habeas-corpus-petition

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5184 Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
23-5889 Christopher Michael Williams v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alternative-suspect-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-violation habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt right-to-trial sixth-amendment-right whether-defendant's-6th-amendment-right-was-violated
19-6842 Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes Seventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit court of …
19-5640 In Re Larry Swearingen 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 death-penalty due-process false-testimony forensic-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition innocence innocence-standard schlup-v-delo scientific-evidence scientific-testimony successive-petition What is the scope of the evidence for a court's assessment of innocence under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i)?
18-9187 Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subsequent h…
18-8917 Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Aguilar's certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. Sections 2107, 2253(c)(2) despite cou…
18-8189 Martin Tovar v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction Whether the Indiana Southern District Court erred in ruling Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was time barred and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal…
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-7498 Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition
18-7188 Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa…
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules