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25-6510 Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas Texas 2026-01-07 Pending IFP due-process evidence-exclusion fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-appellate-court In a state postconviction habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner alleged that a material witness testified falsely at trial, does it violate…
25-603 Wenbin Que v. Lihua Song Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending arbitration-fairness arbitrator-misconduct due-process foreign-award-enforcement fundamental-fairness panel-integrity Do arbitration proceedings held by a three-member panel lack fundamental fairness if one arbitrator has functionally abandoned his post?
25-305 Louise DeBerry v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Illinois 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing due-process evidence-admissibility fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness witness-testimony Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide a mechanism for relief in administrative hearings when evidence is introduced that is …
24-7309 Brandi Abts v. Cynthia Arnold-Abts Nevada 2025-05-28 Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-misconduct structural-error Whether a District Court Judge committed structural error by abandoning judicial neutrality and violating fundamental fairness during an evidentiary h…
24-7100 Gerald Brent Harris v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial district-court due-process fundamental-fairness gvr-order intervening-decision Whether the Court should issue a GVR order to allow the district court to apply the intervening decision in Andrew v. White to Petitioner's admission …
24-7087 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness Whether due process requires more than the arbitrary truncation of pending substantive review by an unnoticed death warrant signed midway through acti…
24-6985 R. V., Jr. v. S. V. Texas 2025-04-14 Denied IFP court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights Whether an incarcerated and indigent parent in a parental rights termination suit is entitled to court-appointed counsel under the Fourteenth Amendmen…
24-6864 Darren Latodd Houston v. Texas Texas 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-error jury-instructions Whether a state court's failure to properly instruct the jury on the elements of a criminal offense constitutes a violation of due process and fundame…
24-6335 Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness impartial-jury trial-rights Whether counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to investigate information regarding an altercation and whether the district court's deci…
24-6313 Eric St. George v. Jason Lengerich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness propensity-evidence Does the admission of unrelated weapons evidence render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair under the Fourteenth Amendment, notwithstanding prior pr…
24-5378 Mitchell Danyell Banks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-destruction expert-testimony fundamental-fairness Whether expert testimony about destroyed drugs following an Alford Plea violates a defendant's due process rights in a subsequent federal drug conspir…
23-979 Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived faretta-colloquy fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing-procedure structural-error When a state trial court fails to conduct a Faretta colloquy before sentencing a defendant without counsel, is appellate counsel ineffective for faili…
23-6741 Gerardo Ortiz v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confront witness-testimony Did the Ninth Circuit err in refusing to apply clearly established Confrontation Clause precedent and assess whether the prosecutor's affirmative misa…
23-6277 Fidel Gutierrez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment court-interpreter-act due-process fundamental-fairness indigenous-rights language-comprehension sixth-amendment Did the proceedings against Gutierrez proceed in a language other than his primary language and inhibit his comprehension such that they were fundamen…
23-469 Andrew P. Witt v. United States Armed Forces 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive Senior Airman Witt of due process protections and render the sentencing fundamentally unfair?
23-290 Marc Grano, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Barron, et al. v. El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd., dba Las Palmas Medical Center New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts forum-state fundamental-fairness healthcare-system medical-care medical-referral personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether specific personal jurisdiction in a forum state over a nonresident hospital and healthcare system is permissible
23-5437 Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process
23-5376 Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court Can a state tribunal deprive litigants to that tribunal equal protection of the law and even handed justice based upon a commitment offense?
22-7395 Gudonavon J. Taylor v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-28 Denied IFP brady-rule burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-fairness juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders perjured-testimony presumption-of-innocence whether-the-procedure-rule-under-crim.r.-33(b)-should-be-deemed-oppressive-and-arbitrary-for-juvenile-offenders
22-7095 Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende…
22-6397 Alex Daniel v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma appointed-counsel britt-v-north-carolina due-process fundamental-fairness griffin-v-illinois indigent-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment Whether an indigent defendant can be compelled to accept the representation of appointed counsel and give up his Sixth Amendment right to represent hi…
22-5125 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-19 Denied IFP 26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair
21-8047 Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit did-the-sixth-circuit-err-in-failing-to-find-the-district-court's-decision-on-the-prosecutor's-reference-to-petitioner's-silence-as-debatable-or-wrong
21-7771 James Lamar Strickland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals improperly applied the prejudice standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)
21-7637 Marecellus Adams v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did trial counsel violate Adams's right to choose the objective of his defense when he conceded guilt over his express objection?
21-7542 Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden Missouri 2022-04-05 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights delay-in-sentencing due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness mitigation-evidence right-to-present-evidence sentencing-delay Whether the inordinate delay between the defendant's conviction and capital sentencing proceedings prejudiced the defendant's ability to present mitig…
21-7360 Marc N. Greenberg v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fundamental-fairness notice-of-appeal supervised-release Whether the technical requirements of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(1)(B) trump an individual's due process rights
21-7300 LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error Should prejudice in an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural-error co…
21-6970 Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test…
21-6620 Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the steps the petitioner proposed for regaining access to those letters are a 'watershed rule implicating the fundamental fairness and accurac…
21-6082 Craig D. Miller v. Illinois Illinois 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review fundamental-fairness illinois-post-conviction-statute indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reliability-of-proceedings sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Illinois courts' mechanical, outcome-based approach to the Strickland standard routinely denies indigent defendants their Sixth Amendment …
21-6012 Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-10-20 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability whether-the-courts-below-erred-by-upholding-the-trial-court's-determination-that-the-only-witness-to-petitioner's-purported-jailhouse-confession-was-u…
21-5554 Joseph H. Gibbs v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-courts fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus harmless-error standing state-court-process state-courts Whether the state court abrogated this court's constitutional holdings in its application of the legal standard of 'fundamental fairness shocking to u…
21-5438 Noe Gerardo Morin v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-disclosure confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington fundamental-fairness hearsay hearsay-statement ineffective-counsel non-testimonial prejudice right-to-confront testimonial Would a reasonable jurist find error in the District Court's assessment that hearsay statement in the case at bar was 'non testimonial' according to t…
20-8097 Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct Does the defendant have the right to effective assistance of counsel
20-7978 Todd Alan Winkler v. California California 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence Did the California Court of Appeal err in concluding that inflammatory-propensity-evidence,pervasively-used,erroneously-admitted did not render the tr…
20-7573 Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self-Representation and Du…
20-7470 Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error
20-7468 Aaron Feazell v. United States District of Columbia 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-protection-order constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness notice variance variance-doctrine Whether there is sufficient evidence to satisfy Due Process and to convict the defendant for disobeying the hundred (100) yard provision of the order,…
20-7165 Robin E. Jackson v. Marsha Josiah, as Trustee California 2021-02-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness laches probate probate-court procedural-due-process standing state-proceedings trust-litigation Whether 14th Amendment Procedural due process violated by Probate court based on principles of 'fundamental fairness
20-7137 Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders as binding precedent deprive inmates of due process?
20-6818 Roy Russell, Sr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-constitution arkansas-supreme-court due-process elected-judge fundamental-fairness judicial-assignment Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice failed to comply with the Arkansas Constitution and Arkansas Supreme Court's Administrative Order No.…
20-6793 Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error Whether a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error can demonstrate prejudice by showing that the …
20-6600 Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6509 Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6156 Arlene Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-v-romano burden-of-proof controlled-substances drug-identification due-process fundamental-fairness probation-revocation state-narcotics texas-narcotics Whether the Government's failure to prove a suspected substance is actually a dangerous drug or controlled substance in a probation revocation case pr…
20-5873 Tario Stamps v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-precedent due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5878 Renard Cortez Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order precedent second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5683 Carlton Smith v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-standard standing state-court structural-defect Does the state's waiver standard of fundamental constitutional rights violate the established standard of the Federal Constitution?
20-244 James Michael Fayed v. California California 2020-08-31 Denied double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness right-to-counsel separate-sovereigns silver-platter-doctrine sixth-amendment uncharged-allegations Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches on uncharged murder allegations
19-1405 Matthew Jacobson v. Butterfly Blaise, et al. New York 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fundamental-fairness privilege-and-immunities public-university student-disciplinary-proceeding student-discipline Whether the Due Process, Equal Protection and Privilege and Immunities Clauses require that an accused charged with what would otherwise be a criminal…
19-8737 James Steiner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness johnson-claim judicial-review meaningful-review rosemond-claim section-2255 Whether the 11th Circuit's holding can be reconciled with Rosemond
19-8624 Miguel DeFreitas v. Jaifa Callado, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights corrective-remedy due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction Did the New York State Appellate and Supreme courts' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas corpus petition, which left Petitioner with no corrective remedy…
19-8426 Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o…
19-8388 Terrence Jamal Williams v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied IFP constitutional-error courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment waiver-doctrine weaver-v-massachusetts Whether counsel's failure to object to the closure of the courtroom because he did not want to draw attention to his conduct meets the Weaver v Massac…
19-8140 Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Strickland v. Washington prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel when Counsel assaults his client pre-trial, covered up said assault d…
19-7969 Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing Whether the Court should grant the writ of certiorari to review the lower court's decision
19-7827 Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas Texas 2020-03-02 Denied IFP co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony Did the court of appeals err in deciding petitioner's right to due process was not violated, where the victim testified one way during his trial and t…
19-7527 Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
19-6599 Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the petit…
19-602 Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge …
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings Whether Petitioner was denied 'Fundamental Fairness' in the State Court Proceedings?
19-5967 Cameron Thomas v. Nevada Nevada 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated when…
19-5224 Lee Chang v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment Was recorded evidence by law enforcement and presented by the prosecutor given in a timely manner as well as can it be considered a Brady violation du…
19-5028 Osvaldo Vasquez v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fundamental-fairness gps-tracking gps-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-challenge wiretap-warrant Whether the Petitioner was denied his fundamental constitutional rights to Due Process and Fundamental Fairness
19-5004 Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud
18-9794 Paul Vallejo v. Texas Texas 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-fairness state-action statute-of-limitations Does the ex post facto clause and 'fundamental fairness' prohibit the state from removing a potential statute of limitations defense?
18-9416 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether the district court judge's order of denial, denying the petitioner's habeas petition and claim, was contrary to or involved an unreasonable ap…
18-9400 Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial Did the knowing use of false testimony at defendant's second trial rise to a denial of due process that likely affected the jury's judgment?
18-9392 Brent Edward Lovett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel Whether courts should be required to state reasons and indicate evidence relied upon to protect against arbitrary enforcement
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
18-8207 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated
18-8183 Gregory Frank Sperow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement property-rights rule-11 waiver waiver-provision Whether the government can breach a Rule 11(c)(1)(c) plea agreement concerning the return of seized properties and then rely on the agreement's waiver…
18-8149 Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio…
18-1002 Cynthia Davis, et al. v. Valsamis, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law carnival-cruise-lines carnival-cruise-lines-v-shute contract-interpretation cruise-line-liability fundamental-fairness judicial-scrutiny limitation-of-liability majestic-the maritime-law notice-requirement passenger-ticket passenger-tickets pre-suit-notice the-majestic ticket-limitation whether-cruise-ship-passenger-ticket-fairly-communicated-pre-suit-notice-requirement
18-7550 Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against the petitioner was not fundamentally unfair,…
18-7497 Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or that…
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule
18-7018 Luis Santos LaGaite, Jr. v. James Foley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP 3-strikes 8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-fairness magna-carta standing Whether the 3 strikes provision of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915(g) violates the Magna Carta, due process, and the fundamental fairness doctrine
18-6988 Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio…
18-6651 Antonio Cobb v. Florida Florida 2018-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure Whether the trial judge denied the petitioner a trial in accord with fundamental standards of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing…
18-6503 Thomas P. Richard, Sr. v. District Attorney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prohibited-punishment section-1983 standing structural-error Did the Courts below commit structural error by usurping Law to improperly re-characterize a Class Action §1983 Complaint as Habeas Corpus
18-6344 Brandon Eugene Lacy v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health neuropsychological-evaluation neuropsychological-testing Sixth-Amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court misapplied Strickland v. Washington
18-5458 Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process
18-5322 Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th…
18-5191 Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) can consider the current understanding of the nat…