| 24-5122 |
Aaron Scurlock v. Chance Jones |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cover-up due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation procedural-defects transcript-falsification |
Wke-4-kdf the 7^ Clrculi ke\s ^a^c-tfooed so A tu*e-from He accepted and d } an a e-pan t\sua
op judicial proceed; ajs ky ike. fJctiherA ■£)\strict of… |
| 23-1329 |
Francisco De Aragon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
This case arises from a habeas petition brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment … |
| 23-7420 |
In Re Steven Michael Backstrom |
|
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel truth-seeking-process |
1. Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses constitute federally defined ineffective assistance of c… |
| 23-1145 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard |
Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co… |
| 23-7206 |
David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa equitable-powers habeas habeas-corpus initial-petition sixth-circuit successive-petition unexhausted-claim unripe-claim |
For over three decades, the Court has applied the abuse of the writ doctrine to determine if a second-in-time habeas petition is an initial or success… |
| 23-1004 |
Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court |
1. Whether a federal claim is "adjudicated on the
merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) so
long as the state court resolves the claim on
su… |
| 23-6924 |
Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error |
QUESTION No. 1: Does &U£.ederal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v.… |
| 23-942 |
Sherman Campbell, Warden v. Stephen J. Kares |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
|
dna-testing federal-tolling habeas habeas-corpus judicial-reexamination judicial-review post-conviction-relief properly-filed state-postconviction-review statute-of-limitations |
Does Michigan's statute allowing a prisoner to request DNA testing call for a "judicial reexamination" of the defendant's conviction under § 2244(d)(2… |
| 23-6856 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment |
1. IF I WERE DONALD TRUMP WOULD THIS COURT GRANT REVIEW OF THIS CASE TO DECIDE WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DENIED A COA IN THIS CASE GIVEN THAT… |
| 23-6721 |
Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address any or all of the above claims and, if so, whether t… |
| 23-6653 |
Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing |
WHETHER PETITIONER HAS STANDING TO FILE A HABEAS AND MANDAMUS PETITION WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS WHEN THE QUESTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AFFECTS HIM AS… |
| 23-6572 |
Mark E. Sells v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-precedent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-law judicial-review statutory-law |
Question #1: Did the Federal District Court and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, violate Article I, Article 4, Article VI, of the United … |
| 23-652 |
Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Berman Justus, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations |
Whether a habeas petitioner can show that a mental illness constitutes an "extraordinary circumstance" that warrant s reopening a final judgment under… |
| 23-609 |
Frander Salguero v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-duty false-evidence habeas habeas-corpus mandamus prejudice-test prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error |
1. Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when… |
| 23-6110 |
Eulandas J. Flowers v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus miller-claim miller-v-alabama postconviction-proceedings procedural-default state-court-ruling state-postconviction |
In state postconviction proceedings, Mr. Flowers challenged his life-without-parole sentence as violating Miller v. Arizona, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), thre… |
| 23-555 |
Louis A. Wilson v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute "extraordinary and compelling reasons" authorizing a district court… |
| 23-5970 |
Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal |
Procedural default bars a state inmate from obtaining federal habeas based on an issue not presented to the state courts. Schlup v. Delo recognized a … |
| 23-5923 |
Walter Roosevelt-Taft Downing v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-form court-forms due-process habeas habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners judicial-review legal-proceeding standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-387 |
Taylor Carlisle, Individually and as Representative Member of a Class, et al. v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights drug-court due-process habeas heck-doctrine over-detention preiser-doctrine qualified-immunity |
1. In the absence of judicial proceedings conducted on the record with due process, are the minute entries "orders" and are the sanctions within the c… |
| 23-72 |
Anthony Santucci v. Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-review civil-rights constitutional-determination due-process habeas habeas-corpus military military-tribunals standing stare-decisis |
I. Whether this Court's plurality decision in Burnes v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953) (Article III habeas review not appropriate where Article I militar… |
| 23-5089 |
Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination |
This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats… |
| 23-5082 |
William Richter v. Charles Truitt, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas judicial-access post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights pro-se-petition standing |
I. Whether The Seventh Circuit Denial of Certiorari of Appellate, ity And Subsequent Rehearing To Remand The Enormous Denial of Habeas Relief had Post… |
| 22-7744 |
Gregory Bartunek v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion, violationg Bartunek's due process rights, by failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability for consti… |
| 22-7589 |
Troy G. Saxton v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 brown-v-ohio certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy drug-possession habeas habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists spatial-units |
Whether a habeas petitioner satisfies his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) for the issuance of a certificate of appealability when he demonstrates t… |
| 22-7376 |
Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The miscarriage-of-justice gateway excuses a habeas petitioner from complying with certain procedural hurdles like AEDPA's statute of limitations if, … |
| 22-7344 |
Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal |
In this federal habeas case, petitioner Oscar Salai s challenge s his California convictions on three counts of attempted murder, all premised on one … |
| 22-7301 |
Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain |
1. On findings of fact, does a federal court (applying the pre-AEDPA statute) presume a finding's correctness whenever the state-court record supports… |
| 22-982 |
Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Danny Lee Jones |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (9) |
capital-case capital-punishment credibility-findings district-court district-court-deference habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review strickland strickland-standard |
Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the dis… |
| 22-7188 |
Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson vs. Virginia, sufficiency of evidence standard, abrogated Thompson v. City of Louisvil… |
| 22-834 |
Harshad Shah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel |
In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 580 U.S. 206 (2017), this Court again condemned the use of racial animus in the sexual assault trial of a Mexican man, … |
| 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? |
| 22-6629 |
Keith Edmund Gavin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference federal-constitutional-claim habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision state-court-review state-law-evidentiary-rule strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (""AEDPA")
provides that habeas relief "shall not be granted with respect to any claim that … |
| 22-6528 |
Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure |
1. Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and
2.) Does th… |
| 22-587 |
Maurice Andrews v. District Attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
|
due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice-standard sixth-amendment structural-error trial-counsel |
Whether, in the context of habeas proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, the failure of trial counsel to object to a jury instruction which does not cont… |
| 22-6385 |
Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing |
Gakuba's one—and only—§2254 habeas petition was not "frivolous" rendering the USCA-7's sanction against Gakuba of "$500" and bar from any future feder… |
| 22-6291 |
Jimmy R. Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas statute-of-limitations |
I. Whether it is inconsistent with Slack v. McDaniel, 539 U.S. 413 (2008) for a Court of Appeals to have declined to issue Certificate of Appealabilit… |
| 22-525 |
Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review |
1. Whether a habeas petitioner "fairly presents"
the "substance" of his federal claim in state court by
identifying the relevant facts and the relevan… |
| 22-6203 |
Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error |
I.
HABEAS 28 USC § 2254; CERT. OF APPEAL. 28 USC §2253; F.R. CIV. P. RULE 60(B)(6)
Per Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 US 524, 125 S. Ct. 2641 (2005), Gakub… |
| 22-6061 |
Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct |
In a habeas case involving a first degree murder conviction, whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effe… |
| 22-6004 |
Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clemency clemency-services court-order due-process habeas habeas-petition indigent-capital-defendants mental-health mental-health-crisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts are required by McFarland v. Scott, 512 U.S. 848 (1994), to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of… |
| 22-385 |
Roger David Towers v. Mike Hamasaki |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-review due-process habeas judicial-referral magistrate-assignment standing void-for-vagueness |
1. In light of CAED district judge 's admission
that they are "wholly unable to handle civil
matters and the district court 's order assigning
this… |
| 22-5727 |
Antonio Garrett v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction section-2254 |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING GARRETT A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON HIS 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2254 HABEAS CLAIM OF IN… |
| 22-5587 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus |
Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability ("COA") from a specifically chosen circuit judge?
… |
| 22-5290 |
In Re Phillip A. Brown, II |
|
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether The Circuit Court Must Recall The Mandate In Extraordinary Cases Where It Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over A Final Judgment Resultin… |
| 22-5251 |
Levonne Jomarrio Greer v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement plea-bargaining sham-plea-bargaining sham-tactics |
DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN… |
| 22-94 |
Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b |
1) Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of
appealability ("COA") to appeal the denial of a
Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
2)… |
| 21-1451 |
Elile Adams v. Raymond G. Dodge, Jr., Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nooksack, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights court-remedies due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-plaintiffs habeas habeas-petition pleading-standard standing |
1. Whether federal plaintiffs seeking to challenge their
non-federal prosecution on the basis of bad faith face
a heightened pleading standard.
2. … |
| 21-7717 |
Kacy Fonteze Williams v. Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim discretion discretionary-review district-court federal-review firearm-charge habeas habeas-corpus right-to-be-heard standard-of-review state-court |
Whether The District Court Failed To Properly Utilize Its Discretion On The Petitioners Habeas Where The Court Dismissed The Firearm Charge Issue Rend… |
| 21-7604 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus procedural-access standing |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPROACH AND PRACTICE WHEN THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL AND ITS DOCKET CONTENT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY OUT OF STE… |
| 21-7364 |
In Re David Lopez |
|
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court habeas harmless-error judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-prohibition |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7335 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus state-procedural-law |
1. Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applica… |
| 21-7171 |
Robin Lee Sherwood v. George A. Neotti, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency competency-to-plead-guilty guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
In evaluating the prejudice prong of habeas petitioner Robin Sherwood's ineffective assistance of counsel claim concerning his competency to plead gui… |
| 21-7096 |
Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment |
QUESTION #1). Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying
Petitioner a Certificate of Appealibility where the record holds a
clear showing… |
| 21-6847 |
John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit |
When a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, there are various procedural bars that often preclude relief on the merits. … |
| 21-6813 |
Ronald Charles Washington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60(b) rule-60b standing |
Question #1: Did U.S. District Court and/or Fifth Circuit err by misconstru
ing Rule 60(b) as a federal habeas and time-barring petition
without all… |
| 21-5953 |
Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley |
First Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour… |
| 21-5859 |
Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial
showing of the denial of a Constitutional right and that jurist of reason would find i… |
| 21-5786 |
Jerry R. Tippett v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice free-standing-constitutional-claim habeas ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan trial-counsel |
Whether it is at least debatable that in § 2254 habeas proceedings Martinez v. Ryan may not be utilized to excuse the default of an ineffective assist… |
| 21-439 |
Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition |
1. Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate p… |
| 21-160 |
Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges |
Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were
improperly denied when the issues presented plainly meet the
standards articulated by … |
| 21-18 |
Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing |
Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli… |
| 20-8476 |
Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations |
Whether a state of appellants' responsibility should issue where the district court failed to adequately review of the portions of the Report and Reco… |
| 20-8377 |
Herbert Garfield Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cause-and-prejudice civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process external-interference habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations |
Compelling reasons exist for the exercise of the court's discretionary juris diction. The Fifth Circuit's [COA - DENIAL] "conflicts" with prior Suprem… |
| 20-8252 |
Timothy James Thompson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
default habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion martinez-v-ryan prejudice prejudice-standard trial-counsel trial-judge |
Whether when assessing prejudice to determine if the default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim should be excused under Martinez v. R… |
| 20-1605 |
Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether, as concluded by every circuit that has considered the issue, the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA… |
| 20-7957 |
Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
Petitioners who seek to have AEDPA's statute of limitations equitably tolled must show (1) they were diligent in preparing their federal habeas petiti… |
| 20-7952 |
Pablo Bastidas v. Matthew Atchley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254(d) alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice |
Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Bastidas's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence? |
| 20-7643 |
Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence |
1. In applying Minnesota v. Olson, 495 U.S. 91 (1990), and Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83 (1998), to a habeas corpus claim based on the state's unre… |
| 20-7239 |
Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review |
Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence? |
| 20-7185 |
John Anthony Esposito v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 capital-case habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers |
1. The state habeas court in Petitioner's case issued a reasoned decision denying relief, which the Georgia Supreme Court summarily affirmed. In Wilso… |
| 20-7071 |
Pete Russell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability future-dangerousness habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review strickland |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealabilty, through a merits review, of Russell's claim that he recei ved ineffect ive assi… |
| 20-6957 |
Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order? |
| 20-6924 |
Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court |
During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea… |
| 20-940 |
Alaska v. Sean Wright |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction |
When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2… |
| 20-6502 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
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 |
1. Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise un… |
| 20-707 |
Duane Joseph Johnson v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-counsel brady-standard brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance preponderance-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Must a habeas petitioner asserting ineffective assistance of appellate counsel establish by a preponderance that counsel's omitted argument was mer… |
| 20-6201 |
Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law |
1. Should a certificate of appealability have issued where the
District Court incorrectly opined that claims raised by
Mr. Thomas were matters of st… |
| 20-588 |
Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings |
1. Can federal courts award habeas relief based on
errors in state-postconviction proceedings?
2. If errors in state-postconviction proceedings
somet… |
| 20-436 |
Thomas Haugabook v. Walter Bery, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-molestation child-testimony criminal-defense expert-testimony forensic-interview habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Habeas Court err in not finding that trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when counsel failed to … |
| 20-5830 |
Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims.
Whether a district court judge's impa… |
| 20-363 |
Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (12) |
circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co… |
| 20-5719 |
Efrain Camarill Cruz v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness plea-bargaining |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claims th… |
| 20-5675 |
Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court |
Did the 144 Circuit err in accepting "facts" by the accepted usual course of judicial procedure? Did the 144 Circuit exercise of the Supreme Court's p… |
| 20-5570 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review |
In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and "adjudicated on the merits" by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder… |
| 20-5464 |
Dwayne Banks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process habeas standing |
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| 20-5509 |
Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order |
Whether Court of Appeals erred.) ujk.em it disposed. of -ike. Constitutional
question presented, by habeas petitioner bydevxyinc) his application Von… |
| 20-189 |
Robert Barnes v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gateway-claim habeas |
Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner had established a gate-way claim of actual innocence so that his defaulted constitution… |
| 20-5391 |
Inez Lambert v. Rob Paersson |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-petition |
1. Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have been granted to review petitioner's equitable tolling defense where a reasonable jurist could ha… |
| 20-106 |
Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review |
In 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed convictions of Petitioners Gary Tanaka and Alberto Vilar for securities law-related offenses, but vacated the sen… |
| 20-5224 |
Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations |
A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual … |
| 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… |
| 20-5154 |
Jorge Armando Herrera Salguero v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability closing-argument credibility due-process habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Salguero's prosecutorial misconduct claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence? |
| 20-5135 |
James Bowell v. State Bar of California |
California |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f… |
| 20-5082 |
Robert Deane Schwartz v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Did the Ninth Circuit err for failing to grant a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) on petitioner's claim that the state … |
| 19-1380 |
Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 |
Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c… |
| 19-8565 |
Christopher S. Andersen v. Jeri Taylor |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the test for granting a Certificate of Appealability in a habeas action on an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim must incorporate t… |
| 19-1209 |
Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards |
The untrained pro se Appellant respectfully attempts to succinctly present from the trial record, compelling justiciable Constitutional reasons of err… |
| 19-1075 |
Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the
District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate
of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review whe… |
| 19-1076 |
John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing |
Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if … |
| 19-7761 |
Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment |
This non-capital habeas case arises from petitioner-appellant Jose Osvaldo Arteaga's 2003 California state conviction fo r an attempted murder that to… |
| 19-7742 |
Derrick Lamark Lewis, Sr. v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-courts federal-remedies habeas judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-error standing state-court-proceedings state-courts |
What remedies are available for Petetioner when the State Courts habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of dustice?
How is it poss… |
| 19-1023 |
Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel |
If a petitioner defaults an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with "some merit," does Martinez v. Ryan allow a federal court to excuse the… |
| 19-7672 |
Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process when the precedent is based on a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 app… |
| 19-7670 |
Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
California |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial |
What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid? |
| 19-7590 |
David K. Howell v. Shawn Hatton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication methamphetamine methamphetamine-intoxication sixth-amendment |
This Court has repeatedly held that to receive a certificate of appealability ("COA"), a habeas petitioner need only show that "'jurists of reason cou… |
| 19-7461 |
Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 109 S.Ct. 1038 103 L.Ed. 2d (1989); Caldwel… |
| 19-7440 |
Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review |
Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w… |
| 19-7396 |
Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim(s) … |
| 19-7299 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke |
WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL… |
| 19-6987 |
Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo |
QUESTION ONE:
Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the
Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis… |
| 19-6951 |
Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, John Nathan … |
| 19-6860 |
In Re Lee Hall |
|
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
biased-juror capital-case capital-punishment due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review juror-bias original-jurisdiction structural-error |
Whether the structural error of service of by biased juror in a capital case, discovered on the eve of execution, presents extraordinary circumstances… |
| 19-6857 |
Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-and-progeny brady-claim brady-claims-review constitutional-error due-process fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus judicial-duty pervasive-effect-of-errors prejudice-analysis preservation preservation-doctrine preservation-of-issues totality-of-evidence totality-of-the-evidence |
An utterly corrupt law enforcement officer tainted the guilt and sentencing stages of Mr. Goode's trial. The courts have never fully evaluated Goode's… |
| 19-6669 |
Donnie Berry v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-or-declaration appeals civil-rights costs due-process habeas in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty redress security sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6608 |
Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
This non-capital habeas case arises out of Steve Romero's 2006 conviction in the state court of California for attempted murder and the Ninth Circuit'… |
| 19-6562 |
Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se |
Petitioner alleged that his conviction and death sentence were caused by per se ineffective assistance under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (19… |
| 19-6385 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man |
Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements raises a significant issue: Integrity of appeals that circumvent Supre… |
| 19-6316 |
James Matthew Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE LOWER
COURT;
(1) ERRS DENYING SHELTON'S HABEAS CLAIM ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE
ASSISTANCE OF COUNS… |
| 19-6106 |
Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order |
Whether a 1½-page order that su mmarily denies a certificate of appealability
without any analysis of the facts and the law in a murder case satisfies… |
| 19-5675 |
Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery |
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198… |
| 19-231 |
Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent |
1. Was DAVIS improperly included? (5th.Cir.)
2. Was PAXTON improperly dismissed? (W.D.Tex.)
3. Did PITMAN abuse discretion in disallowing Perkins's … |
| 19-5595 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process false-evidence government-misconduct government-misrepresentations habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit |
1- Did The Denial of COA Violate of Appeals Denied Effective When A Clear Claim ofDue Process Where The Second Circuit And Meaningful Review As ACourt… |
| 19-5438 |
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i… |
| 19-5389 |
Mervin R. Barteaux v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trial-counsel trial-court-error writ-of-certiorari |
Whether where the procedural default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is excused under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), that in… |
| 19-5354 |
Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Third Circuit) err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificat… |
| 19-5348 |
Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel |
A federal habeas petitioner challenging a state conviction cannot obtain appellate review unless and until a certificate of appealability ("COA") issu… |
| 18-9751 |
Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa brady-violation castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman |
I-A-l) First Question ; Does the Appellate Court's obsecure Panel Denials, violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Prosess Question in Conflict… |
| 18-1550 |
Gilberto Ramos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process federal-sentence-enhancement federal-sentencing habeas judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-remedy prior-state-sentence proposition-64 resentencing retroactive-relief sentence-enhancement state-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-sentence successful-attack |
When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a prior state sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhanceme… |
| 18-9537 |
Stephen S. Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review |
On the basis of a § 2254, a claim of fraud upon the court will have been reviewed by state courts prior to the Federal District Court level. However, … |
| 18-9438 |
Nathaniel Woods v. Cynthia Stewart, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,ma ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining plea-negotiations trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler |
Could reasonable jurists disagree with the district court's rejection of Mr. Woods' claim that Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Tha… |
| 18-9208 |
Robert Tringham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing |
Question 1.
Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access
to justice.
Question 2.
Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 18-9016 |
Henry Earl Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard |
Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill… |
| 18-8993 |
Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability |
1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence when a habeas petitioner serving li… |
| 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 |
1. Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes—that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence—should be consid… |
| 18-8701 |
Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation |
1. May a state court resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits when this Cou… |
| 18-8549 |
Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute |
In 2013, The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Va. Code § 18.2-361(A), a state criminal statute under which Petitioner remains convicted, sente… |
| 18-8291 |
Juanita Garcia v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
In order to obtain federal habeas relief for a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel, Strickland v. Washington… |
| 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 |
1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this
Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that… |
| 18-8017 |
Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
In cases where a federal district court dismisses a habeas petition based on procedural grounds and is determining whether to issue a certificate of a… |
| 18-7644 |
Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review |
Did trial counsel have a conplict of interest by simulttanecusly representing Me. Benitez and a defense witness, violating Mir. Benitez's Sixth Amendm… |
| 18-7261 |
Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) |
Since denial of the prejudgment Rule 60(b) motion in habeas did not address merits of attorney dishonesty (fraud-on-the--court) did lower court clearl… |
| 18-7045 |
Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition |
This petition concerns the proper standard for evaluating whether a Rule 60(b) motion "alleges" a proper claim for relief from a habeas judgment, and … |
| 18-738 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Whether The Standard That Governs the AEDPA Provisions, 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(1), §2244(b)(2)(B)(ii), and §2244(b)(3)(A), is inapplicable To A Second Hab… |
| 18-6845 |
Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity |
The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al… |
| 18-680 |
Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether it is clearly established federal law, as is required to grant relief in a federal habeas case, that the Sixth Amendment jury right applies… |
| 18-673 |
Terrence Edwin Prince v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
and whether applying AEDPA's restrictive provisio aedpa brady-claim brady-rule due-process federal-courts gatekeeping-provisions habeas habeas-corpus retroactivity second-in-time-petition second-or-successive |
1. Is a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions when the claim i… |
| 18-6759 |
Gregory L. Brown v. Shawn Hatton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2244b brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition recurring-issue second-or-successive second-successive-petition statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Is a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), brought in a second-in-time habeas petition "second or successive" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-6682 |
Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
collateral-review due-process due-process-rights habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-procedures trial-ineffectiveness trial-rights |
When a State chooses to create a mechanism for post-conviction relief, what due process is required to afford a habeas applicant an adequate and effec… |
| 18-6640 |
James Derrick Hundley v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing |
1) Did The Federal Habeas Court improperly and Unconstitutional
Suspend and foreclose petitioners Habeas right?
2) Did Petitioner receive Ineffective … |
| 18-6585 |
Raymond Alfred Gagnon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appeal civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-fraud rule-60 rule-60-motion second-or-successive-habeas-petition standing |
Whether the Appellate Court properly resolved the District Court's abuse of discretion while performing the threshold Rule 60 determination required u… |
| 18-6428 |
Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
At Petitioner's murder trial, the State's only fact witness testified the victim
was shot once at one location and his body moved and dumped at anothe… |
| 18-6240 |
Darryl Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c… |
| 18-6172 |
Sherman Edward Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP |
access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions |
I. Prisoners must file a petition with the Court of Appeals for permission to pursue a second or successive habeas or 2255 petition. Most such petitio… |
| 18-6051 |
John Phillip Bender v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion aedpa-limitations appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review prima-facie-innocence rule-60b standing |
Did the lower court clearly err abusing its discretion applying certificate of appealability ("COA") law outside Constitutional bounds, with no clear … |
| 18-6024 |
Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit |
(1) Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contrevene Buck. v. Davis,85 U. S.L.WI 4037,2017 BL :54115 (U.s.2/22/17) because the 3rd Circuit … |
| 18-6012 |
Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct |
Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability ("COA") on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional because the prosecut… |
| 18-5947 |
Stevie Andre Roberson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations texas-supreme-court |
1.) WHETHER DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION AS BARRED BY STATUTE OF LIMITATION OF THE ANT-TERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH… |
| 18-5867 |
Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review |
The United States Supreme Court distinguishes habeas petitions asserting claims of actual innocence as (a) cases where no constitutional error is alle… |
| 18-5744 |
Arthur Lawton Clark v. Walter Berry, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus indictment indictment-insufficiency ineffective-assistance procedural-bar procedural-default |
Why do the fed.District Courts and the 11th Cir. Court of Appeals apparently agree that I have only stated that petitioner's indictment is simply "Fla… |
| 18-5631 |
Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire |
Was the Petitioner's demonstration, that the State Courts' decision was dependent on their failure to apply the holding in Murphy v. Florida by accept… |
| 18-5134 |
Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules |
PURSUANT TO USCS RULE 10(a) AND (c), HAS THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN DAY v. M… |
| 18-5002 |
John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness |
Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ… |