federal-state-comity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-8413 Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision Whether the Alabama state courts and federal district court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in denying habeas relief to the petit…
19-6115 Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid…