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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 Whether the district court's actions in this § 2254 habeas case sanctioned a departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
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 Does Strickland require cumulative-effect-of-errors evaluation,does-AEDPA-deference-apply-to-state-court-findings-favorable-to-petitioner,does-actual-…
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 Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses constitute federally defined ineffective assistance of coun…
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 Does limiting second-in-time initial habeas petitions to only petitions that raise (a) a claim that was unripe when the first petition was filed, or (…
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 Whether a federal claim is 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)
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 Does a federal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S.C…
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 DNA testing statute toll the habeas limitations period?
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 Whether the Second Circuit wrongly denied a COA
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 the petitioner's claims
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
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 Did the Federal District Court and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Constitution by enacting and applying a judicial law that …
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 warrants 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 Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when a …
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 Whether a state court's surprise procedural-bar ruling that neither party requested is adequate to support procedural default
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 Can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' authorizing a district court to reduce a prisoner's sentence …
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 Does the Seventh Circuit's holding conflict with Schlup, 513 U.S. 298, and House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518 (2006), because it turned on whether the eviden…
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 Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's request for court forms for indigent petitioners
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 Whether minute entries documenting incarceration without judicial proceedings are 'orders' and 'convictions or sentences' under Heck and Preiser
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 Whether this Court's plurality decision in Burnes v. Wilson remains viable when applied to crimes unconnected to military service but prosecuted by Ar…
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 Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' methodology for evaluating a prosecutor's facially race-neutral reasons for purposeful discrimination violate…
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 Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of habeas relief had post-judgment procedural defects that denied adequate access to the courts a…
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, violating Bartunek's due-process rights, by failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability?
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
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 Whether the actual-innocence gateway applies only where a petitioner can prove that she is 'morall[ly]' or 'completely' innocent of any crime, or whet…
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever…
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 Whether the pre-AEDPA presumption of correctness applies whenever the state record supports the state court's finding, or whether the federal court mu…
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-Louisville-n…
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability categorically ignored the petitioner's habeas issues and conflicted with S…
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 Whether AEDPA deference applies to state-court reasoning not articulated in the decision
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 Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and IAC caused cons…
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 a habeas petitioner who receives a jury instruction that does not contain any of the essential elements of the offense must show prejudice
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Whether the USCA-7's imposition of a $500 sanction and bar from filing future habeas petitions against Gakuba constitutes a First Amendment retaliatio…
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 Whether courts erred in declining to issue a certificate of appealability on a favorable claim of first impression concerning whether a district court…
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 Whether a habeas petitioner fairly presents his federal claim in state court
22-6203 Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error issues-being-raised
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 Whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effect, an automatic means of excusing unconstitutional law enfor…
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 to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of the statute
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 Whether the referral to a magistrate was lawful given the district judge's admission of being 'wholly unable to handle civil matters
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 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 whether-the-circuit-court-must-recall-the-mandate
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 district court and appeals court erroneously deny a certificate of appealability?
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 Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
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 Whether federal plaintiffs seeking to challenge their non-federal prosecution on the basis of bad faith face a heightened pleading standard
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 petitioner's habeas where the court dismissed the firearm charge issue ren…
21-7604 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Dismissed 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 in the Certificate of Appealability (COA) context are significantly out of step wi…
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 Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of prohibition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1651(a) to prevent further violations of the petitioner's c…
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 Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applicatio…
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit's prejudice standard for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim concerning competency to plead guilty conflicts with Str…
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 Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
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 Whether a pro-se-state-prisoner-adequately-alleged-gateway-actual-innocence-claim
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 Did U.S. District Court and/or Fifth Circuit err by misconstruing Rule 60(b) as a federal habeas and time-barring petition without allowing equitable …
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 Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right
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 Martinez v. Ryan may be utilized to excuse the default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim in § 2254 habeas proceedings
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 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 plea…
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
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
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 Certificate of Appealability should issue where the district court failed to conduct de novo review of the portions of the Report and Recomm…
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 Whether state trial court's 'external interference' constitutes rare and extraordinary circumstance sufficient to excuse statute of limitations time-b…
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 the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA cases
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim is contrary to this C…
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 Whether courts should employ the 'stop clock' method or require a showing of diligence throughout the entire tolling period for equitable tolling of A…
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 Whether the federal court impermissibly added an element to the expectation-of-privacy standard for a third-party overnight guest, in violation of 28 …
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit should be allowed to flout the Supreme Court's clear instruction in Wilson v. Sellers that federal courts must focus on t…
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 appealability, through a merits review, of Russell's claim that he received ineffective assis…
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 Whether petitioner's claim that the court's abrupt and arbitrary rejection of his plea agreement deprived him of due process is cognizable in habeas
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 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 182 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise unexh…
20-707 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 Must a habeas petitioner asserting ineffective assistance of appellate counsel establish by a preponderance that counsel's omitted argument was merito…
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 Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state proceedings?
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 Should a certificate of appealability have issued?
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 Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims
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
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 14th Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory 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 Whether the District Court abused its discretion by allowing the Petitioner's Motion/Response to be stricken and denying the Petitioner's request for …
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 the Court of Appeals erred in disposing of the constitutional question presented by habeas petitioner by denying his application for Certifica…
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 gateway-claim of actual-innocence so that his defaulted constitutiona…
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 Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have been granted
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 Whether the failure of the district court and the Court of Appeals to consider the expanded habeas record violates Due Process in preventing assessmen…
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 Must a habeas petitioner make a threshold showing of reliability before the reviewing court will consider the evidence in totality to determine whethe…
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Salguero's prosecutorial-misconduct claim is 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 Whether a court-appointed attorney's refusal to present an issue on habeas where the court could impose no sentence other than the statutory maximum 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 Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process Question in Conflict with the Certiorari Decis…
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review
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 that the favorable termination rule applies even if an individual is no longer incarcerated, and therefore in…
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 Did the Ninth Circuit's order denying a COA violate this Court's mandate that a circuit court must issue a COA if a habeas petition makes 'a substanti…
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 when the state court's habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of justice?
19-1023 Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 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 Whether a federal court may excuse a procedural default of an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with 'some merit' under Martinez v. Ryan w…
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process
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 Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Howell's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
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 Question not identified
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…
19-6951 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, did not meet…
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 Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis to deny Petit…
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 Should questionable application of the fair presentation and preservation doctrines allow a circuit court to neglect duties such as the duty to determ…
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…
19-6669 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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
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 Does the Ninth Circuit's decision contravene Strickland and this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence?
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to address the uncertified Cronic claim despite a strong showing of per se ineffective assistance constituted an i…
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
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 Whether the lower court erred in denying Shelton's habeas claim alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and abused its discretion in denying him an…
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 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis
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
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 Was DAVIS improperly included?
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 Did the denial of COA violate due process
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
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…
19-5348 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 Whether the Court of Appeals erred below in denying Mr. Oliver a COA on whether trial counsel was ineffective in not subpoenaing Mr. Oliver's telephon…
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 err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealabili…
18-9751 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2019-06-21 Dismissed 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 Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process question in conflict with the Certiorari decis…
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 whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding
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 Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice
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 Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability (COA) met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence"
18-1320 Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied 28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence should be considere…
18-8701 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 Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w…
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 Whether a § 2254 (habeas) claim of a conviction under a facially unconstitutional statute is sufficient to overcome a statutory 'second or successive'…
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 Whether a habeas petitioner must show that absent the attorney's deficient performance, no other evidence supported the verdict
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-8017 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 Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert…
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 conflict of interest by simultaneously representing Mr. Benitez and a defense witness?
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) Whether the lower court clearly erred in abusing its discretion by dismissing the appeal as premature/no jurisdiction without addressing the merits of…
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 Proper-standard-for-Rule-60(b)-motion
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 Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition
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 Whether the habeas statute can be reinterpreted to allow application of a later Supreme Court decision to deny relief that would otherwise obtain base…
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 Whether a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition is 'second or successive' under AEDPA
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 Whether the Sixth Amendment jury right applies to parole-eligibility dates
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 brought in a second-in-time habeas petition 'second or successive' for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) when the cla…
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 Whether the federal habeas court improperly and unconstitutionally suspended and foreclosed petitioner's habeas rights?
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
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 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit incorrectly denied a certificate of appealability
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
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior-precedent rule violates due process when applied to orders denying second or successive habeas petitions
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
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 due to prosecutorial m…
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 Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contravene Buck v. Davis
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 Whether district court's decision to deny petitioner's areas autonomy is barred by statute of limitation of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Pen…
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 Whether the Petitioner has presented a credible claim of actual innocence to warrant reversal of the offenses of carjacking, home-invasion-first-degre…
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 Whether petitioner's indictment and guilty plea were constitutionally deficient, and whether the lower courts erred in denying his claims of ineffecti…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed 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 sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
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 Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find a violation of the petitioner's due process rights when the district court denied…
18-5002 John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-06-28 Dismissed 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…