6668 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP agency-relationship federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-exhaustion Whether attorney abandonment in state PCR proceedings excuses a petitioner's failure to develop factual basis of a claim under 28 U.S.C § 2254(e)(2)
24-6370 Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) conflicts with Supreme Court precedent in Johnson…
24-255 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Amici (5) deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar…
24A190 Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether a state court's denial of a certificate of appealability in a post-conviction proceeding violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right …
24-5127 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with the …
23-1345 Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) 28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to second-in-time habeas filings
23-7666 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing factual-determination factual-record federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-proceedings unreasonable-determination Whether a state prisoner must dispel 'any potential justification' for a state court's factual finding, even when the prisoner was unjustifiably denie…
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…
23-1255 Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate of …
23A1014 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process federal-habeas habitual-offender ineffective-assistance sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Due Process Clause requires reversal of a criminal conviction where the state court's adjudication was allegedly contrary to or involved a…
23-7465 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit Whether a federal habeas court's failure to review the last reasoned state court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is a defect under Rule 60(b)
23-1171 Terrance Guinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-law due-process factual-innocence federal-habeas firearm-possession firearms rehaif retroactive-application statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner is entitled to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) based on his claim that his conviction for possessing a f…
23A921 Carmen Difilippantonio v. Arizona Arizona 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of a post-conviction review petition without addressing substantive claims of legal error violates a criminal defendant…
23-7170 Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas Did the United States District Court magistrate err in denying the petitioners' 28 U.S.C. §2254 state habeas corpus petition without ruling on the mer…
23-6755 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review Whether the rule announced in Wetzel applies where the rationales offered by the state court are so dependent upon one another that they cannot be acc…
23-6566 In Re Brandon Trammel 2024-01-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 9th-circuit abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criteria federal-habeas federal-writ habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing successive-petition Did Petitioner, Brandon Robert Trammel meet the criteria to request to file a second or successive federal writ of habeas corpus?
23A673 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to a state prisoner was improper under federal constitutional standards for reviewing stat…
23-6515 John Edward Hall v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP burden-of-proof death-penalty due-process federal-habeas standard-of-review state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) (28 U.S.C. 2254(d)) governing federal habeas review of state court decisions…
23-6501 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa brady-claim brady-rule federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation Whether Brady claims are 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) when the suppressed evidence comes to light only after the dismissal of a…
23-6292 Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard Whether the state courts resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for failing to advise of an affirmative defense was contrary …
23-5660 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver When a capital defendant on federal habeas review challenges as ineffective his counsel's performance as it relates to the defendant's waiver of a sta…
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Whether as a matter of procedural law, Appellant's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to reopen a § 2241 case was timely
23-31 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is inconsistent with the statutory text and in direct conflict with this Cour…
23-5068 Lavount Peterson v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied IFP equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute new-jersey-directive non-final-order post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-rulings statute-of-limitations Whether the habeas statute of limitations remains tolled after a state postconviction relief petition is dismissed without prejudice
22-7871 In Re Michael Bowe 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (6)IFP 28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court-procedure federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-or-successive-application statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
22-7609 Akiaz Marqiez King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reed-v-goertz sixth-amendment state-law-interpretation statute-of-limitations Whether the one-year statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) for filing a federal habeas petition commenced when the state trial court denied…
22-7176 In Re Thomas J. M. Goodin 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus mandamus-petition pro-se-litigant standing Whether granting of this writ will conform to the Court's appellate jurisdiction that only exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court…
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
22-7042 Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction
22-7023 Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing Should my writ of certiorari be granted when my appointed attorney failed to file a timely notice of appeal?
22-7021 Victor Todd Williams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period procedural-law state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the court of appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability upon the Petitioner's claim and issue of whether the district court err…
22-6851 David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation and due process rights when it raises an issue sua sponte that the parties did…
22-6798 Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression Whether a defendant must show inability to discover favorable evidence through due diligence to establish 'suppression' under Brady v. Maryland
22-716 Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use…
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err in interpreting Wilson v. Sellers to allow federal habeas courts to consider justifications not provided by the st…
22-6480 Anthony Rohlf v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights claim-definition due-process federal-habeas judicial-review misconduct pro-se-petitioner successive-writ writ-of-certiorari Does the definition of the term 'Claim' given by this court in Gonzales v. Crosby still stand as the law of the land?
22-6428 Jermaine Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights district-court due-process federal-habeas judicial-discretion procedural-standard standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
22-6396 John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact Did the appellate court err in affirming the denial of Sansing's petition on this meritorious claim?
22-6349 Daniel Nepomuceno v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights credibility-determination due-process federal-habeas guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-post-conviction-proceedings Could reasonable jurists debate whether a state court's dispositive credibility determination regarding federal constitutional rights, based on a writ…
22-6252 In Re James E. Hitchcock 2022-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims amounted to a suspension of the writ
22-490 Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen Fourth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's…
22-5384 In Re Randell Joseph Redmond 2022-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus
22-5173 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brecht certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-determination rule-60(b) state-court-prejudice Has the Fourth Circuit Court of appeals effectively side stepped the COA inquiry, without expressly saying so, where the court has declined to analyze…
21-8090 Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner Whether 'extraordinary circumstances' are present when a state prisoner's record shows a constitutional error that meets the federal 'plain error' sta…
21-8016 John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma…
21-7853 Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to accept the State's concessions of error conflict with this Court's decisions?
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…
21-1053 Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber Seventh Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference Whether the Seventh Circuit's invalidation of Wilber's conviction comports with the limits on federal authority to overturn State convictions under th…
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and adjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invol…
21-6244 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-conviction state-court-proceedings Whether a state federal habeas petitioner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal a district court decision not arising from a …
21-6138 Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision Whether the state court's harmless error determination was unreasonable under 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1)-and-(2)
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition Whether AEDPA's restrictions on second or successive habeas petitions apply retroactively to petitioners who filed pre-AEDPA federal habeas litigation
21-5972 Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course
21-5897 Shahram Shakouri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense state-law state-law-interpretation whether-unknowing-use-of-false-testimony-violates-due-process
21-5852 Jay Warren Arnold v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas pro-se-litigation procedural-inquiry state-collateral-review Whether an indigent prisoner's incorporation by reference of constitutional pleadings in the district court is adequate to state a valid claim on appe…
21-475 Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith Seventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide…
21-5651 Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent Does a federal habeas court owe deference to a state's wider jurisprudence when a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law?
21-316 Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation What type of change in the law allows a person to file a § 2241 petition?
21-5218 Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default Whether the petitioner was denied the same review of the game law that was applied to a similarly situated defendant by the state district court of ap…
20-8269 Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the state court failed to apply the correct standard of 'reasonableness' under Strickland v. Washington
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) Whether a habeas petitioner makes a valid Rule 60(b) motion by arguing that, due to an incorrect procedural-default ruling, the district court (1) onl…
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling
20-8102 Adam Rosen v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief precedent self-incrimination state-court-review Whether the Commonwealth's use of a defendant's statements to the Commonwealth, which were not elicited in violation of the defendant's Fifth Amendmen…
20-8042 Jorge Cervantes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-determination postconviction-relief standard-of-review state-court-findings strickland Did the trial court use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the fact to the law under Strickland?
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers permit federal habeas court to assign 'implicit' factual findings to state court order when applying 2254(d)'s limitations on r…
20-7787 Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling state-court-jurisdiction,federal-habeas,constitutional-error,post-conviction-process,full-and-fair-litigation,fair-opportunity
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
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner When the trial court's misunderstanding or the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a conclusory footnote in its de…
20-7480 Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte raise a habeas defense that a state abandons on appeal
20-1246 Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district court…
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedent in concluding that petitioner's Brady-claim failed for lack of prejudice
20-1056 Justin Wolfe v. Virginia Virginia 2021-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas forfeiture-rule plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictive-prosecution Whether a state court can avoid the federal constitutional issues raised by a vindictive-prosecution claim
20-7030 Devaron Antoine Love v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual-innocence to overcome a procedural-default
20-913 Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a federal court is bound only by the decisions of the Supreme Court in determining whether a state court has unreasonably applied clearly esta…
20-6502 Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 182 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise unexh…
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for filing a habeas petition begins when the new judgment entered following resentencing becomes final
20-5941 Charles Victor Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) aedpa-deference capital-punishment constitutional-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus Massiah-claims punishment Sixth-Amendment state-court-review Williams-v-Taylor Did the circuit court err in holding that a federal habeas court may never hold a hearing on a punishment issue without first considering 28-U.S.C-225…
20-5802 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied IFP due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi…
20-5618 Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals failed to follow this Court's federal habeas jurisprudence
20-5276 Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law…
20-86 Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross Ninth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab…
19-8850 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal habe…
19-8907 Jonathan Boyer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 civil-procedure federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-recall relitigation-bar statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether and under what circumstances a motion to recall judgment attacking the erroneous application of the relitigation bar in 28 USCS 2254(d) should…
19-8901 Fabian Fuentes Rosas v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-exception federal-habeas habeas-corpus material-misrepresentation ninth-circuit plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to consider and decide one of the certified claims raised in Rosas's appeal
19-8814 Nicholas Alexander Davis v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process federal-habeas lockett-v-ohio mitigating-evidence payne-v-tennessee Victim-impact-evidence-exclusion
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell 2020-05-26 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell retains a federal constitutional right to be released from federal prison upon existing record of uncontrovert…
19-8346 Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding?
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Does a state court's act lulling a petitioner into believing he has tolled limitations—and resulting in running out his federal limitations period—war…
19-8219 Juan Gilberto Medrano v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus legal-question ninth-circuit timeliness Was Petitioner's 2016 Petition filed in a timely manner?
19-8176 Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error Whether the State of Alabama may impose a state procedural bar rule to preclude a structural error claim
19-8117 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais…
19-8105 Justin Anderson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)IFP brain-damage capital-sentencing federal-habeas fetal-alcohol-spectrum fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-proceedings strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-8110 DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Independent or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's claim of prosecutorial…
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-8018 Timothy Humphrey v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa-limitations aedpa-limitations-period antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus postconviction-relief properly-filed state-court state-court-procedure time-barred Whether an application for state postconviction relief is 'properly filed' within the meaning of Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act provisi…
19-7481 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas Texas 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is …
19-936 Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no 'certificate of appeal…
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Jones' successful Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart the one-year AEDPA filing deadline, so as to mak…
19-7222 Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove…
19-7114 Joe Lewis Finley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career of…
19-6863 In Re Melvin Bonnell 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard Whether a state court's merits decision applying a new rule of constitutional law opens up federal review
19-6785 Bobbie London, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline residual-clause statute-of-limitations unconstitutionally-vague vagueness-doctrine Are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career offender guideline timely if filed within one year of Johnson v. United State…
19-6482 Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 2254-review 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction When a death-sentenced inmate obtains punishment-phase relief from the district court during federal habeas proceedings conducted pursuant to 28 U.S.C…
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Whether the actual innocence exception to the procedural default doctrine applies to excuse the petitioner's failure to raise certain claims in state …
19-6455 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-filing state-court-proceedings statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
19-501 Shawn C. Rutland v. Warden, Smith State Prison Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-tolling assistance-of-counsel discretion-of-district-courts district-court-discretion equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly created a new bright-line rule that equitable tolling of AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations automatically…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the exposure of cheating by the State of Arkansas and the concomitant collusion to cover up cheating evidence violates due process and the rig…
19-6081 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings?
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-311 Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion Whether the required strict scrutiny applied to the legal determination of manifest necessity constrains the deference accorded a trial court's fact-f…
19-5799 Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts Can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (BD) (2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal habeas adjudication?
19-5715 Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Texas Texas 2019-08-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts competent-counsel constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-post-conviction Whether the appointment by a convicting court of a lawyer, who was not competent to represent the indigent, death-sentenced prisoner at any stage of t…
19-5353 Frank Elroy Vennes, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 28-usc-section-2255 civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-rule-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-integrity motion-to-reconsider rule-60(d)(3) Does a motion filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(d)(3) that does not attack the merits of a prior habeas decision, but alleges 'some defec…
19-5332 Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference Does federal habeas law allow the application of a 'some evidence' standard in upholding state court factual determinations?
18-9719 Jason M. Lund v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins? And does the error warrant summary relief?
18A1326 Lisa Montgomery v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge death-penalty federal-habeas section-2255 Whether a federal death row inmate's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of a certificate of appealability and the underlying judicial p…
18-9511 Christopher Stepp v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to § 2254 habeas relief
18-9468 Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's nunc pro tunc judgment cures a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, and whether the first federal habeas…
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 Whether the denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitutes a defect in the integrity of the federal habeas …
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the standard for determining a Certificate of Appealability
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-8977 Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-1320 Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied 28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence should be considere…
18-8875 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 'pipeline' analysis should be expanded to new law that applies to postconviction claims where the resolution of the postconviction claim w…
18-8788 Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review Where a state court denies a person the opportunity to establish the necessary factual record to support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,…
18-8791 Danny D. Bissonette v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-law prosecutorial-jurisdiction state-sovereignty treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Did the state court err in failing to set aside the conviction of a federally recognized tribal member living in Indian country?
18-8591 Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony Whether the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard was reasonably and rationally applied when the alleged victim of child sexual assault testified they …
18-1222 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion challenging a procedural…
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Fe…
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the specifi…
18-8386 Michael Apelt v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairment prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When determining if a capital defendant was prejudiced by counsel's deficient performance during state sentencing, whether the federal court may bypas…
18-8354 Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad…
18-1132 Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went…
18-8201 Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether Supreme Court decisions in Buck v. Davis, Martinez v. Ryan, and Trevino v. Thaler permit federal habeas review of ineffective assistance of ap…
18-8155 Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed…
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-7851 Vincent Lynden Young v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions due-process expert-testimony false-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus opinion repudiated-expert senate-bill senate-bill-1134 statutory-provisions Whether an opinion of an expert that has been repudiated by the expert who originally provided the opinion at a hearing or trial constitutes false evi…
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7650 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc…
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…
18-7200 Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense is an actual innoc…
18-7177 Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit abdicated its responsibility under Chavis when it treated a pincite in a summary denial to a page of a state opinion that ad…
18-7186 Corey Ian Weidner v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-rule post-conviction-review state-law state-post-conviction-proceedings strickland-standard Whether state court decision on state law is binding on federal court
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas
18-6876 Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 …
18-6834 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 What are the requirements under Rule 58 for a final judgment in district court for a federal death penalty habeas petition under the Eighth and Fourte…
18-6626 William Foley Miller v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review Who did not use any federal case's or federal codes, did not preserve these issues for review that creates an unexhausted and procedurally defaulted c…
18-6534 John Taylor Tyler v. Eric Wilson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act factual-innocence federal-habeas habeas-corpus savings-clause statute-of-limitations When a prisoner has made a substantial showing of factual innocence, does a district court err when it holds that the broad jurisdiction of 28 U.S.C. …
18-6480 Gregory Hill v. James Gammon, Superintendent, Moberly Correctional Center Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-bessemer-city batson-challenge batson-claim constitutional-review due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-jurisprudence federal-habeas jury-selection racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection thomas-v-keohane Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates racial discrimination in selection of its jurors
18-6455 Ronnie McGee v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 district-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-courts federal-habeas gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's misconstrual of a § 2254 claim and/or failure to consider or properly consider material evidence submitted to support a cla…
18-6214 Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the federal habeas courts should evaluate the summary denial of a California habeas petition based on whether the petitioner failed to allege …
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure Was the federal court required to accept petitioner's factual allegations as true when the state court made findings against the petitioner without a …
18-5569 Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar Whether the classification made by the Fifth Circuit Court in Colley v. Sattizahn, 130 F.3d 496 (5th Cir. 1997) constitutes a violation of clearly est…
18-5505 Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment When Martinez v. Ryan applies to a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, should the petitioner be entitled to application of Martinez…
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Whether extraordinary circumstances exist that should afford Mr. Templeton equitable tolling of any time limit within which he had to file the underly…
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…
18-5252 Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence Whether a petitioner can be denied discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of the government's spoliation of potentially exculpatory evidence i…
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…