| 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… |