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25-6816 Carlos Javier Figueroa v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP counsel-override criminal-defense defendant-autonomy ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment witness-testimony In McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), this Court held that (1) the Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the autonomy to decide the ob…
25-6811 Gifford Johnson, III v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP circuit-court-split constitutional-duty ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp-claim sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S APPLICATION OF SCHULP'S CLAIM WAS UNREASONABLE WHEN THE NEWLY PRESENTED EVIDENCE WAS NOT HEARD AT TRIAL…
25-6794 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process ineffective-assistance plea-breach prosecutorial-misconduct santobello-precedent section-1983 Whether a court of appeals may dismiss as "frivolous" a § 1983 plea-breach claim supported by recorded evidence and governed by Santobello v. New York…
25-6765 Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP body-worn-camera credibility-inference criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance miranda-warning 1. Whether a police officer's intentional and purposeful decision to keep the audio turned off on his body-worn camera constitutes an inference again…
25A903 Nima Moradi v. Florida Florida 2026-02-09 Application deadly-force ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prejudice-prong self-defense strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-6742 Gezo Goeong Edwards v. United States District of Columbia 2026-02-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance mens-rea 1. Whether an indictment charging conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance under 21 USCS 846 and 841(a) fails to state an offense where it plac…
25-6725 Shawn D. Powell v. Fidencio Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP closing-argument habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel witness-credibility During closing argument at Petitioner Shawn Powell's trial, his trial counsel unreasonably conceded Powell's guilt of vandalism and violation of a pro…
25-6720 Demarred Ewing v. Illinois Illinois 2026-02-04 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel evidence-investigation ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation Whether DeMarco Curae WS Sind Wis Ce\at do the 2 Vecthwe assistace oF Counscl ushice Wis Counsel Dale doa adequately coves Ani Siete's visto euidince …
25A872 Djavon Holland v. United States Third Circuit 2026-02-03 Application appellate-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A867 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama 2026-02-02 Application alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
25-6683 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending IFP due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard 1. Over thirteen years after Roderick LeShun Rankin was convicted of three murders and sentenced to death, the pastor of his deceased brother Rodney d…
25A846 Marion Alexander Lindsey v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-01-23 Application capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals, as a state court of last resort, has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with two d…
25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Pending constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions.
25-6626 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton, Superintendent, Downstate Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination Whether an attorney has necessarily provided ineffective assistance of counsel when, after making successful Batson claims, he fails to insist on a re…
25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard This case presents an important question regarding an individual's entitlement to a certificate of appealability. Regarding that entitlement, this Cou…
25-6512 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2026-01-07 Pending IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-rights ineffective-assistance post-conviction 1. Does a state violate this Court's precedent and the Due Process clause when it penalizes the request for the appointment of conflict-free counsel? …
25-6505 Kenneth Christopher Pointer, aka Keith Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct a prompt Evidentiary Hearing and the Sixth Circuit's affir…
25-6497 Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals ' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific c…
25A767 Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-02 Application brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
25-6458 Matthew Darrel Childers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandate-recall sixth-circuit 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it denied without explanation Petitioner's Motion to Recall the Mandate, Strike Reply Brief o…
25-6446 David Allen Benson v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2025-12-30 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandamus-petition sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Was Petitioner denied his right to speedy trial, even his criminal Trial has been delayed for six years without his consent? 2. Did Petitioner suf…
25-6414 Matthew R. Davis v. Maine First Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending IFP constitutional-rights expert-testimony eye-witness-identification ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel, under the Sixth Amendment, by failing to timely disclose an expert report on eye-witness …
25-732 Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (4) capital-sentencing constitutional-rights expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether trial counsel provides constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase of a capital trial by presenting evidence th…
25A718 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Application batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard (1) whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may set an impossible standard in post-conviction review of an ineffective Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (…
25-6402 Anwar Mithavayani v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the lower courts provided sufficient and adequate process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due pro…
25A721 Adam J. Sherman v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-18 Application appellate-review court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice rape-of-a-child trial-defense-counsel Question not identified.
25-6353 Marcin Sosniak v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure death-penalty evidence-retrieval ineffective-assistance police-interview right-to-counsel Whether Petitioner has received ineffective assistance of counsel where Petitioner's counsel allowed Petitioner who was facing the death penalty to ac…
25-6347 Jim Lundi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest direct-appeal ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy waiver-of-counsel 1.) Whether Nu appointment of Coun Se | who labors \wh eres \S o bust ok. Aescrehiow 2 ——Aypetlate Counsels fale ' 2.)\whedher \ mdi' Dlea colloquy e…
25-6346 Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court s unconstitutional jury instruction derived from Pennsylvania's consolidated statute 18 P…
25-6343 Sharard Collier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regarding Ground One pre-trial ine…
25A684 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Application capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A671 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-09 Application death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se Question not identified.
25A670 Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default Question not identified.
25-6302 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus identification-evidence ineffective-assistance procedural-default 1. Whether, under the circumstances presented hear, petitioner 's constitutional right to a fair trial due to insufficient identification evidence cla…
25-6300 Anthony Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects I. Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard when…
25A657 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Application aedpa constitutional-claims due-process habeas-review ineffective-assistance word-limitation Question not identified.
25A645 Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona Arizona 2025-12-03 Application capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard third-party-culpability Question not identified.
25-6269 Lairon Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation plea-agreement 1. Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated where, despite a criminal defendant-appellant's repeated invocations of the party presentati…
25-6252 Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE…
25-6249 Robert Bell v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP dna-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sexual-assault sixth-amendment I. IS THE RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILS TO INVESTIGATE, AND SEEK TO OBTAIN AN EXPERT IN OBVIOUS …
25-6247 Jackie Lee Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance proffer-agreement slack-v-mcdaniel 1. Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner who alleges constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel for faling to object to the Government's Due…
25-6234 Edwin Riascos Romero v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's sufficiency of the evidence challenge was proper? and 2. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's i…
25-6238 Gregory Webb v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights incarceration ineffective-assistance legal-procedure post-conviction pro-se Question not identified.
25-6240 Joel Contreras-Aguilar v. Texas Texas 2025-11-25 Pending Response RequestedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process immigration-status ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Has the State of Texas courts undermined presently established federal law in regards to the disclosure of immigration status of defendants in crimina…
25-6225 Alejandro Peña Salvador v. Washington Washington 2025-11-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance The faal JisnsqarJ fa dew &via&>ce of /rre£^Ci|^bl£cpnB' c' b^+^eeAOe^dMi amd hfc Mr Pe?Ks> rtaH4 o reDfesen^-Von a'fn'idcA.i Coothci or &4«c3-!/e > q…
25-6218 Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending IFP appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds…
25-6175 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent 1. THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND THE U.S.D.C'S DECISION THAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED PIECE OF THE REPORTER'S RECORD THAT IS MISSING IS AN ISSUE OF STATE LAW AND …
25-6166 Gregory P. Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(…
25-6158 John Nock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-19 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court APPOINT SUBSTITUTE 10 TCOnN <S?T'S REFUS AL to nock's SIXTH AMENDMENT URSTrmt VI0LATED MR. representation ? DMENT RIGHT To effective ■noc™sR fifth a…
25-6149 Byron Jones v. Michigan Michigan 2025-11-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance prejudice speedy-trial trial-delay I. Did The Court Of Appeals Err When It Deteruined That Mr. Jones Constitutional Rights To A Speedy Trial Were Not Violated When Through No Fault Of …
25-6120 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2025-11-14 Dismissed IFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel 1- a) Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses, constitute federally defined ineffective assistanc…
25-6082 Karl Roseboro v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance jury-prejudice strickland-standard (1) When rumors that Petitioner was involved in the murder were twice put into evidence before the jury without counsel objecting or asking for a cura…
25-6076 Martin Ponce Ramirez v. Leo Quiroz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extradition-warrant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-coercion THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY DENIED PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (28 U.S.C. §2253). REGARDING ISSUES: …
25A535 Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement This document does not contain a traditional "Question(s) Presented" section. The text contains questions posed within the Background section of an ex…
25-6042 Calvin Shaw v. United States District of Columbia 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses appellate-review criminal-procedure government-witnesses ineffective-assistance trial-counsel I- DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR WHEN IT DID NOT FIND TRIAL COUNSELS REPRESENTATION OF MR. SHAW INEFFECTIVE BASED ON HIS FAILURE TO CALL ALIBI WITNESSE…
25-6030 Terry Lee Miksell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce jurisdiction sixth-amendment 1. It is asked of this High Court as to whether the District Court had jurisdiction under Gozales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) to prosecute this case, …
25A510 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Application batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-6023 Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry Whether the lower courts violated this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), by collapsing the certificate-of-appealability…
25-6003 Quinn R. Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Turner's due process of law rights of the Fifth Amendment U.S. Constitution were violated by the district court failing to adjudicate the …
25-6001 Charles Chad Giese v. Edward Borla, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to present Evidence About the Psychological and Physical Effects of Methamphetamine and …
25-5992 In Re Roger Larry McCluer 2025-10-30 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining 1. WHETHER OR NOT COUNSEL'S ADVICE TO PETITIONER, TO FOREGO A TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER, WHEN THE STATE THREATENED TO RE-VISIT THE "CAPITAL MURDER" …
25-5987 Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the district court and the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Ground One, actual-innocence claim as to hi…
25-5982 Bani Marcela Duarte v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied IFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder I. Did the Prosecution Fail to Prove the Second Degree Murder Charge Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; Did Appellate Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance? …
25A477 Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-10-27 Application death-penalty future-dangerousness genetic-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-5950 Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy sixth-amendment 1. Whether defense counsel renders constitutionally ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment when, for financial gain, he affirmatively lies t…
25-5949 Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the Oklahoma courts ' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual …
25-5939 Michael Georgie Carson v. Michigan Michigan 2025-10-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment DOES THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION CONFLICT WITH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S CASELAW, WHEN THEY OVERTURNED THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS FINDING …
25A440 Meelad Dezfooli v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-17 Application counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-474 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-10-17 Denied criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement strickland-standard I. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and discover impeachment evidence against a key prosecution witness before a defendant accepts a ple…
25A429 Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas Texas 2025-10-15 Application constitutional-rights death-row exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief texas-criminal-procedure Question not identified.
25-5898 Jeremiah Bobb v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-witness constitutional-rights evidentiary-error ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strategic-decision A child-witness's initial interview with the authorities was recorded and the child un-equivocally stated that the Petitioner did not sexually assault…
25-5894 Kenneth Lavigne v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard time-barred Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Sixth Amendment and this Court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), Hill v. Lockhart, …
25-5871 Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight…
25-5859 Wisconsin, ex rel. Paul M. Nigl v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Wisconsin 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief wisconsin-statutes 1. Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals unfairly blocked Petitioner access to his only remaining avenue for postconviction relief?
25-5851 Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b…
25-5842 Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25A407 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice Question not identified.
25-426 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent In connection with petitioner's capital sentencing proceeding, trial counsel failed to investigate and present voluminous, powerful mitigation evidenc…
25A397 Obe E. Johnson v. Harry Feliciano-Maldonado, et al. First Circuit 2025-10-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
25-5806 Ricky Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the district court abused its discretion and the Eleventh Circuit affirmance of the lower court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing as…
25-5805 Will Earnest Young, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether Iowa Code § 814.7 violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
25-5782 In Re Ramsey E. Clayter 2025-10-02 Denied IFP due-process ineffective-assistance involuntary-servitude probable-cause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether court-appointed, counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment where counsel (a) sought to secure a guilty plea agains…
25-5765 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment (l)(a) Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by denying a COA on the merits instead of deciding the "threshold inquiry" of whether a Petitioner has raised …
25A364 Jwan L. Hardin v. Indiana Indiana 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete attorney-client constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A358 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance law-library prison-conditions section-2255 Question not identified.
25-5744 Anthony Balducci v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether a hearing in which a defendant seeks to withdraw a guilty plea, made at his first opportunity and before sentencing, at which he asserts in…
25-5729 Raylon Browning v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pretrial-incarceration pro-se-representation speedy-trial Whether the trial court violated Browning's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial by failing to try his case within two complete court terms after h…
25-5706 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure false-testimony fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in refusing to certify the Napue claim, when it failed to reach punishment-phase harm and when it conflated the question …
25-5705 Jua Smith v. Delta Barometre, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied IFP appellate-counsel counsel-disclosure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default writ-authorization a. Whether petitioner is entitled to have his habeas corpus petition disregarded if habeas counsel was not acting on behalf of the petitioner; and fai…
25A324 Juston D. Beyer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete court-martial due-process evidence-rule ineffective-assistance military-justice sexual-assault Question not identified.
25-5677 Juan De Dios Alvarez-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-motion Whether, if an indigent and incarcerated defendant with minimal education and no ability to comprehend English, for the first time on direct appeal wi…
25-5673 Daquon Rollo Corrothers v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant The first Question Presented is whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home, when that search …
25A313 Lairon Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit Whether, by signing a plea agreement with a generic appeal waiver, a criminal defendant waives his right to challenge his attorney's past, present, an…
25-5653 Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel 1. If PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE AN IMPARTIAL JURY BECAUSE A JUROR CONCEALED RELEVENT INFORMATION ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE…
25A293 Martin Renteria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-15 Presumed Complete arrest-warrant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5633 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance juror-unanimity prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias Mica Martinez is a Native American steeped in Comanche culture. Mr. Martinez's defense counsel at trial warned the prosecution of putting on a "wild c…
25-5630 Geneva Kristina Hudson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 1. Must a petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in advising whether to plead guilty demonstrate a predisposition to pleading guilty as…
25-5621 Ja'Kroi Allen Banks v. Texas Texas 2025-09-12 Denied IFP critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment Ja'Krai Banks filed an 11.07 on August 23, 2019. Banks received an affidavit from Private Investigator James McKay in March of 2020. Banks used McKay'…
25-5608 Gary Jordan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review government-misconduct guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment structural-error I. Can a defendant collaterally attack his guilty plea via 28 U.S.C. § 2255 as unconstitutional based on surreptitious pre-plea government misconduct …
25A275 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 Question not identified.
25-5512 Robert Andrew Bartlett, Sr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-review state-law Whether a trial in a state criminal case who is prevented by state law from raising a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, who has a state law …
25-241 Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida Florida 2025-08-29 Denied Response Waived evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard I. Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's facially sufficient ineffective assistance of counsel claim without an evidentiary hear…
25-231 Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Was the conviction obtained through the use of what the Solicitor knew, or should have known to be false testimony, and did the Solicitor fail to c…
25-5484 Corey Blaine Coggins v. Eric Cox, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance joint-defense-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did Coggins ' Public Defender 's (Weber) entering into a joint defense agreement with Coggins ' co-defendant 's (Tabor) lawyer without Coggins ' …
25-5486 Bruce Anderson v. Kenneth Lizotte, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance second-petition Whether Petitioner Bruce Anderson's new federal habeas petition, in which he claims to have received ineffective assistance from the court-appointed d…
25A224 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review Question not identified.
25-5428 Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct 1) How does a defendant obtain the evidence that proves his innocence when the prosecutor knowingly presents false evidence and refuses to turn over t…
25A210 Samuel Peter McElmeel v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights email-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance pro-se Should the Respondents [adverse parties] have a duty to return my laptop? (they don't have a warrant)
25-5396 Gregory K. Parks v. Jamie Bullard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-counsel t^VA - jo pAVcrA "Me GovemmenA anl Me flnieA rr)en~f n^M"J, cinooSe. 4t> use leyA glSl&inct. 4o comply unM lU Rr$A rfme^AmenV t^VA - jo pAVcrA "Me G…
25-5399 Neda Mehrabani v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-violation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance medicare-billing sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued because I was denied a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel …
25-5386 Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default (1) Petitioner properly presented thirteen claims of constitutional violations and sub-issues to each state court including the Michigan Supreme Cou…
25-5362 Nathaniel Blancher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-agreement Whether a guilty plea becomes knowing, intelligent, and voluntary when the plea agreement inaccurately describes the penalty provision of the statute …
25-5370 Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-14 Denied IFP constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty ineffective-assistance neuropsychological-evidence sentencing-procedure After a questionable conviction, Kayle Bates has twice been sentenced to death. His first death sentence was reversed on collateral review for ineffec…
25-5322 Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ineffective-assistance race-testimony strickland-standard witness-impeachment Whether Certiorari should be granted to resolve a conflict between the Court of Appeals Second Circuit and the United States District Court, Eastern D…
25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who…
25A166 Jason Elysse v. Florida Florida 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete continuance-motion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Question not identified.
25A150 Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Question not identified.
25A143 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance no-contest-plea plea-bargain prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
25-5281 Tony Lamons Gooch, III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error I. "When a State court judgment is shown that counsel of record was ineffective during all three phases of litigation including pre-trial, trial phas…
25-5264 Craig Alan Sandhaus v. Florida Florida 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction nondeadly-force sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his trial attorneys failed to request a jury instruction on the just…
25A125 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions murder-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5216 Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-07-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion counsel discretion drug-addiction ineffective-assistance legal-representation Did Court abuse discretion by Not agreeing With Fact that, at Juvenile Lifer appellant's Resentencing iN 2ol8, pesenten cing gudge Yecanted the only F…
25-109 Hong Thu Nguyen v. Chris McBee, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arson certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insurance-fraud Hong Thu Nguyen was charged with arson at two of her places of business. Over objection, the state presented financial evidence that after other busin…
25-5210 Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Lavelle Parker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mental-coercion plea-bargaining 1) wynether, bo etal a videdton of ritlaredl V. WashingIon, Aloo US. % (14) a defendant nust snow 'Anak dw was competent to tao mK Peo Wriroud Mantel …
25A107 Mark H. Wilson v. Florida Florida 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete certiorari ineffective-assistance legal-complexity pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25-99 William Thomas Hudson, III v. Michael Meisner, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived ineffective-assistance investigation-deficiency prejudice-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test Whether a court evaluating an ineffective assistance of counsel claim may rely on the testimony of counsel who has failed to conduct an adequate inves…
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing (1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,…
25A101 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A93 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5173 Douglas Dean Welsh v. Bobbi Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance search-warrant A. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION WAS…
25-5164 Pierre Alexander Amerson v. Leslie Cooley Dismukes, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-intervention plea-negotiations Whether A post-conviction attorney should have been stopped from proceeding with ex parte exploratory and ask a disproportionate, the subsequent given…
25A80 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-5157 Juan T. Tyler v. Luis Martinez, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct I. Did the Prosecution Proved Beyond a Reasonable Doubt that the Shooter Premeditated and Deliberated an Attempted Murder? II. Did the Trial Court De…
25-5153 Steven Catlin v. Edward J. Silva, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied IFP death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence voir-dire 1. Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's habeas claims alleging defense counsel's failure to investigate, develop and present available…
25-5125 Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied IFP constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that the Petitioner was not prejudiced by his defense counsel's failure to rec…
25A61 Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones Virginia 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A58 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
25A52 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete capital-murder dna-evidence due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
25-5088 Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-innocence statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism This Petition seeks an order granting a certificate of appealability or. in the alternative, plenary review of the following questions: 1) Whether re…
25-5078 Lawrence J. Turner v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance direct-review ineffective-assistance issue-preservation legal-standard reasonableness-test Whether, in assessing direct-review counsel's performance based upon the omission of a preserved issue, lower courts should either apply the clearly s…
25-5077 In Re Deryl Nelson 2025-07-10 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP arrest-warrant complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-hearing probable-cause The magistrate issued an arrest warrant without probable cause based on a complaint that was not sworn to but instead signed by an unknown person func…
25-5076 Shomari Legghette v. Illinois Illinois 2025-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-representation constructive-denial criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether defense Counsel's absence at a critical stage constructively denied representation as guaranteed by the sixth amendment. II. Whether appoi…
25-5073 William Menter v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic-standard due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance state-court-decision strickland-standard 1. Whether the state court's decision on Appellant's Illegal Sentence claims contrary to State v. Yarbough, 100 N.J. 627 (1985) and whether the Appell…
25-5020 Dan L. Bozeman v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause stone-v-powell warrantless-arrest Is A Defendant Considered To Be Given A Full And Fair Consideration Of A 4th Amendment Claim At Both "Trial" And "Direct Appeal" As Required By Stone …
25A4 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
25-5004 Delano Hale v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-defense forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance strategic-decision strickland-standard In a capital murder case focused on the circumstances of the decedent's death, where forensic evidence is known to comprise the State's main evidence,…
24-7499 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance Did the lower courts err in applying the standard for determining whether a certificate of appealability should issue in a post-conviction proceeding,…
24-7497 Michael Marion Cotham v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance self-representation I. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision was "contrary" to Faretta v. Arizona, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)…
24-7496 Allen Odell Woods v. Keithe Turner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to raise a Brady claim concerning Cellphone Transcripts, Fingerprint Analysis Reports, and Sup…
24-7495 Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-25 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Whether fail to provide Discover was ineffectice assistance of Counsel ? 2. Whether the indictment of information-was deficient by laking elements…
24-7477 Arnold Wayne McCartney v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP bifurcated-trial certificate-of-appealability counsel ineffective-assistance mercy-phase structural-error Did the Court of Appeals err in denying the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his constitutional claim related to structural error and/or …
24A1258 Willie Dennis v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-20 Presumed Complete due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation procedural-standing right-to-counsel Question not identified.
24-7446 Telly Royster v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the failure to consider trial counsel's mental health issues in evaluating the effectiveness of counsel constitutes a violation of the Sixth A…
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar The Petitioner, Mr. Phillip White, was wrongfully convicted in the State of Georgia for a crime he did not commit. His wrongful conviction was marred …
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground 1. Defense Counsel was ineffective for failing to request a pretrial immunity hearing based on erroneous reasoning that Appellant was not entitled to …
24-7401 Alvaro Quezada v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim state-court-review Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a COA here so clearly misapply Glossip's mandate regarding Napue and Buck's modest standard for granting a C…
24-7395 In Re Isaac Gray 2025-06-10 Denied IFP brady-violation conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel 1. Did the State court erred in denying trial counsel was ineffective in failing to suggest how cross-examination might have been beneficial concernin…
24-7394 Edwin D. Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment 1. ) Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel , …
24-7389 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas 2025-06-10 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct The investigation and presentation of a motion for new trial after a jury convicts a Defendant is a critical stage of the appellate process. The quest…
24-7378 Margarita Leanos v. Allen Dills, Warden Georgia 2025-06-06 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge discriminatory-evidence gang-membership ineffective-assistance witness-testimony I WAS IT INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL OF APPELLATE COUNSELS FAILURE TO ARGUE THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILURE TO ARGUE THE ADMISSIO…
24A1201 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan post-conviction state-proceedings Question not identified.
24-7344 Sheterria Lanelle Jackson v. Florida Florida 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment trial-court I. DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM THAT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CHALLENGE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AND FOR FAILING …
24-7329 Nicco-Kawon Pledger v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-testimony hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-procedure Counsel ///( <S\S5'/J'/c«ce boher? 4o cW|<nje oP JunK Sew UM &>rnis Ae [>n'™y ^Vi'dtnce. of ^vil-k H-ere, Counsel Q<u(ed +o ck<x//<?^e -fhe. ■deSp/rna…
24-7306 William Thomas Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-failure district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily Denying Ground One as to his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel claim, thus, fai…
24-7302 Sterling Atkins, Jr. v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel 1. Can a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel be denied on the basis of an alleged failure to show what trial counsel did rather than what they …
24A1150 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
24-7288 Quaid Akeem Cornell v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied IFP fourth-amendment group-detention ineffective-assistance investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure 1. May police officers detain and search all members of group on grounds that the behavior of one person was suspicious? 2. Is trial counsel constitu…
24-7257 Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver I. In a he-said-she-said case involving allegations of physical assault with self-defense being raised as an affirmative defense, is defense counsel i…
24-7199 Alcenios Martinez, aka Aucensio Lopez v. Texas Texas 2025-05-14 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel-appointment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-review trial-procedure 1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel for the initial review of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim…
24-7194 Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing 1. This Honorable Court has declared that Counsel renders ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence ina capita…
24-7193 Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process duplicitous-charge indictment-dismissal ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment vagueness Did the district court err in concluding that petitioner received effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment when petitioner's trial co…
24-7190 Danny Lee Jones v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-05-13 Dismissed IFP cumulative-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a court reviewing an ineffective assistance-of-counsel claim to consider the cumulative prejudice stemming from t…
24-7186 Albertico C. Cruz v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-response QUESTION ONE: Did the Eleventh Court of Appeals, at Eastland, Texas, deny Petitioner's Due Process to an appeal in the normal course by ordering Petit…
24-7167 Derek Rogers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender…
24-1153 Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its "prejudice inquiry", the unrebutted, non…
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1. Does the narrow, equitable authorities announced by this Court in Marchietti v. Rye Silos S.E. prints to establish "cause" for purposes of executin…
24-7142 Saad Hanna v. Kimberly A. Nelson, M.D., et al. Colorado 2025-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance judicial-error jury-instructions racial-threat Whether the trial court errored by erroneously, and constantly using the wrong phrase, saying "Defendant Guilt," Eight times throughout the preliminar…
24-7156 Michael S. Main v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP defendant-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal post-conviction preliminary-hearing procedural-due-process Nantel rs rereed va G Caw, what-73. thedeahp oo thetcourt may j vest cohe..7 to. the claim———done veda mitsal of Heclajme)——_ LL Rs there Some bent oo…
24-7145 Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied IFP capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance intent intoxication jury-trial sixth-amendment 1. Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance of counsel at the guilt phase by failing to pursue a theory that Mr. Rieber lacked the requisite in…
24A1069 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-05 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance legal-diligence pro-se-filing supreme-court-procedure time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-1127 Thomas E. Clardy v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance strickland-standard In a case that hinges primarily on eyewitness identification, does a criminal defense attorney perform deficiently under Strickland v. Washington, 466…
24-7086 Bakari Abdul Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied IFP appellate-conflict constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prior-conviction trial-strategy IWhen the prejudice effect of the name and nature of a prior r~~i i felony conviction in proving felon status, during the guilt phase of trial, can b…
24-7083 Raul Otero Cazares v. Jason Johnson, Director, Division of Adult Parole Operations, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-precedent criminal-procedure de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Petitioner Raul Otero Cazares was convicted of the rape of his long-time domestic partner ("Doe") in a trial where they told very different stories re…
24-7065 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error state-court Whether a state court's denial of a hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, when such a hearing is required by state statute, can amoun…
24-7063 Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel Mr. Duck alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to remove presumed impartial jurors that sat on the jury. Should they have been di…
24-7049 Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit step outside the bounds of § 2254(d) by considering reasons not found in the CCA's reasoned opinion to determine the reasonablen…
24-7037 Marlon Edgardo Siguenza v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-traumatic-stress-disorder In this noncapital habeas case, Marlon Siguenza alleges that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective for failing to investigate and presen…
24-7036 Jose Padilla-Galarza v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard 1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the First Circuit conflicts with Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), where petiti…
24-7030 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Texas Texas 2025-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-law trial-counsel Whether a criminal defendant has a right to effective habeas counsel to assert a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where, by operation …
24-7003 Hale R. Harris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment 1) DOES THE FINDING THAT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONVEY A PLEA ALLOW THE TRIAL COURT TO DO NOTHING TO CORRECT OR REMEDY THE CONSTITUTIO…
24-6989 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation post-conviction-relief strickland-standard williams-v-taylor In Williams v. Taylor , 529 U.S. 420, 432 (2000), the Court ruled that the provisions that limit the admissibility of evidence in federal habeas under…
24-1071 Jose Angel Garcia v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2025-04-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-instruction medical-evidence sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Petitioner Garcia's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was deprived under the following circumstances: • By failing to call the pathologist who…
24-6950 Daontae T. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment (1) DOES TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE, PROCURE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE (SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE), OTHER INFORMATION FROM THE LOCATION CRIME SCE…
24-6947 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2025-04-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6933 Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2025-04-08 Denied IFP capital-punishment childhood-trauma death-penalty ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment Mikal Mahdi faces execution even though the mitigating evidence presented by his defense counsel filled barely 15 transcript pages. The state supreme …
24-1063 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-08 Granted Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds…
24-6926 Elijah Bankston, aka Tommy Lee v. Florida Florida 2025-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-separation manifest-injustice This Court's original jurisdiction to issue the Writ of Certiorari to complete exercising of its authority and jurisdiction is therefore properly invo…
24-6917 Edmond Stanley Adams, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Wid the S.C. Supreme Court ettor by barches Rebitiowers.Fedecsl Fachsaal ip dicate Hoa. his purported uiaivecof bis 6" Rmendonent Righ-bo—fective a…
24-6907 Oscar Omar Lobo-Lopez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL EXTENT TO ALL CRITICAL STASHES OF A CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS LIKE COMPASSIONATE RELEASE, WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPE…
24-6888 Russell Wayne Driver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24-1034 Ulysses Charles Sneed v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's application for a COA as to his constitutional habeas claims where (i) a circuit judge found that…
24-1032 Kay Ellison v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-test strickland-standard Is the loss of the opportunity to present an affirmative case due to Constitutionally-deficient representation during trial the loss of a "proceeding"…
24-6880 Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment GROUND ONE: WHETHER THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY IMPEACH A WITNESS, IN A WHOLLY CREDIBILITY CASE, CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S GUA…
24-6876 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that the state …
24-6853 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a COA where a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right was demonstrated because reasonable jur…
24-6850 Philip Jude Moran v. Florida Florida 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the state appellate court misapplied this Court's prejudice standard set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when affirmin…
24-6834 Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Tami J. Schult Seventh Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default DlA -Hie PeUiooer^ WiW <xDeta<»<r Cotn\ey*) $We & claim in h»s CowJ^'^ s'Votf'V ft«A fWn ■ S^WenV sUnj +U- fts ft finder +Lf jfe VJftS +o He?? Fel-l …
24-6830 Khalid Alboushari v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's sentence of 92 months' imprisonment without properly considerin…
24-6822 Jorge Almeida v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mens-rea mental-disease specific-intent I. Almeida received Ineffective Assistance of Counsel as a result of his trial counsel's strategy of conceding guilt to lesser included offenses inste…
24-6815 Tanner Lance King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24-6807 Carl P. Palladinetti v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-significance court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance section-2255 A. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denial of Mr. Palladinetti's COA filing represents an issue of constitutional significance worthy of U…
24-6797 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis circumstance-specific-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sex-offender-registration SORNA In Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013), this Court held that when a federal sentencing statute (the Armed Career Criminal Act) referred to …
24-6787 Ralph Reed v. Delaware Delaware 2025-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-rule-61 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief Whether the Superior Court denial of Reed's recently-filed motion for postconviction relief, made pursuant to Delaware Superior Court Criminal Rule 61…
24-6767 Brandon Green v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment 1. Whether a federal district judge's refusal to recuse himself after making statements prejudging the merits of ineffective assistance claims, displa…
24-6756 Marcus Leshun Sargent v. Texas Texas 2025-03-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection extraneous-offense ineffective-assistance Due to the inherently inflammatory and prejudicial nature of sexual offenses against children, with its tendency to suggest a verdict on an improper b…
24-939 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines The "reasonable jurists" test was created only as a threshold to discourage frivolous habeas appeals. It was never intended as a sky-reaching wall o…
24-6668 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP agency-relationship federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-exhaustion In Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012), the Court announced that abandonment of a state post-conviction relief ("PCR") petitioner by his counsel, wi…
24-928 Zackery Terrell v. Texas Texas 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suggestion-of-reconsideration I. Whether the denial of the Applicant's Suggestion of Reconsideration violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment i…
24-910 Charles Ray Crawford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied ake-standard due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-health-expert sixth-amendment In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), this Court clearly established that the State must provide indigent criminal defendants whose mental condition…
24-6550 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-12 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard I Did the third Circuit err in misapplication of Strickland and Slack when Brown had made a substantial showing of undisputed factual evidence apparen…
24-6549 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance jury-selection martinez-rule strickland-standard 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's truncated no-prejudice analysis on Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective during jury selection violated th…
24A776 Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete gang-expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24-6542 William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-state strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court by finding trial coun…
24-6538 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel w…
24-6527 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Gilbert Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant self-defense 1) Whether The Doyle v. Ohio. 426 U.S. 610 (1976) violation had a substantial and injurious effect in determining the jury 's verdict? 2) Whether the…
24A770 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard Whether a certificate of appealability ("COA") required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) may be denied following a division among state appellate judges on the …
24-842 Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado Colorado 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived contempt-proceedings due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance prior-restraint sentencing-consequences I. Whether the permanent injunction issued against Petitioner violated his First Amendment rights by constituting an unconstitutional prior restrain…
24-6494 Brandon Green v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-stop-and-frisk due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1) WHETHER, THE SECOND CIRCUIT 'S AFFIRMATION OF MR. GREEN' S CONVICTION, DESPITE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT INVOLVING THE USE …
24-6492 Rufus Young v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus-petition probable-cause Does a district court abuse its discretion when it denies a habeas petitioner an evidentiary hearing where the state record remains undeveloped, where…
24-6472 Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama Alabama 2025-02-05 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief strickland-standard Under the extreme circumstances of this case, can a state court deny a Strickland claim on the merits without conducting an evidentiary hearing?
24A755 Steven M. Hohn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete attorney-client-communications ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-prejudice 1. This case presents the question whether a Sixth Amendment violation occurs when the prosecution intentionally and unjustifiably intrudes upon a def…
24-826 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Relisted (8) aedpa cause-and-prejudice federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether a federal court must apply the deferential review provisions of AEDPA to the state court's adjudication of an ineffective assistance of counse…
24-821 Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance At trial, Mr. Lewis argued that certain key evidence should be suppressed because it was obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The trial cour…
24-6442 Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2025-02-03 Denied IFP adequate-state-grounds federal-law ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief sixth-amendment state-habeas 1. If a state court does not specify the grounds of an order denying postconviction relief, and if one of the several potential grounds depends on fed…
24-6433 Jesus C. Gonzalez v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-claim ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication procedural-default state-court Where the defendant raises a federal due process claim, and only a federal due process claim, in the State circuit court, the State appellate court, a…
24-6426 Carlin U. Powell v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance interstate-detainer perjury GROUND ONE: It is unconstitutional to allow state witnesses to commit perjury, as well as the State prosecutors to commit subornation of perjury, and …
24A744 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Due Process Violations from the Use of Expunged Records: This case raises fundamental questions about whether the use of expunged records in judicial …
24-797 Scott Speer, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. v. Jeffrey Weller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived aedpa-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-review state-court-adjudication 1. Whether the state courts adjudicated the merits of the claim for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when the state courts expressly cited to this Cour…
24-6383 Christian Ricker v. Indiana Indiana 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Was a State Appellate Courts Finding that the States Prosecutorial Misconduct and Conditioning during Voir Dire was waived by Failure to Raise thes…
24-6373 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2025-01-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6376 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-23 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias Marion Bowman's capital trial counsel predicated his defense upon, and repeatedly injected, odious racial stereotypes about Bowman, a black man, and h…
24-6374 James Clifford Goodwin, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion congressional-intent constitutional-challenge ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance restitution Whether it is an abuse of discretion and/or an usurpation of power to impose a judgment that does not adhere to the congressional mandates and/or requ…
24-6354 Shelben T. Curtis v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ineffective-assistance jury-instruction retroactive-application sixth-amendment sudden-heat voluntary-manslaughter QUESTION I: Whether the lower courts unreasonably applied Brantley retroactively when it decided that the petitioner was not denied his Sixth Amendmen…
24A713 Matthew Lee Flowers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24A708 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-760 Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2025-01-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari 1. Did the United States Supreme Court err by- denying RYAN 's 2023AP769CR 1/16/2024 Writ Of Certiorari (USSC Filing Number 23-898) on 3/25/2024? …
24-6328 Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance Whether when a factual basis supporting a conviction pursuant to a criminal statute is verifiably false the defendant can still be convicted without a…
24-6322 Todd Erling Becker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit apply the correct certificate of appealability standard in denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims? 2. Is Petitioner…
24A694 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation sixth-circuit Question not identified.
24-6308 LaDon Maurice Green v. Florida Florida 2025-01-15 Denied IFP constitutional-claim counsel-performance direct-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction-relief Does the Florida State Court have the authority to convict a defendant in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel under Gideon v. Wainwright…
24-748 John Xavier Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-counsel constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance legal-error procedural-review strickland-standard When a defendant claims ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for failing to pursue an issue on appeal and appellate counsel acknowledges that t…
24-6303 Javarus T. Leach v. Illinois Illinois 2025-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did the Gourt violate defendant rights vhen the Gourt granted money to subpoena, in order to prqnare a defense that vas not. 2. Did the Cburt viol…
24-6275 Johnny Hamilton v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-protection due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-emergency reckless-conduct 1. Does Georgia's reckless conduct statute, O.C.G.A. 16-5-60(b), provide adequate notice of prohibited conduct and sufficient guidance to prevent arbi…
24-6254 Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights email-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause warrantless-search The Sixth Amendment is paramount to defendants in a criminal proceeding to ensure effective assistance of counsel. When this doesn't happen, there is …
24-6248 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment I. Whether Trial Counsel Was Ineffective, Under Strickland . For Failing to Follow Through With Brown's Causation Defense Theory By Failing To Request…
24-6229 Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the district court erred in summarily denying an evidentiary hearing on claims that trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for fa…
24-6228 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandate-recall 1. Should a court of appeals recall its mandate to revisit the merits of its prior decision where a petitioner's recall motion demonstrates a credible…
24A649 Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal postconviction-motions pro-se Question not identified.
24-6209 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE FO…
24-6207 Daniel Cohen v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health-expert state-court-review I. Whether this Court should resolve the question left open in Brumfield v. Cain, 576 U.S. 305, 312 (2015): Where a state court refused funds for a me…
24-6194 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied IFP capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Either Donald Deardorff or Millard Peacock committed capital murder by killing Ted Turner while robbing, burgling, and kidnapping him—the other was gu…
24-6199 Leon Paul Kavis, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-consultation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-duty flores-ortega ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Could reasonable jurists debate that trial counsel's duty to consult with a defendant on whether to file an appeal pursuant Rose v. Flores-Ortega, 528…
24-6191 David Godwin Frank v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review coram-nobis ineffective-assistance judicial-precedent procedural-delay writ-of-error Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling, affirming the district court's decision denying Mr. Frank's petition for writ of error coram nobis on the ground t…
24A603 Christopher Thomas v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete armed-robbery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24A602 Zackery Terrell v. Texas Texas 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
24-6160 Benjamin Escobedo v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied IFP appeal-review constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err by misapplication of the Strickland standard of review? 2. Did the Fifth Circuit err by denying Escobedo a COA? 3. Did …
24A584 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A583 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Question not identified.
24-6145 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Sr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-standard procedural-default sentencing-error The question presented is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the standard governing the grant of a certificate of appealability for…
24-6134 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard Petitioner Joshua Villalobos was convicted largely on the unchallenged testimony of a medical examiner, Dr. Alex Zhang, who concluded that the victim …
24-6125 Nathan Rivera v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court habeas-corpus inadmissible-testimony ineffective-assistance murder-trial trial-counsel Whether the district court erred in denying the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, where Petitioner's trial counsel provided ineffective assistance…
24A545 Bartholomew Granger v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete capital-murder constitutional-deficiency critical-stage ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24A538 Anthony Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24-6029 Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure I. Whether the trial court violated Glenna Mary Duram's constitutional protections of due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence f…
24-6022 Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel 1. Whether a state court that applies a sufficiency of the evidence standard to determine a habeas petitioner was not prejudiced by his trial counsel'…
24-6011 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida 2024-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement post-conviction Question not identified.
24-6014 Ronald Cox v. Ronald S. Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Did The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Err When It Denied Relief To Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel On Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Claim; C…
24-562 Narjes Modarresi v. Texas Texas 2024-11-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession mental-illness miranda-rights sixth-amendment I. Whether the Court should summarily reverse the TCCA's judgment because its rejection of petitioner's ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim …
24A491 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel waiver Question not identified.
24A486 Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-11 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation Question not identified.
24A488 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-petition section-2254 Question not identified.
24-5972 Alex N. Morales-Velez v. United States First Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation strickland-standard 1. Whether defense counsel's failure to object to the government's high-end sentencing recommendation —contrary to the terms of the plea agreement fol…
24-5968 Brian Adkison v. Kelly Morriss, Acting Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-trial plain-error strickland-standard 1. This Court should grant certiorari to clarify that the content prong/proof of prejudice prong of the Strickland V. Washington Standard relative to…
24A481 Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete constitutional-right counsel due-process ineffective-assistance probation-revocation sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5962 Preston M. Young v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether a defense attorney provide effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment when he fails to demurrer indictment to …
24-5949 Anastacio G. Ramirez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-court-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court-review 1. In applying Cullen v. Pinholster 131 S. Ct. 1388 (2011) to a habeas corpus claim based on whether or not the section 2254 (d)(l)condition to asc^p…
24A464 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A458 Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-right constructive-denial ineffective-assistance legal-assistance pro-se sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A457 Tony Lamons Gooch III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
24-517 Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) appellate-review circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-claim Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's application, over dissent, to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of …
24A439 John Xavier Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-01 Presumed Complete appellate-counsel bureau-of-prisons constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance prejudice writ-of-certiorari The question presented to this Court will relate to the proper standard to be used to evaluate prejudice when a Defendant alleges his appellate counse…
24-5896 Matthew Myke v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sexual-assault trial-strategy witness-testimony 1. In a criminal case involving accusations of sexual assault in which the prosecution relies solely upon the testimony of the complainant, is it inef…
24-5861 Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas Texas 2024-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP concurrent-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in not exercising their inherent authority to correct the sentence imposed unlawfully due to the ineffecti…
24-5865 Reginald Donell Rice v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief fl\To Ikrik l\Oe_Vr^ci£l^ Cii* ^ (I&a^V yA) '2A\)Llk±l^ \Afe.'Aro$ V^W Ld^ c-VW U vW lAr^tcP- tooA $or IH'TW SV-A*. tootle \LioUcel Vk Ao-c Wsi. ri^Y"…
24-5843 Jerome R. Sueing v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure I. Court violated Petitioner's right to due process — denied him his right to a fair trial by joining the unrelated cases of aggravated indecent expos…
24-5842 Dallas Staden v. Marcus Myers, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP fair-trial hybrid-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standby-counsel K, h</S rarest*-!ah'*si over -the <Je£svd*srf [ ohjc&fv&p is ^/ficjecP fionnorpb /*■<4 hybrid rcP/tSfr>fet?)>a / cAn the c/ePyst*nt /4v> jtd< ccvirioo…
24A416 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2024-10-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance missouri-supreme-court Question not identified.
24A411 Donald Sherman v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5823 Jose Bernazard v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24A379 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5806 Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Gentner F. Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP deportation habeas-corpus immigration-consequences in-custody-requirement ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky 1. Whether Petitioner Satisfies the in-custody requirements of 2254 Petition when he continued to suffer consequences of deportation as a result of th…
24-5788 Nico Allen-Antonio Cogdill v. Texas Texas 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-due-process trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
24A362 Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell Utah 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete capital-murder ineffective-assistance mitigation-witness religious-testimony strickland-standard trial-strategy Question not identified.
24-5756 Jonathan Leigh Sosnowicz v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice factual-development habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-prisoner Between 1948 and 2022, this Court applied the same standard for excusing a state prisoner's procedural default of a claim for relief as it applied to …
24-409 Roderick Jones v. Tommy Bowen, Warden Georgia 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) permits counsel to concede his client's guilt in direct contradiction of his testimony…
24A344 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability drug-trafficking ineffective-assistance jury-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5743 Rafael Ernesto Gabriel v. California California 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence (1. In California, a pretrial detainee is denied access to the very laws that are the cause of his or her confinement, and must rely upon his or her a…
24-5736 James Ray Pendergraft v. Texas Texas 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense procedural-error trial-record 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision conflicts with Smith v. Robbins, 120 S.Ct. 2446(2000), Hopper v. Evans, 102 S.Ct. 2049(1982) a…
24-5726 William Hudson v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-search fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-test warrant-particularity I.) Willliam Hudson's case raises an important issue not settled by^his Court and one that is in conflict with other United States Court of Appeals an…
24-5725 Jose G. Barajas Gomez v. Daniel W. White, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5715 Lashaun Casey v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance law-enforcement-questioning safe-harbor statement-suppression strickland-standard Whether, under the framework set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not moving to …
24A329 Robert Wharton v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing counsel-performance ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prison-behavior sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-371 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance trial-counsel 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for claims of ineffective assistance of…
24A319 Hugo Rangel-Botello v. Texas Texas 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete counsel-performance criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A318 Allen Ward Cox v. Florida Florida 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete capital-collateral constitutional-rights death-penalty direct-appeal ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief Question not identified.
24A314 Robert Darrel Batson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review Question not identified.
24-5677 Kelly Daniel Bass v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel speedy-trial 1. Whether criminal defendants are required to prove prejudice for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim where counsel is absent and the defenda…
24-5651 Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default In his petition for writ of habeas corpus before the district court, Petitioner Michael McLaughlin raised the claim that his trial counsel ineffective…
24-5640 Mark Watkins v. New York New York 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability strickland-standard trial-counsel To establish that trial counsel was ineffective due to a single error, must the defendant establish that the error satisfies Strickland v. Washington'…
24-5613 In Re Lyndon C. Davis 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance i) Whether on the Sixth Amendment, the Prosecutor deprived Petitioner's "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" testimony of evidence denied him due proce…
24A288 Matthew P. Leipart v. United States Armed Forces 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
24-5616 Craig Bernard Kerry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-examination ineffective-assistance mental-health-issues petition-timeliness trial-court-error 1. Whether the trial court erred by determining that Mr. Kerry's petition was untimely? 2. Whether the trial court erred in determining that trial co…
24-5614 Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP deportation-consequences immigration-law ineffective-assistance moral-turpitude padilla-standard plea-bargain 1. When deportation consequences posed by a criminal charge are not clear, do attorneys render ineffective assistance by telling an indigent client th…
24A283 Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-09-20 Presumed Complete brady-evidence capital-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
24-5592 Deshawn Andrew Boylan v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-findings sixth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously reversed the District Courts grant of habeas relief based on trial counsels ineffective assistance in failing to…
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment A federal court must review a habeas petition de novo if the state court's adjudication on the merits was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable app…
24-5572 Ramon Lopez-Alvarado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appeal- ability where claims show that jurists of reas…
24-5571 Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation In proving felon status, is there a conflict between appellate courts where one court holds that trial counsel is not ineffective for offering a stipu…
24A271 Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
24-5549 Norman Paul Felts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance legal-abandonment pro-se-representation timeliness Should the Fourth Circuit have addressed the merits of Petitioner's appeal even though it was untimely filed because he alleged that his counsel " aba…
24-5546 Mario M. Contreras v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-strikes medical-testimony sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction Petitioner, a Native American, was wrongfully convicted by an all-white jury after jury pool. Counsel failed the government struck all Native American…
24-5527 Adrian Mahdee Akram v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel 1.) Does Petitioner Adrian Akram's conviction rest on a violation of his Sixth Amendment rights announced in Strickland v. Washington? Where he was de…
24A258 Robert A. Hamberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Question not identified.
24-5513 Jacob D. Lickers v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith franks-hearing good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant 1. May a search warrant affiant take advantage of the Good Faith Exception under Leon when he or she lacks subjective good faith when submitting an af…
24-5508 Jason J. Dominick v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette Third Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blood-pattern-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel 1. If Velma and the rest of the Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. Gang would expose junk science presented to the jury in order to preserve the reliability and …
24-5485 Onofre Serrano v. California California 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP critical-stage due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel 1. Whether reasonable jurist could debate the state court of appeals conclusion that Petitioner's waiver of the right to counsel was voluntary, knowin…
24A248 Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2024-09-09 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5483 Spyros Panos v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard In Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel based on a lawyer's conflict o…
24A240 George L. Fields v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default strickland-standard Question not identified.
24-5464 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance trial-counsel QUESTION ONE. IF TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO, AND REFUSES A DEFENDANTS REPEATED DEMANDS TO FILE A MOTION TO SUPPRESS AND MAKE THE PROPER FOURTH AMENDMENT C…
24-5458 Derrick Courchaine v. California California 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence (1. In California, a pretrial detainee is denied access to the very laws that are the cause of his or her confinement, and must rely upon his or her a…
24A230 Aaron Christopher Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete anders-procedure criminal-appeal direct-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
24-5418 Donald G. Barnes, Sr. v. William Danforth, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance legal-remedy post-conviction-relief /. JTE fy d Las '£> 8X. EdctSE kus fa<fL'f <D/i iaj i/o / ur^f-aAy f it£ sdtil HaiaiIauJ & CcAfS'ki'kxj'ifOMa / A-t£jlil~ /o E-fk :tt±h\j&. A ss i S^A…
24A216 Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance juror-bias jury-misconduct right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits regarding when a certificate of appealability must issue, so that a state prisoner d…
24-5405 Michael Edwin Harding v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether contrary to Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017), the district court applied the incorrect prejudice standard to support its decision t…
24-5402 Craig Foote v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Was Petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel?
24-5385 Marc Anthony Colon v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel witness-preparation Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA ") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c…
24-5380 Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance section-2255-motion sentencing-variance sixth-amendment Did the lower courts err in conflating Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, thereby denying both due process and effective assistance of counsel, when th…
24-5373 Raymond Rodriguez v. California California 2024-08-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence (1. In California, a pretrial detainee is denied access to the very laws that are the cause of his or her confinement, and must rely upon his or her a…
24-5365 Troy Steven Richter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation erotica first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance Does the First Amendment and protection of free speech prohibit the initiation of a criminal investigation when original materials were deemed as erot…
24-200 Hamett Diaz v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied criminal-conviction due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to find that trial counsel provided the ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to object to the admis…
24-5355 Darius Leigh Gilkey v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-communication due-process ineffective-assistance prejudicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Should this Court grant Certiorari to determin e whether evidence supports homicide or sexual assault? II. Should this Court grant Certiorari to d…
24-5353 Kollier Devonte Radney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-replacement critical-stages due-process ineffective-assistance legal-representation Question not identified.
24-5347 Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-08-20 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate, uncover, and present evidence of defendant's reduced moral culpability may be categorically discounted…
24-5323 Muhidin Salad Omar v. John C. Gardner Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights criminal-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice Question not identified.
24A171 Mark Watkins v. New York New York 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-probability strickland-standard Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a single unreasonable error that raises a reasonable probability of a different outcome …
24-5290 Kevin Duane Stunes v. Colorado Colorado 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance postconviction-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication 1) When a state regulates a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, i.e a claim of constitutional entitlement to its postconviction review v…
24-5282 Darrell Gunn v. New York New York 2024-08-08 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing WHETHER APPELLANT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR STRONG APPELLATE CLAIM THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA WAS MADE PRIOR TO SENTENCING?
24-5271 Claude P. Lacombe v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-prejudice 1. Under Puckett v. United States , 556 U.S. 129 (2009) and Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), a petitioner seeking habeas relief from a sente…
24-5266 Darrell Gunn v. New York New York 2024-08-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-illness WHETHER CAPITAL DEFENSE TEAM FAILED TO PRESENT MITIGATING EVIDENCE REGARDING THE PETITIONER'S HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS? WHETHER THE NEW YORK STATE C…
24-5239 John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure Question not identified.
24A130 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-validity criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plea-of-guilt pro-se suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
24A118 Ty-Ron Steven Anderson v. Chris King, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-property pro-se Question not identified.
24A114 Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance law-library post-conviction pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
24-5183 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup 1. What constitutes as 'new' evidence, and whether the state prisoner made a proper showing of actual innocence under Schlup? 2. Whether the Virgini…
24-5168 Edward Nicholas Reeder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability court-order final-order habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure motion-disposition motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-withdrawal trial-counsel voluntary-dismissal 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to object and request that the lower court to address the disposition of Reeder's motion to withdraw plea…
24-5178 Keith Earl Robinson v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,ineffective-ass 1. Did Mr. Robinson's trial counsel's performance in preparing defense witnesses meet the standards of effective assistance of counsel, as required by…
24-5171 Jeffrey Wayne Ross v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights defense-witnesses due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-homicide-case self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether or not the trial court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when they made a decision that Petitioner didn't receive ineffective assist…
24-5169 Jeremy David Spielbauer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP challenges-for-cause constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection media-coverage trial-procedure use-immunity venue (1) The trial court abused its discretion in denying challenges for cause to venire members Terry Freethy and Joseph Havlik; and the 7th Court of Appe…
24-5180 Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE ARKANSAS COURTS APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD FOR RESOLVING PETITIONER WHITESIDE'S CLAIMS OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN SENTENCI…
24-5163 Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard (1) Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and inst…
24-5154 Joel Jacobo Sanchez v. Brandon Kelly Ninth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-murder aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent-standard jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences post-conviction-relief Was petitioner's post-conviction counsel ineffective for not arguing that petitioner's trial counsel failed object to a "natural and probable conseque…
24A88 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5117 Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing A. Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the general verdict required that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U…
24A56 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-finding prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
24-5093 David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Question not identified.
24-5086 Isaias Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial federal-law federal-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-incrimination I. Whether The Government Violated Mr. Delgado's Right to Due Process and a Fair Trial by Withholding Evidence? II. Whether The Improper Admission of…
24A41 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Question not identified.
24-5073 Billy Hammonds v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof fair-trial-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-bias mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-bias witness-testimony I. WAS MR. HAMMONDS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS (U.S CONST. 1963, ART l § 20) WHERE TRI…
24A37 Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete deportation-risk guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla-standard plea-withdrawal Question not identified.
24-5067 Stephen Mark Picart v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-claim due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hypothetical-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-record state-court-review tactical-choices IN REPLYING TO HAMPTON V. RICHTER, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), TO A HABEAS CORPUS CLAIM BASED ON THE STATE'S UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL ST…
24-35 Sean Eamonn Waite v. Texas Texas 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining procedural-due-process Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claim without requiring the trial court to r…
24-5066 Lynual McElroy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel constitutional-amendment constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender speedy-trial 1- Does l8 U-S.C.A. § 3161, [speedy trial], apply to all state(s) within the Union, through the United States Constitution, Article III, cl. 2, § 3 an…
24-26 Hugh H. Baldwin, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2024-07-10 Denied Response Waived bad-faith collateral-consequences due-process due-process,collateral-consequences,bad-faith,lega ineffective-assistance legal-counsel post-conviction-relief Did the State commit a Bad Faith Due Process Violation resulting in outstanding legal consequences to the petitioner, to wit: Significant Collateral C…
24-5037 William J. Kemp v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process griffin-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Does a prosecutor's violations of Federal Due Process, as were identified here by the trial court, or invalid jury instructions warrant habeas reli…
24A26 William Hudson v. James T. Vaughn, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24-5014 Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The Sixth Circuit deliberately applied a more demanding standard for showing prejudice for ineffective assistance of counsel than the standard establi…
24-5001 Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review Question not identified.
24-5010 Bryon Keith Creech v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-03 Denied IFP competency due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction withdrawal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation ~j~~p -/"/) C doe~S fvop ///7<^ -p) htofiorj -ft VrH'&t'i'UJ ft ^ SoMtv Pieti, !>o FUbft* 6/? r RcOef )F ■jinz person U*as cotJ^ifre^. Lohi h PTaj c …
23-7825 Eduardo Margarito Soto, aka Edwardo Margarito Soto v. Texas Texas 2024-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prejudice record-development oft. *4He VliqhesP Couftd iie\/ietOed) <4V)6 eoU(2e *>eco£el auc( - {AAedt 4o w \z.e ^ppl < c fHj&hAS esArdbUsherf bif a p>QepD/ode(LiTOe oP ^be es/id…
23-1358 George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw Sixth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived clearly-established-federal-law federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-28-usc-2254 ineffective-assistance plurality-opinion plurality-opinions state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court-holding unreasonable-application 1. Does a rule announced in a four-Justice plurality opinion constitute a holding of this Court, and therefore "clearly established Federal law" under…
23A1162 Donte Parrish v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
23-7802 Festus O. Ohan v. Axos Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-banking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investment property-rights sentencing standing Question not identified.
23-7794 Michael T. Washington v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-assistance 1. Is State Attorney undisclosed substantial assistance motion "Newly Discover Evidence " resulting in a Brady violation? And violation of Petitioner …
23A1151 Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing double-edged-sword ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's lack of mitigation investigation is excused by a court-manufactured theoretical strategy to argue residual doubt; and whether …
23-7796 Stewart Bitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction whereas, although the Petitioner actually committed, the acts stipulated in…
23-7798 Evan C. Wilhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP christeson-v-roper conflict-of-interest counsel-performance cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice professional-reputation professional-responsibility Whether prejudice should be presumed when a conflict of interest forces Counsel to choose between denigrating their own performance on behalf of their…
23-7799 Esther Martin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the trial of incompetent persons, and the Sixth Amendment entitles criminal defen…
23-7789 In Re Glenn A. Holder 2024-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error 1) HAS THE PETITIONER BEEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED, DUE TO STRUCTURAL ERROR 8S AT TRIAL, WHICH VIOLATE) EVERY UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HE HAD A…
23A1137 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23-7765 Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2024-06-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment cumulative-error death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Counsel failed to object to the capital trial court's multiple misleading and inappropriate comments during jury selection about the uniquely gruesome…
23-7764 Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2024-06-20 Denied IFP bad-acts ballistics-evidence capital-case criminal-evidence criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance other-crimes-evidence postconviction-review prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether in a case with no direct evidence connecting the defendant to the crime except the introduction of evidence of other crimes or bad acts, the S…
23A1118 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete aedpa capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference Whether, where a habeas petitioner challenges state court factual findings "based entirely on the state record," a federal court reviews those finding…
23-7739 Cary Joseph Heath v. Texas Texas 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication new-trial trial-fairness witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti…
23-1309 Karnail Singh v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response Waived breach-of-plea-agreement coram-nobis corum-nobis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement relief sixth-amendment Whether the denial of corum nobis relief was erroneous given that Petitioner suffered ineffective assistance of counsel. Whether the facts constitute…
23-7699 Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment I. Whether evidence of an uncharged crime that occured two years after the time-frame of the indictment can be used as direct evidence linking the def…
23-7681 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas Texas 2024-06-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief suppressed-evidence ACCORNML Te THE Stare & TEAS in Ex Sante Tovaa, M6) 4¥I28 YBN 1 that tHE _Pundnse to SE Senvzo G4 A Pode cenvienon wear & daseas Cons 14 \wete ane hes…
23-7673 Aubrey Jiles Stanley, Jr. v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense severance sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1.) WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILURE TO MOVE FOR A MISTRIAL, OR FILE A SEVERANCE MOTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, WHICH PREJUDICE HIS DEFENSE? FO…
23-1287 Ian Brenner v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure confrontation-clause consent due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction magistrate magistrate-jurisdiction standing strickland-standard surrogate-expert a. Whether denial of a Certificate of Appealability is proper when the magistrate judge who entered judgment lacked jurisdiction because the Petitione…
23-1278 Tsai-Fen Lee v. Washington Washington 2024-06-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance personal-restraint plea-bargaining right-to-counsel voluntariness-of-plea 1. Whether Trial Court erred in accepting defendant Tsai-Fen Lee to plead guilty when the plea was on its face equivocal. 2. Can Lee's guilty plea be…
23-7650 Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC…
23-7652 In Re Anthony Brown 2024-06-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-preliminary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-59(e) sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations I.WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE DID NOT ERR BY GRANTING TH…
23A1088 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-7641 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied IFP counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e…
23-7629 Robert Randall Ziegler v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel state-court-appeal Question not identified.
23-7616 Jacob Ray Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me…
23-7620 Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)…
23A1076 Jason Wade Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant Question not identified.
23-7573 Ryan Edward Offineer v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts,equal-protection,right-to-counsel collateral-attack-waiver conclusory-pleadings,vague-pleadings,precedent constitutional-rights disparate-plea-terms,sentencing,eighth-amendment due-process equal-protection inaccurate-information,administrative-remedy,prese ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance,defensive-strategies,guilty meritless-appeal,futile-appeal,right-to-appeal plea-agreement warrantless-search,computer-evidence,search-warran 1) Do additional restrictions, such as Strickland, imposed in the standard collate ral attack waiver that are not specifically stated anywhere in Mr.…
23-7567 Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari When a state by statute or rule imposes a duty upon appellate counsel for the defendant-appellant in a criminal case to file a petition for a writ of …
23-7577 Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process good-cause ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief postconviction-counsel potentially-meritorious rhines-standard rhines-v-weber voir-dire L Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel cannot establish "good cause" under Rhines v. Weber? A…
23-7569 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance multiple-representation sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard sullivan-standard trial-court When counsel alerts the trial court to a conflict of interest not involving multiple representation, and the trial court fails to resolve the conflict…
23-7550 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction Before we Court is of matter inveluirae Lnabused Children kra€icked rata aster Care by hearsay , Causiry, ierepairable. hacen, The motter SueCered exp…
23A1049 Meko R. Walker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-7533 Chadwick Wright v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-collateral-proceedings state-law Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution mandate the appointment of counsel by indigent prisoners in state collateral proceedin…
23A1035 Dedric Dixon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy felony-murder ineffective-assistance jury-verdicts Question not identified.
23A1028 Kalamice Keson Piggee v. Gena Jones, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health Question not identified.
23-7516 Anthony Roy Spain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-20 Denied IFP creek-nation criminal-procedure direct-appeal flores-ortega ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma sixth-amendment Were trial counsel ineffective, in violation of Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), for failing to consult with Mr. Spain about taking a direct…
23-7514 Christopher E. Glass v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-7509 Thomas J. Moore v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct religious-arguments testimonial-evidence trial-counsel In a capital case where the petitioner has always maintained his innocence, where the petitioner testified in his own defense, and where the prosecuti…
23-7491 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-attorney Whether trial attorney's error resulted in the introduction of evidence under Federal Rules of Evidence 404(b) that led to an unfair conviction. OR W…
23-1218 Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard applied to preserved nonconstitutional errors—which asks whether there is a "reasonable probability" …
23-7476 Julius Jerome Walker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct registration-requirements 1. Whether the District court in Muskogee county denied me my fundamental rights because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT of Larry Moore former prosecutor …
23A1014 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process federal-habeas habitual-offender ineffective-assistance sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
23-7465 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit Does a federal habeas court's failure to review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) the last reasoned state court decision adjudicating a federal claim's merits…
23-7448 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-05-10 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of h…
23-7436 Eagles Denashu Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-claim right-to-counsel If an indigent, incarcerated federal defendant, for the first time on direct appeal, raises a colorable claim of ineffective assistance by his distric…
23-7424 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions 1. Should this Court resolve a split among the courts of appeals and decide whether an unreasoned blanket denial of a certificate of appealability tha…
23-7396 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard standing superior-court IS IT THE AUTHORITY OF THE SUPERIOR COURT TO HEAR/SEIZE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF A DEFENDANT? IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT LEGITIMATE …
23-7425 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Was counsel ineffective in not using compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, identified by the United States Park Police and the AUSA in the mo…
23-7410 Andrew Franklin Woodburn v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication medication-defense paxil temporary-insanity Is Andrew Woodburn entitled to a remand for an evidentiary hearing and ultimately a new trial where he did not receive the effective assistance of cou…
23-7407 Mario H. Lloyd v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel due-process fraud-upon-the-court indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ischemic-stroke judicial-misconduct seventh-circuit substantial-right I. Whether the Seventh Circuit and its predecessor made a err in the judicial proceedings by allowing a defective indictment by named $1,240,675:00 …
23-1194 Erik Hentzen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Can Strickland v. Washington's "prejudice prong," be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level "…
23-7379 Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment QUESTION 1(A): Whether The Lower Court Erred Denying CO A On The Claim Of Prosecutorial Misconduct Where The State Pvefused To Reveal Evidence And Fa…
23-7364 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation 1. May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case? 2. Must a state court follow this Court's jurisprudence of Locke…
23-7351 Rolandas Milinavicuus v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations 1. Does A Habeas Corpus Petitioner Under The Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Suffer Unreasonable Application Of Ruling Contrary To The Facts Present…
23A978 Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rhines-stay voir-dire wiggins-claim Question not identified.
23A976 Michael Edwin Harding v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete collateral-review federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance post-conviction pro-se section-2255 Question not identified.
23-7356 Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE DURING VOIR DIRE IN A CHILD MOLESTATION CASE TO EXPLORE AND INVESTIGATE WHETHER JURORS HAD BEEN CRIME VICTIMS (DIRECTL…
23A970 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining Question not identified.
23-7329 Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment I. The United States Supreme Court has held that a state criminal Appellant has Constitutional Right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Due Process Cla…
23-7322 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-04-26 Denied IFP attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute When a state has a rule that an attorney must be given an opportunity to explain his conduct before being found to have rendered ineffective assistanc…
23-7300 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2024-04-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing (1). In accordance with Judicial Discretion ,once the trial Judge accepted and approved the plea bargain agreement for the maximum of the trial court …
23-7296 George E. Lacey v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance joinder right-to-counsel status-charges 1. Whether, and to what extent, the joinder of status charges with non-status charges in a single trial denies criminal defendants the right to a fair…
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…
23A946 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b Question not identified.
23-7257 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice premeditated-murder self-defense use-of-force witness-testimony A) Whether the jury used unreasonable facts to prove a premeditated design. Where there was sufficient [provocation] to find Petitioner not guilty. B…
23-7231 Bryan Christopher O'Rourke v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-16 Denied IFP 18-usc-921a33b 18-usc-922g9 constitutional-rights domestic-violence effective-assistance-of-counsel firearms-prohibition ineffective-assistance misdemeanor-domestic-violence padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky second-amendment Whether, pursuant to Padilla, counsel is a fortiori constitutionally deficient for failing to notify a United States citizen of the direct and/or coll…
23A921 Carmen Difilippantonio v. Arizona Arizona 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-court-review Question not identified.
23-7227 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity…
23-7196 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment I. If the court holds a hearing to put a PLEA PROPOSAL on the record, and the Government OFFERS a 3 point deduction for acceptance of responsibility i…
23-7185 Lawrence Northern v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Wisconsin 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-of-choice direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-v-machner strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is State v. Machner Unconstitutional? Subsumed within this question is a subsidiary question: Have Alabama, Texas, Wisconsin and the Eleventh Circu…
23-7176 Albert Enrique Narvaez v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-burden counterfactual-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review plea-bargaining presumption-of-acceptability prosecutorial-discretion Does Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), place an unreasonable burden upon defendants by requiring them to produce evidence to prove the counterfac…
23-7187 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-standard mitigation post-hoc-strategy post-traumatic-stress-disorder procedural-history sixth-amendment Leslie Galloway III was sentenced to death after his trial counsel conducted a constitutionally inadequate investigation that failed to uncover his ex…
23-7180 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2024-04-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-package state-law-ground WHETHER TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL'S IS APPLYING SEC. 4 [TCCP ART.11.07] —AS ADEQUATE & INDEPENDENT STATE LAW GROUND IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT HOLD…
23-7175 Philip Ayala v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records When a capital case entirely depends on the testimony of one eyewitness, where there was no physical or forensic evidence to connect the Petitioner to…
23-7134 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Can reviewing judge rely on information not provided to the issuing judge for determining whether substantial basis exists showing do the McCleskey su…
23-7128 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied IFP accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief Whether, when both the state trial court and the federal district court agree that a habeas petitioner has pleaded a claim that, if true, would warran…
23-7119 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appointed-counsel capital-murder conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan flat-fee-contract ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland When Brian Dorsey faced capital-murder charges, he was appointed counsel who were paid a very low flat fee of $12,000 each. Chris Slusher, having rece…
23-7116 Ricky L. Reese v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-error statute-of-limitations Does a person is convict of a crime lose his right to public relief from the court if he didn't receive a copy of his sentence becoming final to the c…
23-7087 Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-03-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment 1. Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief because of the introduction of evidence at her …
23-7085 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1. Where a state habeas court, in a non-alternative holding, considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required …
23A864 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete capital-case death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase post-conviction Question not identified.
23-1055 Jeremy Alan Douglass v. Arizona Arizona 2024-03-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substance-abuse Whether evidence of a defense attorney's impairment due to substance abuse discovered after the first petition for post-conviction relief was decided …
23-7066 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 give a federal court of appeals jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's motion under Rule …
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether it only ta deaial ef any stales lerisonex's constitutional cight to the weit of veo fheS £2 PNS te aot...peceait equitable, telling fe — wh th…
23-1048 Michael Kellywood v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response Waived counseling-records due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the denial of Mr. Kellywood's writ of habeas corpus regarding ineffective representation of trial counsel when failing to sufficiently researc…
23-1044 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2024-03-21 Denied abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review Whether, in light of these circumstances, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal s' summary determination that Juan Balderas's subsequent petition failed …
23-7039 Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally defaulted? 2. Whether the…
23A853 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete collateral-review crime-of-violence first-step-act ineffective-assistance plea-agreement section-924c Question not identified.
23-1036 Robert John Dodd v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Dodd was indicted on nine counts for the sexual abuse of a child fifteen years prior. Each count of the indictment was an identical carbon copy, inclu…
23-1015 Norman Seabrook v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus habeas-law ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal light-most-favorable notice-and-hearing procedural-due-process sixth-amendment sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal 1. Did the District Court's sua sponte denial of Petitioner's habeas petition alleging ineffectiveness of trial counsel filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C.…
23-6997 In Re Russell Rope 2024-03-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct standing Whether a Writ for Habeas Corpus Will be Issued • Was Petitioner's right to fair trial violated due to misconduct or obstruction? • Did Petitioner r…
23-6983 Christopher James Michelotti v. Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of Montana Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Within the case the district court abused its discretion by admitting evidence that the defendant is affiliated with a gang. Discredit by denying defe…
23-6987 Michael Todd Hilton v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Introduction; Mr. Hilton was indicted for murder and other offenses stemming from an automobile accident which occurred while he was under the influen…
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…
23-6929 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure pre-filing-injunction standing suspension-clause Whether the district court's pre-filing injunction violates the suspension clause of the United States Constitution since it the Petitioner from lit…
23-6932 Tremond Thomas v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP coerced-waiver confession-suppression due-process-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation involuntary-confession juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-cut-off-questioning During an interrogation, Thomas, fifteen-years-old at the time, began to make inculpatory statements. After hearing the statements, Thomas' mother tri…
23-6915 Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice In Bousiew v. United u.s. WA ty%> i)$ Sxt iuom , mo ued £dJea8(i<WX4his murt held -Hw "Actual Innocence^ Is more -Bw a mere legal insufficiency., 11- …
23-6908 Shawn Christy v. United States Third Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion judicial-error pro-se right-to-counsel self-representation sentencing-review 1. Did the district court error in not permitting Mr. Christy to represent himself? Suggested Answer: Yes. 2. Did the district court error in not gra…
23-979 Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived faretta-colloquy fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing-procedure structural-error 1. When a state trial court fails to conduct a Faretta colloquy before sentencing a defendant without counsel—a fundamentally unfair structural error …
23-6894 Tyler A. Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel professional-norms state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err when it reviewed the merits of Gonzales's claim de novo, did not analyze the particular reasons the Wisconsin court pro…
23-6893 Jacob A. Rubini v. Illinois Illinois 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Pro Se Post Conviction Petition On May 23, 2022, Rubini filed a pro se post conviction petition. (C. 680). In this petition, Rubini raised the follow…
23-6865 Justus Onyiego v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel I. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REQUEST LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE OFFENSE OF AGGRAVATED RAPE CAUSING BODILY INJURY?…
23-6864 In Re Solomon Roberts 2024-02-29 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance parole-revocation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Question not identified.
23-6843 Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida Florida 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Does a trial court's "tender and accept" procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fa…
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
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…
23A796 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation penalty-phase sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6839 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2024-02-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-strategy effective-counsel expert-testimony false-confessions ineffective-assistance police-interrogation sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the Nevada Supreme Court deprive petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel by analyzing counsel's ineffective performance as me…
23-6836 Ruixue Shi, aka Serena Shi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining right-to-counsel trial-preparation voluntariness Whether Petitioner's guilty plea was involuntary because she decided to plead guilty based upon her attorney's advice that it was in her interest to d…
23-6810 Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion 1. Did the federalcourt's ruling on Mosley's Ineffective equal protectionAssistance of Counsel claim deny Mosley where the court had before itan evid…
23-6787 Jerry Means v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-law-rights WHETHER OL, MWHOCEMT asa Marre of STHTE /a W)) acrval and -acrval/ WMI OCENIT, /MDIgEMT feosE DekupauT in & STATE Ceimmal Case bio 1S PpkonibiTED aN A…
23-6790 James Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the …
23-888 Alfredo Felipe Rasco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure deportation-consequences guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky rule-11 rule-11-violation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to deny my C.O.A. and the district court's denial of my motion to withdraw my guilty plea contravenes this Cou…
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23-6756 Kenneth J. Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency pate-v-robinson plea-agreement 1). Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to a hearing upon the issue of his competency to stand trial. Was the petitioner tried, convicted and…
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b 1. In determining whether a hearing related to equitable tolling is warranted, do the unsworn representations of an attorney —while that attorney is o…
23-6735 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability change-in-law conflict-of-interest fraudulent-conduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall new-evidence 1. Should the Court of appeals recall its mandate denying Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA) when Petitioner has demons…
23-6727 Daniel J. Erb v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct In reference to Petitioner's Guilty Plea and Prosecutorial misconduct, the decisions of the lower courts are contrary to, or involv[ing] an unreasonab…
23-6713 Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st…
23A737 Byron Ray Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete aedpa alternative-perpetrator child-sexual-abuse habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6696 Anthony Daniels v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-violation ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suggestive-identification Whether the District Court errored for denial of Petitioner's claim that the State Identification was suggestive, improper and the State Court conclus…
23-6684 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court 1. Did the U.S. district Court contravene the requirement of Act 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) and jdt? 2. When a State Prisoner failed to use available State …
23-6669 S.C., et vir, v. Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services Texas 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appointed-counsel asfa-compliance dismissal-date due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel parental-rights procedural-fairness texas-family-code venue-transfer Whether the denial of appointed counsel for parents found to be indigent in the trial court despite multiple requests for an attorney to protect their…
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…
23A713 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete agency-duties death-penalty ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-habeas waiver-of-rights Question not identified.
23-6619 Edward Lee Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule I. Whether the "total exhaustion rule" applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255; and if so, was the district court in error to rule Smith's §2255 as u…
23-6618 Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements 1) Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters as…
23-6598 Shuaib A. Haji Mohamed v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-claim constitutional-rights discretionary-review federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-review HAS A STATE PRISONER SEEKING FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS MADE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING THAT HIS PETITION SHOULD HAVE PROCEEDED FUR '-' . THER WHERE THE PROCEDU…
23-805 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t…
23-6545 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit completely flout this Court's precedent as set forth in Buck v. Davis . 580 U.S. 100 …
23-6524 Lynn Richard Norton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington (1) Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.E…
23A673 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction Question not identified.
23A663 Brandon De McCall v. Texas Texas 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance texas-criminal-procedure Question not identified.
23A659 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard Question not identified.
23-6469 Eric Kimble v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction rehabilitation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. This case presents the same questions as Thornell v. Jones, Supreme Court Case No. 22-982 (cert. granted, Dec. 13, 2023): Whether the Ninth Circuit…
23A635 Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire Question not identified.
23-6436 Luis Manso v. Patricia McGill, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington strong-evidence 1. Does Strickland v. Washington allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss the defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on "strong eviden…
23A619 Steven Antonius, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Shervington Lovell, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Argemiro Zapata-Castro, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6381 Roy Jackson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-12-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence extraordinary-circumstances guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing (1). IS GUILTY PLEA CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM BASED ON INADEQUATE AND DEFECTIVE BOYKIN COLLOQUY RECORD (2). IS GUILTY PLEA CONSTITUTIONALLY INFIRM INTE…
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
23-6392 Phillip Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by affirming the district court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regar…
23A588 Justin Willis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges strickland-standard Question not identified.
23A590 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6344 Michael Broomer v. Delaware Delaware 2023-12-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment trial-counsel Under U.S. Constitution Amendment(s) 4 and/or 5, and/or 14, does defendant have a right to due process? Was my right(s) violated? Under US Constituti…
23-6343 Patrick Bowie v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington 1. Is the right to confrontation violated when inculpatory letters, turned over to the People by a non-testifying witness, admitted into evidence wit…
23-682 Alabama v. Marcus Bernard Williams Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) AEDPA-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits merits-review procedural-grounds state-court-adjudication While Melanie Rowell and her two toddlers slept, Marcus Williams broke into her house, crept up the stairs, climbed into Melanie's bed, strangled her …
23-6345 Jeffrey M. Spring, Sr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process sixth-amendment substantive-due-process 1: Is it a violation of substantive and procedural due process for the Ohio Courts to deny the defendant in this matter an evidentiary hearing and all…
23A577 Tyler Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete attorney-performance constitutional-performance ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
23A569 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-law ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Question not identified.
23-6316 Daniel Vincent v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied IFP alternative-suspects conflict-with-circuits due-process eyewitness-testimony identification-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mistaken-identification sixth-amendment trial-strategy I. Is a defendant denied due process of law if he properly presents a claim to both the State and Federal Courts and neither Court addresses the claim…
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23A558 Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S. Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), imposes a duty on trial courts to make defendants aware of "the da…
23-6292 Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard Whether the State court's resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for bail at a capital offense preliminary hearing under 42 U…
23-6275 Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing Question not identified.
23-6267 Jose Gonzalez, III v. Texas Texas 2023-12-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1). Is McCoy v Louisiana a logical extension of Florida V Nixon at all when concession of Petitioner's guilt was never discussed prior to trial? 2). …
23A555 Brandon Michael Council v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competence supreme-court-review Question not identified.
23-6257 Randall Scott Jordan v. Texas Texas 2023-12-14 Denied IFP brady brady-violation criminal-history due-process impeachment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility witness-impeachment No. 1 Randall Scott Jordan/petitioner/ contends that external impediments,(State's w witness,(Galvan) extensive violent criminal history and gang aff…
23-641 Daisy Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process independent-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-failure trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether trial counsel's near total reliance on the defendant's characterization of proposed defense witnesses' testimony, and the failure to conduct m…
23-6260 Charles E. Linder, Jr. v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure detective-testimony evidence evidentiary-objection firearm ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimony witness-credibility 1. Trial counsel was ineffective in violation of his Sixth Amendment right under the US Constitution due to his failure to: (1) object to Detective Re…
23-6255 David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of "direct …
23-6207 Ottis J. Cummings Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Commings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations sex-discrimination standing trial-counsel A). . . . Whether the Court aos denied Se + Maer Tutisdie~ Hon" proceedings due to otatolly Mckay sexh? | B). . . .Whebher Yro iadielmnent aos, orren…
23A522 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6196 Boris Ward v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-representation cumulative-effect drug-transaction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-offer prior-convictions reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines 1) Whether trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation to Mr. Ward. 2) Whether the district court erred by failing to vary from …
23-6194 Christopher Andrew Canales v. Nathan Hoffman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-discovery voluntariness-of-plea THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT HAS NOT, BUT SHOULD BE, SETTLED BY THIS COURT, AS TO: (1) WHE…
23-6182 Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial (1) Whether the trial Court erred in amending Judgment and hate Sentencing to not* dual in violation of fllx, ft-Crim. P, Rule ti&lH,i (h) (d) Whethe…
23-604 Leon Phillip Jacob v. Texas Texas 2023-12-06 Denied habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor Whether the Texas courts' prejudice analysis defies this Court's precedents in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984); Williams v. Taylor, 529 …
23-6174 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-12-06 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma collateral-proceedings constitutional-claims due-process expert-assistance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel state-prisoners 1. Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings that provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
23-6160 Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause 1. Is Consistent with the Supremacy Clause, may a state refuse to follow this Court's holdings and permit indictment for a capital crime by a grand ju…
23-6156 David Joseph Meister v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability complete-defense constitutional-rights false-confession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense substantial-showing-of-denial Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
23-6146 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance Question not identified.
23-6139 Milton Dwayne Gobert v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied IFP client-instructions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel per-se-rule sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington substitution-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Does this Court's clearly established precedent under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny permit lower courts to hold th…
23A482 Mark Anthony Crudup, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-deadline withdrawal-of-counsel Question not identified.
23-6115 Rakeem Barber v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-procedure state-courts State and federal courts are jointly responsible for the enforcement of federal constitutional rights. Is Arizona's collateral review scheme adequate …
23-6107 Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations I WHETHER EXCEPTIONS TO THE AEDPA ONE YEAR TIME LIMITATIONS RENDERED THE DISTRICT COURT'S 2015 DISMISSAL FOR UNTIMELINESS OF CUA'S HABEAS PETITION AND…
23-6101 Kevin E. Chace v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards-of-review trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO CERTIORARI REVIEW BASED ON MULTIPLE ERRORS OF TRIAL COUNSEL THAT OCCURRED WHILE LITIGATING PETTIONER'S CASE
23-6099 Carlos Noe Gallegos v. Texas Texas 2023-11-22 Denied IFP circuit-split citizenship-denaturalization denaturalization guilty-plea habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel naturalized-citizenship padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky prejudice-standard 1. Should the Court resolve the circuit split regarding whether Padilla applies to denaturalization consequences flowing from a guilty plea? 2. Did t…
23A464 Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-11-22 Presumed Complete appellate-rights attorney-malpractice constitutional-due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se right-to-counsel Question not identified.
23A461 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Question not identified.
23A460 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review In states that offer unitary review of direct appeal and post conviction relief matters, when an appellant's court appointed counsel gives the appella…
23-6072 James Richards v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington crawford-violation criminal-procedure evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence this Court review the Betitioner's Trial Court Transcript Record on April 21, 2021, and all appeals. Counsel Arkie Byrd was so ineffective for failing…
23-6070 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core.
23-6016 Malik Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253(c) certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interference-with-right-to-testify postconviction-relief prior-criminal-history right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
23-508 Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability when it found th…
23-6007 Daniel A. Rocha v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance procedural-rules time-limitations Does Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353 (1963), and its progeny, require a state court to advise an indigent defendant of the procedural rules and ti…
23-502 Noble U. Ezukanma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived counsel-advice criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice right-to-testify sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard How do the standards for judging ineffective assistance of counsel apply to the question of what advice defense counsel gives to a defendant concernin…
23-5996 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Relisted (9)IFP aedpa capital-sentencing constitutional-error death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance jury-argument jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence Lyndon Pace was convicted of four counts of malice murder in an Atlanta, Georgia trial. Thereafter, the prosecutor asked jurors to sentence him to dea…
23-5994 James Jordan McClain v. Tammy Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation equitable-tolling first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder self-defense voluntary-manslaughter 1. In assessing whether extraordinary circumstances stood in a petitioner's path for equitable-tolling purposes, do those circumstances need to make e…
23-5986 Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga Seventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing Question not identified.
23-5964 William Glenn Rogers v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase prejudice-standard prejudice-test strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is application of a prejudice standard that requires a habeas petitioner to "eliminate or completely discredit" the prosecution's trial evidence in…
23-5959 Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law by approving as reasonable a state court prejudice an…
23-5945 Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus relief, where he raised a claim of actual innocence, and numerous claims of ineffectiveness of trial cou…
23-5935 Michael Ray Thomas v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standing sua-sponte-appointment sufficiency-of-evidence After a United States District Judge orders the appointment of counsel sua sponte "in the interest of justice," may a United States court of appeals s…
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Question not identified.
23-5916 Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony frye-standard frye-test ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation right-to-counsel 1. Was Petitioner prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to move for adversarial testing of the State's novel DNA testing and statistics under Frye v. …
23-5906 Carey Ackies v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance procedural-prerequisites sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. WHETHER ACKIES HAS SATISFIED ALL PROCEDURAL PREREQUISITES NECESSARY TO FILE COA? 2. WHETHER ACKIES HAS SATISFIED THE STANDARDS OF STRICKLAND V. WA…
23-5904 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated…
23-5901 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance new-trial Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Writ of Habeas Corpus for New Trial. Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Motion for New Trial.
23-5896 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP §2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction Did both the District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to Vacate, Set aside, …
23-444 Steven Lee Moss v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment counsel-denial cronic-exception effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment state-action strickland-standard strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic The question presented is whether, when counsel is physically present, state action is required before a court may find a complete denial of counsel u…
23-5891 Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Petitioner Hidalgo made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the failure of counsel t…
23-5861 Joseph Pierre v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether the Courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this court when they denied -wit…
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation 1) Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory …
23-5797 In Re Deryl Dude Nelson 2023-10-18 Dismissed IFP arrest-warrant complaint complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-finding judicial-hearing probable-cause statutory-requirement The magistrate issued an arrest warrant without probable cause based on a complaint that was not sworn to but instead signed by an unknown person func…
23-5811 Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination WHETHER, TO NEW YORK C.P.L 440.10(2)(C) STATUTES BEING AMENDED PURSUANT RULE 60(b)(5)(6) RECONSIDERATION IS WARRANTED AS TO THE LOWER COURT ERROR IN D…
23-5829 Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an i…
23-5802 Erie Adams, aka Michael Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5801 Jeffery Ducote v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment 1. Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights of the United States Constitution were violated when his right to testify was taken from him. 2. …
23-5770 Victor M. Barahona v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession miranda-warning police-interrogation self-incrimination 1. When Detective Lopez told Petitioner that his statement could be used in his favor, did Detective Lopez subverted the Miranda warning, thus, render…
23-5736 In Re Travis J. Guttu 2023-10-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-innocence 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
23-5734 Lawrence Flack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waivers constitutional-rights double-jeopardy guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plain-error plea-agreement Whether Appellant counsel Anders brief was inadequate were evidence exist that Appellant Constitutional rights were violated, double jeopardy rightsI.…
23-5732 Wayne Harris v. Sergeant Stash, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deportation due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malicious-prosecution racial-discrimination wrongful-conviction Petitioner Wayne Harris was accused of selling drugs to a confidential informant following an investigation in Luzerne county Pennsylvania 2003 . The …
23-5710 Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination (1) Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objectio…
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar 1. Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent against public defenders? 2. Is it unconstitutional for the St…
23-5677 Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel when his counsel failed to impeach a critical gove…
23-5660 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver After misadvisin g Petitioner Taberon Honie to waive his right to capital sentencing by a jury, Mr. Honie's counsel later erroneously told him that it…
23-321 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit Erred When Both Found That Mr. Davis Was Not Entitled to the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability f…
23-5644 Robert Timothy Blake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did Trial Counsel Fail to Adequately inform Defendant of the Consequences of Accepting the Plea Bargain? 2. Was the Strickland V. Washington stan…
23-5639 Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5634 Jacob M. Currey v. Illinois Illinois 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Wvv^-VVie-r W "»£ -far ck svulf d,ouc4 c\eM o rd^6+ c\ -VM^eAy^ pec? ^\<?4^o 4c? b'4h<i rc^xjftj g\jvr4y ^) \€o-& ,c\j\A v/ \l > 4 y iv(4> r^V^A" £X.…
23-5620 Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit flouted this Court's relevant decisions and precedent by declining to even grant a certificate of appealability regard…
23-5573 Lashun Tracy Tinnen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent performance-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-test In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner Question not identified.
23-5553 Randy Haight v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-retardation statutory-interpretation 1. Where a state trial court resolves disputed issues of material fact without an evidentiary hearing and ignores relevant expert opinion, is the stat…
23-5539 Trezjuan Thompson v. United States First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents 1) How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifie…
23-5528 Lahme Perkins v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-facts notice post-conviction-relief procedural-default third-circuit-court After Petitioner filed his application and memorandum of law pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254, and without ordering a response from the State, the District…
23-5522 Javier Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Given the case's specifics, was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing t…
23-5489 Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-30 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test 1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United St…
23-5479 Lee Edward Peyton v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-inquiry habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review pro-se-petition standing summary-denial Question not identified.
23-5474 Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine Given that petitioner is from Palestine, His English has always been poor, his second language is Spanish his history with mental health in years lead…
23-5424 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment I. Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20) despite abundant legal support for…
23-5421 Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review strickland-v-washington I. Where a state court and federal court deny a habeas claim on contradictory grounds, do their conflicting rulings suggest that "reasonable jurists w…
23-5410 Sedrick D. Russell v. J. Denmark Fifth Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing Must a pro se petitioner alleging a complete denial of counsel specifically cite Cronic to exhaust his claim in the state court? If a detained crimin…
23-5398 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment amendment constitutional-rights district-court-review due-process federal-procedure federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-15 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief 1. Whether 6. Cet feate ok Aero. okility Shaisutd (Sou to Rextiews | shothor the United States District Court Fac the Ulestetn District of | Nacth Coc…
23-162 Christian Winchel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review I. Supreme Court Rule 10(a)—Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings u…
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court For the Northern District of Oklahoma erred in denying Petitioner Ashton a Certificate of Appealability when …
23-5374 Jessie C. Roberts v. Danny Samuel Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure delusions hallucinations incompetency ineffective-assistance mental-health specific-intent Whether a trial counsel whose client has been found incompetent to stand trial three different times prior to trial provides ineffective assistance of…
23-5351 John P. Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability citizen-united-v-fec due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medicare-fraud post-conviction-relief section-2255 yee-v-escondido This case is one of more than a dozen Medicare fraud cases among varous circuits where physicians, like Dr. Ramirez, were convicted under multiple err…
23-5343 Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington Washington 2023-08-11 Denied IFP alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment (1) Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being of many people in the vic…
23-5336 Maurice Walker v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt 1) In this case the Uniform (Iowa) Jury Instructions were used and presented to the Jury, where Felony Murder-Rule was applied. The Jury convicted W…
23-5312 In Re Brian D. Smith 2023-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal plea-bargaining right-to-appeal Is Smith's plea of guilty invalid because he was not informed of the true nature of his crime and was misled and misinformed by his court-appointed pu…
23-5307 Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
23-5300 Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins Tenth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing 1. Concerning Exculpatory Evidence- Should Mr. Ramos ' convictions be set aside under Brady, withheld exculpatory evidence which led to the due proce…
23-121 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error 1. Whether a district court may require an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of coram nobis in a criminal case, and, if so, whether the …
23-5296 Leonel Marin-Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-relief first-step-act guidelines-range ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether a district court, when deciding a First Step Act motion on the pleadings, complies with Concepcion v. United States, when it fails to calcu…
23-5295 Custodio Carrasco-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5294 Micky Don Wade v. Texas Texas 2023-08-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. May a state court evaluate a Cronic claim under the more burdensome standard of Strickland? (Please see Memorandum Opinion below, Appendix Exhibit …
23-5289 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Is it a violation of the Fourteen th Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not…
23-5280 Robert A. Griffin v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60-motion 1) WHETHER MR. GRIFFIN IS ENTITLED TO A COA BECAUSE JURISTS OF REASON WOULD FIND THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MR. GRIFFIN'S FEDERAL RULE 60(b)(6) MO…
23-5278 Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application 1. Whether the District Gourts' denial:of/appealability of COA was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law? 2. Whether the Di…
23-5277 Sergio Ochoa v. Oak Smith, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP background-investigation capital-punishment capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence neuropsychological-deficits post-traumatic-stress post-traumatic-stress-disorder strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor In Ochoa v. Davis, the Ninth Circuit endorsed trial counsel's presentation of a "family sympathy" defense at the penalty phase of Sergio Ochoa's capit…
23-5248 Nikolas Gacho v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment 1) Should the 7Th Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a certificate of appe&libility to petitioner Nikolas Gacho where his ineffective assistance of …
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the Unless Se.ocW and Se^re ft VioUhon of my ^ ^ ^Q-P h&brU&C'/ /c///9 <?f?| (4/nendtn€o-f-S fi^htS > uihAUr r'3^s" uihAUr r'3^s" rnyvoku °P …
23-5227 Luis Roman v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Question not identified.
23-5224 James Scott v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence trial-court-record trial-court-records Whether Appellate Court abused it's disereton by déenmy te Vacate and or Granta Evidentiary hénrine, where Pro sé petitioner Established, And State d…
23-82 Joshua Isaiah Joyner v. Texas Texas 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claims without requiring the trial court to …
23-5205 Steven Lesane v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea where 1) there was an insufficient…
23-5199 Duron B. Peoples v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel murder-conspiracy witness-testimony witness-unavailability 1. IS FEDERAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED UNDER THE "COMPULSORY PROCESS" WHERE A FEDERAL COURT CONCLUDES THAT A PETITIONER'S COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE CLAIM LACKS …
23-5195 Cynthia Kaye Wood v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mens-rea specific-intent voluntary-plea In Texas, the ens rea for attempted capital murder is a specific intent to kill. The defendant did not know this. Thus, she pled guilty although she h…
23-5180 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where there was evidence of a history of the defendant's mental health issues and mental health hospitalization and trial counsel failed to even initi…
23-5154 Justin Christopher Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense 1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence? 2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting …
23-5152 Angel Maldonado v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions pennsylvania-supreme-court reasonable-doubt state-court-review 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred when it denied Petitioner's request for a new trial based on trial counsel's ineffectiveness for faili…
23-5150 Augustus Quintrell Light v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure government-misconduct illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error WHETHER ON ONE'S, DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT ERROR IN FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETI…
23-5125 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-5124 Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel Where the defendant-appellant acted prose at trial prosecuting several viable issues for appeal, does the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, reque…
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…
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler 1. Does a court contravene Johnson u. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the …
23-5032 L. Brian Whitfield v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pro-se standing state-prisoner Question not identified.
23-5037 Patrick L. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Relisted (3)IFP due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure Do Texas procedures for postconviction habeas corpus violate the Sixth Amendment and deny indigent prisoners equal protection and due process of law b…
23-5043 Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the juiy? Was Ceaser's trial rende…
23-5039 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment 1. Whether, for purposes of measuring claims arising from capital sentencings, evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potential…
23-5003 Monty J. Banister v. Kansas Kansas 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure duty-to-consult effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does this Court's decision in Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), establish at least a rebuttable presumption that trial counsel has a Sixth Am…
22-7901 Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when a defendant is forced to accept representation by lawyers who se supervisor have a longstanding social and fam…
22-7895 Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certiorari-appeal civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing l,, Whevs +V\e CooH cxtsc A-Yolo A c&oitset Kt\e**a AHc dltso-cX dew\«tf\cledi -W\e.vj re&jSedl Vvw\ -\V\oA 01^4 * ckcA +We Caor-V loCLve a_ cAlA^ *V…
22-7888 Desean Lamont Thomas, nka Pharaoh El-Forever Left-I Amen El v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process economic-barrier expert-testimony expert-witness indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se strickland-standard 1.Q) If a state conditions satisfying Strickland's first prong, on the testimony of two privately funded expert witnesses against a indigent pro se pr…
22-7877 Corey Coggins v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-defense-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Is it ineffective assistance of counsel (guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution) for a client's court-appointed attorn…
22-7859 Timothy Sumpter v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis state-post-conviction strickland strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Under clearly established law, in most ineffective assistance of trial counsel cases, prejudice is shown by demonstrating "a reasonable probability th…
22-7803 Aaron Joel Oliphant v. Montana Montana 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-consultation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel A jury convicted Oliphant of assaulting his infant son based solely on a medical diagnosis of abusive head trauma ("AHT"). His trial counsel failed to…
22-7801 Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Question not identified.
22-7808 Elroy Pedro Gomez v. William Joe Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP California-Supreme-Court criminal-procedure Due-process Equal-protection Habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain Sentencing-enhancements Sixth-Amendment 1. In the fi rst pl ace, was Peti tioner deni ed hi s Sixth Amendment right to the effecti ve assi stance of counsel when hi s court-appoi nted trial …
22-7809 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance…
22-7797 Anurag Dass v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Petitioner Anurag Dass prays that this Honorable body of Judges of the Supreme Court of these United States will acknowledge and consider her submissi…
22-7789 Douglas Manning v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP case-merits civil-rights defendant-justification due-process harmful-consequences ineffective-assistance legal-excuses legal-malpractice plaintiff-claims procedural-grounds professional-responsibility standing I] bcfe'idan '] $o $,t\ck<2k\c> The harmful consequence +e>~he PjatViiifF+W't Wt 5h&uld be h^M flQ6w(l5 1h 2 fof if ?9 II] i^o5-f)^efe any 6rpiwd orl…
22-1203 Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent 1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person…
22-7729 William J. Sears v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 Did the Court of Appeals err when it denied my Motion for Certificate of Appealability? Did the District Court err when it denied my § 2255 petition …
22-7712 Gustavo Xavier v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied IFP coerced-confession due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice murder-weapon right-to-effective-counsel suppression-of-evidence third-circuit-review trial-counsel Mr. Xavier alleged that his trail counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct any type of investigation before advising him to take a plea of the m…
22-7693 Jandin Munoz v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
22-7681 Jason Harriman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Government violated Mr. Harriman's Sixth and Eighth Amendment Constitution al Eights and suppress evidentiary material of exculpatory v…
22-7656 In Re Brad Edmonds 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the United States court of Appeals previously addressed GPS tracking warrant and in conflict with a lower court of appeals and Supreme court? …
22-7652 Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-communication criminal-procedure deadline-extension effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether this Court's holding in Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), that an attorney has a duty pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to communicate a fo…
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony #1. Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant. #2. Why…
22-7646 Derek Pelker v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers Mr. Pelker alleged the Federal Governments impermissible collusion within the prosecution of the Commonwealth.of Pennsylvania for the same misconduct …
22-7628 Robert Earl Gorham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a state court adjudication of the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is "c…
22-7620 Timothy Sean Coogle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-sufficiency fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Why was a Sixth Amendment violation not addressed in the Lower courts where defendant's lawyer failed utter the Strickland standards? How is the defe…
22-7623 Arquimedes Mendoza v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining reasonable-defendant reasonable-person Whether, it is enough for a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel in the plea context to back his claim with substantial contemporaneou…
22-1139 Victor Santana v. Texas Texas 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bolstering-evidence criminal-appeal criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts trial-counsel Did the Court of Criminal Appeals err in finding that trial counsel's errors did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel?
22-7609 Akiaz Marqiez King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reed-v-goertz sixth-amendment state-law-interpretation statute-of-limitations Should the Court grant a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand this case for the Ninth Circuit to consider this Court's intervenin…
22-7579 Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida Florida 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Where the initial review collateral proceeding is the first designated proceeding for a prisoner to raise a claim of infective assistance of counsel a…
22-7575 Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court 1. Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury when it refused to grant a…
22-1113 Merril Leroy Jessop v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing I. Whether the Texas courts' refusal to conduct an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's substantial constitutional claim of ineffective assistance of c…
22-1114 James Harris, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disabil…
22-7538 Dominic Souto Diaz v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied IFP brady-claim evidence-misrepresentation gateway-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence new-evidence pcra-counsel phone-records procedural-default (1) Bid the Court of Appeals err when it ruled Appellant's gate way claim of innocence was not new evidence? Was PCRA counsel in effective for not inv…
22-7532 In Re Rex Gard 2023-05-11 Denied IFP criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred? 2. Is the South Dakota Supreme Court's overturning of their own precede…
22-7515 Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Constitutionalits with theUnited State Constitutional of statute into question;? 2D Thete Conflicted into Puestion?ln Sovereisnty, Common LAw. Bill o…
22-7481 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition I. Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the .law and facts by failure to brief and raise the following issues on appeal constitutes …
22-7461 Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony I Whether the new statutory definition of the term "serious drug felony" set forth in Section 401(a)(1) of the First Step Act of 2018, and codified i…
22-7454 In Re Reginald Swinton 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Is the Circuit Court's order in deciding sua sponte to issue its Mandate denying relief without first having afforded petitioner prior notification an…
22-1064 Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Texas Texas 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence stale-information Whether the Texas courts' misapplication of this Court's precedent concerning "stale" search warrants requires a remand for reconsideration of petitio…
22-7429 Melecio Santana Delacruz, aka Ricardo Vergara v. Texas Texas 2023-05-01 Denied IFP credibility-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury record-evidence sixth-amendment Understariding that the Texas Gourt of Criminal Appeals is the ultimate fact finder in Texas habeas corpus cases, and the weight placed upon Trial C…
22-7415 Ricky Pendleton v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mt. Olive Correctional Center West Virginia 2023-05-01 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice pro-se res-judicata Whether the State courts's doctrine of res judicata was applied adequately after it summarily denies Pendleton's pro se filings of the successive habe…
22-7407 Derrick D. Hayes v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel trial-strategy 0. UJhdhsr 4te '5 "trial ojfern&Uj (tetiHlufrmlltj jfie^feo/n/e. C(s5 \sfanc& by jjufsutoj <3 IWeose-' Prwoca'fldn - Tt'wf tucvs p<*fe/rHi/ Un'kznqbf…
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied IFP affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Pro se litigants filing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims 1. are routinely dismissed as "insufficient " "where it is merely concl…
22-7391 Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. If a lawyer advises her client to reject a favorable plea deal and instead proceed to trial in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt resulting…
22-7378 Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sixth-amendment speedy-trial Petitioner experienced extreme prejudice for 7 months while held in continous custody _2_ .counties away, waiting to answer charges — in Fairfax Count…
22-7371 Ryan William Buchheim v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop In the context of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and a subsequent Application for Certificate of Appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 Petitione…
22-7363 David Vahlkamp v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling gross-negligence habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-attorney postconviction-relief reasonable-diligence sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his postconviction attorney's gross negligence. 2. Whether the Eleventh Circui…
22-7364 Matthew Caleb Ross v. Texas Texas 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance texas-court I. PETITIONER QUESTIONS THE LEGALITY OF THE COURT OF OKLAHOMA APPEALS OFFICER'S DISMISSAL OF A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO ENJOIN COMMUNITY SUPERVISION N…
22-7369 Sydney Tyrone Mays v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prior-statement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-integrity witness Does a witness stating that he does not remember 2his two thirds of nis prror staterrent without ever establishing Proper foundatien to specfic subjec…
22-7354 Rafael L. Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,…
22-7343 William Levi Oliver v. Texas Texas 2023-04-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance trauma-narrative videoconference-testimony witness 1 (a) Whether it is a violation of the Confrontation Clause to dispense with physical/ face-to-face confrontation and permit out-of-state testimony vi…
22-7348 Joel Suarez v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel Counsel failed to get a interpreter. Counsel was ineffective in the plea-bargain process. Counsel failed to object t…
22-7349 Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly exceeded its authority by failing to consider Mr. Goodin's Motion to Supplement in support of his claim that tria…
22-7334 In Re Quincetta Y. Cargill 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance institutional-conditions intellectual-disability legal-appeal medical-treatment mental-health procedural-challenges rules-of-court standing 1. Where petitioner has zero resources and zero assets to be liquidated showing zero probability of risk of flight, why not release her so she could f…
22-7318 Shannon Miles Lancaster v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidence-suppression fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance involuntary-plea plea-involuntariness south-carolina-homeland-security-act strickland strickland-standard suppression-motion Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Petitioner a certificate of appealability, where the St…
22-7310 Antonio Minnis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This Court in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668, 80 L.Ed.2d 674, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984), laid the foundation for the gauging of ineffective assis…
22-7267 Lloyd Leslie Kindred v. T. Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice outcome-determination prejudicial-error reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Brawnds(f), tas J deated the 6TH mend ment oF Heo VU, Lornctidubion: Ke oarebing Lown sed s Pray Mianee. Wa ad teas onobhy et&ti ve"and Hrat Here /5 a…
22-7277 Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction discovery due-process essential-element ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-hearing trial-integrity 0 \aJ lAfcl'V' ^A< waT kiiowt'ftql WT o/vift13 5 of 4W cU (A 21 j£L4/>n 2) uiWt hXvX4 't'n'ai onA / -h> j' Ckimi ; _^'L IrtdicJ/Ht/tf,i/igfec4lV^ CLS…
22-7281 Steven Ray Rouse v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violations due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-identification THE VELES IS BR-2F4,.50 EVEWLTWES DDENTLEICATION REFORM ACT, WHY IS THERE WAT A ETERUNE OF THE DEFEBANNT? DT HE SCEWE, DARK IW THE BALK OF THE PATHOL …
22-997 Andrew Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-04-13 Denied criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the TCCA, by considering only the trial testimony that supported the convictions rather than how the testimony of petitioner's medical experts…
22-7254 Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Texas Texas 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-motion appellate-court appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process electronic-filing ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal procedural-error I. Did the Texas Appellate Court(s) so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by chosing to ignore its own rules and pr…
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…
22-981 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-of-access right-of-access-to-court The Minnesota Court of Appeals concluded that the scope of Chapter §590 does not permit or allow a Defendant to raise - right of access to court - ass…
22-7238 Yousry Amin Rizk v. Edward Sandler, et al. Florida 2023-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-7226 Travis J. Guttu v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline due-process ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice no-trial plea-agreement procedural-innocence record sixth-amendment-right 1. Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place? …
22-7225 Andrew Michael Gomez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-inquiry criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining presumption-of-innocence trial-court 1.) Whether a trial court is constitutionally required to conduct an extensive inquiry into, and make a judicial finding of, the factual basis of a gu…
22-7195 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to riase a claim of ineffective assista…
22-7184 Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Oregon 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment 1. In a post-conviction relief case based on an aggravated murder conviction in which the defendant faced the death penalty, is trial counsel ineffect…
22-7174 James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony 1. Was I deprived of my (14th) Fourteenth Amendment of due process of a fair trial, when I pleaded with my trial attorney and the Judge Meagan Bilik-D…
22-7169 Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence? Should this court grant habeas litigants the abi…
22-7167 Quentin Truley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing (1) Under categorical approach, is 18 USC § 924(c)'s residual clause held as unconstitutionally vague, and predicated by Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Ac…
22-7158 Reginald Langston Luster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-testify stand-your-ground trial-counsel I. Whether Petitioner Luster Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether the State Court Erred in Denying Luster's Claim Tha…
22-7144 In Re David Priester 2023-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights conviction counsel-representation due-process extraordinary-writ federal-constitutional ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial Does the Sixth Amendment require the Assistance of and from counsel be appointed? A Federal and Constitutional matter effecting five trial(s). And see…
22-7106 Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted? Whether this honor…
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit DID THE APPEALS COURT FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERROR BY DENYING PETITIONERS CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE APPELLATE COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASS…
22-7085 Rodolfo Godinez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure-miranda due-process fair-trial gang-evidence gang-expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence media-exposure miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Appellant's Pre-Miranda Statements was obtained in violation of Miranda v. Arizona., 384 U.S. 436 (1966)? 2. Whether the prosecutor's …
22-7076 Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted since Servando-Pineda 's title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations du…
22-7032 Scott Lynn Fishbein v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability defense-counsel due-process false-information guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Should a certificate of appealability have been issued by the court of appeals for review of an appeal of the denial of a 28 U.S.C. §2255 which presen…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-7008 Heath R. Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-sexual-abuse forensic-interview forensic-interviews habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on his claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Ame…
22-875 Michael Meyers v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-rationale strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When faced with a Sixth Amendment claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, a court must determine whether counsel's performance "fell below an obj…
22-866 John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside…
22-6987 Dennis J. Brookshire v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-court-identification post-conviction-review WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO MOVE TO SUPRESS THE OUT OF COURT IDENTIFICATIONS AND DID SUCH IDENTIFICATIONS DENY THE PETITIONER A FAIR …
22-6978 Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws 1. Under the RICO Laws, can a conviction stand without the existence of a "Enterprise", a group of people associated in fact? Or without corrupt acts …
22-6955 Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire During jury selection, the court told eleven of the twelve seated jurors that their decision to impose death would be automatically reviewed on appeal…
22-6959 Thurston Rickey-Lee Davis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment anders-brief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1). In an appeal of a 2254, at the "C.O.A." stage, When the U.S. District Court: accepts the affirmative defense of ' Statute of Limitation violat ion…
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts…
22-6923 In Re Jesse Brown 2023-03-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim defense-theory evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel legal-default post-conviction-relief standard-of-review trial-counsel I. Is the Petitioner entitled to a AC defense theory? II. Is the Petitioner entitled to AN standard of review of his claims on the merits? III. Is t…
22-841 Christopher H. West v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sandin-v-conner sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. In denying petitioner's habeas certificate of appealability, where the 3d Circuit's review of the record entirely overlooked that the facts in tria…
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, …
22-6909 Curtis Lynn Fauber v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP curative-instructions donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility At Curtis Fauber's trial, the prosecution relied on the testimony of two accomplices to secure his conviction and death sentence. Sensing that his key…
22-6898 John L. Love v. Daniel F. Martuscello, III, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-error discretionary-review due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct relation-back strickland-standard unreasonable-application 1. Did the District court abuse its discretion under "unreasonable application" when petitioner Love's proposed amendment did "relate back" to the ori…
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment 1. Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where it induced jurors with an incorrect legal definition of "knowingly", in such a way that rel…
22-6892 In Re Willie Thomas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure 1. whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own…
22-6868 Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP counsel-performance due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance…
22-6851 David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction (1) Under these circumstances, does a court of appeals violate the fundamental principles of party presentation and Petitioner's due process rights? …
22-6855 Alvin Lee Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER JOHNSON'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM A DEFECTIVE INDICTMENT NOT BEING PRESENTED, RECEIVED AND FILED IN OPEN COURT? WHETHER JOHNSON'…
22-6811 A. B. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte…
22-781 Fabio Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived adverse-effect brady-violation conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process giglio-material ineffective-assistance multiple-counsel plea-negotiations 1. On review of petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance based on counsel's conflict of interest in plea negotiations, the Eleventh Circuit conclu…
22-6801 DeSean Alexander Bruce v. Arizona Arizona 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-evidence due-process eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony fair-appeal fair-postconviction-proceedings fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness FIRST : Was Petitioner denied due process, a fair trial, a fair appeal, and fair post conviction proceedings, due to the following circumstances: 1. …
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
22-6786 Cleveland Leroy Coaxum, Jr. v. Jeffrey Snoddy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-misconduct 1. DMdthe courts make an error on Ruling Petitioner's Habeas Corpus, as un-timely filed petition despite it being filed on time in the lower courts? …
22-6795 Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal 1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE WHEN HE FAILED TO FILE THE NOTICE OF APPEAL WHEN REQUESTED.
22-6771 Robert A. Condon v. United States Armed Forces 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice remand transcript transcript-discrepancy 1. Is the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the Armed Forces, which is without findings of fact or law, susceptible to review by this Court…
22-6781 Samuel Adkins v. Texas Texas 2023-02-14 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial Did the state court err when it held that Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the Effective assistance of counsel was not violated where Petitioner …
22-6764 Michael Ray Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether United States v. Granados , 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Co…
22-6726 Terrence Lowell Hyman v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder-trial constitutional-violation criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process falsified-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel under this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington when she intenti…
22-6707 Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims damages due-process habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Question not identified.
22-6714 Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court CAN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SANCTION THE DISTRICT COURT'S RECHARACTERIZATION OF A PETITIONER'S CLAIM AFTER SUCH CLAIM HAS BEEN LIBERALLY CO…
22-6688 Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP 2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing? Unde…
22-6671 Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington I. Does trial counsel render ineffective assistance when counsel fails to request a mid-trial Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978) hearing when the…
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno 2023-02-01 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-6656 Randy Lee Stapleton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice motion-to-withdraw After learning of the objective evidence (body camera video footage) documenting an unlawful warrantless search and seizure, the defendant moved to wi…
22-706 Timothy Howard Spriggs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance private-property residence rv search sentencing-guidelines utilities warrantless-search 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an immobile RV, i.e., one that is attached to usual residential utilities such as se…
22-6636 Mostafa Kamel Mostafa v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-trial-motion rule-33 1. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be raised under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure? 2. Whether the …
22-6645 Kimberlee Szewczyk v. Florida Florida 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
22-6646 Omar Shaheer Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest 1) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that His Warrantless Arrest was…
22-6651 Michael Vanous v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings? Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th…
22-6654 Roland Cummings v. Maine Maine 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte Where a post-conviction review of a murder trial leading to a sentence of life imprisonment finds that there was ineffective assistance of counsel but…
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 …
22-6624 Daniel Ray Loyd v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-rule ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-counsel state-law-error Question not identified.
22-694 Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility fo…
22-6612 Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase Question not identified.
22-6613 Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington Whether the state appel late court in this case misappl ied thi s Court's holding in Harrington v. Richter , 562 U .S. 86 (2011).
22-6592 James Stacey Harber v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing 1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial? 2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. …
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Is Medstar Washington Center Hospital and their attorney going to say that petitioner is not about having ovarian cancer and the respondent mis-diagno…
22-6570 Richard Galvan Montiel v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where a capitally sentenced habeas corpus petitioner relies on uncontradicted Strickland mitigating evidence and United States District Court findings…
22-6571 Marcus Wayne Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender sentencing-guidelines sentencing-report standing 1. Was Public Defender Robert Brodsky ineffective by assisting defendant to enter a plea without using improperly calculated Sentencing Guidelines pol…
22-6565 Cristian Santa v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP expert-opinion expert-testimony factual-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kolenovic-precedent massachusetts-jurisprudence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Has Massachusetts jurisprudence, particularly the expansion of Commonwealth v. Kolenovic, 471 Mass. 664 (2015), run afoul of the Sixth Amendment by…
22-658 Victor Gates v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion and commit an error of law in not issuing a Certificate of Appeal…
22-6546 Arty Marcel v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error fair-trial improper-amendment-of-bill-of-information ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Marcel was denied his right to a fair and impartial trial when the Court erred in allowing other crimes…
22-6522 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-courts hobbs-act ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof I. Does a federal district court possess meaningful discretion to define "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" in jury instructions upon request of a crim…
22-6466 Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con…
22-6471 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether Mr. PARKS improperly WAS DENIED A REVIEW IN EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE of COUNSEL AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT 24p District Court UNDER. J 28 U.…
22-6449 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas Texas 2023-01-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure Oh may 03/2015 atio.xH mi cuus tape u to SfniTP County Tail in Ty/erjTexus at , on Floy^Q.od.6 1 my Blood uas dracon without a searChurarraot Or Count…
22-6426 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial strickland-standard The Right to Counsel. The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal I. defendant 's the right to effective assistance of counsel. Medina 's counsel failed t…
22-6433 Ricky Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Ovtrogeovs Govecoment Mistoclutt where the goverocreat intrusion Of the alfoccey-Client pcvilaye violated Rotitioness "Ft Aroendnent acc Sixth Amnende…
22-6437 Alan Singleton v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance? Did the prosecution's use of the word "uncontroverted" place the burden of proof on the defendant, thereb…
22-6402 Jesse Johnson, III v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When a defendant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to properly advise him regarding the consequences of rejecting a plea offe…
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…
22-6392 Adam Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United …
22-6360 Tyrell Hart v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process false-confessions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial • Tie lower federal and state courts unreasonably applied tiis Court's ioldings finding tiat Hart was sot da?ted affective assistance of counsel regar…
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen…
22-575 William S. Toppi v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias massachusetts-appeals-court-rule-23.0 plea-waiver procedural-due-process recusal waiver-of-rights 1. Whether the sentencing judge and defense counsel were required to recuse themselves after exhibiting clear bias relating to Defendant's case. 2. W…
22-6346 Robert D. Johnson v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-continuance speedy-trial sufficiency-of-evidence IS IT NOT ERRONEUOSLY FACTUAL AND A MISAPPLICATION OF LAW, RULE OR STATUE FOR THE STATE COURTS AND DISTRICT COURTS TO CONCUR WITH A CONTINUANCE THAT W…
22-6349 Daniel Nepomuceno v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights credibility-determination due-process federal-habeas guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-post-conviction-proceedings Could reasonable jurists debate whether a state court's dispositive credibility determination regarding federal constitutional rights, based on a writ…
22-6350 Raul Alvarez v. New York New York 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Must a client object in open court to invoke their Sixth Amendment right to maintain actual innocence as the objective of their defense?
22-6355 Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing 1) whether the Ninth Circwit's 10-7.22, ORDER,granting Respondent's motion To Revoke In Forma Pauperi's under 28 U.S.C.8 1915(g),Three strikes provisi…
22-6357 Clifton Raye v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Petitioner's rights under 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when trial counsel was ineffective? Did the State and Federal …
22-6296 Martin A. Lewis v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-claim civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-rule-civil-procedure-60 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rose-v-lundy rule-60 strickland-v-washington united-states-v-castro (1) Whether Petitioner Lewis habeas petition should be re-opened where Petitioner was denied Due Process of Law contrary to United States v. Castro, 5…
22-6280 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Texas Texas 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has made the standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 20…
22-6276 Lester S. Barney v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se-representation self-representation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether, because the state court unreasonably determined that Lester S. Barney ("Barney") did not clearly and unequivocally assert his right to pro…
22-6240 Robert Dale Hines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment trial-counsel RAC i Z i sm Hou> Co,M.rVy V^ViOo<4 fcsXt5 y. »\y ^0)-^ 1'^ K^vown sl/nce. +ke. ^^-vU gv-txle iAr^-ftc vi +k«s cog^s K>s ^cco^cA re.pre.sovt me_ /A Co…
22-527 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Texas Texas 2022-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-collateral-review texas-courts texas-criminal-procedure I. Whether the Texas courts denied petitioner due process by rejecting his substantial ineffective assistance of counsel claim without conducting an e…
22-6206 Albert Holland, Jr. v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judgments judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing whether when the Lower courts jurisdiction LAcKed the scotus will Notice the deFect. 2. whether is required COA to APPEAL A deNiAL OF A District Cour…
22-6207 Anika George v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
22-6195 Kenneth W. Shelton v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP alibi counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation investigation-failure legal-procedure motion-to-quash Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time Petitioner was not present at the …
22-6199 In Re Cornell White 2022-12-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition 1. Can a federal district or appeals court deny habeas corpus relief without factual finding on the record, that a states asserted procedural default …
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
22-6180 Alvaro Noe Mendoza-Valencia v. Oregon Oregon 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-counsel 1. Can a state trial court deny a criminal defendant's request for substitution counsel without any reasonable inquiry into trial counsel's performanc…
22-6163 Noel Brown v. New York New York 2022-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause speedy-trial Does the substantial holding in United States of America V. Demario CHATMON, (2nd Cir.), the court held"that because the initial seizure of defendant …
22-6156 Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel Whether the California courts' unreasonable refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, combin…
22-6133 David Priester v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation voluntariness waiver-of-counsel Battery or identify theft, where one pays inconsistent testimony battery, and the statute of grand theft? Is Does the petitioner have a due process r…
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire 1. Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel when his lawyers repeatedly concede guilt of aggravated murder…
22-491 Raymond Delgado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment suppression-of-confession Whether Delgado was denied effective assistance of counsel by his counsel's failure to file a motion to suppress his confession given in response to c…
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS CERTIORARI JURISDICTION IN ORDER TO REVIEW A CLAIM THAT FLORIDA COURTS OF APPEALS DO NOT PROVIDE FOR EVIDENTIAR…
22-6145 Daniel Alexander Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law burden-shifting commenting-on-silence falsely-representing-evidence ineffective-assistance misstating-law misstating-witness ninth-circuit-review prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly applied Arizona law in finding that multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct, including falsely representi…
22-6128 Christopher Erwin v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum 1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b…
22-6095 Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset…
22-6091 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment More than four decades ago, this Court held that it is crucial that the jury be allowed to hear evidence of a defendant's positive adjustment to priso…
22-6051 Arriba Lewis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Petitioner Lewis' ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by a Motion to Quash and Suppress and failing to c…
22-6018 David L. Hering v. Patti Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-trial burden-of-proof criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense sixth-amendment When using insanity as a tool in the defense of a criminal defendant who plead not guilty and is strongly asserting their innocence. Does defense coun…
22-5994 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment? 2. W…
22-5973 Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. Can Ineffectiveness Or Incompetence Of counsel on Direct review Result In a sixth Amendment violation OF THE ARIZONA And United States Constitution…
22-5899 Dave V. Merritt v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection griffin-v-illinois ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief ross-v-moffitt I.) WHETHER SHINN V RAMIREZ 'S HOLDING PETITIONER "AT FAULT " FOR POST CONVICTION COUNSEL 'S APPELLATE ERRORS GIVE INDIGENT POST-CONVICTION APPELL…
22-5908 Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. McGhee was denied his right to Due Process of Law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to t…
22-5909 Timmy Doucet v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the evidence presented during trial was insufficient to convict Doucet of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonab…
22-5891 Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington 1. Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a c…
22-5882 Allen Calligan v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informal-plea-offer plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing sixth-amendment Mr. Calligan alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to inform him of an informal plea offer made by the prosecutor, which would ha…
22-5846 Michael Pacelli v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance jurisdiction search-and-seizure statute-of-limitations warrantless-search 1. ) Can a law enforcement agency sieze evidence or record private phone calls without a warrant, and then use the gathered evidence against a defend…
22-358 Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply "double deference" to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner …
22-5837 Micah S. Matthews v. Iowa Iowa 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions post-conviction-relief state-appellate-court successive-petition summary-judgment unmitigated-claim (1) Is a state appellate court's refusal to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for PostConviction Relief on an unmitigated, meritorious …
22-5830 William Richter v. Ghaliah Obaisi, as Executor of the Estate of Saleh Obaisi Seventh Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-assistance pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-errors 1. Whether The Faivie "Te Apnot Cowimwrel Oy Apneal Foa Rosie, OF the Disthirel Cords Alaue of Dis hes Ze Faleng To Recess wee Conmtel Upow Wilheincsa…
22-5816 Tony Lam v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c…
22-5801 Steven Nelson Murray v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver procedural-default sixth-amendment When a criminal defendant must make a personal decision whether to waive a fundamental constitutional right, does an attorney provide deficient perfor…
22-5790 David Delva v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent section-2255 sua-sponte warrantless-seizure Did the Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner's COA claim; whether a reasonable jurist would debate if appellate counsel was ineffective for fail…
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may …
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…
22-5711 Joshua Austin Kramer, aka Benjamin Franklin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-resources legal-innocence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice withdrawal-of-plea Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
22-5718 Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden Georgia 2022-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-free-assistance-of-counsel cumulative-error due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Question One: Prior iu February iu, 2020, Georgia [Supreme Court] Iiau repeatedly held iliai although the combined effects of trial counsel's errors …
22-5719 Shannon Dewayne Reece v. Texas Texas 2022-09-29 Denied IFP aggravated-robbery criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-precedent witness-testimony CAN A PERSON BE CONUICTEO OF AN OFFENSE; EVEN AFTER THE UICTIM TESTIFIES THAT THE DEFENDANT IS NOT THE PERSON THAT ASSAULTED OR ROBBED THEM? IS -IT A…
22-5694 Jonathan Lopez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review judiciary public-confidence standing Whether a criminal defendant is required to prove an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on the face of the record? Whether review should be gran…
22-5699 In Re Thomas George Craaybeek 2022-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing takings WAS THE OPINION STRUCK COST OF APPEALS SUCH THAT EXTRA CIRCUIT SPLIT BY SUPREME COURT VIOLATED MCCULLENT TO COLLAR HE EASE PREDLINE SET EM BOM THAT SV…
22-5672 Luan Van Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and whether the ineffective assistance of counsel 4th-amendment carjacking civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy exclusionary-rule ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Erred in denied Nguyen Clearly his Constitutional claims are Correct when the Fifth Circuit had …
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-5662 Sergio Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-inquiry prejudice-standard probation-misadvice reasonable-probability reject-plea-offer waive-right-to-trial In an ineffective assistance of counsel claim alleging probation misadvice, to what degree (if any) should the possibility of a conviction have on the…
22-5666 Arturo Cano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing 1. Whether being pro se versus being represented by counsel at the state initial collateral proceeding is a determinative factor for obtaining withdra…
22-5635 Vladimir Vladimirovic Brik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process federal-procedure gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance material-evidence second-petition successive-petition Are second-in-time petitions raising newly discovered material Brady violations "second or seccessive" within the meaning of §2255(h)'s gatekeeping pr…
22-5627 Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas Texas 2022-09-20 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent Can ft Lauiyen haue. his Client PieaCuibty -ho OS'years on ft Statutory maximum OP Zo years* ovftt'R TEXAS Lal/. Can ft Court Re Fuse ho Homor ft u …
22-5602 Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri Missouri 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony 1. Whether, in direct conflict with other federal and state decisions, the Missouri Court of Appeals correctly held that under the Sixth Amendment, tr…
22-5565 Fedner Pierre-Louis v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability debatable-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE RULING OF THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IS CONTRARY TO CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW WHERE THE COURT FAILED TO GRANT A…
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14% Amendment, imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-5542 Johnny A. Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP capital-cases certificate-of-appealability cumulative-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington wiggins-claim Wiggins-v-Smith 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained summary denials of certificates of appealability in capital cases conflicts with 28 U.…
22-5523 Lawrence Gaines v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions no-adverse-inference strategic-decision trial-counsel I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT REVERSED THE WELL REASONED DECISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT WHICH HELD THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE …
22-5529 Anthony H. Lett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states standing 1. Did. Court of appeals error when denying Petitioner's Rehaif v.: United States , 139 S.Ct. 204. 2. Was Petitioner 's ineffective assistance claim …
22-5537 Joseph William Rendon v. Iowa Iowa 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was provided effective Assistance of Counsel
22-5516 Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused…
22-5507 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2022-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard xs itH ■Oxstrxc .t Clou fir uxolateDXO THE THE SJftZCtf/JGS OF HPPPEAOZ ?* t v tPH f> Tt/fiSC OXSMXSS THE... Titty &TP ,n aeFEUOMT QuZLTy OF /) LtC°X…
22-5510 Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether The Fifth District Court Of Appeal Violated The Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth And Fourteenth Amendments Rights By Denying The Claim Of Ineffectiv…
22-5491 John Michael Ward v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at…
22-5476 John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers 1. Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when it concluded that Petitioner suffered no prejudice…
22-176 James Burkhart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 adverse-effect conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), to establish a Sixth Amendment violation, a defendant must prove that his lawyer had an "actual conflic…
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's "unreasonable determination of the facts" clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5453 Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, where t…
22-5464 Barney Adrian Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses state-constitutional-rights 1) Has the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the Jury on lesser Included offenses supported by the evidence in violation of Dunlap's State and…
22-5442 Powell Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process due-process-expert expert-witness fifth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
22-5426 Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied IFP autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. …
22-5413 Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington WHETHER MISS. CODE ANN. 99-39 21 WAS UNREASONABLY USED THE BAR TO PETITIONER 'S FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF SEVERE IMPORTANCE THAT WHICH REVOLVES AROUND FED…
22-5415 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lost-evidence mandamus mandamus-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b speedy-trial Did the Tenth Circuit err in not granting a COA and refusing to remand back to the district court or to properly consider Medina's Rule 60(b) motion? …
22-5403 Paul Frederick Stover v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Ninth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense second-degree-assault sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Could reasonable jurists debate whether trial counsel's failure to request a lesser-included offense instruction as an alternative to second degree as…
22-5383 Lynn M. Giovanni v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-18 Denied IFP criminal-defense diminished-capacity guilty-plea ineffective-assistance insanity-defense psychiatric-evaluation sentencing sentencing-mitigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington withdrawal DOES THE ACTION/INACTION OF DEFENSE COUNSEL, IN FAILING TO UTILIZE OR UNDER-UTILIZING THE FAVORABLE PSYCHATRIC REPORTS COMPILED FOR THE DEFENSE IN ASS…
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Does Slock Burge # vs, united States^py u.s,^ CM33P DPPlt To my Cnss? Dou&is ieoPARoy DOES BzRCWFXELD CSJ CONCuRRETfRuLlNOS reply To roy CASE? Birckf…
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (1). Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment Rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim…
22-5331 Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2022-08-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY…
22-127 Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Abraham Fisch's case raises a pressing issue for this court's consideration: Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far depar…
22-5309 Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
22-5282 Cory Mingo v. Florida Florida 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search Question One: Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel where counsel failed to file a motion to suppress cell site location inform…
22-5283 Gerald Funk v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP consequences constitutional-rights guilty-plea guilty-plea-negotiation ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations plea-offer sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Whether trial counsel's Sixth Amendment duties to a client during the guilty-plea negotiation stages require him to affirmatively assist a client i…
22-5284 Michael Duntae Fagans v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial 1) Whether Fagans is entitled te relief evidentiary hearing , uhere the Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District of the Eastern Distric…
22-5259 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent 1. Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") in disregard of the rule announced in Buck v Dav…
22-5272 J. R. v. North Dakota North Dakota 2022-08-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-findings juvenile-court standing Did the Juvenile Court's record contain substantial Evidence to Support the Courts' Jurisdictional Findings as to Father. Did the Juvenile court abus…
22-5263 Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review I. WhetherWAs the Courtof Appeal's decision that Petitioner's trial Counsel told the jury degree of murder was Suficient, is the Petitioner entitled t…
22-5236 George E. McFarland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied IFP adversarial-proceedings constructive-denial cronic-violation ineffective-assistance lineup-identification prosecutorial-awareness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment This petition raises two questions related to two distinct claims, both arising under the Sixth Amendment. First, George McFarland alleged below and i…
22-5240 Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire I. WHETHER OR NOT THE EQUITABLE TOLLING, THE MAILBOX RULE ENTITLES PETITIONER FOR RELIEF WHEN THE SUPREME COURT, AS WELL AS THE LOWER COURTS ACCORD DE…
22-5216 Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment 1. The question is: Did al Counsel ably Commabonal chan Assistance of Counsel Undertee SAM Htodeiont in tveir Guraveess of SelaZavs Mortal Heal isues …
22-5219 Kim Lee Millbrook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing takings Whether petitioner has a jurisdictional and standing to challenge 18 U.S.C. § 922 and 924, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), and 18 U.S.C. § 30 as an infringeme…
22-5195 C. Raymond Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations brady-violation brady-violations due-process herrera herrera-claim house-v-bell ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp 1. The Supreme Court should help decide in Federal & State Court Split,to review "Newly Reliable Evidence" under Herrera House Schulp type claims. Is …
22-5210 Travis Louis Shaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial reasonable-doubt strickland-v-washington us-constitution L Whether Petitioner should be granted a Certificate of Appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2253 on the issue of whether (A) Petitioner was denied hi…
22-5179 Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings 1) Should the U.S. Supreme Court grant a Certificate of Appealability in light of this Court's decisions and the Petitioner's three §2255 application …
22-5155 In Re Donald Williams 2022-07-22 Denied IFP cage-v-louisiana cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan out-of-time-appeal writ-of-appeal 1) Whether the facts of Cockeiham and Petitioner Williams are exactly the same for purpose of out of time appeal and application of Cage to their conv…
22-5158 Bernard J. Battle v. United States District of Columbia 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity.
22-5165 Daniel Boos v. Jermaine White, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors Question not identified.
22-63 Antoin Deneil Marshal v. Texas Texas 2022-07-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches prosecutorial-misconduct reconsideration standing I. Whether the TCCA's application of the equitable doctrine of laches constitutes an independent and adequate state law ground that bars review of pet…
22-5125 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-19 Denied IFP 26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript 1. Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair in order to determine if appellate counsel was deficien…
22-5140 Nolberto Lemus v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard Question not identified.
22-5109 Teddy Brian Sanchez v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP attorney-error brain-dysfunction capital-sentencing capital-trial circuit-split cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit penalty-phase prejudice-standard 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it found that Petitioner's "organic" brain dysfunction was not enough of a red flag to trigger a duty for trial coun…
22-5070 Lane Walker Waldron v. Texas Texas 2022-07-12 Denied IFP attorney-credibility constitutional-rights conviction-reversal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED IN CONCLUDING PETITIONER WAS NOT DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHEN HIS T…
22-5071 Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment Question One: If the record reflects similar if not more egregious ineffective assistance by trial counsel. The claim was not refuted at evidentiary h…
22-5074 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief seizure settlements 1. Whether Petitioners lost Conviction Petition 2. Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffective Assistance of Counsel lhere he falled to advance the Ar…
22-5047 Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel when trial counsel misadv…
22-5036 Raleigh Figueras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2106 circuit-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review objective-standard prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. When a circuit court unambiguously and erroneously applies a subjective standard in assessing whether a habeas petitioner has established the preju…
22-5039 Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review 1. FOR PURPOSES OF RECEIVING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FROM THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, HAS A "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A REA…
22-5024 Jerod Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell mistrial postconviction-relief prejudice-prong reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. Whether the prejudice prong set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is established if a petitioner/defendant can demonstrate th…
22-4 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Whethe r the Davis- Hatton P rocedure is unconstitutional as-applied to Mr. Karr 's case and whether the Indiana State Courts and United States Distri…
22-5007 Lann Tjuan Clanton, aka Tjuan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-sting federal-sting-operation fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement I. WHETHER, AFTER WINNING THE RIGHT TO FILE A BELATED APPEAL DUE TO COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF APPEAL, THE FOURTH CIRCU…
22-5010 Tedroy Davis v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights doyle-error doyle-v-ohio due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit post-miranda-silence Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA) articulated by this Court in cases such as Buck v…
21-8243 Michael Shane Bargo v. Florida Florida 2022-06-28 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-of-not-guilty presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Did Mr. Bargo show that a violation of his rights occurred, pursuant to McCoy, when he explicitly entered a plea of not guilty and maintained his inno…
21-8212 Anthony N. Ott v. New York New York 2022-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure door-opening double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-york-law vindictive-sentencing vindictiveness I. Whether the New York Courts erred when they failed to adhere to Hemphill v. New York and its progeny regarding the proper standard for door-opening…
21-1584 Martin Louis Ballard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived drug-conspiracy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial murder-for-hire sixth-amendment Issue I: Is the right of Martin Ballard to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a fair and impartial fact finder in his trial…
21-1579 Stephen Alexander v. Georgia Georgia 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived courtroom-closure fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When Defense Counsel errs by not objecting to an improper courtroom closure, should reviewing courts apply a "fundamental unfairness" test, or the tra…
21-8200 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance kimmelman-v-morrison privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure standing strickland-v-washington warrant-particularity WHETHER COUNSEL PROVIDED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO FILE A MERITORIOUS MOTION TO SUPPRESS WHETHER SHERIFF LECLERE'S AFFIDAVIT SHOWED SUFFI…
21-8203 Galina Rytsar v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs Third Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deportation-consequences discovery due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus impeachment-of-witnesses ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right translation Did Appellant receive ineffective assistance of counsel, in violation of her Sixth Amendment Right, beginning at the Bucks County PA Court of Common P…
21-8173 Vincent Raymond Rios v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel language-barrier language-rights plea-bargaining Should the Ninth Circuit have vacated Mr. Rios's guilty plea for lack of a knowing and voluntary waiver of his constitutional rights, for these reason…
21-8178 Jing Hua Wu v. Eric Arnold, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure I. Jury Misconduct In applying 28 USC § 2254 (d)(1)(2.), both the state Courts' and Federal Courts' decisions were based on an unreasonable determinat…
21-8184 Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality 1. WHETHER The United States Court of Appeals in The Eighth Circuit ERR IN NOT FINDING THAT KELLY HAD A RIGHT TO HAVE THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF POST…
21-8153 Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti…
21-8134 Jacquere Doran v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure waiver Whether the District Court Erred in Ruling that Petitioner Waived an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Based on a Fourth Amendment Violation?
21-8135 Zachary Chandler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sympathy sixth-amendment sympathy-defense trial-strategy I. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE COUNSEL'S DEFENSE STRATEGY WAS TO HAVE CHANDLER WEAR PRISON ATTIRE IN ORDER TO GARNER THE JURY'S SYMPATHY? …
21-8137 David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his ineffe…
21-1558 John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability when it…
21-8117 Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines Due to defense counsel's deficiency, petitioner was sentenced based on an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range (57 months, using a range of 46-57 mon…
21-8119 Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire Whether Or Not The Lower Court Erred And Abused Its Discretion In NOT Finding Petitioner Was Deprived Of His 5th And 14th Amendment Rights When The Tr…
21-8106 Jay Jurdi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi…
21-8086 Jeremiah F. Wooden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-record guilty-plea ineffective-assistance informed-consent meritorious-defenses plea-bargaining plea-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether, under the Sixth Amendment, plea counsel has a duty to advise of the impact of a conviction on his client's criminal record before his clie…
21-8064 Antonio D. Shannon v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-obligations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Given that "the accused has the ultimate authority [to decide] whether to... testify in his or her own behalf," Jones v. Barnes, 463 U.S. 745, 751 (19…
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
21-8068 John Burke v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rico-case right-to-testify withdrawal-defense witness-testimony 1. Did the Second Circuit err when it found that there was not an actual conflict without ordering a hearing in the District Court when defense counse…
21-8044 Bobby Dewayne Thompson, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel second-amendment trial-strategy Did trial counsel entirely fail to present a defense to illegally possessing a firearm by conceding that Thompson possessed a gun when the court's ins…
21-8020 Ronald Mitchell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury 1. Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective because she failed to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse (rather than toxicology) to in…
21-8036 Jason Slaughter v. Delaware Delaware 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default by advising petitioner tha…
21-8007 In Re Michael David Hower 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aedpa criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states plea-withdrawal Has AEDPA created an unconstitutional barrier that has rendered the petitioners remedy under 28 U.S.C. §2255 inadequate or ineffective to test the leg…
21-1504 Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas Texas 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. May a defense attorney completely fail to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial, without thereby depriving a criminal defe…
21-7990 Jerry Lee Craig, Sr. v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-bias standing Question not identified.
21-7983 Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied the due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, when retained counsel admitted the…
21-7976 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se right-to-counsel standing 1. Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for…
21-7940 Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing I. Whether the District Court, without holding an evidentiary hearing erred in disposing of Petitioner 's trial icounsel 's ineffectiveness surroundin…
21-7938 Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion rule-52 Through local rule or case law, some federal appeals courts, including this Court, require lower courts to explain their opinions or orders sufficient…
21-7925 Robert Wallace Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing 1) Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability. …
21-7908 Jose Mejia v. New York New York 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment On October 25, 2021, N.Y. Crim. Proc. § 440.10(2)(b) and (c) were amended to remove the procedural bar precluding a defendant from raising a collatera…
21-7892 Abdul Samuels v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance remand representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the court of appeals err in denying Petitioner—whose trial counsel had a conflict of interest because his child was applying for a job at the U.S.…
21-7875 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-right direct-appeal due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-deficiency notice-of-withdrawal notice-requirement prosecutorial-misconduct tax-deficiency Does a defendant have a Constitutional Right to Effective Counsel from beginning to end, while in their Direct Appeal? And if that defendant has not w…
21-7871 Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case Did the the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of A Appealability standard that…
21-7840 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2022-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel people-v-chavez-torres plea-bargaining plea-counsel 1) Mr, Sayed's Plea was not entered Knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily because his plea counsel failed to adequately advise him that he would be…
21-7811 Kushawn Miles-El, aka Kushawn S. Miles v. Michigan Michigan 2022-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-error constitutional-errors court-transcripts due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal structural-errors transcripts WHETHER PETITIONER S DIRECT APPEAL AS OF RIGHT SHOULD RE REINSTATED BECAUSE HIS DIRECT APPEAL WAS NOT ADJUDICATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DUE PROCESS…
21-7798 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2022-05-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-appointment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel standard-of-review 1. DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, AND THEREBY VIOLATE APPELLANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, WHEN IT DENIED HIS MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS PLEAS? 2. DID…
21-7794 Paul C. Bolin v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-discretion mitigation mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This capital case, in which defense counsel's investigation and preparation for the penalty phase was grossly deficient, presents two questions concer…
21-7777 Vedal A. Davis v. Texas Texas 2022-05-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-and-tolling constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence finality-of-prior-conviction ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-facts-pleadings-circumstances prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations trial-counsel-ineffectiveness trial-jurisdiction Davis alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to independently investigate the legal facts, pleadings, and circumstances surroundin…
21-7771 James Lamar Strickland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals improperly applied the prejudice standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), to …
21-7768 Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia Virginia 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial • Were my rights to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and Section 1 of the Eighth Amendment prejudiced when the Circuit Court for the City …
21-7762 Jesus Leonardo Castillo-Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8-usc-1326d administrative-exhaustion collateral-challenge deportation-order illegal-reentry immigration-removal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-to-appear 1. Whether counsel's failure to raise a controlling issue pending in this Court in immigration removal proceedings constitutes ineffective assistance …
21-7749 Samba Sarr v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence kidnapping sexual-assault sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether Counsel for Defendant was ineffective as trial counsel for his failure to make proper objection. II. Whether, the evidence presented was i…
21-7737 Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy 1. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in not ruling on my right to have counsel 2. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in ruling on my attorney ineffectiv…
21-7739 Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden First Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment I. The Petitioner seeks review of the denial of a certificate of appealability by the First Circuit which review of the decision of U.S. District Cour…
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is ihe. 5^cde Coor-t re^c,;fed ie Keo^ c*/\ci rwxYe. o. cleAe.fi*' no. S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue …
21-7741 David Mejia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding fraud on the court not a substantive constitution violation of due process? Has the Fifth Circuit erred in hol…
21-7732 Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest 1. Whether the court of appeals properly assess prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation ? a. Rulings below: T…
21-7723 Freddie Galan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining rule-11 supreme-court-review Whether Mr. Galan's guilty plea to facts which do not constitute a conspiracy offense as a matter of law is an invalid and unintelligent guilty plea w…
21-7690 Anthony J. Springer v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment-by-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-supreme-court pre-trial-defense reasonable-jurist TRAIL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL PROVIDED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESENT THE PRE-TRIAL DEFENSE OF ENTRAPMENT BY ESTOPPEL. A…
21-7668 Russell Haley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a guilty plea waive a defendant's right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel's failure to investiga…
21-7660 Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied IFP capital-habeas cumulative-errors expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness opening-statement prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In this Missouri capital habeas case, Scott McLaughlin's trial counsel failed to investigate the background and credibility of Dr. Keith Caruso who wa…
21-7647 Lloyd Brice v. California California 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial 1. Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the denial of the Motion for New Trial due to trial counsel's conflict of interest violated Petit…
21-7646 Jason Delacerda v. Texas Texas 2022-04-19 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence I. QUESTION PRESENTED NO. ONE - Did the appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and death …
21-7637 Marecellus Adams v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did trial counsel violate Adams's right to choose the objective of his defense when he conceded guilt over his express objection? Was Adams entitled …
21-7607 Devunaire Damorea Sims v. Michigan Michigan 2022-04-13 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-hearing sixth-amendment I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counse…
21-7606 Michael La Donte Scott v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington time-barred-charges Petitioners WS Provided EAC Under Strickland W. WASHinGTon CLA84) Ube U-S. GELB, By Hic Coonsel's incompetest Ravice To Plead No Contest "To "Time -Ba…
21-7605 Lwane A. Mansell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING CLAIM ONE OF THE PETITIONER'S 28 U.S.C. § 2254 AS PROCEDURALLY BARRED WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED HIS 5t…
21-7584 William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-04-11 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire 1. Did the state postconviction court violate Batson and its progeny by refusing to consider evidence that this Court's precedent expressly permits? …
21-7563 Alexander Kates v. New York Second Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent 1. Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions? 2. Is a petition…
21-7561 Ana Duarte-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-review conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-response sixth-amendment sua-sponte-replacement If an indigent criminal defendant's pro se response to a brief filed under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), alleges ineffective assistance o…
21-7553 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial 1. IF I was Convicted on anly a Thumbprint that belong to 13 difFerent individuals, but 12 oF the people isunknown to the Fingerprint Analyst who test…
21-7539 John P. Higley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal-out-of-time case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact ineffective-assistance 1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Higley's 14th Amendment right to Due Process by: a) Affirming the District Court 's decision…
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct WHEN A STATE TOGETHER WITH STATE'S EXPERT WITNESS CHANGE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO A NEW COMPLETE DIFFERENT VERSION, TO LINK THE A…
21-1318 Gregory Bogomol v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search 1. What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? 2. Does…
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Question not identified.
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review 1. CAN CONVICTIONS OF AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY BE SUSTAINED WHEN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE FAILED TO PROVE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME AS DESCRI…
21-7516 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing 1. Did the Georgia Supreme court Have Jurisdiction to Review Petitioner's appeal From the Denial of the Georgia Superior Court Denying Petitioners Mot…
21-7497 In Re Willie T. Murphy 2022-03-30 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance legal-counsel martinez-v-ryan prisoner-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment "DOES A PRISONER HAVE A RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN A COLLATERAL PROCEEDING WHICH PROVIDES THE FIRST OCCASION TO RAISE A CLAIM OF INEF…
21-7481 Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan Michigan 2022-03-28 Denied IFP appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err by refusing to review this claim where a judge must disqualify itself where it is actually biased or where the p…
21-7476 Samuel Lee Dantzler v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel scientific-evidence sixth-amendment 1. Whether it is clearly established federal law that a criminal defendant is entitled to a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientific…
21-7472 Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Correction of Serterce And As the same the Habear Corpur to be corstrned as the same to Correct an Illegal senterce After senterced hos beer served; w…
21-7456 Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r…
21-7462 John Moses Burton, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-defense due-process grammatical-interpretation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-constraints statute-of-limitations strickland-vs-washington toussie-vs-united-states word-meanings With a statute of limitations having a rationale to shield a person from having to defend against prosecution when the ability to mount a defense degr…
21-7449 Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial closing-argument ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan mccoy-v-louisiana nixon-v-florida sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the decision to forego a closing argument in the penalty phase of a capital murder trial is a tactical decision for trial counsel to make o…
21-7420 Isiah Pierce v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003) that ineffective assistance of counsel claims should be litigated in collateral …
21-7437 Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington 1. Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), be presumed for an claim based on counsel's failure to object to unconstituti…
21-7400 Derrick U. Stricklin v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-17 Denied IFP alibi-evidence capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-tactics I. WHETHER THE FAILURE OF DEFENSE COUNSEL TO FILE A NOTICE OF ALIBI AND PRESENT AMPLE ALIBI EVIDENCE WHEN INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY THE DEFENDANT IN A …
21-7388 Amos Joseph Wells, III v. Texas Texas 2022-03-16 Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process fact-finding ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief racial-animus sixth-amendment When a state provides a mandatory procedure for fact-finding in post-conviction death penalty cases where a constitutional violation is pleaded, does …
21-7374 William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def…
21-7366 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance mandate-recall tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari (1). WHAT REMEDY IS AVAILABLE FOR PETITIONER WHEN HIS COURTAPPOINTED (CJA) ATTORNEY FAILED TO INFORM, ADVICE OR FILE A TIMELY PETITION FOR A WRIT OF …
21-7358 Joseph Elliott v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause ineffective-assistance jury-selection out-of-court-statements right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-preparation 1. Whether, in accordance with Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327 (2003), Petitioner made a showing that reasonable jurists would debate whether…
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY HUESTION THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COA WHEN TIMELINESS WAS THE RESULT OF FACTS BEYOND HIS …
21-7334 Gregory Todd Numann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability of the denial of his 28 USC 2…
21-7305 Steven Bryant v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-deal prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Where the state's only eyewitness and linchpin of its case, the co-defendant, struck a deal whereby she would plead to a lesser offense and testify ag…
21-7300 LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error Should prejudice in an ineffective assistance of counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural error co…
21-7294 Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court should grant certiorari so that it can address and resolve a circuit split between the Ninth and the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circ…
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT TH…
21-7260 George K. Mackie v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt A. DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT THE ERROR-LADEN CLOSING ARGUMENT BY THE PROSECUTER, TAKEN IN ITS TOTALITY, CREATE A SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A…
21-7249 Jacob Ivan Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel self-defense sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Question not identified.
21-7241 Darrell Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-instruction evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error pennsylvania-state-court state-court stipulations trial-counsel Was the Pennsylvania State Court's ruling supported by the evidence and free from legal error when it held that Petitioner's trial counsel was not ine…
21-7200 John L. Jacques v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronically-stored-information ineffective-assistance legal-assistance legal-representation postconviction postconviction-relief procedural-default rule-of-completeness standing 1. a) Is it sufficient reason for failing to raise new issues in a postconviction motion after first appeal that were not already litigated - that the…
21-7198 Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the S…
21-7194 Mainor Canales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-preparation witness-investigation 1. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? a. COUNSEL DID NOT PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE WHEN HE FAILED TO CONDUCT REASONABLE INVESTIGAT…
21-7178 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida 2022-02-23 Denied IFP constitutional-intolerance double-jeopardy due-process federalized-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-appellate-courts state-courts summary-orders systemic-inattentiveness I. WHETHER SUMMARY ORDERS REJECTING FEDERALIZED CLAIMS HAVE BECOME CONSTITUTIONALLY INTOLERABLE POST-AEDPA BECAUSE STATE CONVICTIONS ARE NOW UPHELD …
21-7188 Elishay Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio…
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…
21-1157 Dennis Spencer v. Colorado Colorado 2022-02-22 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) attorney-performance conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation multiple-clients personal-conflicts prejudice prejudice-standard In Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel based on a lawyer's conflict o…
21-7154 John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Mr. Walters lost an opportunity for a favorable plea because his counsel failed to tell him about it. As a result, Mr. Walters entered a guilty plea t…
21-7113 Gerald Wayne Jako, Jr. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-02-15 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-representation cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance inside-job-theory plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel staged-crime witness-unavailability I. Attorney Panepinto made two separate "eleventh hour" disclosures before trial, with the latter discussing his prior representation and social relat…
21-7109 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice Whether, given that the district court's agreement that Mr. Mills was denied the opportunity to confront the forensic analyst in this case, did Mr. Mi…
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…
21-7092 Epati Malauulu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-7082 William Speer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In federal habeas proceedings, Petitioner William Speer presented a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failure to investigate and pr…
21-7074 Benny Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
21-1099 Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment? 2. Whether the search of Mr. Steres' cell ph…
21-1090 James Calvert v. Texas Texas 2022-02-07 Denied capital-trial constitutional-error due-process ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief presumption-of-innocence shock-cuff state-appeal Where a state's highest criminal court finds constitutional error but holds the record on direct appeal is insufficient to require reversal, does due …
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy 1. Petitioner's trial counsel accidentally opened the door to devastating extraneous offense evidence. Could reasonable jurists disagree with the dist…
21-7061 John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for …
21-7055 Eugene Willis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation I. In compliance with Holloway V. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1991), is an attorney ineffective for failing to argue before the jury the Government f…
21-7033 Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal's for the Third Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of several other United States C…
21-7018 Jose Fuentes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP character-evidence criminal-procedure deposition due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense medical-records subpoena trial-counsel witness-testimony Question one of ground one of Fuentes £2254 petition: Relevancy is everything when it comes to evidence, and the Petitioner 's private psychologist, D…
21-7012 Jessica Ewing v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP burden-of-proof counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction Ms. Ewing asserts that the previcis court erred when it did not grant a C.O.A. despite the debatability of the District Court's opinion by a reasonabl…
21-6986 John Atlas, Jr. v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-street-gang criminal-threats due-process ineffective-assistance intent life-sentence mental-state mental-state-defense schizophrenia trial-counsel Whether Petitioner John Atlas, Jr. stated a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where (1) Atlas was charged with making crimin…
21-6988 Paul E. Pavulak v. Warden, FMC Butner Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-§-2241 28-U.S.C-§-2255(e) federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan postconviction-review section-2241 section-2255 May a federal prisoner seeking review of a defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel seek postconviction review under 28 U.S.C. § 224…
21-1042 David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a…
21-1044 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. James Nathaniel Bryant, III Fourth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference In review of a claim fully adjudicated in state court, did the district court violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deference mandate and offend the principles o…
21-6955 Erica Umbay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis? Whet…
21-6917 Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and/or abused its discretion in affirming summary judgment against petitioner. Can court dismiss claims in the compl…
21-6912 Jamar Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure liE TItetZ ntElZE E)(1 sr A- SLIFF x cr-c-ry T E577.1SLtsli P8 - 7ri n on/ PLEA oF Gu I . L Ptiaulinrr m caw -r ON& (*I Che-rded vio La,.1-7 o Ai Cam-…
21-6931 Tom Iles White, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify structural-error 1. When a defendent claims their trial counsel denied them the right to testify in a habeas corpus proceeding, can this claim and a witness' supporti…
21-1016 Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-01-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense A. Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full a…
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud…
21-6899 John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti…
21-6874 Joshua Britt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction, where the District Court, without an evidentiary…
21-6871 Alan Price v. Florida Florida 2022-01-14 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule I. Whether McCoy u. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review? II. Whe…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, ... as to call for an exercise of this Cour…
21-6828 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida Florida 2022-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure I. Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily "dismiss as unauthorized " a prison Petitioner's is Sta…
21-6817 Rufus B. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment stand-your-ground victim-deposition Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
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…
21-6812 Manuel Gerardo Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-hearing due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper life-sentence Did the Fifth Circuit court of appeals err when it refused to grant a certificate of appealability, when the record clearly showed that Velasquez had …
21-6801 In re Johnny McMahon 2022-01-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial Petitioner, Johnny E. McMahon, has been collaterally attacking subject-matter jurisdiction since 2011. However, this is the first time this Honorable …
21-6797 In Re Lawrence Earl Wilson 2022-01-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equitable-tolling exceptional-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel 1. WHETHER, A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN DENIED THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS AND RECEIVED THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANC…
21-6779 Troy Allen Hite v. Michigan Michigan 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-state-courts procedural-default right-to-counsel I. IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE WHERE MICHIGAN STATE COURTS REFUSED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'S DENIAL OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT A CRITICAL S…
21-6776 Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision Has the State of Illinois entered a decision in conflict with the decision in a United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, Violati…
21-6752 Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied IFP AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a pr…
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias 1. In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) ("Batson Claim") and ignoring Ramey's argument that 28 U.S.C. § …
21-946 Michael Coscia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), …
21-938 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2021-12-23 GVR Relisted (2) capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Did the Fourth Circuit violate basic principles of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when it failed to reweigh the whole of the evidenc…
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it Constitute Ineffective Assistance of Counsel to Fail to object to a statement From the state's Chief Witness who claimed that a Non-Testifying…
21-6716 Fernando Romero v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion counsel-appointment district-court-discretion expert-opinion ineffective-assistance investigation pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-claim Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying petitioner's motion to appoint counsel when petitioner presented a substantial claim of in…
21-6727 Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej…
21-6702 Oscar Porter v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 alibi-witness alibi-witnesses criminal-trial eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when trial counsel pre-judges and excludes close friends and family from testifying as alibi witnesses without inve…
21-6698 In Re Carlton West II 2021-12-22 Denied IFP due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent EXACTLY HOW, WHEN AND WHERE ARE PRISONERS TO USE THE NEW EQUITABLE RULE ANNOUNCED IN MARTINEZ V. RYAN 566 U.S. 1 (2012) AND TREVINO V. THALER 569 U.S.…
21-6695 John Scott Cramer v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences counsel-advice criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole parole-eligibility sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment protects criminal defendants who rely on defective advice from counsel regarding critical, non-deportation collateral cons…
21-6693 Joey Rogers v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competence plea-bargaining plea-coercion sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Were the Due Process rights of Joey Rogers ignored by the Louisiana Courts when they maintained a plea made by the vulnerable, illiterate, hearing …
21-911 Dan V. Sharp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date. Whether the Court erred in requiring the Appellant to appear in shackles in front of …
21-6681 Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: does the Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington…
21-6673 John Beatty v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-20 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel smith-v-murray strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is the standards set forth in Smith v. Murray, 536 (1986) and Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396 (1985) the appropriate test for appellate counsel's p…
21-6672 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2021-12-20 Denied IFP due-process evidence-code-section-1109 federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance other-acts-evidence procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
21-6664 Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire First Circuit 2021-12-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana In light of this Court's holding in Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275 (1993); and, Massaro v. United States, 123 S.Ct. 1690 (2003; as well as United…
21-6651 Laqunn Gary v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights federal-issues federal-treaties ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-procedural-bar state-procedural-bars WHETHER MISS. CODE ANN. 99-39-21 WAS UNREASONABLY USED THE BAR TO PETITIONER'S FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF SEVERE IMPORTANCE THAT WHICH REVOLVES AROUND FEDE…
21-6649 Paul J. Hultman v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juror-misconduct presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment I Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdic…
21-6637 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure application-for-reopening due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions ohio-law procedural-dismissal state-court-of-appeals IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW WHEN THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS PROCEDURALLY DISMISSES HIS OHIO APP.R. 26(B) APPLICATIO…
21-6607 In Re Andrew Thomas Burns, Sr. 2021-12-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error waiver-inquiry 1. DID THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO CONDUCT AN AFFIRMATIVE WAIVER INQUIRY PRIOR TO ORDERING PETITIONER TO PROCEED PRO SE AT TRIAL, DENY PETITIONER OF …
21-6606 Akil Tymes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure duty-to-communicate favorable-plea-offer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Does counsel perform deficiently in duties/responsibility, to fully inform a defendant during the plea bargaining process, per Missouri v. Frve. 13…
21-6580 Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan 1. Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28…
21-6567 Dion Brown v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-09 Denied IFP criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective for failing to conduct a reasonable investigation into a potential defense witness, which led …
21-6547 Richard Lynn Long, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health plea-agreement right-to-counsel Mr. Long asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to notify the court of the contents of aneuropshychologica! report that found he w…
21-6536 In Re Michael Robert Everett 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination (1) Were Counsel was Ineffective when Failed to Present to the Court During Suppression Hearing than the Petitioner Teks Mamanba Nataeig Watngr when I…
21-6481 General Grant Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standing third-party-perpetrator wisconsin-law 1. Whether the limitations that Wisconsin places on a criminal defendant seeking to introduce third-party-perpetrator evidence are consistent with the…
21-6437 J. S. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment 1. Did J.S. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be advised by the Court of his right to appeal? 2. Did J.S. have a right to appeal out of time, beca…
21-6442 Armando Cardon-Cortez, aka Vatto v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction Question not identified.
21-6409 Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge 1. Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his …
21-6378 Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing l - At 0(S<ftAxS (Lozzt-sC /y\ 9~ 4Z-&~y 5cC.&p oiJ /V DCrf(r^PAtJT vj eJ/UGlfJM' ^^<Sl'PCt^C~ f/vom*-S f-J {$- <J,-S.C.i5S3C^ luJtfoi Oe«n<-*AtuhJCr …
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather…
21-6375 Thomas Dudney v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury sixth-amendment Thomas Dudney's conviction when actually innocent highlights a national issue: the unacceptably high rate of such convictions, reflected in numerous e…
21-6346 Jason W. Reed v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Question One: Whether, counsel's admitted misadvice with respect to Petitioner's designation, its direct result of imposition of "specialized supervis…
21-6351 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing sWtub/u diced upp-eoj i or ab(mdioml upm o~kW ri c^kf +o uoa'weM l fU i ocluis Yk J1 *$>\WvV Reor^ 7 * qOhod is kV\fes\\old i<\ (k{\ o^'^-to 4 ^ "Y…
21-750 Jasper Knabb v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl…
21-6270 Catherine Pileggi v. Florida Florida 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief state-court state-court-procedure Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution requires a state court adjudicating a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel to a…
21-6258 Ramiro Romero v. Texas Texas 2021-11-12 Denied IFP andrus-v-texas appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation strickland strickland-standard Whe.h? a-n 0uH~Oisyy&y ZtitTtct/s Jh Y&StJgfi-tiOh? JLhottasds *tO /hte.t'lsieu/ a. ofe'fihoLiutts t^s/tsted hriTtitss&s bec^s^ the. fcttoshty Mfstfrf…
21-6252 Ryder Shane Altman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f…
21-6238 Donald Broadnax v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP AEDPA aedpa-deference due-process federal-habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief state-evidentiary-rules state-postconviction-proceedings Alabama prohibits a state postconviction petitioner from introducing hearsay to prove a penalty phase ineffective assistance of counsel claim. By cont…
21-6236 L. B. Joseph v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt testimony WAS DEFENDANT GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL? WAS DEFENDANT FOUND CGUILTY BEYOND A RESONABLE DOUBT? WAS PERJURED TESTMONY GIVEN TO COVER UP THE TRUTH? WERE FAR…
21-6202 Charles Gregory Clark v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP capital-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan shackling shackling-claim specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The trial court required Charles Gregory Clark to be visibly restrained during his entire capital murder trial, without a hearing and making no requis…
21-6203 Michael Walker v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60(b)(6) strickland-v-washington trial-counsel As a result of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in denying Petitioner's Motion for Relief pursuant to Rule 60(…
21-6196 I. A. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-appeal standing 1. Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment Right to have a District Court Judge inform him of his right to appeal? 2. Was I.A.'s trial attorney, Scott W…
21-6188 Johnathan Andrew Doody v. Arizona Arizona 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession right-to-testify 1. Whether Doody was denied his personal right to testify in his own behalf by his attorneys' ineffective assistance regarding their advice on the use…
21-6157 Christopher Coker, aka Christopher Forman v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pcra post-conviction-relief standing trial-procedure 1. Did Trial Judge failed to rule on meritorious issues ? 2. Did.. PCRA Counsel l fail to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of tria…
21-6152 Keith Arthur Vinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability over trial counsel's potential ineffectiveness in the plead-vs-trial decisio…
21-6151 Gary DuBose Terry v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-review summary-judgment trial-counsel In determining whether a federal habeas petitioner's pleadings and supporting documents have alleged a substantial but defaulted claim of ineffective …
21-6134 Victor Rosales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal douglas-v-california due-process evitts-v-lucey indigent-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. DOES A TEXAS PRISONER HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO APPOINTMENT OF EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS WHICH PROVIDE THE ONL…
21-6074 Nikolas Gacho v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-admonishment plea-negotiations prejudice sixth-amendment I. Does a plea admonishment cure all prejudice and preclude a defendant from challenging counsel's representation during the plea negotiations process…
21-6126 Jason A. Tobey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion pretrial-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-continuance 1. When indisputable evidence shows a federal criminal defendant's retained counsel has abandoned him at a key pretrial hearing and is not prepared fo…
21-619 Hugo Reyes-Morales v. Maryland Maryland 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington If "the deportation consequences of a particular plea are unclear or uncertain…a criminal defense attorney need do no more than advise a noncitizen cl…
21-6082 Craig D. Miller v. Illinois Illinois 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review fundamental-fairness illinois-post-conviction-statute indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reliability-of-proceedings sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Illinois courts' mechanical, outcome-based approach to the Strickland standard, which routinely requires affirmative proof of a different outc…
21-6063 Jason William Custer v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-6th-14th-amendments due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miranda-rights pauper-defendant postconviction procedural-bar self-defense This is a First Degree Murder case, which resulted in the finding of guilt on all charges and a Life Without the Possibility (LWOP) sentence plus and …
21-6024 Dudley Allen Hicks v. Florida Florida 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment VJWV V\\nM oP evxfAe-'Ote avd C'^cuvvisAa^ces n'lusV be. CeveoAed Vo a CCxnVxnaN aVVo'r*>ey •Vo C-CeciVe a boma Pde dloubV as Vo W\± cV»eoVs cor*pe.…
21-6031 William Greg Thomas v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance 1. When a court determines that a court-appointed CJA counsel "sacrificed [Petitioner's] guaranteed opportunity of federal habeas review" by intention…
21-6001 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (17)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stare-decisis strickland-v-washington vertical-stare-decisis I. On remand, did the Texas court reject this Court's conclusions in Andrus v. Texas, 140 S.Ct. 1875 (2020), which were amply supported by the habeas …
21-5971 Adrian Torres v. Warren Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error doyle-error due-process evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd right-to-present-defense I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Investigate and Present a PTSD Expert?; Was an Evidentiary Hearing Was Required? II.…
21-5961 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-10-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure To clarify if what the United States Court held in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26 (B)(1) which requires a defendant to …
21-538 Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic While Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984), requires an ineffective-assistance claimant to prove both deficient performance and prejudic…
21-5943 Brandon Ward v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability character-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel use-of-force witness-testimony 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his trial …
21-5923 Deonte Kinwan McCoy v. Michigan Michigan 2021-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance judicial-fact-finding jury-selection reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Was the Evidence Insufficient to convict Mr. McCoy of each offense. Should this court should reverse his convictions pursuant to federal and state con…
21-5925 Denworth Davidson v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether, as a threshold matter, Petitioner has shown that his federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process was violated by the pros…
21-5921 Shikisha Monet Tidmore v. Michigan Michigan 2021-10-06 Denied IFP admissibility constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements legality pre-trial-investigation sixth-amendment trial-counsel voluntariness Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights have been violated under the United States Constitution VI Amendment where Petitioner was denied due proces…
21-5906 Michael Jerome Pettway v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal rule-11 section-924(c) sixth-amendment QUESTION NUMBER ONE: Whether Petitioner Pettway's ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to.Rule 11 (b) …
21-5904 Joseph Woods v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure standing I. Can a court of law in the United States, whether State or Federal Court, render a decision in a court proceeding without first deciding on a questi…
21-5871 Stephret R. Harvey v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecution-bar state-court-record statute-of-limitations time-limitations Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time limitations once the institution o…
21-5863 Jack Anthony Chatman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief texas texas-law trial counsel claims on Drrect Appead where the Only Cpportunity of A Garrantee of Cunsel n S T abvious troth is that lawyers are necessifies ot Luur…
21-5862 Micah Lamb v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court government-corruption ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standing I. WHETHER U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN AND THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, HEREIN RULED FALSEHOODS AND "FRAUD ON THE COURT" WHICH CREA…
21-5868 Ryan Russell Parks, aka Dinero v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial indictment ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief variance Question not identified.
21-5883 Davon Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-proceeding direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement remand sixth-amendment The record below raises serious questions about whether Petitioner —an individual whose exposure to lead paint poisoning as a child has had a signific…
21-5841 Rafiq Sabir v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP arabic-language-expert brady-claim brady-v-maryland district-court-discretion exculpatory-evidence factual-dispute government-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-amend rule-33 1. Could reasonable jurists debate whether the district court abused its discretion by denying as untimely Petitioner's motion to amend to add a Brady…
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…
21-5766 Dionte Dortch v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure deportation due-process firearm immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining rico-statute simple-possession I WHETHER thE DUE PROCESS ClOUSE ANC THE SIth AMENdMENT PRotECTS ThE ACCUSEd FROM A PlEA of Guly To MatRial FActs Of SIMple PosSESSION OF CocaINe aNd …
21-5742 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-counsel Question One: has Whether the 5th Circvit Court of Appeals that is in direct conflict with entered a decision the United States Supreme Court precede…
21-5732 In Re Artoska Gillispie 2021-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance misidentification personal-location-information probable-cause suggestive-identification warrant Has prejudice been shown where defense counsel (a) failed to file a motion to suppress (CSLI) (cell-site location information), and (b) failed to obje…
21-5751 Charles Elmer Kovary v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witness constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief trial-counsel witness-testimony 1) Was Appellate Counsel ineffective for failing to raise trial counsels ineffectiveness for failing to fully investigate Alibi witness, and help Alib…
21-5745 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage trial-counsel (1) .Was reversible error, committed pursuant to; STRICKLAND vs.WASHINGTON; MAPLE vsTHOMAS; UNITED STATE vs.HILLSMAN : , when trial counsel abandoned …
21-5729 Frank R. Stevenson v. New York New York 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law, as establi…
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his…
21-422 Steven Hatton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance o…
21-5727 Frank Cisneros v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-defense criminal-procedure federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations withdrawal (1) Whether an attorney's admitted failure to investigate or present a defendant's affirmative withdrawal from a conspiracy beyond the applicable st…
21-5703 Mark French v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel trial-counsel trial-court-discretion 1. IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION WHEN A TRIAL COURT FAIL'S TO INQUIRY OR ADDRESS A DEFENDANT'S WRITTEN REQUEST ABOUT HIS CONCERNS ABOUT HIS TRIAL C…
21-5700 Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard Mr. Tilley alleged that he is actual innocent, and his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call expert witnesses as requested by Mr. Tilley, …
21-5697 Shawn Mayreis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial right-to-counsel strickland voir-dire I. This Court has established that a defendant's right to a public trial extends to voir dire. When counsel's defective advice given in advance of tri…
21-5689 Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL AS MEANT BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AND DID THE ACTIONS OF "ALL" COUNSE…
21-5692 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure legal-review loretto-v-teleprompter takings LOUDERMI. 1OS S.CT. 1487(198S), AM I NOT ENTITLED TD THE RIGUT TO OUE AROCESS? ACCORDING TO THE UMITED STATES CONSTITUTION AMENOTONT V AND SMITH V. P…
21-5686 Tobias Soto-Melchor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlling-precedent counsel-of-choice ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-rule right-to-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay What is the proper standard for evaluating a defendant's request to exercise his or her Sixth Amendment right to substitute retained counsel of choice…
21-5683 Jerome McBride v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy criminal-procedure due-process federalism habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief separation-of-powers standing Did the State-Division and the Federal-Division unconstitutional-Convert adopt depriving/ .This question is inlight. is the Petitioner beina Subject …
21-5655 Timothy Dean Leners v. Wyoming Wyoming 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal sixth-amendment ONE: Was Defendant's 6th Amend. right to Effective Counsel violated when 1st chair appointed counsel testified at W.R.A.P. 21 hearing for new trial th…
21-397 Juan Joe Cano v. Texas Texas 2021-09-13 Denied Response Waived contamination-of-accusations due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statements procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-abuse suggestive-questioning witness-impeachment I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel because trial counsel failed to impeach the complainants with their prior inconsistent st…
21-5640 Todd Dalton v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-accommodation-syndrome csaas-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay in-absentia-trial ineffective-assistance taint-and-memory-expert trial-procedure I. Did the California Courts' Unreasonable Refusal to Hold an Evidentiary Hearing Entitle Dalton to anEvidentiary Hearing? II. Did Trial Counsel Rend…
21-5613 Byron McCollum v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review merits-determination slack-v-mcdaniel unauthorized-merits-determination Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability, stating only that the Petitioner "has failed to make a substantial showing of…
21-5582 Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the state court unreasonably applied this Court's precedents when it concluded that Evans's trial counsel was not co…
21-5567 Damond Dean v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied IFP corroborating-evidence criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-investigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington therapist-testimony trial-counsel witness-credibility Question Number One: Counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to K.H.'s (Complainant) therapist's testimony when she told the jur…
21-5577 Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does the cumulative error doctrine in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim apply whereby individual errors, insufficient to ne…
21-5572 Kamau Alan Israel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for…
21-345 Manpreet Singh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel?
21-5565 Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing I. Whether delendant was the ^ deried the Oppurtunity to hry CRoss - examine the key Goveenment witness. II. Whether remand is requrees to deteemines…
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Mr. Rodriguez alleged that his appointed counsel for the offense in which he is currently incarceratedswitched sides and worked for the prosecution fo…
21-5558 William Paul Langrum, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation pre-trial-investigation presumption-of-prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard 1) The flntiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) establishes a one-year statute of limitations for state inmates seeking federal …
21-5561 Tyrone Cade v. Texas Texas 2021-09-01 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen…
21-306 Troy Seales v. California California 2021-08-31 Denied counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-hearing ineffective-assistance right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-fairness 1. Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the exclusion of Petitioner and his counsel from an ex parte hearing violated Petitioner's rights…
21-5525 Thomas Richardson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-08-31 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati…
21-5500 John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.O.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi…
21-5513 Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing Question 1: What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos…
21-5515 Kenneth Hairston v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-30 Denied IFP aggravating-factor criminal-procedure death-penalty felony-convictions ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact victim-impact-testimony TRIAL COUNSEL GAVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTOR'S IMPROPER ARGUMENT REGARDING VICTIM IMPACT TESTIMONY USED TO SUPPOR…
21-5519 Steven P. BuBenchik, Jr. v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance search-warrant standing warrantless-search 4th AMENDMENT CLAIM Testimony giving during the November 12,2013, Suppression hearing record demonstrated NO exigent circumstances existed and NO att…
21-5502 Lucio P. Munoz v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-in-limine postconviction-relief WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS DECISIONS CONCERNING "HEARSAY" CONFORMS TO THE ESTABLISHED RULE OF EVIDENCE ON THIS SUBJECT? WHETHER OR NOT NEBR…
21-288 Lancy White, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived computer-forensics criminal-procedure cronic-standard e-mail-evidence email-manipulation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missing-evidence strickland-standard 1. Whether under the Strickland standards of deficient performance and prejudice, trial counsel was ineffective by failing to file a proper notice und…
21-5476 In Re William Barret Slade, II 2021-08-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether or not during evaluations, decisions, and judgments, the Alabama Trial, State Courts, are in complete contradiction to this United States Supr…
21-5453 Charles J. Senke v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a n acknowledged and entrenched circuit split, ruled that the district court's failure to inquire into Sen…
21-256 Bilal Hamid Love v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline sentenc…
21-5446 Robert Carter v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maximum-penalty plea-bargaining sentencing third-degree-murder trial-counsel WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL ADEQUATELY AND EFFECTIVELY ASSISTED PETITIONER IN DECIDING WHETHER TO ACCEPT A PLEA OFFER OF 15 TO 30 YEARS WHERE COUNSEL FAILED…
21-5447 Nicholas Edwards v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEAL ERROR IN NOT FINDING PETITIONER WAS NOT PREJUDICED BY TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO CALL WITNESSES P/O OFFICER WHO WO…
21-5451 John M. Wasson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-counsel mining-claim right-to-counsel The questions presented are: 1. Did Mr. Wasson have adequate counsel during his trial and appeal? 2. Was Mr. Wasson's accessing his mining claim's c…
21-5419 Dilang Dat v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-plea deportation deportation-consequences due-process-advice immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-united-states strickland-test Does trial counsel advising a criminal defendant that he "could" be deported for entering a guilty plea breach trial counsel's duty to give "clear and…
21-5420 Naim Rasool Muhammad v. Texas Texas 2021-08-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice preponderance-of-the-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Whether a habeas court violates Strickland and decades of this Court's precedent by imposing a "preponderance of the evidence" standard for prejudi…
21-5431 Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR…
21-5439 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury-selection trial-procedure 1. Whether or not I am guilty on Count No.l of the indictment? 2. Whether or not I am guilty of Count No.3 of the indictment? 3. Whether of not the …
21-5389 Juan J. Martinez v. Texas Texas 2021-08-18 Denied IFP admissible-evidence collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause right-to-counsel search-and-seizure trial-counsel Question not identified.
21-5394 Michael Nathaniel Boyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant I. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the Circuit's ruling, and remand for further consideration in light of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S…
21-5395 In Re Christopher Burgess 2021-08-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar 1. In the interest of justice, should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both "actial innocence " and in…
21-225 Ashley Mere Howard v. Texas Texas 2021-08-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility-determinations criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal I. Does the state court's decision that petitioner cannot challenge her murder conviction based on her original counsel's failure to inform her of the…
21-5378 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-16 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct I. Is a capital sentence invalid, and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights, when during the final closing argument ad…
21-5375 Douglas Coley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-13 Denied IFP collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri…
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and…
21-5347 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire This Court recently cautioned trial courts to be especially vigilant against "particularly noxious strain[s] of racial prejudice," Buck v. Davis, 137 …
21-166 Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon Oregon 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment (I) Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of …
21-5288 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-review standing writ-of-certiorari CoRnelius L.Jones, PetitioneR- Appllant, APPeAls fm A file A successive post-Conviction Petition. An isse is Raised concerning the sufficiency of the…
21-5294 Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL WAS APPROACHED AT THE TIME THE JURY RETIRED FOR DELIBEARITONS BY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SCOTT EHLFELDT TENDERING A PLEA O…
21-5295 Anthony D. Jones v. Michelle Floyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-representation sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
21-5276 William H. Bransford v. Dan Winkelski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard appellate-counsel civil-commitment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining 1. Should pre-A-EDP-A standard of a 2.8 4-.§2254 petition apply when an indigent defendant has been U.S.C. constructively abandoned by appointed appel…
21-5247 Wallace Hammerle v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-review venue-change 1. why did the Eastern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court . overlook and deny my appeal on DNA testing that I have a Constitutional right to, t…
21-5253 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR…
21-5257 Jermaine Latwone Haynes v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance self-defense sentencing-mitigation Was Petitioner Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Counsel and A Fair Trial Proceeding, Pursuant To U.S. Const., Amends Vi,…
21-5236 Manvester Evans, III v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-28 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance out-of-time-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion 1. Is the Abanoclon men 7 of couse l Loe rhe cleberclqurp Atzek a plea heaaive CL Seurencingy Of Couszizuriaual Ellec rive Assisvauce ot Counsel ° . …
21-5239 Kevin A. Craig v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals trial-counsel Did the sixth circuit court of appeals clearly err in its denial of petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability, when it assessed petition…
21-107 Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington State courts must appropriately apply the standards for counsel's performance outlined in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), to survive fe…
21-5218 Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default 1) IT 1 (krifrcuet's "O&rscrxou/ To Hacss TLatc Judge 's kePofix awo kECOh^cAiaATxojj t C. lcaP.lv atMousntkTio TUkt hie vsa.% bcuxca 77/e (Iahc J ^E…
21-5226 Faryion Edward Wardrip v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-factual-determinations 1. Though Faryion Wardrip 's trial counsel failed to present critical evidence supporting his strategy to spare Wardrip from the death penalty, the T…
21-5166 Leobardo Valladares v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence I. Did the Prosecution Fail to Prove Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Valladares Committed First Degree Murder? II. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffectiv…
21-5181 Gerald Patrick Thomas, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP collateral-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan retroactivity teague-bar teague-v-lane trevino-v-thaler 1. Does Teague v. Lane bar Federal Habeas court from reviewing the merits of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim because Martinez v. Ry…
21-5145 Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED.ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING AND/OR DECLINING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY UPON THE CONTENTION …
21-5152 Lewis R. Fox v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-question criminal-defense criminal-procedure expert-witness expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief res-judicata 1) Whether a trial counsel is to be considered incompetent when s/he fails to consult with their client (the criminal defendant) about their financial…
21-5161 Jamar J. Draper v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation sixth-amendment speedy-trial Question not identified.
21-5139 In Re Donald M. Boswell 2021-07-20 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-petitions Was the denial of Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealibility (COA) to file a second or successive feredal habeas corpus for new claims fo…
21-5142 Michael Angelo Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ…
21-5127 Noel Aldana v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se procedural-bar strickland-standard strickland-v-washington untimeliness Does a meritorious claim that a pro se Petitioner raises which clearly present and meet the cause and prejudice standard addressed in the Strickland …
21-5093 Stephen Dale Barbee v. Texas Texas 2021-07-15 Denied IFP autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel florida-v-nixon habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Whether the sate court's decision to foreclose habeas review of a capital defendant's claim under McCoy v. Louisiana contravenes federal law becaus…
21-5098 Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION FOR SECURI…
21-5091 Brian Dunkley v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with decisions of another United States court of Appeals on the same i…
21-41 James Allen Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel failed to object to irrelevant, inflammatory testimony that petition…
21-5089 Martin Thomas Lawrence v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Whether, in light of trial counsel's express admission that he underestimated Petitioner's sentencing exposure if he went to trial, this Court shou…
21-5074 Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief? 2. Did the Sixth Circuit err as to forfeiture of the claim r…
21-5070 Calvin Bernhardt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability district-court-error eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate prima-facie prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in denying…
21-5035 Ronald Pyles v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2021-07-08 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation civil-rights due-process ethical-standards ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal witness-testimony QUESTION I: Isn't it true, that, under the "recusal standard " addressed in 28 U.S.C.S. §455(a); "what matters is not the reality of bias or prejudice…
21-5041 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-07-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Mr. Chanthakoummane is entitled to a new trial because trial counsel ignored his unequivocal direction to challenge his guilt during the culpa…
21-5022 Sheron Gabriel Terrell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied IFP due-process fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause suppression-hearing warrant-affidavit 1. Did Terrell make a substantial preliminary showing that the omissions made by Affiant from his warrant affidavit were recklessness by the proof of …
20-8472 Rocky Leandro Orosco v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress warrantless-search 1) During Mr.Orosco's trial, the State District Attorney told the jury that Mr.Orosco's Cell Phone was' "Obtained" with a warrant when it really was…
20-8449 Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure Gorham will present three brief statements with three concise questions for this Honorable Court's review. Gorham alleged multiple Sixth Amendment ri…
20-8435 Vladimir Eugene v. Florida Florida 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER…
20-8430 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification I Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook C…
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses when counsel failed to subpoena an expert that had found exculpatory evidence and this evidence w…
20-8393 Robert Steven McDaniel v. Georgia Georgia 2021-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies right-to-appeal 1. TO AN APPEAL OR OUT-OF-TIME- APPEAL? 2. Is The AbANDOUMeNT of couNsEl fOR ThE defENdaNT AfTER A PlEA hERINg OR SENTENCINg Of CONSTITOTIONAl MAGNTU…
20-8360 Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WAS MILITARY APPELLATE COURT OBLIGATED TO ACCEPT PETITIONER'S LATE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIM WHERE IT WAS FILED BY APPELLATE COUNSEL…
20-8365 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-jurisdiction legal-remedy standing based on the alledged Packtolity of a Fudge Lwho deprived the appelland of a Substantive ove Oca teduce Sialak xo Lolich dhe Vow entitles him id the D…
20-8367 Kiera Shanice Graham v. Brooks Benton, Warden Georgia 2021-06-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-decision Is ifa vfokthon of dun proc.&& for & defwda nb -b pkad AUi'I'ly b a \ fo SinDmoi tohjin informed hj Counsel +inaf Umm pm\fo (mos biwj aujhi, ba+ ujos…
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Question not identified.
20-8314 Timothy Brewer v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-psychology constitutional-rights evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-8319 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure criminal-counsel direct-appeal due-process florida-bar-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation plea-bargaining torture 1. Can same criminal counsel misrepresenting defendant in the same L.T. case, and other cases in the trial court documenting instances of "torture" t…
20-8304 Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as…
20-8279 Kirk Cottom v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation computer-logs due-process expert-evidence fabrication falsification indictment ineffective-assistance perjured-testimony perjury 1) Is it a due process violation for the government to obtain an indictment based on perjured testimony about fabricated, and falsified computer log…
20-8266 Eric Lucas v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner 's Constitutional Rights Under The 5th, 6th And 14th Amendments Were Violated When The State 's Motions To Allow Hearsay Evidence…
20-8269 Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Whether the decision of the state court that failed to apply the correct standard of "reasonableness " to assess trial counsel 's conduct under St…
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment 1. Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having k…
20-8243 Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search I. DID THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS ERRONEOUSLY EXPAND THE DEFENDANT'S CONSENT TO RETRIEVE A TELEPHONE NUMBER FROM HIS SMARTPHONE INTO A CONSENT TO S…
20-8244 Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief 1) Was error Committed by the Appellate Division when it neglected to consider Appellant 's Pro- Se Supplemental Brief, or to file said brief conside…
20-8248 Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment 1) TOir S™ r?„!SK 'ed'JUr0 SS °3 a ^ P31"51' one °f-«Mch stated during d^nse ' Sixth 'ancHFourteent^Amendment 2)Does being deprived of conflict-free …
20-8251 Jayrionte Thomas v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment west-virginia-law Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in declining to hold, on direct criminal appeal, that the Petitioner received ineffective ass…
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…
20-8223 Weldon Boyce Bridges v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violations counsel-of-choice due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-coercion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-criminal-procedure Can the State District Court convict petitioner without "paid" counsel of choice at pre-trial, plea, arraignment, and evidentiary hearings, With a out…
20-8235 Kory Christian Pedersen v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-review self-defense sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Mr. Pedersen denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, when his trial counsel failed to understand the applica…
20-1686 Bobby Lee Hampton v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-06-04 Denied collateral-review constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel teague-v-lane In 2018, this Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500, that "a defendant has the right to insist that counsel refrain from admitting guilt e…
20-8221 Terrence Lavaron Thomas v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel right-to-speedy-trial sentencing sentencing-error speedy-trial Was Defense counsel ineffective in failing to contest the sufficiency of evidence against Mr. Thomas, as he was charged with assault with a dangerous …
20-8219 Clark D. Young v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment (1) WAS the defendant deprived of his sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments , when Counsel fAiled to investigate his. Criminal history? (2) was the…
20-8217 Donald R. Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance just-compensation mandatory-minimum private-property procedural-error sentencing-enhancement takings 1. WHETHER DEFENDANTS RECEIVED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING SENTENCING IN WHICH COUNSEL FAILED TO BRIEF OR PRESERVE THE SUPREME COURT'S RULI…
20-8182 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2021-06-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines QUESTION NUMBER ONE The trial court judge in this case states unequivocally that she misdirected the jury as to the law in this case that changed Peti…
20-8170 Ronnie Ray Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea judicial-discretion recusal statute-of-limitations Whether the state's adjudication - or lack thereof- of Petitioner's Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) Motion, Tennessee Rules of Criminal …
20-8155 Frederick Wayne Smith v. California California 2021-05-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence autonomy civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie sixth-amendment successive-petitions Should, the. May 2, 1 995 0Kde.fi to Show Caute/PKlma Facie. cate; The W0I/ 05 201 8 SupeKloK CouKt WKlt of habeat coKput/PKlma facle showing of viol…
20-1656 Carmen Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis?
20-8149 Quinn Palacios Cruz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cuyler-test habeas-corpus individual-representation ineffective-assistance methodology-of-review multiple-representation supreme-court-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Cuyler test for ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest applies to individual cases of representation and not onl…
20-8122 Andi Mustafa v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-withdrawal search-and-seizure search-warrant Is Plaintiff entitled to withdraw his no contest plea when he was not interrogated by the judge to determine the factual basis for his plea and the Ju…
20-8097 Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct Question not identified.
20-8102 Adam Rosen v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief precedent self-incrimination state-court-review Question not identified.
20-8091 Steven Zapata v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Does the constructive denial of counsel standard under Cronic v. United States or the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Strickland v…
20-8088 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington QUESTION ONE: WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN THE DENIAL OF APPELLANTS MOTION TO VACATE THE JUNE 15, 2018, NOVEMBER 29, 2018, AND FEBRUARY 05, 2019…
20-8073 Damari Jennings v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea due-process equal-protection guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-defendant north-carolina-v-alford plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Under the requirements of Boykin v. Alabama, was Jennings denied due process and equal protection when the trial court refused to allow him to withdra…
20-8068 Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden Georgia 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey This case presents several issues of fundamental importance to the legitimacy of the United States' court system and the right of its citizens to be h…
20-8051 Lucas Kenneth Sabatino v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity prejudicial-error sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether defense counsel committed prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to raise issues relating to defendant's mental capacity at …
20-8046 Shawn Bishop v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance scant-evidence witness-testimony 1. Does a curative instruction remedy a Confrontation Clause violation where the evidence used to convict is scant and the codefendant's alleged confe…
20-8042 Jorge Cervantes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-determination postconviction-relief standard-of-review state-court-findings strickland 1. Was the state court's failure to make the requisite findings of fact and law thus an unreasonable law, as determined by the United States Supreme C…
20-8026 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts 1. This is a question of first impression since AEDPA. When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts, the opportunity to review federal claims, this fa…
20-1581 Malia Arciero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether this Court holding in Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), is still good law, and if so, whether Arciero is entitled to relief due to defens…
20-8005 Philip Steven Matwyuk v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment 1. Was Matwyuks Due Process and Equal Protection and Constitutional Rights violated when trial counsel failed to investigate exculpatory evidence. I.E…
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-…
20-7965 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-7970 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-misconduct due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
20-7960 Michael Anthony Carroll v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied IFP due-process fundamental-defect-exception ineffective-assistance interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits jury-impartiality sixth-amendment tad-claims time-limits waiver I. THE STATUTORY TIME LIMITS IMPOSED BY THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON DETAINERS ARE STRICTLY JURISDICTIONAL AS APPLIED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPACT,…
20-7928 Brandon Robinson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-proceedings brady-violation discovery-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-record 1. Was counsel.ineffetiye. within the meaning of Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present a Martinez claim irfthe'petitioner's appellate proce…
20-7918 Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that "mere outcome determination" is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington…
20-7901 Chalin Merrihew v. Florida Florida 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation "fiuip cOV'£- vv \a&* €^eryBvv^ Ivovaj kfS wC+Mr^w- 1 akes 4WW Av ,-eUW A® '^ v3 cWr^-fW kfs \(A4k ' " v— X ^7' y~cuc w\ S^zUACe^ 4® t>£> XuC)Aern'eA …
20-7895 David Scott Franks v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied IFP capital-case capital-sentencing eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence residual-doubt sentencing wiggins-standard wiggins-v-smith Question One In Mr. Franks's case, the district court found that "the evidence …was so overwhelming that no competent lawyer could be expected to hav…
20-7893 Anthony Edward Bridget v. California California 2021-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy D.N.A EVidENCE; is it fAiR ANEWly DISCOVEREd fOR thE diStRit AtHORNEY's D-N.A ExpERT (WhO hAPPEN tO WORK fOR thE ORANgE CONTy CRIME LAb) to conduct A …
20-7877 Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington VOVve.VW-r T\\& Ur^cA CVcAeS SeX>e*\^V\ (XifcoiV Coor^V D^r ■ Appe^S Brr<sd 1 U^Vie-n I dr Oejo\.ec& PeA\Vv,one-r vS AppUccA*or\ For A Op (CO A} ^ U.…
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-04-28 Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Dodd was indicted on nine counts for the sexual abuse of a child more than fifteen years ago. Each count of the indictment was an identical carbon cop…
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release But for the errors of the trial court which allowed modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements, defendant would not have…
20-7850 Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri Missouri 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ST.CHARLES COUNTY MISSO- I. URI, THE MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICK, AND THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT,…
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review (1) May a federal court seeking to determine whether a state court decision was reasonable for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) substitute its own reas…
20-1481 Adrian Parbhudial v. Jamie LaManna, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process habeas-corpus home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistake police-officers Strickland strickland-standard witness-testimony witnesses 1. Was it an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and its progeny for the state courts, and the habeas courts bel…
20-7828 Kevin Norris Mitchell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 attorney-death attorney-performance civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling federal-tolling ineffective-assistance judicial-opinions legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief TIME FRAME UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (d)(2)? TOLLING TIMES UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2254?
20-7813 Richard Allen Benson v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-21 Dismissed IFP aedpa aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence prima-facie state-law 1. When a federal habeas court examines for reasonableness a silent state court habeas denial pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (AEDPA) and Harrington v…
20-7809 Julian J. Miller v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-of-court access-to-court actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-bar ineffective-assistance statute-of-limitations 1)Does @2244{d)(1)(A) apply to a Habeas Petitioner's Access of Court claim that is barred by Heck & can't accrue pursuant to Christopher v. Harbury un…
20-7804 Michael William Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-sentencing civil-rights due-process gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b-v-alabama jury-selection psychopathy-evidence 1. Whether this Court meant it when it wrote that "a pattern of strikes against black [or here, women] jurors included in this particular venire might…
20-7801 Cody Lee Herman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage A. Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages of this Case Requiring That Peti…
20-7789 In Re Michael K. Ciacci 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-of-columbia district-of-columbia-code due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal procedural-exhaustion savings-clause state-remedies Whether the scope of the savings clause under District of Columbia Code Section 23-110(g) is open to a claim supported by judicial failure to recuse? …
20-7774 Kevin Johnson v. Texas Texas 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction Did the trial an%or appeal court err by allowing the testisying "erperts" to use statements of unadijucated witnesses as bisis for their opinion and p…
20-1440 David Abram Anaya v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability Whether this Court's decisions clearly establish that a defendant can show he was prejudiced by his counsel's deficient performance causing him to rej…
20-7764 Jamil Stefon Carter v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection motion-to-suppress plea-withdrawal right-to-appeal Ground Ona: DUE PROCESS REQUIRES PLEA WITHDRAWAL WHERE PETITIONER DID NOT KNOW HIS GUILTY PLEA WAIVED HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL THE DENIAL OF THE PRE-TRIAL…
20-7751 Efrain Lopez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial 1. Ih Petitioner's COA, Lopez challenged the U.S. District Court's adjudication of his claims that: -(l) he is actually innocent; (2) he did not recei…
20-7715 In Re Richard DeCaro 2021-04-12 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated where petitioner was sentenced to the amended statute, first degree murder, mandatory life, rather tha…
20-7702 Covia Dzell Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense. II. Whether the district court's …
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Mr. Washington (Petitioner) alleged that the CCL Court lack subject matter jurisdiction to try him. Petitioner was convicted, in large part upon Plain…
20-7689 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misconstruction 1). Does the court's misconstruction of the habeas corpus claim violate due process of law? 2). Does the court's failure to adjudicate the merits of …
20-7676 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia motion-for-bill-of-particulars motion-to-suppress reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence This is a principal to second degree robbery case based, almost exclusively, on questionable circumstantial evidence that ended in a life sentence for…
20-7666 Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counse…
20-7664 Jessie Willie Green v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence identification-procedures ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-7658 Johnny Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance standing Was trial counsel ineffective when he failed to suppress the affidavit due to the insufficiency of Count I and A, Rape, and when counsel failed to see…
20-7640 Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment …
20-7633 Sam Sterling Alford v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability consolidation consolidation-risks counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent right-to-counsel Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) on his claim that his counsel re…
20-7626 Robert Frank Miller v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver I. Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the c…
20-7623 Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his clie…
20-7605 Cody James Martinez v. Arizona Arizona 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-trial cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-gain right-to-counsel statutory-aggravator strickland-standard trial-counsel I.Trial counsel only ever met with Mr. Martinez for a total of 1:08 in the 2-½ years preceding this capital trial. II.Arizona used a flawed premedita…
20-1371 Bart Posey, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-consult habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. Whether the duty to consult about an appeal requires the effective assistance of counsel.
20-7607 Perry Burris v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance DID ATTORNEY DOUGLAS P. EARL VIOLATE PERRY BURRIS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF HIS 5TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW SUBSEQUENTLY VIOLATING HIS 6T…
20-7603 In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion The district court Judge A. Marcia Crone, has unreasonably delayed the ruling on my 28 U.S.C. §2255 Motion for over Seventeen (17) months after the la…
20-7596 Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding that jurists of reason could not have found it debatable that the district court erred by dismissing Petitione…
20-7574 Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Rymer's state trial violated,Inef. Ass't. of Counsels '/Government by Due Process Cl. 1 Deprived of 6th amdt. attached counsel right by S.P.D. Kuech,…
20-7571 Hilliard A. Fulgham v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers interstate-detainer judicial-discretion trial-fairness waiver 1. Is an objection required before a court would have understanding that a detainee did not want to be tried after the time-line set in his involuntar…
20-7552 Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility 1. Where petitioner is actually innocent and being held in violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution, where such peti…
20-1321 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1001 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case materiality sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability since he has made a substantial showing that he was denied Due Process under the Due …
20-7515 Samuel Woody v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-03-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations ineffective-assistance vindictive-behavior witness-testimony While the PCR court did not address the conflict of interest issue in it's decision, is counsel deemed ineffective for failing to investigate and call…
20-1306 Alan Dale Walker v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-03-19 Denied capital-case capital-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mitigation-evidence psychological-trauma sixth-amendment tactical-decisions trial-counsel 1. Did the Mississippi Supreme Court fail to adhere to this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence requiring counsel in a capital case to conduct a tho…
20-1302 Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence This case presents important issues concerning a criminal defendant's constitutional rights to an impartial jury and to the effective assistance of co…
20-7462 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied IFP capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, denied when on…
20-7467 Timothy Wayne Carver v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Where plea counsel erroneously convinces a defendant to believe that he is guilty of an offense, may the guilty-pleading defendant obtain relief from …
20-7480 Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard The district court vacated Petitioner's death sentence because his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. On appeal, Respondent contested only…
20-7469 Joaquin Hernandez-Ayala v. Rene Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Hernandez-Ayala's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find …
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas 2021-03-12 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire DOES A STATE'S INITIAL-REVIEW PDST-CONVICTIDN COLLATERAL PROCEDURES MEET CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS WHEN THOSE PROCEDURES FAIL TO PROVIDE PRISONERS THE …
20-7429 William Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-examination mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether Petitioner made a substantial claim where: i) Counsel failed to move for mental examination for plead…
20-7419 Kamil Johnson v. W. E. Mackelburg, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance iowa-supreme-court juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief Is whether the Iowa Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying the habeas corpus petition based upon ineffective assistance of counsel under th…
20-7395 Antonio E. Wills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den…
20-7389 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD OF REVIEW TO PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ("COA") ON PETITIONE…
20-7378 Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This case presents a question on which the circuit courts are split: to what extent must a claim to be "sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law…
20-7373 Christopher Mathew Payne v. Arizona Arizona 2021-03-09 Denied IFP resulting in prejudice capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-ineligibility simmons-precedent Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons, 512 U.S.…
20-7364 James Baldwin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance mental-disability sixth-amendment 1. Whether Appellant was denied rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to effective trial counsel and w…
20-7337 Kevin Thurlow v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation counsel-representation ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-conflict-free-clause strickland-standard witness-testimony Initially the Petitioner asserted two constitutional violation claims of his The first being that his counsel was ineffective for failing Sixth Amendm…
20-7328 Alberto Matias-Martinez v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan state-impediment statutory-limitations I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT Mr. MATIAS-MARTINEZ 'S § 2254 HABEAS APPLICATION WAS TIMELY FILED, OR IN THE ALTERNATE, THAT…
20-7330 James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error 1. Whether petitioners constitutional right to due process and his constitutional right to, "decide to proceed to trial or, plead guilty " was "denied…
20-7331 Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default Whether the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. United States. Whether petitioner's request for counsel was ineffe…
20-7308 Michael N. Kelsey v. New York New York 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement Are New York State's criminal appellate procedures deficient, and/or prejudicial to a criminal defendant's due process, equal protection and/or state-…
20-7293 Willie Safford v. Florida Florida 2021-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing-phase standard-of-review Question not identified.
20-7292 Matthew Lee Staszak v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2251 18-usc-2423 due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct section-2251 section-2423 I. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT WHERE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT AND INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL VIOLATES DUE PROCESS WHERE NO …
20-7275 Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
20-7270 Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner was deprived of his due-process of law, and a fair trial, where the trial court never orally read the jury instructions to the jury…
20-7264 Graham Jay Sonnenberg v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied IFP adverse-effect brady-material conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel Whether the prophylaxis of Cuyler should be extended to define the term "adverse affect" to establish a demonstration test involving actual conflicts …
20-7248 Jonathan Lee Page v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law court-limitation criminal-procedure independent-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection primary-offense primary-offenses trial-procedure 1. Whether counsel was ineffective when he failed to timely object to the lower court expressly limiting the independent act jury instruction to the p…
20-7230 Stanley Joseph Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions counsel-concession criminal-defense criminal-defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana prejudice sixth-amendment trial-strategy 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment permits criminal defense counsel to unilaterally concede his client's guilt before the jury at trial—over the defendant…
20-1187 Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines Question One: What additional objective and evidentiary evidence is required to satisfy "the prejudice test" that this Court articulated in "Missouri …
20-7221 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-prejudice criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit's judicial precedence of not reviewing multiple ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the cumulative effect and aggr…
20-7202 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour…
20-7201 Jerry Neil Alfred v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-22 Dismissed IFP 2254-petition civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel successive-petition trial-counsel WHETHER DOCTRINE OF EQUITABLE TOLLING COULD BE PROPERLY INVOKED AND ULTIMATELY APPLIED BY DISTRICT COURT TO RENDER AN OTHERWISE UNTIMELY CLAIM THAT EX…
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony f…
20-7182 Anton Tuomi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest faretta-rights faretta-v-california guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel waiver-of-rights Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in concluding that petitioner was not denied his right to counsel when the state court accepted petitioner'…
20-7178 Nolan C. Turner, III v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief retroactivity right-to-counsel second-degree-murder trial-counsel Over Turner's objection, trial counsel told the jury the offense committed in this case was a general intent second degree murder and not the charged …
20-7169 Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony During the criminal trial, the prosecutor orchestrated a stunt to have a child witness write down the most critical portion of her testimony while on …
20-7173 Venecia Depaula v. Florida Florida 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-offer privileged-communication waiver I. WAS COUNSEL'S ASSISTANCE RENDERED INEFFECTIVE BY HIM ALLOWING PETITIONER TO REJECT A FAVORABLE PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL POSSESSED KNOWLEDGE THAT PE…
20-1124 Michael Don Leatherwood v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied affidavit criminal-procedure due-process fair-warning ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion probation probation-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Was Petitioner subject to the release conditions of probation while he was in prison? Does the statute which defines probation as "a procedure by whi…
20-1125 Antonio Devoe Jones v. Alabama Alabama 2021-02-17 Denied 6th-amendment alabama-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation 1. Was Petitioner deprived of his constitutional right to effective counsel after his defense lawyers misunderstood controlling Alabama law and mistak…
20-7161 Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment CAN A PLEA DEAL CONSISTING OF TWO (2) MISDEMEANOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES BE WITHDREW POST SENTENCE, WHEN; (1 ) NO DIRECT APPEAL WAS TAKEN; (2) SAID…
20-7152 Brian Hook v. Indiana Indiana 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth A…
20-7147 Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Does this Court's holding in Cole v. Arkansas 68 S.Ct 514 constitute "Actual Innocence" or "Miscarriage of Justice" to excuse procedural default?
20-7139 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel substitute-counsel 1. Whether the Appellate Court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Anderson's request for the appointment of substitute Counsel since defense Counsel…
20-7129 Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-7110 David Falcon v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alibi-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-hearing miranda-rights police-misconduct police-testimony right-to-counsel strickland-standard David Falcon was convicted of murder based on an incident where two men approached and shot a stranger in a public park. Falcon's counsel raised an al…
20-7093 Noel Christopher Turner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins statutory-provisions 1. Are the lower Courts misinterpreting and applying the United States Supreme Courts decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924,…
20-7074 Jimmy Lee Nave, Jr. v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-identification I. Mr. Nave was arrested without a warrant and without probable cause. Mr. Nave alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object t…
20-7076 Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement Is d ueprocess Violat&J dut ~h> i'neffe:f iVe assistance of Counsel when defendant aWofney did oof qivc defendant opportunity to review Peesenfence …
20-1084 Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (8) aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court.
20-1080 Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demons…
20-7079 Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the United States V McCarthy Rule. Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circu…
20-7065 Anibal Canales, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13)IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice sixth-amendment Wiggins-v-Smith 1. For penalty phase ineffective assistance of counsel violations, has Richter "established a substantial likelihood standard for evaluating prejudice…
20-7055 Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard QUESTION 1: Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that …
20-7053 Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new rule…
20-7050 Mustafa Muhammad v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-7035 Rondell Slaughter v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure error exhaustion ineffective-assistance legal-concession oral-argument procedural-exhaustion state-court state-court-pleading I. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is exhausted when the state-court pleading asserted that appellate counsel rendered …
20-6983 Demarcus Cole v. Kevin Myers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone-evidence certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress trial-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability on trial counsel was ineffective, when counsel failed to file a pre-trial Motio…
20-6982 Misty R. Weed v. Florida Florida 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights district-court-conflict due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-discretion I. DID THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL CREATE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE WHEN IT EXPRESSLY AND DIRECTLY RULED IN CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF FELLOW DISTRI…
20-6959 Mason Somers v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance jail-recordings pre-trial-discovery right-to-counsel trial-counsel 1. Once trial counsel learns facts of a criminal case prior to receiving discovery from the government, provides that discoverable information to his …
20-6952 In Re Russell Adam Pelletier 2021-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1) Does the exceptional circumstances within ihis Writ reach the level required tor Court to use Its discretionary powers ? 2) Does ignorance of the …
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons I. DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT FAIL TO FOLLOW ITS OWN LAW AND THAT OF OTHER CIRCUITS WHEN IT DISMISSED MR. MCAFEE'S APPEAL ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE B…
20-978 Poppi Metaxas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining reasonable-probability trial 1. Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel with respect to the plea process by counsel's failure to discuss with and inform …
20-6911 Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar [1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di…
20-6899 Cynthia Hudson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bench-warrant certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court 1. Is a state habeas corpus petitioner who pleads ineffective assistance of counsel claims denied federal constitutional due process when the state ha…
20-6891 Ronald Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP capital-defense capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-investigation postconviction-relief prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether trial counsel has an obligation to conduct a comprehensive mitigation investigation when clear red flags suggest compelling mitigation, inc…
20-6880 Victor Esquivel, aka Youngster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief constructive-denial criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-merit-brief preserved-objections right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel A. Whether Esquivel's Right to Counsel Was Constructively Denied When, in the District Court, Esquivel Moved for a New Trial and Requested New Counsel…
20-6875 Jason Pierce v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty faretta-protocol habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-defect structural-defect Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in filing to issue a Certificate of Appealability from the denial of the Petition …
20-6856 Lavon Oden v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was LaVon Oden's Sixth Amendment:.Confrontation Clause right to directly confront witnesses; the right to cross examine adverse witnesses violated, wh…
20-6851 Jeffrey Lee Atwater v. Florida Florida 2021-01-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Did Mr. Atwater show a violation of the right to determine the objective of his defense and his right to hold the State to its burden of proof of e…
20-6866 Kevin Sutherby v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct warrantless-arrest Whether, Mr. Sutherby is entitled to a new trial, based on Newly Discovered Evidence, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at trial, and appeals, and the…
20-6869 Tavarius D. Radford v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP courtroom-closure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance partial-closure public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts (1) Whether the "overriding interest" test established by this Court in Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39 (1984), to determine if a defendant's Sixth Ame…
20-6836 Julian P. Gutierrez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner received Effective Assistance of Counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, viz.: a. Whet…
20-6835 Otha S. Hamilton v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence medical-evidence physical-impossibility priapism-surgery witness-testimony 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in finding no substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right, when trial counsel failed to investiga…
20-6831 David Garcia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal duty-to-adjudicate existing-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits sixth-amendment Whether a circuit court of appeals has a duty to adjudicate the merits of a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim raised by a defend…
20-6822 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing 1. Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims in a written opinion and subsequent summary denial of the same claims in a habeas petition, all…
20-6810 Michael Lanier Watkins v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did Petitioner receive ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel, against Petitioner's instruction, asked the trial court to return a c…
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Question not identified.
20-913 Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington During opening statements at Petitioner's murder trial, his counsel promised the jury that it would hear from the only eyewitness. Counsel later reneg…
20-6798 Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon Third Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether, during review of the petitioner's prior application for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court, the petitioner was entit…
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's application of § 2254(d) —which explicitly requires deference to unreasonable state court opinions if the federal court ca…
20-6772 Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court s intervening decision in Martines v. Ryan, 566 U.S. …
20-6751 Roger Darryl Waldrep v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-evidence civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance self-representation sixth-amendment voluntariness-of-plea 1F Does this Supreme Court Grant and Honor CIVIL RIGHTS to all Arizonans and US Citizens? If so, is Habeas Keelief and Remedy thus appropriate to any …
20-6719 Lucille Jackson v. John E. Williams, Jr. Illinois 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure claim court-procedure estate estate-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-claim motion probate probate-law 1. Whether the court erred in denying Lucille Jackson Williams claim against the estate in the sum of $80,000.00? 2. Whether Lucille Jackson William…
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment I. Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he fails to investigate …
20-6634 In Re Karen Denise Chades 2020-12-15 Denied IFP collateral-proceedings constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-v-washington teague-v-lane trial-counsel 1. This case necessitates an answer to a question of constitutional first law left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722 (1991), and again in Mart…
20-6628 Rodane Lamb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure dea-testimony due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection trial-errors 1) Was Counsel Ineffective For Not Challenging Petitioner's Stated Cumulative Errors in Argument One? 2) Was Counsel Ineffective For Not Challenging…
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations CAN U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE MARCIA MORALES HOWARD WITHDRAW THE FORMA PAUPERIS ON THE HABEAS CORPUS FILED IN JURISDICTION APPEAL NO. 20-104215 AFTER PLAINT…
20-6618 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Does An Appeal Brought Under 28 U.S.C. § 1455 Associated To Other Avenue Of Relief Grits When An Appellate Court Fails To Adequately Resolve Impartial…
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State trial Counsel's conflict of Interest and failure to Call a witness who would have impeached the st…
20-6608 Zachary Michael Patten v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense investigation medication mental-health search-and-seizure I. Pettioner was denied his constititonal right to the effective assistance of counsel, where in spite of pettoners eftensive mentd health history and…
20-6584 Richard Olive v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. What do Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), and Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), require of a defendant to demonstrate prejudice resulting…
20-6567 Kedrio Lekeis Summerville v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief The counsel conceded dtiring sentencing that "it was his fault that Mr. Summerville was faced with the increased penalty because he failed to investi…
20-6548 Tamral Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-6547 David Franklin McNees, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURT'S ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN THEY MISAPPLIED THE LAW IN DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL AND GINTHER HEARI…
20-6530 Jamel Mobley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-preservation appellate-process constitutional-ineffectiveness fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. Whether trial counsel can be constitutionally ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) for failing to preserve an issue for …
20-776 Gregory Williams v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-defendant criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-test 1. When a criminal defendant is considering whether to accept a plea offer, is defense counsel's failure to advise the defendant of his or her sentenc…
20-6503 George J. Raudenbush, III v. Monroe County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process false-prosecution in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance police-brutality right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by denying Raudenbush's application to proceed in forma pauperis. 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by finding th…
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 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…
20-722 Rodney Anton Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massiah-v-united-states right-to-counsel rule-33-motion section-2255 sixth-amendment The right to counsel in this case was violated by the prosecution surreptitiously recording Petitioner after indictment and before arrest and arraignm…
20-721 Katie Garding v. Montana Montana 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment accident-reconstruction effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's failure to consult and call an expert witness in the field of accident reconstruction was objectively unreasonable under preva…
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…
20-708 Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied 28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard 1. Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland v. Wa…
20-6391 Timothy Ronald Hare v. Michigan Michigan 2020-11-20 Denied IFP constitutional-standard critical-stage effective-assistance ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic I. Does the requirement to prove prejudice under this Court's previous decision in Latter v Cooper, place a burden on the accused that this Court deem…
20-6390 Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony 1. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's failure to challenge the …
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit 2) Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the Defendant of Felony Murder, using the aiding and abetting theory when there is no prin…
20-6383 Vincent McFadden v. Missouri Missouri 2020-11-19 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-assessment rompilla sixth-amendment strickland-standard wiggins williams 1. Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's total deference to counsel's "deliberate decisions" without considering their actual reasonableness amounts to…
20-6380 China Hester v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective assistance of counsel such that certiorari should be granted, and this matter reversed and remanded.
20-6370 David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction 1. Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability by sanctioning…
20-6361 Robert L. Davis v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-review standing weight-of-evidence We EK Pino po ted ns oe United StotesCourt_of AP Peal ancl Micelle Dis tira to Sok Elena has oleseteal So Fixe Reale the accebhed andl use| course _of…
20-6332 Cecil Salyers v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals correctly interpret the Sixth Amendment in holding Petitioner "cannot demonstrate prejudice under Strickland", when …
20-6322 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-13 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6303 Lamar Whatley v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im…
20-6309 Emilio Urena-Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-law counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kimmelman-v-morrison motion-to-suppress strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. WHETHER APPOINTED COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE, FOR FAILURE TO FILE VIABLE MOTION TO SUPPRESS PURSUANT TO FOURTH AMENDMENT CLAIM UNDER: KIMMELMAN v. M…
20-6315 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony 1. Did the Courts erred in the opinion that petitioners DELEON WAS dismissed Muary unauthorized And successive, And denied relief oof ACEGABAL qpeuids…
20-6310 Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington These capital habeas cases arise from petitioner-appellant Dean Phillip Carter's 1989 Los Angeles County death judgment and his 1991 San Diego County …
20-6283 Robert Brownlee v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette Third Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RESEARCH THE ELEMENTS OF A VIOLATION OF 18 PACSA 6301(a)(1)(@i) (THE STATUTE"…
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DISMISSING THE COMPLAINT? WHETHER THE PLAINTIFF HAS STANDING ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME …
20-6276 Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer 20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc 1) Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the…
20-6275 William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel 1. WOULD JURIST OF REASON DISAGREE AND FIND DEBATABLE THE CORRECTNESS OF THE SIXTH AND DISTRICT COURTS' FINDING OF EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHE…
20-646 Michael Tyler Baggott v. Florida Florida 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice sex-offender-registration I. Whether the reasoning of Lee v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1958 (2017) extends to defendants facing lifelong sex offender registration conditions fr…
20-644 Terrence Pendergrass v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal I. Contrary to the holding in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of app…
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Question not identified.
20-6245 Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel T. WHERE PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AS WELL AS MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION OF 1963, ART.I, §2…
20-6257 Finnis Davis, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records murder-evidence Mr Davis was convicted with a penalcade 19.03(a)(7)(A) Aempted Lapital Murder. Mr. Davis was convicted on testimony evidence only of shooting two peop…
20-6259 Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing …
20-6210 Deondre Arthur Staten v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied IFP federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case state-court-procedure state-court-procedures strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d)(2) and this Court's decision in Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), does a federal court's deference to a state cou…
20-6208 Ira L. Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-due-process counsel-representation district-court-writ due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-errors standing 1) whether the Elevant Cirarit was in error wheni+ failed to grant a certificate of Appeala bility based on the District Court's Clisby'Error. 2) whe…
20-6184 I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit I. WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATED BUCK V. DAVIS, 580 U.S.__, 137 S.CT. 759, 197 L.ED.2D 1 (2017) WHEN IT DENIED A CERTIFICATE OF …
20-6183 Timothy N. Hatton v. Mark R. Sevier, Superintendent, New Castle Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing Did the State violate Hatton's U.S. Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial? Did the state violate Hatton's U.S. Fi…
20-6165 James Edward Sandford, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies …
20-6140 Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel when it addr…
20-548 Jessie Eugene Shelton v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process improper-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-filing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a pro se filing by petitioner in 2012 to the District Court, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and an invalid plea would deny a secon…
20-6124 Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o…
20-6121 Jesus Adam Lizarraga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent massaro-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court summarily denied Mr. Lizarraga's motion to vacate, base…
20-6118 Ramon Wall v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice misconduct plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Did Trial Counsel's serial ineffectiveness prejudice Petitioner/ creating a miscarriage of justice, that demands his conviction be vacated? Did the h…
20-6107 Larry Michael Maples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights controversial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts pillow state-evidence Whether an accused's Due Process Rights are violated when all lower courts deny an Evidentiary Hearing on controversial evidence and picture of a pill…
20-6106 Rafael Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t…
20-6089 Jermaine D. Hill v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing retroactivity statute-of-limitations In 2012 this Count ruled in Miller v. Alabama 567 U.S. that it is Unconstitutional to sentence a juvenile to life without the possibility of parole. I…
20-531 Derek Hutter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse…
20-6079 In Re Dale McKenzie 2020-10-20 Denied IFP constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction GROUND ONE 1. Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior Georgia convict…
20-6078 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process exhaustion fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 PREFACE: Denial of certiorari means Petitioner will die in a Colorado prison for a crime a jury found him not guilty of - Petitioner was forced to tri…
20-6067 Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to …
20-6065 Delmar Reinheimer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act collateral-consequences collateral-consequences-of-conviction exhaustion-doctrine failure-to-advise federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), is an ineffective assistance of counsel claim of "affirmative…
20-6087 Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review 1. Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object …
20-507 Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Judgment Issued Relisted (4) antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of cou…
20-6051 Jonathan Ortiz-Torres v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if trial counsel renders ineffective assistance when he fails to advise his client that the…
20-6045 Aaron E. Choat v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review exculpatory-evidence impeachment ineffective-assistance non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-retroactivity witness-impeachment I. Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he fails to introduce ex…
20-6024 Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Defendant contend? that he i? being held on what what contend? to be a void judgement redured during a jury trial where the main witne?? who wa? al?o …
20-6020 Nasser Mohamad Bazzi v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights interpreters sixth-amendment structural-error 1. WAS THE ARABIC-SPEAKING APPELLANT DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING CRITICAL STAGES OF THE PROCEEDINGS, FOR WHICH PREJUDICE IS PRESUMED…
20-6036 Torrey Washington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct evidence never prove goilt Beyond a Reasonable doubt? Atornery when She vouched that her experts Was telling the troth and did this deny the Petihoer…
20-6037 David Williard v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-Amendment 5th-Amendment 6th-Amendment Alibi-Witnesses constitutional-rights Due-Process Eyewitness-Identification ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment I. Appellate Court erred in denying Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claim. Where prejudice was established, in the trial courts finding…
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights 1 -Do ^c, +W CW5t^ VV\Oy4^ CKV/CAl" 1 <\\y £ 0 ^ AV 5 Oy'b yv\v +'h-e<\ <k WcK > S Co^ Viclm Cross ■eAa^v\«ivo\N \ 4 6-C va.m\S.-€.| i Vs. -t. -e_<_-V…
20-6016 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-10-14 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6006 Terrance Leon Washington v. Crystal Willett, Superintendent, Meherrin River Regional Jail Fourth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-conviction \ow jmftrcxmxaA °u S&oSch ay\^ ^^ iXnL Wl^ fraud\xUrJ- S*arck Wo^on^and ^jC-d l(j 6 jo bu/lXcP xnW/n^s an (Kras ^ ^ W'W *U>'^W prcUkk ^rxXw^raX Jdv4w …
20-5973 Efrain Santos v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-5963 Daniel Edward Murray v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-time-calculation hipaa hipaa-restrictions ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel medical-records medical-records-disclosure plea-agreement plea-agreements pro-se pro-se-litigation 1) If there is a set of plea agreements taken at the same time and the court of appeals reverses a part of the appealed agreeemnt does this, A) Start …
20-5962 Erik Diaz-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-conspiracy constitutional-rights constructive-amendment deprivation-of-rights ineffective-assistance plea-agreement right-to-testify trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE BY FAILING TO ADVISE HIM OF HIS RIGHT TO TESTIFY AT TRIAL? WHETHER PETITIONER'S TR…
20-5961 Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel failed to conduct an independ…
20-5953 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP andrus-v-texas certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance discovery due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was trial counsel ineffective in his directive to advise McCoy to plead guilty by failing to review the government's discovery in violation of this…
20-448 Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas Texas 2020-10-08 Denied appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were …
20-5934 Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error WHETHER A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT CONFLICTS WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THIS COURT, WHERE …
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 …
20-5856 Alimamy Barrie v. Matthew M. Robinson Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules strickland-v-washington Whether an Omission by habeas Counsel for Failing to Include a Supporting fact that Appellate Counsel was Ineffective, after Petitioner Specifically r…
20-5844 Horacio Santamaria, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT…
20-5826 Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte 1. In United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575, 1578 (2020), this Court held that the Ninth Circuit "departed so drastically from the principl…
20-5821 Calvin Simpson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault Question not identified.
20-5806 Anthony Rogelio Griego v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254d2 28-usc-2254e1 collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus Hill-v-Lockhart's-prejudice-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity strickland-standard 1) Whether the state court's decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington's deficient performance anal…
20-5786 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause 1. Whether it amounts to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for the state courts to fail to consider claims from an individual with compelling …
20-5788 Edward James Wilkins v. Washington Washington 2020-09-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-5782 Harold Warren v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standard-of-review stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' precedent published in Warren v. State, 2020 Ind. App. LEXIS 143 (Ind. Ct. App. 2020) addressing Warren's Ineffe…
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th 'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex Parte Motion F…
20-5729 Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington QUESTION#!: Does the 11th Circuit decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Martinez v. Ryan . (2012), since it ignores that in Martinez v. Ry…
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…
20-5743 Johnny Melendez v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con…
20-5736 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-counsel fla-r-app-p-9-141(d) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review pro-se-litigant standing writ-of-review Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to review the underlying merits of an issue when the action being challenged is a petition for…
20-5721 Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr…
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…
20-5712 Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal "apply " the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioners)…
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court A. Is a petitioner deried a fair trial when a juror B Is counsel ineffective if he does not raise the fact that A Petitioner was dheried a fair trail…
20-5699 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT R. OTTE ERROR, In denying th'eePetitioner ' s Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus & Emergency Ex'Parte Motion "F…
20-5680 Larry R. Steele v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violations due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing state-court-review Question not identified.
20-5664 Marcus Hanserd v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel relate-back relate-back-doctrine rule-15c sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standard-of-review IS THERE A CONFLICT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO THE PROPER STANDARD OF REVIEW FOR FEDERAL RULES CIVIL PROCEDURE RULE 15(C), RELATE BACK PROVISION; DOES P…
20-5674 In Re James Ward 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance …
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request I. DOES A STATE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVE A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT OF HIS/HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF REPRESENTION WHEN THEY DENY THE DEFENDANTS UNEQUIVOCA…
20-5651 Christopher R. Gish v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states plea-bargaining prejudice-standard In Lee v. United States , __ U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 1958, 1965 (2017), this Court held that in assessing whether a defense attorney's deficient advice th…
20-5629 Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourtee…
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the law regarding allegations of Counsel being ineffective regarding Plea Negotiations …
20-5611 Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-convictional relief counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial…
20-5618 Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether, by erroneously affirming Petitioner's conviction based on a finding that the district court lacked authority to hold an evidentiary hearing a…
20-5592 Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. D. Goree, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review frivolous habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance malicious procedural-default standing state-court-review Cllo Does 42u.S.C.1983 coMPlaints that Sound, in Part, like hablas Constitute Strikes inder 28 u.s.csi9is(9) explicitly Stating they are being sued in…
20-5590 Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right" - When Chacon-Lara ar…
20-5569 Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl…
20-5574 Jose Luis Torres v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions deficient-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance multiplicious-offenses plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default Question not identified.
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview This case raises the question of whether an attorney can be found to have rendered effective assistance of counsel where he failed to review a signifi…
20-5492 Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal after new law and evidence developed. The Eleventh Circuit had limited the…
20-5473 Andres Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing I. WHETHER CHAVEZ WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN HE WAS MISLEAD INTO ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA; BECAUSE COUNSEL FAILED TO REVIEW THE PSR WITH HIM AND FAILED…
20-5448 Antonio Williams v. William J. Pollard, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standards antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence 1. Whether federal courts should or must consider the restrictive standards for granting habaes relief under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death P…
20-5423 Edwin Jassiel Peralta-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentencing-exposure Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right " - Failure to Explain…
20-5425 Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York New York 2020-08-20 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct I. WAS DEFENSE COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR CONSENTING TO THE PROSECUTOR'S EXTREMELY UNTIMELY REQUEST FOR A DNA SAMPLE —A MOVE THAT THE APPELLATE DIVISI…
20-5426 David Moss v. Texas Texas 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-code-of-criminal-procedure AState Court of last resort decided an- important question of law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this court. This court decided L…
20-5412 Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit Where Petitioner has never been allowed to develop the factual record which supports his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, should thi…
20-5402 Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5397 Wilbert Romon Banks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining racial-bias racial-discrimination trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel venue-change WAS BANKS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING HIS FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS PETITION, A SUBSTANTIAL CLAIM WITHIN …
20-5377 Brandon Ray Buckles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prisoner fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it improper for a district court to summarily deny a federal prisoner's motion to vacate, set aside or correct a sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2…
20-5372 Melvin Gamage v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mississippi-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether circumstances that constitute exceptions to rule precluding successive postconviction filing include: 1) cases in which the prisoner can show …
20-5369 Don Farmer v. Bernard Booker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause court-procedure crawford-vs-washington due-process evidence-testimonial ineffective-assistance legal-standards professional-norms sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence verbal-testimony witness-testimony 1.) Whether the evidence supplied through verbal testimony of a witness is considered testimonial (where statements must be functionally identical to …
20-5349 In Re Daryl L. Zimmer 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing-guidelines THE TRIAL COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW RIGHTS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAVING FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT PETITIONER PLED G…
20-5319 Juan Carlos Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights compelled-speech competence-to-waive counsel-investigation due-process fifth-circuit free-exercise free-speech ineffective-assistance medical-history public-accommodations WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT APPLIED THE CORRECT LEGAL STANDARD WHEN DENIED AVILA'S COA IN THE CLAIM THAT HE RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL B…
20-5312 Sharrieff Brown v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation discovery-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations summary-reversal Petitioner Sharrieff Brown filed a claim for the ineffective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to locate critical impeachment mat…
20-5294 Byron Becton v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive the petitioner of a fair trial that violated petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against self-i…
20-133 Joseph Michael Diaz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-appeal eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sexual-contact Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that counsel was not ineffective assistance for failing to object to the application of…
20-119 Louis Ruggiero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-charges ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard section-2255 Should the court of appeals have granted a certificate of appealability on whether a district court may deny a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 evidentiary hearing on…
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…
20-5221 Arthur James Martin v. Florida Florida 2020-07-30 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-trial criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-test trial-counsel 1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present evidence that significantly undermines the State's case is deficient performance that re…
20-5218 Daniel Page v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-condition ninth-circuit plea-bargaining pre-sentence-motion trial-counsel 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether the trial court should have granted Mr. Page's…
20-90 Eugene Slone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Slone sufficiently meet his burden under Strickland such that the District and Circuit courts should have granted his petition for a Certificate o…
20-5187 Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Question not identified.
20-5179 Alberto Guillen v. Patrick McTighe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-involuntariness witness-investigation 1) Is the complete failure to investigate potentially corroborating witness (the victim Roberto Guillen) be considered and accepted tactical decision,…
20-5173 Juan Domingo Velazquez v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial plea-of-not-guilty right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Was it "structural error" that violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment autonomy rights when Petitioner's court appointed counsel conceeded his client's …
20-5171 Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility This case presents two important nationwide issues. The first issue concerns an inappropriate application of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent and whethe…
20-5170 William Russell Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actus-reus criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mens-rea mitigation mitigation-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense sentencing-guidelines I. Was William Williams denied his right to due process, to present a defense, and to a properly instructed jury where the trial court refused to prov…
20-5169 Randy A. Thomas v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-24 Denied IFP developmental-delay fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel low-iq mental-capacity self-defense sixth-amendment social-security Ohio places the burden of proof and persuasion in a self defense case on the person asserting self defense. A person's state of mind is relevant in a …
20-5162 Joseph Shane Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process attorney-ineffective conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-representation due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement witness-testimony Is an attorney ineffective and engaging in a conflict of interest by making negative statements about his client to the court, informing the court tha…
20-5174 Ronald Demetrius Thomas v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-courts habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-application state-court-review 1. In applying Harrington Vs. Richter, 562 U.S. 86((2011), on the state's unreasonable application of Constitutional effective assistance of counsel i…
20-71 Stephen P. Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab…
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…
20-51 Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response Waived criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines 1. Does the forfeiture of over $44 million constitute an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, where the forfeiture amount is more than 44 times …
20-5130 Antonio Lozano Solis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts appeal-review civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. Was petitioner denied meaningful access to the court? 2. Does Petitioners INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL claim require a Certificate of Appeal?…
20-5128 Vernon Chapman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-consequences Considered Copate if a attorney did not follo Is a investigation the advice of "Several experts advisig him on hou to get 1 definitive a deterination…
20-5119 Wayne Powell v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-21 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment 1. Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review…
20-5086 Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2020-07-16 Denied IFP brady-violation cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis exculpatory-evidence giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-test trial-counsel 1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence, which significantly undermines the State's evidence is deficient p…
20-30 Nigel Christopher Paul Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-deportation padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Is a defendant categorically prohibited from establishing an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), w…
20-26 Wesley Ira Purkey v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied capital-punishment collateral-review federal-capital-prisoners federal-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-default trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel Whether and by what procedural mechanism federal capital prisoners who are in the analogous position of the state prisoners in Martinez and Trevino—i.…
20-5052 Jeremy E. Lewis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights due-process frivolous-filings habeas-corpus immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen standing statutory-interpretation Lewis was "Completely" barred from filing a motion in federal court. Does Lewis have a "Constitutional Right To Petition The Courts" under this Court'…
20-5023 Carter Vincent Anderson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court and Court of Appeal erred in review of claim presented which clearly show ineffective assistance of counsel on both trial a…
19-8925 Robert T. Lundberg v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel katz-expectation-of-privacy katz-v-united-states police-interrogation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Should the decision in Lundberg v. State, 127 So.3d. 562 (Fla. 4" DCA 2012), be entitled to deference by the federal courts pursuant to the Anti-Terro…
19-8921 Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Trial counsel in this capital case knew that the defendant's mother had consumed alcohol while pregnant. Despite recognizing the need to investigate w…
19-8920 Deshawn Colbert v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial pre-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment THE APPELANT'S RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION PURSUANT TO THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED AS A RESULT OF INEFFECTIVE ASSIST…
19-8909 Grant Ruffin Haze v. Katy Poole, Administrator, Scotland Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-tampering I. Didhe prosctiinteninalandepead oa wie ah ht mail cnaattonio o tialta tn t e I. Didcunses filuto prsentvidenc Petitner's milliondoll I-Phone case …
19-1478 John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona Arizona 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections where the…
19-8908 Preston Pope v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 davis-decision direct-appeal first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance notice-to-client rule-28(j)-letter writ-of-certiorari Does the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, fl 5 Still require that Appellant Counsel provide notice to his client by way of a written letter to his client…
19-8892 Edwin G. Perez-Cubertier v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-proceeding collateral-proceedings counsel-rights first-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation withdrawal-from-conspiracy In Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003), this Court held that a convicted federal defendant may first bring an ineffective assistance of coun…
19-8880 David Harman v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment amendment-rights appellate-counsel constitutional-violation counsel-opportunity due-process ineffective-assistance offer-of-proof reversal-error state-of-indiana trial-counsel GROUND ONE: Whether the State of Indiana denied Harman's due process right under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution committing rever…
19-8866 Yara Chum v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections First Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard sixth-amendment state-court-review state-law-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit err in holding that a state court decision was not contrary to federal law when, in deciding a Sixth Am…
19-8859 Brian A. Maus v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal client-rights counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance no-merit-brief 1. Can appellant counsel withdraw off of the petitioners case, because the petitioner wouldn't agree to allow appellate counsel to file a no-merit bri…
19-8839 Clayton D. Morrow v. Florida Florida 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-offer public-records-request Does a public records request meet the criteria to establish a newly discovered evidence claim as Brady v. Maryland 1, does; especially when the infor…
19-8823 Alex Joseph Pedrin, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct stash-house-sting Was Mr. Pedrin prejudiced by both the individual and cumulative impact of 1.) multiple deficiencies or errors by counsel during the pretrial, plea, tr…
19-8833 Christopher Mann v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maryland-court-of-appeals prejudice strickland-prejudice strickland-test weaver-precedent weaver-v-massachusetts Has the Maryland Court of Appeals abused its discretion by applying Weaver v. Massachusetts(, 137 S. Ct. 1899 (2017)) to mandate looking at the streng…
19-8808 Randolph Ashford v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Was the State of South Carolina City of Columbia, violate Ashford 4thj 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitutional Rights by With…
19-8795 Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default 1. Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to investigate readily availa…
19-8776 Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing How cAn the court Deny HAtter His HabeAs Petition ASking For HiS diSeCt APpeAl rishtS bAcK When A DiveCt AppeAl iS A FundAmentAl constitutionAl Due Pr…
19-8760 Stefan Stewart v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness witness-representation A) When the defense attorney previously represented the states key witness who now has conflicting interests with the defendant, does this amount to a…
19-8757 George W. Gibbs v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP charge-severance child-sex-assault clearly-erroneous counsel-error criminal-procedure drug-counts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review prejudice prejudicial-joinder severance Whether the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Gibbs's ineffective assistance of counsel claim was clearly erroneous when the court mistakenly concluded Gib…
19-8656 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 1. Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated from the 10th Circuit's application of the actual innocence & miscarriage of justice st…
19-8647 Martin Diez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland cone-v-bell due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where the state courts did not address Petitioner's claim that the prosecution failed to disclose certain evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 8…
19-8635 Kenneth Brown v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-06-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Should a court be allowed to deny the withdrawl of a defendant's guilty plea,- when it is clear that the plea was not entered voluntarily, and wi…
19-8631 Claude Simpson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal personal-bias plea-agreement 1. Is it an abuse of discretion if a Judge does not recuse himself from presiding over a hearing in which a reasonable person would have a reasonable …
19-8607 Derrick Thompson v. Patrick Griffin, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause fair-trial forensic-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause permit the prosecution to introduce testimonial identification statements of a non-testifying forensic analyst through t…
19-1338 Briley W. Piper v. Darrin Young, Warden South Dakota 2020-06-04 Denied criminal-procedure cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver plea-bargaining pre-plea-advisory prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-jury-trial waiver-of-jury-sentencing waiver-of-jury-trial The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that Briley did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a jury trial. But the South Dakota Supreme…
19-8593 Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment I. When the record reveals that a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain is his guilty plea void? II. When defense counsel…
19-8589 Ramon Enrique Acosta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether reasonable jurists could debate the district court's determination that trial counsel was not constitutionally ineffective with respect to the…
19-8584 Christopher Raynard Kidd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense due-process evidence-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation legal-standards prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to review all the evidence with Mr. Kidd prior to trial?
19-8577 Shane Roscoe v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-right confrontation-rights due-process forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay hearsay-statements ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility I. Petitioner Shane Roscce's conviction rested upon and. was upheld by the State Appellate and Federal Habeas Courts based on the testimonial hearsay…
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…
19-8557 Kallen E. Dorsett, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing strickland-standard 1. Does a prosecutor's threat to prosecute a defendant if he withdraws from his guilty plea invalidate the knowing, voluntary and intelligent clause u…
19-8529 Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility ftlMWS ckifij MfyCuloi Opim&if) $ VwVmj -for M Woj UirWw todibili^ m \m\4 mpws/VVnWbd fip^ 1mtm mm ■«4iwfie OounSe 'ivauiYi^t. 3* WWW 4W personal Dpmi…
19-8521 Aaron Daniels v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP amadeo-v-zant amended-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The Sixth Circuit reasoning concerning Petitioners attempt to get new counsel assigned during trial is flamed, as several United States Supreme Court …
19-1311 Douglas Lynn Kirk v. Texas Texas 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence-subpoena government-agency ineffective-assistance legal-procedure mitigating-evidence public-records subpoena In Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), this Court held that a criminal-defense attorney who investigated mitigating evidence but failed to find va…
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-8475 In Re Tarvares James Watson 2020-05-15 Dismissed IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTIONS RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT ? 2) WHETHER PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL RENDEREO INEFFECT…
19-8470 Raymond K. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply TUS XC.5 Continual request asad Couch orders bo file aaa tbiduvik telttiag ollesabtons of imeQte ecdiveness c…
19-8454 Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress 1. Whether the circuit court erred by denying a certificate of appealabilit y for an ineffective assistance claim because the omitted evidence was ina…
19-8446 Anthony S. Twitty v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions pcra-statute reasonable-doubt 1. Was the Petitioner denied the right to a fair trial, due to hypothetical jury instruction, and suffered ineffective assistance of counsel, regardin…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation I. Was the Petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and Due Process of law violated when trial counsel LeRonnie Mason …
19-8429 Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Court, and the New Jersey state courts' ruling, denying Petitioner's ineffective assistanc…
19-8392 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2020-05-04 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction state-procedures In a death penalty case, where a state provides a post-conviction procedure for challenging the unresolved constitutional violations that occurred at …
19-8361 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase Does sy2uce) conretron smpport assault uith a dungerons weapon in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C19saca)c3).? Does the elements clause ofa 39luce) …
19-8344 Brett Combs v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury This Court in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003) determined that the state-court fact-finding process is undermined where the state court has …
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta 2020-04-23 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel Yielding to a ends of justice inquire in regards to a federal application for writ of habeas corpus, should review be granted in the spirit of correct…
19-8346 Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding? 2. Does the…
19-8328 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing Is it abuse of discretion the First Circuit Court Denied Mandamus because the District Court could respond but never has? Is Mandamus available becau…
19-8331 Jose A. Rodriguez v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP constitutional-error constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felony-offense grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance penal-law right-to-counsel 1. Whether the State Court constructively amended the indictment which charged petitioner on September 1, 2009 through September 1, 2010, before the N…
19-8325 Qais Hussein v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin…
19-8324 James William Hornsby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP adversarial-process brain-injury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington (1) Whether the district courts denial of relief and determination of whether a breakdown in the adversarial process was created by the trial courts …
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-8312 Lazaro Candelaria v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation 1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion. 2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff…
19-8306 Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review 1. Whether, in this case, under the authorities of Martinez, Trevino and Ayestas, Petitioner is entitled to Rule 60 (b) (6) relief due to the alleged …
19-8297 Leif O'Connell v. Dushan Zatecky Seventh Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance insanity-defense plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (Issue added by the State Attorney General on Appeal not heard in post conviction court used to affirm appeal failing to address the claims below). Th…
19-8294 Roscoe Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-allegations criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions motion-in-limine position-of-trust Whether Johnson's Trial Counsel provided Constitutionally ineffective assistance of Trial Counsel when he failed to file a Motion in limine to prevent…
19-8285 In Re David L. Williams 2020-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing 1. Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Ciruit? 2. Does Appeal lie with Appeal court,when Petitioner claim he is in custody in viola…
19-1226 In Re Masoud Bamdad 2020-04-17 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights constitutional-violation detention-review due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-and-ineffective ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-remedy When the initial §2255 motion and its subsequent procedural remedies have demonstrated to be inadequate and ineffective to test the legality of the de…
19-8272 Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-04-16 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review capital-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court's reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel's p…
19-8253 Rudolph Churchill v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-04-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hypothetical-question ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL (TRIAL COUNSEL) *FAILING TO REQUEST THAT THE JURY BE CHARGED WITH RESPECT …
19-8251 Kevin Duane Talkington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-instructions jury-selection Counsel Palledtoistrike a juror coho saidhe couldht hesPaiP; investigate, 4 Plied t-aghe, an oro j ipatory eu/dence . the.and present verbaiin reading…
19-8213 Jesus Rodriguez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP collateral-review cullen-v-pinholster due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pinholster-ruling sixth-amendment 1. Whether receiving inadequate representation at a first collateral review proceeding that causes the material facts of an ineffective assistance cla…
19-8186 Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU…
19-8185 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1] Did the California State Superior Court,Los Angeles County, Compton Branch violate the Petitioner's Due Process ,Sixth Amendment Rights,and Eighth…
19-8170 Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Question not identified.
19-8164 Eric T. Tolen v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP brady-claim disbarment exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure manifest-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel trial-court withheld-evidence Whether or not the Lower Court committed a manifest err of law in finding that "counsel's extensive litigation concerning the two seized boxes demonst…
19-8140 Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ground I. Does Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel, Thomas Kurt Fuchel, Sr., Esq. when Co…
19-8139 Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1. Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot…
19-8105 Justin Anderson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)IFP brain-damage capital-sentencing federal-habeas fetal-alcohol-spectrum fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-proceedings strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Trial counsel for the defendant in this capital case learned from four witnesses that the defendant's mother had a drinking problem, including one wit…
19-8103 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim. 2. Whether the Fifth Circuit…
19-1174 John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no reasonable probability that the state's appell…
19-8098 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-consequences This case concerns petitioner's claim that he was misled concerning the sentencing consequences of his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge. The questi…
19-8081 Juan Isaac Flores v. California California 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP benefits constitutional-rights counsel-performance effective-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment (1) Was my Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel violated by Attorney Kovtun s ineffectiveness(2) Is the process that preceded the May 3, 2018 pl…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe…
19-8022 Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied IFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california deck-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt shackling shackling-error sixth-amendment 1. When a trial court unjustifiably orders a defendant shackled throughout trial contrary to the rule in Deck v. Missouri, is it the defendant who bea…
19-7994 David Armondo Butler v. Florida Florida 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic…
19-7970 Shawnte L. Shade v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-unconstitutionality statute-of-limitations I. Whether the Petitioner's statute of limitation was equitably tolled under Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) in excusing his 92-day delay. II…
19-7954 Steven M. Leonhart v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP competent-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strategic-benefit Is defense counsel who makes a plea bargain that fails to give his client a substantial strategic benefit acting as competent and effective counsel as…
19-7967 Kenneth Durant v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights filing-deadlines habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy procedural-due-process right-to-counsel tolling o -K / r i a I -PQch! C\\o^h\ '+° 3. Tke a4<rte 5 reboiM 4 \os>I Assistance C ounS-C ;_L-ne i\/f -Pa \ r 4r (1 a. arG^y^^en 4~D i^e-rPtsc' hv/«ApptelU…
19-7948 Omar N. Davis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel The main question in this petition is whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated because he had ineffective assistance of counsel. Here, …
19-1100 Leroy D. Cropper v. Arizona Arizona 2020-03-09 Denied Amici (2) capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-eligibility parole-ineligibility simmons-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons v. South …
19-7893 Nicholas Roos v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining psychological-evaluation red-flags strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel-performance 1) Did Arkansas Supreme Court misapply this Court 's ruling of Strickland v. Washington , by finding it effective for the trial counsel of a capital c…
19-7877 Tyrone Rogers v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied IFP Conflict-counsel Enhanced-sentence In-custody in-custody-determination ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial ninth-circuit-conflict procedural-default Procedural-defaults sentencing-error Sexual-elements Has the U.S. Ninth Court of appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of other U.S. court of appeals on the important subject of "se…
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
19-7856 Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel In a state capital murder case, the state prosecutor and trial court recognized on the record that trial counsel were not properly investigating and p…
19-7816 Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts 1) Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fac…
19-7840 Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental Evaluation an…
19-7847 Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness Question #1: Whether petitioner's Original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6 when counsel fa…
19-7823 Seth A. Weaver v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment conviction due-process guilty-plea illinois-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-petition sixth-amendment unknowing-and-involuntary-plea 1. Does Illinois ignorance of the law theory as applied to successive post-conviction petitioners deny them relief from constitutionally unsound guil…
19-7825 Gustavo Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-defense elements-of-offense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-test lafler-v-cooper legally-nonexistent-defense plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. How should a court apply the "reasonable probability" test for prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and Lafler v. Cooper,…
19-1068 Keith Inchierchiere v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender retained-attorney sentencing-exposure seventy-year-term trial-rights 1. Does a defendant receive ineffective assistance of counsel where his retained attorney fails to appear on the first day of trial, and, after receiv…
19-7795 Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights Question not identified.
19-7810 Dale W. Eaton v. Mike Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency new-evidence state-court-adjudication strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. WHETHER A STATE COURT HAS ADJUDICATED THE PERFORMANCE PRONG OF A STRICKLAND V. WASHINGTON CLAIM ON THE MERITS WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-7767 Octavio Torres Ortega v. Florida Attorney General, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-trial reversible-errors standing trial-counsel trial-errors QUESTION ONE SHOULD ANY OF THE REVIEWING COURT 'S HAVE REVERSED FOR AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO DEVELOP AN ACCURATE FACTUAL RECORD QUESTION TWO WAS C…
19-7780 Frank Harper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a…
19-7791 Jermaine Michael Jackson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. DID THE SUPERIOR COURT FAIL TO ANALYSIS PETITIONER CLAIM UNDER THE PRESUMPTION OF PREJUDICE STANDARD UNDER CRONIC? 2. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL ABANDONMEN…
19-7792 In Re David Lopez 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE, WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE CONSTRUCTI…
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…
19-7770 In Re Marcus Williams 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation constitutional-violations deception-by-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-agreement pre-trial-acts-and-omissions pre-trial-counsel structural-error (1) WHETHER THE PRE-TRIAL ACTS AND OMISSIONS MADE BY MARCUS WILLIAMS' COUNSEL, ALLIED WITH FAILURE TO OBJECT ON THE RECORD, TO PRE-ARRAIGNMENT ERRORS…
19-1054 Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (1) cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washingto…
19-7746 William A. Runnels v. Texas Texas 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-of-parents cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-discipline parental-rights reasonable-discipline strict-scrutiny substitutable-discipline Whether the trial court could infringe on, and take away, a parent's constitutional right to reasonable discipline of their child absent strict scruti…
19-7734 Andre Dennis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Did counsel render ineffective assistance by failing to seek suppression of Mr. Dennis' statements to police because he was not re-Mirandized followin…
19-7712 Luis Ray Jaramillo, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied IFP appeal appellate-counsel competence due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain probation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Where Petitioner's state-trial court counsel did not pursue Petitioner's wishes, commands, and orders to file a second-perfected-appeal after Petit…
19-7725 William Desmond Conrad v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alleyne assistance-of-counsel attorney-negligence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation descamps habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance precedent pro-se pro-se-rights sixth-amendment 1. Is the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance of counsel ? . …
19-7709 John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty Question not identified.
19-7710 George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings On the record in this case, the District Court erred in denying a writ of habeas corpus without a plenary hearing. When an application by a state pri…
19-7695 Arturo Delacruz v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing criminal-procedure group-one-robbery ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel otherwise-used plea-negotiation robbery-offense sentencing-guidelines weapon-enhancement Because Petitioner did not explicitly admit to facts that would support an "otherwise used" weapon enhancement, as opposed to a "brandishing" weapon e…
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 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…
19-7644 George Jones v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal credibility direct-appeal expert-witness expert-witness-credibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies prejudice sentencing-discrepancy trial-court-discretion 1. Has prejudice been shown where defense counsel fails to investigate the credibility of the Defense's expert witness, causing said expert witness …
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights In a termination of parental rights proceeding in a state that provides appeals as a matter of right from decisions terminating parental rights, does …
19-7651 Craig Keyon White v. Robert Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Whether the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedure and resulting unreliable identifications admitted against White at his criminal tr…
19-7654 Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines I.) Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that…
19-7627 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit (1) Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias where, rather than considering the professional and social relation…
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel extend to the Appellate process? Whether the effective assistance of Counsel when Petitioner are to they re…
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY 2. OID THE UNTITEO S…
19-7575 Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc…
19-7540 Random Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 attorney-abandonment attorney-neglect confrontation-clause due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-proceedings reasonable-diligence state-postconviction 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his attorney's neglect/abandonment (i.e., after his attorney abandoned him in t…
19-7545 Willie Palmer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment abandonment effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions postconviction-relief rule-3.850 sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-7501 Steven Livaditis v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abusive-conduct constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairments mitigating-evidence penalty-phase reasonable-probability (1) Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's claims, alleging defense counsel's failure to present any penalty phase evidence of (i) Petit…
19-7513 Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in deciding that counsel's failure to file a motion for a Bill of Particulars so that Petitioner could clearly unde…
19-7530 Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review 1. Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny which establishes review of claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, ade…
19-7509 In Re Lawrence E. Mattison 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act") allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal pro…
19-952 Michael David Goodwin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship change-of-plea criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance local-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's presence as local counsel, for a criminal defendant's re-arraignment and change of plea, yet having no attorney-client relations…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was "thorough"? Was an appeal warranted on …
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Court of Appeals decide an important federal question -- whether a "mere modicum" of evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction -- in a …
19-7365 Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review HAS THE LOWER TRIBUNAL COURT IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, THE FOURTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APP…
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) …
19-7398 Andrew James Gibbons v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knaffla-bar mental-illness mental-illness-defense Opsahi-rule procedural-default Spears-rule state-procedural-rule 1. Is petitioner (Gibbons) procedurally defaulted on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to investigate a mental illness defens…
19-7400 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings pro-se-petition standing supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
19-7407 Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel 1. Whether, under Strickland, a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must it in…
19-7364 Ernest William Singleton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage I WHEN A JURY FOUND SINGLETON GUILTY OF COUNT 10 OF THE IMDICTMENT, WHICH ALLEGED THAT HE DISTRIBUTED "ULTRAM "; HOW CAN IT BE DETERMINED THAT THE J…
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence 1. WAS THE APPELLATE ATTORNEY DAVID R. JUERGENS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING ANY LEGAL ARGUMENT AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE? …
19-7385 Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas Texas 2020-01-23 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con…
19-7355 Herman L. Gaines v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-collusion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Question not identified.
19-7356 James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff…
19-7359 Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation 1. Whether reasonable jurist could find it debatable that Petitioner's public-trial violation warranted .. reversal at the minimum for an evidentiar…
19-7375 Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-law contemporary-assessment criminal-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreseeability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether, Despite Strickland's Contemporary Assessment Rule, Strickland's Test For Determining Whether A Criminal Defendant's Counsel Was Ineffectiv…
19-7350 Billy Battenfield v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-21 Denied IFP aedpa appeal-waiver criminal-procedure critical-stage garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-sentencing retroactivity statute-of-limitations 1. Whether Garza v. Idaho, — U.S. 139 S.Ct. 738, 203 L.Ed.2d 77 (2019) adopts a new watershed rule of procedure that applies retroactively on state co…
19-7352 Alfredo Godoy-Machuca v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver collateral-consequences criminal-procedure defense-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntary-and-knowing voluntary-plea A. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in, at least implicitly, concluding that material affirmative misdavice given by defense counsel t…
19-7329 Jamaar Jerome Williams v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction-litigation post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-analysis Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it concluded Williams had failed to establish prejudice under Martinez v. Ryan because the record clearly shows W…
19-7340 Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u…
19-7325 Hope K. Kantete v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy 1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi…
19-882 Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment I. Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective at the guilt-innocence stage, in violation of the Sixth Amendment, in failing to request jury in…
19-7277 Dora Moreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment 1-) IN A DEPARTURE FROM THE DUE PROCESS REQUIREMENT OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT AND THE COMPULSORY PROCESS PROTECTION OF THE SIX AMENDMENT, 'DID THE UNITED…
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the Kansas courts violated petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, his Fifth Amendment right against self-incri…
19-7291 Jose Abraham Guzman v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication jury-instructions voluntary-intoxication Question not identified.
19-7265 Joseph Totoro, II v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 scienter scienter-requirement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-access-to-courts speedy-trial 1. Did the Court, the United States Attorney, and the former attorneys violate DQJ policy and Due Process by allowing him to give up all his rights, …
19-7223 Erik Bilal Khan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment counsel-duty criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance lesser-crimes plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability right-to-counsel Does the right of a defendant to the effective assistance of counsel at every critical stage of a criminal proceeding, including arraignment, encompas…
19-7245 Darren Lavald Bowie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-waiver habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment unknowing-waiver waiver 1. Does a Plea Agreement which waives challenges to collateral relief forbid challenges to ineffective assistance in proceedings following the entry o…
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by "We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision the admission, with a limiting ins…
19-7232 Francisco Argenis Parra v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP accomplice-statements-corroboration alibi-instruction bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses self-defense sixth-amendment supplemental-credibility-instruction I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Request an Adequate Supplemental Credibility Instruction? II. Did Trial Counsel Rend…
19-7216 Daniel A. Ramet v. Robert LeGrande, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper legal-malpractice plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington If a defense attorney advises a client to reject a favorable plea offer based on a grave miscalculation about the viability of a legal defense, has th…
19-7184 Stanley Brewer v. Robert F. Cunningham, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct miller-el-standard prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit misapplied the ruling in Miller-El v. Cockrell, in denial of petitioner 's claims? Using con…
19-7190 Ernesto Benavides Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP appeal collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence 1. Have davied viaht +a moaninaful appeal of his mation to Suppress owidenck, under Dackson v. Denne 378 U8. 208 (1904), that oceuved prior trial ? 2…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Q1. What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affe…
19-7173 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression 1) Reasonable jurists would debate that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exceptio…
19-7175 Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment I- WHETHER THE FEDERAL QUESTION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL AS THETPEESERVED CLAIM OF AN ALIBI WAS VAGUE?AND/OR UNEXHAUSTED THEREBY P…
19-845 Charles Huggins v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process by his continuing imprisonment who was convicted on insufficient evidence without being granted an e…
19-7153 Ronald Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment-representation capital-representation death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability plea-bargaining 1) Whether counseling an intellectually disabled client to plead to life without parole to avoid the death penalty is ineffective assistance, when ple…
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response 1. A court of appeals lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to decide a § 2255 the district court's procedural error-that the movant defaulted an ineffect…
19-7146 David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights 1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages? 2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process? 3. …
19-7150 Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching 1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REVEAL INDISPUTABLY FALSE TESTIMONY, ANDI COACHING TO THE 9 YR. OLD CHILD WHO SAYS THE SAME FALSE TE…
19-7155 Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation First Question: Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of authority, prohibits petitioner's 2…
19-7093 Oscar Ibarra v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance murder right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Does the Sixth Amendment permit an office to represent an indigent defendant in a First Degree Murder case if the office previously represented bot…
19-7109 J'Veil Outing v. Miguel A. Cardona, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-record due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. WHETHER ASSIGNED COUNSEL VIOLATED THE DEFENDANT'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL AND HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO PRESERVE FOR APPEAL A…
19-7122 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-12-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
19-7087 Anthony May v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances ineffective-assistance low-iq manifest-injustice mental-retardation 1) WHETHER PETITIONER'S "MENTAL RETARDATION" AND "LOW IQ" "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES" IN WHICH "EQUITABLE TOLLING" SHOULD BE APPLIED TO AVOID A MANI…
19-7094 Ernest Lawrence v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-review criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona police-interrogation prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Mr. Lawrence seek leave to appeal the following issues: 1. Whether The Lower Court's Decisions Were Contrary To Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (196…
19-7098 Antonio Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony (1) Whether defense Counsel's performance in failing to inform client of important witness against him fell below an objectively reasonable Standard o…
19-7082 Mark J. Lipski v. Maine Maine 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection conviction-consequences criminal-procedure due-process economic-disadvantage indigent-defense ineffective-assistance judicial-oath legal-ethics legal-representation liberty-interests right-to-counsel state-prosecution 1)Was this case criminal in nature? 2)Was the right to counsel waived? 3)Would an impoverished layman have the needed skills and ability to defend h…
19-7049 In Re Antwoyn Spencer 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay 1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States.
19-7054 Philip Rogers v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure drug-use evidence foreseeability ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt trial-strategy vehicular-homicide Philip Rogers was driving after several drinks. Ahead of him a woman was jaywalking, possibly obscured by two bicyclists also crossing. When he saw th…
19-7025 Michael Feliciano v. George Miller, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Waymart, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP carrier due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eyewitness eyewitness-testimony in-re-winship ineffective-assistance investigation jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard 1. Is the State court of last resort and U.S. Court of Appeals decision which denied petitioner's claim that he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment ri…
19-7043 John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
19-7045 Michael Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense In Shular v. United States, 18-6662, this Court granted certiorari to resolve whether "the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed C…
19-6971 Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas Texas 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment THE "TOTALITY OF REPRESENTATION" SHOWS THE PERFORMANCE OF,COUNSEL, RONALD D. ZIMMERMAN WAS OBJECTIVELY DEFICIENT AND THEREBY DENIED APPELLANT HIS SIXT…
19-7013 Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report. Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro…
19-7022 Jesus D. Cruz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report 1. Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner producted a valid search warrant, once they broke…
19-6970 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Was Sullivan deprived of his Rights by all the lower Courts? These questions have been asked and not resolved by the lower Courts. 2. Was Sullivan…
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default (1) WHETHER TO MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT A HABEAS APPLICANT FOR A C.O.A. NEED NOT SHOW THAT HE WILL PREVAIL O…
19-6984 Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1 -) Does Martinez v. Ryan / 566 U.S. 1 (2012) excuse a procedural default in a Federal Habeas Corpus proceeding where Post Conviction relief Counsel…
19-6998 Patrick Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion conflict-of-interest due-process plea-agreement fourth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure judicial-shell-game nix-v-whiteside plea-agreement sixth-amendment I. Does controlling authority from the Supreme Court in Nix v. Whiteside, 475 US 157 (1986), hold that all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers a…
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination (1) In order to obtain relief under § 2254(d)(2), is a federal court required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is "unre…
19-7000 David Constance v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP crawford-v-washington fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay-testimony impartial-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial with the State Courts denial concerning hearsay testimony;…
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr…
19-6950 Christopher Brian Rogers v. Tammatha Soss, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Is federal habeas review barred under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) and a claim procedurally defaulted when a petitioner fails to bring an indep…
19-6928 Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing 1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp…
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Under the Laws and Rules of Res Judicata, ole if an issue was been litigated on and decided by the Court, would the Wish Court be departing from the e…
19-6871 Justin Vazquez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-05 GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of…
19-6848 Robert Matthew Wittal v. Montana Montana 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-testimony credibility criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection sixth-amendment witness-credibility The states key witnesses at a homicide trial were three charged co-defendants. Petitioner's defense rested upon undermining the credibility of the c…
19-6843 James Rice v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-application 1. Was Petitioner James Rice denied the right to a speedy trial in the state courts? The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guar…
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent 1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)…
19-6815 Blake Wingate v. New York New York 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-application pro-se pro-se-representation WHERE THE RIGHT TO PROCEED PRO SE IS CONSTITUTIONAL# EVEN ON APPEAL OR A POST CONVICTION APPLICATION , IS IT A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS AND OR THE EQ…
19-6817 Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38 (2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de…
19-6828 Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion. 2. Can the i…
19-6830 Don Emmery Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjective to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?1) Was petitioner subjective to cruel and unusual p…
19-6792 Victor Sanchez v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-intervention plea-bargaining procedural-due-process right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-review Where trial counsel admits to ineffective advice that lead to this petitioner being sentenced to (5) five years more time than he would have received …
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review 1) Was the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability based upon an adjudication of the underlying m…
19-6754 Cesareo Vizcarra Medina v. California California 2019-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Trial Counsel was ineffective See Gailing to object to the prosecutorial misconduct and violated Defendant's rights to effective assistance of coun…
19-6746 Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's "due …
19-6733 George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 Petitioner submits that this Honorable Court;s decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924, 185 L.Ed. 2d 1019 (2013) was a change i…
19-6731 Travell Henry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment trial-strategy witness witness-testimony I. WAS MR. HENRY 'S TRIAL COUNSEL, PATRICK NYENHUS, FAILED TO PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? A). Counsel was ineffective w…
19-6727 Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL…
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-664 Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi…
19-6638 Yannier Arias v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel 1. Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective assistance of counsel. 2. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting …
19-6698 Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud 1. Whether jurists of reasonable mind would debate that counsel was ineffetive in violation of Sixth amendment for failure to investigate and litigat…
19-6659 In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error WHETHER CONSTITUTION AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS AND RULE 11 VIOLATIONS MAY HAVE RENDERED ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ORNALEZ'S SENTENCE AND CONVICTION CONSTITUTION…
19-6701 Carl Labat v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP exhaustion-of-state-remedies fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-remedies strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supervisory-writs 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on Appeal for: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; …
19-6691 Robert H. Smith v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-review sixth-amendment state-court-conflict strickland-standard 1) Whether or not the Indiana Supreme Court/Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with other decision(s) previously made in the United S…
19-6665 Wesley Harlan Kingsbury v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-coercion section-2255 voluntariness The petitioner entered a guilty plea to health care fraud after his jury trial on the charges had commenced. He later filed a motion seeking to vacate…
19-6651 Shawn A. Thompson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment standard-of-review third-degree-murder I. Appellant alleged that Trial Court gave a defective/deficient Third Degree Murder instruction to the jury, by failing to provide the jury with inst…
19-6645 In Re Morgan Allen Armstrong 2019-11-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
19-617 Nekebwe Superville v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.…
19-6632 Samier Patrick Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjective to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the course of his criminal prosecution? Was petitioner subjective to …
19-6613 Jaime Rodriguez, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-performance deliberate-misrepresentations due-process factual-predicates false-positions false-positions-and-deliberate-misrepresentations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule newly-raised-claims sixth-amendment Whether the mandate rule bars consideration and adjudication of newly raised claims, under a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim, …
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'…
19-6604 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence In this capital case, Ray Jefferson Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death as the man who shot a store clerk, Richard Slysz. …
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability after Petitioner made a substantia…
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim I. Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial where a member of the jury told the judge he was accosted outside of the courtroom by members of the victim'…
19-6581 Javier Leon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance material-variance methamphetamine-charge search-and-seizure WHETHER COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO SUBJECT THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE TO STRICT ADVERSARIAL TESTING, BY REASON OF A FICKLE, BARE-BONES 'MERE PRESENCE' THEORY OF …
19-6550 Christian James Gieseke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 raises claims which, if true, would entitle him to relief, does the fact that movant d…
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…
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation 1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision…
19-6543 Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese Seventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors Question not identified.
19-6501 Alvin Felicianosoto v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-autonomy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel McCoy-challenge mccoy-v-louisiana remand right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on direct review in failing to remand the case to the district court when a challenge under McCoy…
19-6527 Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines 1. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, FACT-CHECK, AND OBJECT TO ERRONEOUS INCLUSION OF JUVENILE PRIORS DURING …
19-6529 James Tyson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance rule-6-motion sealing-orders standing transparency I.) Was the district courts denial of Petitioners Rule 6 motion to unseal documents a denial of Petitioners due process rights? II.) Was counsel cons…
19-6506 Joshua Jake White v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-contest criminal-procedure expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prevailing-professional-norm professional-norm sixth-amendment Counsel failed to object to prejudicial testimony. Specifically, the State's expert's testimony vouched for the alleged victim's allegations of abuse …
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6429 William Jovian Davis v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (7)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review pro-se strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
19-6465 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-funding martinez-v-ryan meaningful-representation sixth-amendment This Court has unanimously ruled that Congress' intent in enacting 18 U.S.C. § 3599 was to provide high quality representation to qualifying prisoners…
19-6445 Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error (1) Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis as held by the Ninth Circuit, or subject …
19-6444 Jermaine D. Harris v. Stephen T. Moyer, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aiding-and-abetting appeal cell-phone-technology cell-tower-testimony criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legally-inconsistent-verdicts sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner 's claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffec…
19-569 Carlos Manuel Ayestas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied capital-case capital-case-mitigation-evidence ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation professional-norms rompilla-v-beard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington substance-abuse wiggins-v-smith This Court has found constitutionally deficient performance of counsel based on "prevailing professional norms" that precede the Court's own decisions…
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion 1) If it can be proven, leaving absolutely 'No-Doubt', that the relied upon convi ctions, in regard to a Termination of Parental Rights action, is un…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling 1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING…
19-6409 Sean Reilly v. Florida Florida 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding plea-bargaining sixth-amendment written-plea-offers Whether counsel for the accused has a constitutional duty under the Sixth Amendment to document and present the client plea offers (contracts) in writ…
19-6401 Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-10-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 Gives The Court of Appeals Error Correction Power. Under § 2106, Error Correction Becomes An Exercise of The Court's Statutory …
19-6366 Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation As Truth is fundamental: Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in …
19-6363 David Pearson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum 1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a…
19-6351 Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i…
19-6333 Juan Gabriel Angulo-Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP codefendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-attorney evidence evidentiary-hearing false-accusations ineffective-assistance phone-records right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-counsel 1). Whether the District and Appellate Courts erred in denying Defendant an evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective assistance of trial couns…
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…
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony 1. WHETHER A DECISION AFFIRMING EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE , IN THIS CASE A TRANSCRIPT, CAN BE CORRECT IF UNINFORMED AS TO THE TRANSCRIPT'S ACTUAL CONTEN…
19-515 Baldassare Amato v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied adverse-effect automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan evidentiary-hearing holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Under what circumstances is the automatic reversal rule from the decision in Holloway U. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 484 (1978) triggered after Mickels…
19-491 Nilesh Bharatkumar Kumar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-resident plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington To establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a defendant who has pleaded guilty based on deficient advice from his atto…
19-6299 Victor Lopez v. Sterling Correctional Facility, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit appeals case-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance innocence judicial-review sentencing-enhancement substantial-innocence Whether Mr Lopez should be in prison on a case that the 1OTH Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismis sing 3 cases that were …
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers, this Court instructed that a federal court should train its attention on the particular legal and factual reasons of the state-c…
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice WHETHER THE MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN HOLDING THAT PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY COU…
19-6259 Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing 1. whether or not an indigent defendant is entitled to equitable tolling, where he was in fact denied the right to challenge his sentence and convicti…
19-6201 Ronn Darnell Sterling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bank-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission evidentiary-issues false-evidence improper-cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Could reasonable jurists disagree whether the District Court's refusal of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion before pre-trial trial, and Appellant counsel was co…
19-6213 Marcus Bartholomew Booker v. Texas Texas 2019-10-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-habeas post-conviction-habeas-corpus right-to-access state-court-proceedings trial-ineffectiveness trial-records Does an indigent defendant have a right to access to a free Clerk's and Reporter's Records in a state post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding when th…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
19-6192 Lagenza Junious v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication involuntary-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. PETITIONER, LAGENZA JUNIOUS, ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RAISE A DIMINISHED CAPACITY DEFENSE TO FIRST DEGREE MURD…
19-6185 Aaron Lee Smiley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights due-process forfeiture home-forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement standing I. Does a plea agreement need to pass constitutional muster before it waives a person's right to challenge on appeal the forfeiture of his or her home…
19-6146 Hector Rosario-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process due-process,sixth-amendment,fifth-amendment,ineffe fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Fifth and Six Amendment Rigths 1. violated by plain error made in calculating petitioner's were and the numerous ways that Pe…
19-6121 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct SHOULD THIS SUPREME COURT ISSUE THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO THE LOWER U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN ORDER TO COMPEL THE DISTRICT COURT TO EXERCISE ITS ARTICLE II…
19-6125 Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Counsel admitted that he did not know that his chosen defense, diminished capacity, could be based upon mental illness. As a result, counsel never …
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights (1) What effect, if any, does a concession made by the U.S. on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim have on the court's ability to ajudicate the…
19-6117 Jaime Ignacio Estrada v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer preponderance-of-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-manslaughter 1. Whether petitioner established by a preponderance of evidence trial counsel's violation of the Sixth Amendment: failure to communicate a favorable …
19-6111 Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights district-court-orders due-process exculpatory-evidence extraterritorial-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-witnesses out-of-country-witnesses strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony 1. Does the failure of defense trial counsel to follow specific orders from the District Court, as to how to preserve testimony of material witnesses …
19-6110 Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York New York 2019-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived …
19-6099 Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred 1. If the evidentiary hearing was based upon the challenges ' being time barred, yet the Appellate Court concurred that the fourth and fifth convicti…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review 1.Why th cse as fidand it tms from201 nt 2017 2. To Keep fming the of cheating the State of Arkansas Cheating Scandle and the the Government for: Col…
19-6096 Jerry Simmons v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biased-judge constructive-denial constructive-denial-of-assistance-of-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine Whether the decision by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals contrary to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established F…
19-6081 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations 1. Is this instant case before the Court to answer the question left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991)…
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Fs c on my be half, as the relevant testimont of my First EYewitness of the facts of my case,Ruhen Machado R. x of te BNA R wasSu RTN S R Ma SAN 884…
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance 1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of …
19-6064 Tommy Cole v. R. J. Rackley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kelly-hearing sixth-amendment videographic-evidence 1. ) THE COURT ERRED, A kelly hearing was required to test the reliability of the process used to create the videotape of still photographs originall…
19-6061 Phillip Jones v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-25 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether, pursuant to Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and its progeny, trial counsel is ineffective in a capital case when counsel conduc…
19-6045 Scott H. Summerhays v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel change-of-plea criminal-procedure critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel faretta faretta-waiver ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver 1. Does a criminal defendant have a right under the Sixth Amendment to reassert his right to counsel at a critical stage (a change of plea hearing) af…
19-6023 Jeffrey Guy Ringle v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prejudice withholding-evidence Did the majority below err in applying this court's decision in Giglio v. United States to hold that Petitioner could not show prejudice, solely becau…
19-6030 Craig Elias v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim due-process evidence evidence-promise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. Does Strickland apply to ineffectiveness claims vis-avis trial counsel's broken promise to produce evidence?
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing 1. Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appeal Is Jeffrey Harris entitled to a Pinholster Hearing to Drov „^ rhls ^ial Counsel, Robert S.…
19-5955 Dennis R. Heilman v. Randy Blades, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions rape variance Does a variance between the Information charging aggravated assault and rape, and (a) a 1) conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, a…
19-5965 Robert Jessie Hill v. Washington Washington 2019-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing (A). When a defendant pleads guilty to a charge, in addition to the "direct" and "collateral" consequences of the party does the Fourteenth Amendment …
19-5968 Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler 1. By operation of Oklahoma law, indigent defendants in Tulsa and Oklahoma Counties (the State's two most populous counties) are required to be repres…
19-5947 Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement perception-of-guilt substantial-guilt trial-defense witness-tampering If defense counsel omits the necessary trial defense and thereby sustains a perception of substantial guilt so that the substantial guilt mas dependen…
19-5954 Ricardo Irive v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-negligence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment DOES IT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL TO ALLOW A PLEA AGREEMENT THE DEFENDANT WISHED TO TAKE LAPSE DUE TO MISTAKE OR NEGLIGENCE?
19-5931 Darryl Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights collateral-relief collateral-review constitutional-rights counsel-consultation due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal roe-v-flores-ortega waiver Did the Pennsylvania courts err in denying collateral relief where prior counsel was ineffective for failing to consult fully with the petitioner, Dar…
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Petitioner Questions whether Discrimination of Equal Opportunity Because of Social Economic To Defend Petitioner Right to Appeal. Petitioner Question…
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc…
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BECAUSE TRIAL COUNSEL FAILED TO ARGUE 4th CIRCUIT PRECEDENT REGARDING THE MEANING OF C…
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In state habeas proceedings, Ramirez alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate for, develop and present evidence in su…
19-5904 Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Reasonable jurists could find that the Courts have abused their discretion in accepting the Jury's verdict even though the Record supports that Ronald…
19-5909 Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida Florida 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search Whether the "good faith" exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
19-5874 David Kirkland v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial 1. Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information that cost defendant a three-point sentencing reduction for acceptance…
19-5840 Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California California 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review WHETHER MR. STUCKEY IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WHEN ATTACKING HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCING ON GROUNDS OF TITLE II A.D.A. AND A.D.A.A.A. VIOL…
19-5847 Dennis White v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland v. Washing…
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard A: WHETHER THE DISTRICT STATE COURT OF APPEALS RENDERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, WHEN UNREASON…
19-303 Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner d…
19-5810 Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship Mr. Dejesus alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury instruction that effectively aided the state to surpass the…
19-5827 James Michael Peluso v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim procedural-bar right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing raise a claim of ineffective assistance at trial? Whether a prisoner in Texas has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provid…
19-5837 Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search 1. Was Petitioners guilty plea sustained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable Search and Seizure, where law enforcement conducted a wa…
19-5780 Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution? and Whether Petitione…
19-5799 Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts 1. According to Cone V. Bell , 556 U.S. 449, can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (D)(2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal…
19-5814 Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington Twelve days after Mr. Mesta's appellate brief was filed, the Oregon Supreme Court took review of a legal principle that was at issue in Mr. Mesta's ca…
19-5779 Eduardo Rodriguez-Lopez v. Florida Florida 2019-09-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy right-to-defense sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard 1. Consistent with the Sixth Amendment, and this Court's decisions in Strickland may the State rely on the plea colloquy as to a prisoner acknowledgin…
19-273 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud In mail and wire fraud cases, the government does not have to prove a victim actually lost money or property, but it does have to prove a scheme desig…
19-5747 Jamall Gibson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY…
19-5728 Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court (1) Whether a federal appel late court fai ls to provi de legitimate federal habeas revi ew when i t rejects an i neffecti ve assi stance of counsel c…
19-5729 Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel Flowers was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary based on an incident where two men robbed a massage parlor that had a history of prostitutio…
19-5690 Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by ruling DiSanto's lawyer was not ineffective by failing to bring to the attention of the trial c…
19-5694 Craig Farley v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied IFP consciousness-of-guilt constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-trial exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-identification-evidence phone-records sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel 1. Is there any reasonable argument that trial counsel satisfied the Strickland standard when he failed to introduce crucial lack of identification ev…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review I. Ohio has a two step procedure under Ohio App R 26 when one claims the ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. First, there must be a timely "a…
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment WHETHER GARZA v. IDAHO, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), APPLIES TO PETITIONER'S CLAIM THAT HIS DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BY FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF A…
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing (1.) DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (ERRED) BY DENYING APPELLANT'S MOTION TO STAY (DOCKET ENTRY NO. 4) (2.) DID THE UNI…
19-5669 Matthew Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Petitioner is serving a 360-month sentence for a charge of Conspiracy to Distribute 1000 grams or more of heroin and same amount of cocaine, in violat…
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…
19-227 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury, …
19-5656 Armando J. Mena v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy presumption presumption-of-regularity silent-record standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), in concluding that a state court could reasonably presume from a silent…
19-5658 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel standing state-collateral-review state-post-conviction-proceedings state-proceeding this court to answer whether the due process clause requires appointment of counsel to those prisoners where state collateral review is the first oppo…
19-5650 James Michael Williams v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct second-jury-trial 1.) Whether the Minth Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals erred in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner, on the Ground Of Error concerning t…
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review 1. Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction where the District Cou…
19-5635 Shango Jaja Greer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence (1) Did the District Court improperly condone the prosecutor's profligate misconduct in not only failing to disclose to the defense before trial that …
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Question One: Whether the district Court and the 5 th Circvit was correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance …
19-5624 Zachary William Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process hicks-factors ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether the Trial Court Imposed an Unreasonable Sentence by Failing to Adequately Consider Hicks' Factors and Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffecti…
19-5592 Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio Ohio 2019-08-15 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making 1. Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions? …
19-5603 Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig…
19-5588 Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process inadequate-representation-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merit-review section-2255 waive waiver DID CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARISE WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL'S FAILED TO RAISE NON-FRIVOLOUS MERIT(S) "INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL" ON DEFENDANT'S FIRS…
19-5568 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP brain-damage capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability childhood-abuse childhood-sexual-abuse ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard 1. Does it violate the Strickland prejudice standard to conclude that never before presented evidence of brain damage, severe mental illness, and chil…
19-5536 Gabriel Vashon Seay v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel investigation legal-investigation plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where Strickland v. Washington, serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there …
19-183 Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome In considering whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance was prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is all…
19-5532 Timothy W. Sparrow v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defective-indictment,double-jeo due-process evidentiary-rulings indictment-defect ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct jury-representation jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence 1. The indictment was defective because it did not adequately inform the petitioner of the state's theory of attempted first degree murder. (Doc. No. …
19-5543 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether trial counsel was ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment by failing to investigate and litigate a warrantless search of petitioner's …
19-5547 Ronny Lee Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP abandonment-of-claim abandonment-of-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-statement-of-guilt counsel-statements criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel right-to-autonomy right-to-counsel Whether COA should have been granted based on petitioner's right tocautonomy uhen his cousel abandoned petitioner's claim of hot guilty uhen cousel …
19-5505 Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated in the Follow? a) When Counsel Failed to file a Not…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari I what remedies is available for petitioner when Court appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in deference to the pe…
19-5522 Berson Marius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-proffer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct judicial-fact-finding plea-bargaining rule-11 WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE CAN ELICITE ADDITIONAL FACTS DURING A FACTUAL PROFFER, AND WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL W…
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not Was petitioner's initial demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice? Was it legal for the…
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations three monthsextraordinary Circumstance if counsel filed AEdP^' s limitations period expired? duoare Of the AtoP Als lima motion,1s it an after the …
19-5453 Juan Pablo Revelo Salcedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance judicial-access motion motion-to-substitute-counsel poverty poverty-affidavit pro-se-litigation redress right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
19-5486 Jarrell Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy 1.) Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act ("JDA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 5031-42, divested the district court of jurisdiction over Petitioner's prosecution …
19-5464 Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations I. Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respec…
19-5433 In Re Steven Bleau 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment 1) Under circumstances involving a second collateral petition presenting an actual innocence claim; is Bleau deprived of his Constitutional Rights pro…
19-5428 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel under STRICKLAND v. WASHING…
19-5430 Christopher Devon Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health mental-health-mitigation mitigation wiggins-v-smith Where the district court wrote that Petitioner "raises issues worthy of judicial review," has the Fifth Circuit again applied an overly restrictive st…
19-147 Michael Baraka Mason v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied certificate-of-appealability federalism-and-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-based-standard merits-standard plainly-meritless procedural-complexity reasonable-probability reasonable-probability-of-different-outcome rhines-stay I. Whether a habeas petitioner who seeks a Rhines stay to exhaust a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must establish a "reasonable probabilit…
19-5420 Kendrick Terrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet…
19-5422 Michael A. Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner, Michael A. Webb, subjective to ineffective assistance of counsel or deficient representation by defense counsel in a prosecution? Was…
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Question not identified.
19-5369 Willie Chambers v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia 2019-07-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure multiplicitous-indictment post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt right-to-fair-trial right-to-life-and-liberty state-court-review vindictive-prosecution DID PETITIONER ASSERT A VALID CLAIM OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL WHERE COUNSEL'S ACTIONS FAILED TO ADEQUATELY TEST THE PROSECUTION'S CASE AND …
19-5375 Sean Daniels v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment WAS MR. DANIELS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL HAD TO BE REPEATEDLY REPRIMANDED BY THE TRIAL COURT FOR FAILING …
19-5387 Shevaun E. Browne v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE THIRD CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS NOT INEFFECTIVE FOR FA…
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…
19-5340 Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DEFERRING TO THE STATE COURT FINDING THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO FIND INTENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION OF AG…
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…
19-5351 Johnny Lee Johnson v. William Sperfslage Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error-review shackling sixth-amendment WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS PROVISIONS OF THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS REQUIRE A PLAIN ERROR REVIEW WHEN A DEFENDANT IS SHACKLED IN VIEW OF A JURY OR IF…
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…
19-130 In Re Randolph George 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti…
19-5300 Fremo Santana v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID…
19-5295 In Re Larry Charles 2019-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c…
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard 1. Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doublydeferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis? 2. May a …
19-5320 Romon Lamont Dobbins v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure (1) Was Petitioner's Conviction Sustained With Insufficient Evidence Beyond A Reasonable Doubt ? (2) Did Petitioner Receive Ineffective Assistance O…
19-5322 Ottis J. Cummings, Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Cummings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether Counsel's Ineffactive Assistance Deprived the Petitioner of Some Substantive or Procedural Richt to Which the Law Entitles Him?
19-5290 Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review Where deference is the only issue singled out by a Court of Appeals as the only question as to debatability, and that specific deference goes directly…
19-5293 Frank Le'Dell Owens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense pardon-power plea-bargaining right-to-counsel The following federal Questions presented below are Certified Questions of Great Public Importance, of facts and law that falls under the Jurisdiction…
19-5275 Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability of the District Court's …
19-105 Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ("Court of Appeals") on the grounds that the showi…
19-104 Flavio Tamez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights 1. The courts of appeals are divided over whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of his right to appeal or bring a collateral attack can knowin…
19-5221 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review? Can…
19-5222 James Arthur Meeks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure-bar-rule civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-bar standing trial-counsel DID THE STATE OF TEYAS PROPERLY APPLY THE PROCEDURAL BAR (STATUE OF LIMITATIONS iN WRITNO. W89-85S62T (C-D) PURSUANT TO ART. 11.O7(4 OFTHE CODE OFCRiM…
19-5254 Jose Arroyo v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-19 Denied IFP corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement I. Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of …
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S…
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings. II. The Petit…
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
19-5218 In Re Teon Jamell Williams 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-evidence due-process exceptional-circumstances indictment indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity search-and-seizure short-form-indictment Was Petitioner's conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure? 2. Was violation of United States Constitution A…
19-5224 Lee Chang v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment Was Recorded Evidence By Law Enforcement and Presented By The Prosecutor Given In A Timely Manner As Well As Can It Be Considered A Brady Violation D…
19-87 Jerome Burgess v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-appeal exculpatory-evidence georgia-supreme-court ineffective-assistance mental-competency plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did the Georgia Supreme Court err in failing to find that Petitioner's appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to argue on a…
19-5175 Gregory Green v. Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review standing Whether South Carolina Appellte Court Rule 243 Voltes de prcss andegual protedtion of laby not entiting petitioner the right to be heard on appeal, Co…
19-5132 Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTIONS 'S PRETEXTUAL EXPLANATION FOR EXERCI…
19-5126 Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence DID THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT ERR IN DENYING APPELLANT RELIEF ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DO TO COUNSEL'S FAILIN'G TO-OBOECT…
19-5067 Jimmie Darnell Dixon v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-insanity-defense-due-process-si due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense insufficient-evidence QUESTION 1. Whether The Lower Court Erred Denying COA on The Claim Of Insufficient Evidence Where Petitioner Sufficiently Proved By A Preponderance Of…
19-5065 Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence IS A PETITIONER PROVIDED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN HE IS CONVICTED ON EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN SAID EVIDENCE WAS WHOLLY BASED …
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOLLOWED THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN BUCK V. DAVIS, EXPLAINING THAT THE COA STAGE IS NOT COEXTENSIVE WITH A …
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his findings and the prosecutors conduct du…
19-5074 Forge Dennis Mileham v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell 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…
19-5046 James Gregory Armistead v. David Millis, Superintendent, Hyde Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-documents prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-error WHETHER CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ERROR WHEN DENIED PETITIONER APPEAL, FOR WRTT OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF INEFECTIVE ASSISTA…
19-5012 Frank Sarcona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-issues constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit err in relying on procedural bar instead of relying on the underlying constitu…
19-5020 Khaleefa Lambert v. Darren Settles, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder-conviction prejudice premeditated-murder reasonable-jury sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel's performance was so deficient as to prejudice the outcome of the trial…
19-5023 Jason Keith Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether the petitioner, Jason Keith Walker, is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that his trial counsel provided ineffective …
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Question one: Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner 's 6th & 14th Amendment rights —when t…
19-5002 Jared Len Cruse v. Texas Texas 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment cell-phone-evidence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence search-and-seizure warrantless-search QUESTION 1: Whether the cell phone evidence was the product of a warrantless search and seizure and/or an illegal detention; and thus/ whether this …
18-9844 Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel The trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 1930 days after assuring…
18-9810 Erik Ward v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense physical-evidence premeditation standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel procedure and dve process, Base Upon jury lacked Knowle dge of the importa nce of .My trial counsel Failed to inform me a yea deal would be for attemp…
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma 's Appellate Court "The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals " deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection of the law afforded to …
18-9845 Bradley Joseph Vanzant v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error 1. STATE Docket No. 44269 SUPREMECOURT (IcahO) 2. Denial Umpublished opinion February Ist 2017 Court 3. of Appeals. Petition for Review timely submitt…
18A1366 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-9800 Barton Joseph Adams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-contempt civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-incarceration section-2255 supervisory-powers Whether the district court and the appeal court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings throughout this case including whe…
18-9782 Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 (1). Whether The Lower Court(s) Erred In Concluding That Petitioner Did Not Suffer Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel At His Resentencing On Appeal …
18-9770 Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD REVISIT THE CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS WHEN COUNSEL FAILS TO DISCUSS THE PROS…
18-1571 Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas Kansas 2019-06-24 Denied Response Waived automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Kansas Supreme Court Who Affirmed the Remand Court's Analysis and Findings on Moyer'sCounsel's Effectiveness under Strickland v. Washingto…
18A1349 Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo Pennsylvania 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation Question not identified.
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 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…
18-9711 David Meyers v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fail-to-strike-testimony fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intrinsic-fraud perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Was it Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Attorney Paul Roskin failure to move to strike evidence of drug lord Maurice Rives and Shereasa McDaniels …
18-9754 Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. DNA, NEW EVIDENCE a. Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict? b. Is the discovery of flaws …
18-9744 Landon Quinn v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-verdict nonunanimous-verdict prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the fact that a criminal conviction was returned by a nonunanimous verdict is relevant to a court's consideration of the prejudice prong of St…
18-9705 Leonard Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ…
18-9728 Sung Ho Park v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance interrogation involuntary-confession lesser-included-offense physical-incapacitation police-interrogation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel I. Whether Park, Who Was Physically Incapacitated When The Police Interrogated Him, Could Not Make A Voluntary Statement; Whether Trial Counsel Render…
18A1320 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete alibi-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel Question not identified.
18-9715 Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements WHETHER THE US DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION FOR FAILURE TO CONDUCT [A]N EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO 28 SECTION 2255(b) IN LIGHT OF A FACTU…
18-9695 Robert A. Wagner v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-representation expert-testimony eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-probability trial-outcome Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with the "debatable" standard from Miller-El u. Cockrell, 537 U.S.…
18-9656 In Re Lexter K. Kossie 2019-06-17 Denied IFP character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense by (1) proceeding to the sentencing trial 45 minutes after the j…
18-9674 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2019-06-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
18-9652 Cedric McDonald v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO DISTRICT COURT'S USE OF A VIDEO IN VOIR DIRE, WHICH WAS DESINGED TO GET JUR…
18-9632 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance laches liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Where a procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel and where the sixth amendment requires that responsibility for the defau…
18-9609 Charles L. v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP collateral-acts collateral-acts-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense limiting-instruction sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Does the failure of trial counsel to request a limiting instruction related to unindicted collateral acts evidence constitute ineffective assistance …
18-9597 Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Miere The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misap…
18-9570 Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas Texas 2019-06-07 Denied IFP appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough Did Texas v. McCullough, 475 U.S. 134 (1986) create a brightline rule that anytime a jury returns a sentencing verdict at the original trial it become…
18-9556 Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when…
18A1270 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete aggravated-robbery certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction (1)-Do thπ AStAchKO Okut stortk Couht OROARS VTOLAK A-DUE PROCASS (B-AEt tO SUSPANO HAAKA -CONUS. ( A VFOLATON OF US. CONAt AA 2 WheN Loth Cok Rrrue t…
18-9536 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability in Mr. Gieswein's case. Was Mr. Gies…
18-9543 Lonnie Haney v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel time-constraints ARE THE LOWER COURT RULINGS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE SPIRIT OF THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN LAFLER V. COOPER, WHERE DUE TO EXTERNAL FACTORS, DEFENSE COU…
18A1263 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
18-9511 Christopher Stepp v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to § 2254 habeas relief where the district court failed to "look through" to the state court's determi…
18-9529 Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's advice to a defendant to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the carry, use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crim…
18-9525 Mark A. Harris v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Extending Strickland v. Washington's general prejudice standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims to ineffective assistance of counsel stem…
18-9509 Robert Lehmann v. Scott Kernan, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith-exception brady-v-maryland due-process evidence evidence-preservation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence scientific-testing strickland-v-washington With the advancement of scientific testing methods of biological evidence, is the "bad faith" exception to the failure to preserve evidence carved out…
18-1494 Michael Steven Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response Waived counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining pre-trial-motion pre-trial-motions prejudice reasonable-counsel reasonable-performance Whether jurists of reason could debate that a district court must evaluate the merits of a potential motion to suppress where the defendant pled guilt…
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is a state court objectively unreasonable, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), when it concludes that a capital defendant was not prejudiced by hi…
18-9474 Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard I. Whether or not the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision in this case is consistent with this court's holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 …
18-9440 Earl Lee Dixie v. Kenneth Harrington, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication-defense mental-health-defense mental-health-evidence specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Dixie was convicted of evading pursuing police officers based on an incident where he fled from police during a high speed vehicle chase. At trial, Di…
18-9442 Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency w…
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…
18A1223 Keith Jerome Wright v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete dna-evidence due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to provide petitioner due process by failing to consider either explicitly or implicitly his rights in fa…
18-9409 Fermin Guerrero v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-errors criminal-trial-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant-testimony strickland strickland-standard strickland-violation 1. Does the Constitution require a court on habeas review to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional errors at a criminal …
18-9385 Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-05-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel PETITIONER CERTIFICATION TO APPEAL FROM THE APPELLATE COURT? THE HABEAS COURT'S FINDING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS NOT DEFICIENT? THE HABE…
18A1208 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection state-court-review Question not identified.
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself? Is it considered proper procedure for the Court to add dialogue not supported by th…
18-9352 Donald C. Ridley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting Bullcoming-v-New-Mexico confrontation-clause Crawford-v-Washington due-process griffin-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions rosemond-v-united-states strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington yates-v-united-states Does a lower Court's admission that a aiding and abetting jury instruction was erroneous in light of this Court decision in Rosemond v. United States,…
18-9336 Saul Elias Camilo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines I Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective ass…
18-9279 Regina M. Preetorius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Honorable Appellate Court err when it determined that trial counsel's failure to advise his client that she should accept the government's ple…
18-9278 In Re Edmond McClinton 2019-05-17 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct There was no probable cause for arrest. Petitioner has not been bound over for trial, thereforetrial court being without Jurisdiction for trial. Peti…
18-9310 Roberto Nieto Cruz v. Texas Texas 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence extraneous-offense-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard I. The Court of Appeals erred by misapplying the first prong, and failing to consider the second prong, of the Strickland standard, with respect to th…
18-9297 Jeremy Shane Hall v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance professional-norms reasonableness-of-counsel record-evidence sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Whether a court can disregard record evidence of the prevailing professional norms in assessing the reasonableness of counsel's action or inaction und…
18-9291 Adrian Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant? Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in…
18-9283 Constance F. Russell v. First Resolution Investment Corporation Alabama 2019-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-judicial-act-of-1925 independent-action ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-act no-opinion-ruling rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 standing state-and-federal-constitutional-rights Did the Alabama Supreme Court violate petitioner pro Se' State and Federal Constitutional Rights of due-process, when they refuse to adjudicate a case…
18-9281 Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. Virgin Islands 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel INEFFEcTiVE ASSisTANCE OF COSEL is A 6AMENdMENT RiGHT ViolaTiON WItNES BEATRCE RENCE WHN TRiA COUNSEL EWTHAt is Cien RDBuRKE HAVE THE RigHT To bE CON…
18-9268 Manuel Antonio Mejia Rivera v. Donna Kay McKinney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment void-conviction witness-testimony PETITIONER Mr. RIVERA ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CALL A WITNESS OF WHOM Mr RIVERA MADE HIM AWARE. PETITIONER WAS CO…
18-1433 Milton Balkany v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler In McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467, 111 S.Ct. 1454 (1991), the Supreme Court held that if a criminal defendant fails to raise a claim at a time when i…
18-9255 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co…
18-9228 David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat…
18-9198 John Naasz v. Texas Texas 2019-05-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-passion sudden-passion-defense Whether a Texas prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral review proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffe…
18-9216 Klark Deziray Hopkins v. California California 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance liberty plea-agreement presumption-against-waiver property right-to-appeal 1. Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivati…
18-9199 Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-09 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing DID THE TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING MR. PEREZ RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT WHERE HE WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN IMPARTIAL JURY B…
18-9196 Delano Marco Medina, aka Michael David Allen Bell, aka William Anders Bryant v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense barker-factors cell-site-location-information constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reason-for-delay self-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial In a Sixth Amendment Constitutional speedy trial analysis, will the second factor, the Reason-for-Delay weigh against the government when it intention…
18-9180 Cesar Arce-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Does a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffectiveness of assistance of counsel during pretrial proceedings survive a general waiver of the right to appea…
18-9173 Paul Hillard Posey, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied IFP counsel-on-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Sixth Amendment's constitutional guarantee to counsel on appeal, extend to habeas corpus when habeas corpus is the first opportunity to rev…
18-9163 Phillip L. Horrell v. Michael D. Downey, Sheriff, Kankakee County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing voluntary-plea Question not identified.
18-9108 Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance WHEATHER TRE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN : Falling to oRdDER THE RESPONDENT +o Show - CAUSE And PROVIDE. LNDOIctments, TRIaL . TRiaL TRANSCRIPTS, Habeas CO…
18-9069 Hector Rengifo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court. Whether Pennsylvania's statute fo…
18-9133 Abdul Karim Bangura v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement withdrawal I. THE 4 CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DID NOT OVERTURN THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BANGURA's MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA BECAUSE THE MOTION WAS FIL…
18-9134 Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony I. WHY WAS THE MEDICAL RECORDS NEVER INTRODUCED INTO EVIDENCE? 2. WHY WAS PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSIST. OF COUNSEL? A VIOLATION OF SIXTH AMENDM…
18-1385 Ruben Delhorno v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis In Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment imposes on attorneys representing non-citizen criminal defendant…
18-9088 Charles W. Gray v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana has erred whether Petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of his the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourtee…
18-9084 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation I. Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegat…
18-9053 Paul William Hilton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing title-28-usc-2255 Whether the Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255, when reasonable jurists have already determined, the …
18-9046 Richard Shusterman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deny- ing issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C.§ 2255 ruling when the District…
18-1369 James Bradley Anderson v. Washington Washington 2019-05-01 Denied bill-of-particulars criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions pre-trial-notice prosecutorial-discretion Must the particulars of each count of an information be specified prior to trial, or can a prosecutor be allowed to match alleged acts to the counts i…
18-9045 Kevin Robinson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-impartiality self-incrimination sixth-amendment Are trial attorneys obligated to protect every fundamental right entitled to defendants under the United States Constitutional Amendments? If so, did …
18-9044 Troy Latrial Ramsey v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell per-se-rule reasonable-jurist sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's ruling in Miller-El v. Cochrell, 537 U.S. 322, 3…
18-9030 Juan Reyes Rivera v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied IFP confrontation-rights constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment ineffective-assistance 1. Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance for failure to quash or dismiss Constructive Amended Indictment, amended by the trial court on thir…
18-9027 Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. S 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-9004 Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement (1) Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of …
18-9002 David Curtis Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa de-novo-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Petitioner was prejudiced under the Sixth Amendment due to trial counsel's failure to object to a concededly erroneous jury instruction an…
18-9011 Anthwaun Jordan v. Texas Texas 2019-04-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel kIa JIov' o6&L vkks /o - &-& ax&_o i,zS( rEbn&kfl 4p/ead /1 la4i Frhc e 4pp/'e pi P i6 4T>C6 a k ii Z4 3 /q L. &d Zd 3 gj V,Sm; 1s 37'
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence 1) wher Extrating aN INvoluNtary CoNtessioN by Police threat's andlor promises when te. delectues Can Never be Harmless Error Rex vs- Teeples, 753 u5,…
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…
18-8961 Dion Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion blackledge-v-allison civil-rights district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearing-discretion habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ins-v-phinpathya plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rose-v-lundy sixth-amendment standing unsworn-statements QUESTION # ONE: Whether the District Court abused it's discretion by failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing by relying upon the unsworn statements …
18-8952 Boris Murphy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest deficient-performance direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Did the Fourth Circuit review the District Courts error in denying petitioners 28 U.S.C. 2255 claim de novo that was based on conflict of interest and…
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
18-8912 Cirilo Flores v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prejudice strickland-v-washington voluntary-and-intelligent-choice voluntary-plea (1) WHETHER OR NOT THE GUILTY PLEA ENTERED WAS LEGAL WHENPETITIONER DID NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND, KNOW OR INTELLIGENTLY ACCEPT VOLUNTARY THE GUILTY PLEA A…
18-8888 Nexis Rene Gomez v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-diligence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that petitioner did not showed that jurist of reason would find it debatable whether the district court abused …
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief, or in the alternative an evidentiary hearing, on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, wher…
18-8942 Jeffrey Akard v. Robert E. Carter Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 412-Rape-Shield-law-conflict Brady-materials brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process habeas-corpus habeas-relief impeaching-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-shield-law sentencing-claims strickland-standards Was Petitioner's 94 year sentence for rape related charges, based only on accuser's testimony, in violation of Fifth Amendment Due Process rights warr…
18-8925 Charles Reginald Cooks v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing PeTiTioneR Ask'S WhEThER The CoMPLAInT NAmEd VN DeFEndAnT In TheIR TRUe Names, WiTh STAteMeNTS ThAT ARE TRUE. (a) ThE WoRdS "CoMperENT CoURT." WhEn US…
18-8921 Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court WHAT IS A REASONABLE TIME PERIOD FOR TRIAL COUNSEL TO BE REQUIRED TO BECOME AWARE OF RECENT PRECEDENCE,BEFORE HE/ SHE MAY DEEMED INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILI…
18-8895 Kevin Watkins v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel civil-rights conflicted-jurors conflicts-of-interest criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection open-trial Is a defendant's right to an open trial violated when an attorney observing the trial and was asked to assist with defendant's appeal, was barred from…
18-8875 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation Question One: The 'Pipeline' Analysis Should Be Expanded To New Law That Applies To Postconviction Claims Where The Resolution Of The Postconviction …
18-8857 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-16 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor 1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance e…
18-8828 Dante Overby v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overreach plea-bargaining speedy-trial DOES THE GUILTY PLEA INDUCED BY AN "ILLUSORY PROMISE" VIOLATE THE 6th AMENDMENT? WHERE THE GUILTY PLEA WAS RULED INVOLUNTARY, BUT THE COURT FAILED TO…
18-8788 Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review WHERE A STATE COURT DENIES A PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH THE NECESSARY FACTUAL RECORD TO SUPPORT A CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL,…
18-8734 Corey D. Phillips v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-testimony The APPELLAtE count Stated tha t : perfected i m peach me was Unlikel Counsel could hnve nA1e= Reyarbg Av The Eviken agReemend hearing, The Record was…
18-8750 Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal Must a judge who had a improper ex parte communication with the prosecuting team off-docket, with no in camera review, and directed the prosecuting to…
18-8741 Francisco Frank Apodaca, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP association-in-fact corporation enterprise enterprise-definition guilty-plea individuals ineffective-assistance legal-entity rico rico-statute sentencing-error statutory-interpretation union 1. Can a corporation or other legal entity be associated in fact with a union or one or more individuals under the "enterprise" definition of the RICO…
18-8727 Corey Wiggins v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure failure-to-investigate habeas-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, ERRED IN REFUSING TO GRANT…
18-8712 John Hummel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied IFP character-and-record death-penalty future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel 1. In Skipper v. South Carolina, 476 U.S. 1 (1986), the trial court ruled as irrelevant the testimony of two jailers and a "regular visitor" that Skip…
18-8713 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-04-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment code-of-civil-procedure constitutional-violation counsel-of-choice due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance marsden-hearing plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Does a Defendant have a right to replace his privately retained choice of counsel at anytime during the trial court proceeding even up to and at the a…
18-8707 Wallace G. Carlyle v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment history-of-abuse ineffective-assistance mental-retardation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment DID TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY CONSIDER MR. CARLYLE'S MENTAL RETARDATION AND HISTORY OF ABUSE, AND OTHER VARIOUS ACTS, DEPRIVE DEFENDANT OF…
18-8702 Vernon Carter v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-04-04 Denied IFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-traffic-stop ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Certiorari Review should be granted where the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Carter's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a person in …
18-8689 Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy I. Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance where counsel failed in the most basic sense to litigate a claim of i…
18-8682 Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review The evidence in the state court record suggested that Sean Carter suffers from organic brain damage. Carter's trial attorneys performed deficiently, t…
18-8681 Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State Court findings that Mr…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE DECISION OF MCOUIGGIN V. PERKINS, 133 S.Ct. 1924 (2013) APPLIES RETROACTIVELY BECAUSE IT CHANGED DECISIONAL LAW AND WHETHER THE DECISION I…
18-8676 Ronald Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis…
18-8673 Jamael Stubbs v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to preserve either a sentencing challenge or a constructive amendment claim under All…
18-8666 Tremane Wood v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP circuit-court-review death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-test Tremane Wood was one of four defendants charged with crimes related to the death of Ronnie Wipf, which occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January …
18-8661 Eddie Lee Jackson v. Sandy McCain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-medical-condition counsel-misconduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation misconduct procedural-error right-to-counsel suspension Whether the Petitioner was denied the right to assistance of counsel when the counsel representing Petitioner throughout the proceedings was in fact s…
18-8641 Willie Houston, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-record plea-bargaining postconviction-proceedings probation probation-eligibility record-of-trial trial-record unintelligent-waiver waiver-of-rights QUESTION ONE IN A CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BASED ON TRIAL COUNSEL'S MISADVICE THAT PETITIONER WAS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PROBATION WHE…
18-8643 Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS, RENDERING COU…
18-8651 Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir…
18-8655 Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel Mr. Holloway alleges that his post-conviction counsel's ineffectiveness prejudiced the defense when he failed to seek suppression of incriminating evi…
18-8624 Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO MAKE A TIMELY OBJECTION OR FILE A PRETRIAL MOTION TO DISMISS A FATALLY FLAWED INDICTEMENT CANNOT VALIDATE A "CONSTITUTIONALLY…
18-8621 Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial, or alternatively a full evidentiary hearing, because his trial and appellate counsel rendered constitut…
18-8607 Johnnie Sterling v. Chuck Dwyer Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance manifest-injustice mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact procedural-due-process Should the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2642, where no reasonable Jurist would deny th…
18-8604 Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations I. May a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., be treated as resetting the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(0…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California, 386 US 738(1967)? Wheth…
18-8583 Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment 1. Whether it violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments for a state to defeat a post-conviction claim of ineffective assistance of counsel…
18-8570 Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington THE QUESTIONS PRESENTED WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS THREE JUDGE PANEL, MADE A PRECEDENTIAL DECISION, THAT THE PETITI…
18-8574 William Burton v. Delaware Delaware 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel that violated petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial a…
18-8546 Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD…
18-8547 Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington Washington 2019-03-25 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice Mr. Biggs alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the defense of diminished capacity. The facts and evidence in the record…
18-8529 Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ…
18-8535 Daniel Arthur Heleva v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-waiver jurisdiction prosecutorial-effectiveness prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-overreach right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion waiver-of-constitutional-rights waiver-of-rights WHERE STATE STATUTES PROVIDE PRE-TRIAL REMEDIES FOR PROSECUTORIAL OVERREACHING BY INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL, DOES DEFENSE COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO PERFECT THAT…
18-8522 Edwin Fernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Arizona-v-Gant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stages ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Montejo-v-Louisiana presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report right-to-counsel search-and-seizure search-doctrine Strickland-v-Washington In Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 80 l.ed.2d 674, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984) this court explained the standard of review for an ineffective assist…
18-8521 Angel Galan v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE FROM 71 MONTHS TO 84 MONTHS FOR FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WAS SUBSTANTIVELY UNREASONABLE WHETHE…
18-8495 Leroy Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation conflict-of-interest death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel WHETHER COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS CONFLICTS WITH THE HOLDING IN MISSOURI v FRYE, FOR FAILING TO ADVISE PETITIONER OF THE MEANS TO SET FORTH IN THE DEA…
18-8485 In Re Michael David Hower 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mandamus massaro-v-united-states plea-coercion prohibition 1. Is the petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus or prohibition from this Court, to protect his constitutional and statutory righ…
18-8510 Travis Thaniel v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts 1. DOES THE FEDERAL' L'AW OF WEAVER V. MASSACHUSETTS, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017); HAVE RETROACTIVE APPLICATION IN THE STATE OF MARYL'AND? 2. DOES A TRIAL!…
18-8501 Mohammed Bah v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law deportation-consequences guilty-plea immigrant-rights immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice 1. Does an analysis of prejudice in the context of ineffective assistance of counsel involving the guilty plea of an immigrant result in a unreasonabl…
18-8490 Bernard Mitchell v. California California 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review 1. Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames "Crip" and "'Scrap,"' which have been taken as a suggestio…
18-8484 Gregory Donzell Bailey v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment caseload caseload-management civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance public-defender public-defenders right-to-counsel In Maryland Courts for Indigent Inmates with Felony Cases, using the office of the Public Defenders; Should the Defendant's representation and resourc…
18-8405 Mohammed Suleiman Roble v. United States District of Columbia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney-ineffectiveness due-process exculpatory-evidence government-evidence ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings reasonableness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington DOES STRICKLAND v. WASHINGTON, 466 US 668, 80 L Ed Qd 674, 104 S Ct 2052 REQUIRE THE GOVERNMENT'S EVIDENCE TO BE WEAK TO FIND A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTOR…
18-8434 Leif Halvorsen v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP amendment-of-habeas-petition clearly-established-law darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct white-v-woodall I. Does the Sixth Circuit's ruling that a lack of Supreme Court case law dealing with a specific type of improper prosecution closing argument means n…
18-8427 Malcolm Roy Evans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation WHETHER A TRIAL COURT MAY SUMMARILY PROHIBIT AN ACCUSED FROM TESTIFYING IN HIS OWN DEFENSE IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL MERELY FOR STATING TO THE JURY HIS BELI…
18-1194 Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), is categor…
18-1197 Deanna Brookhart, Acting Warden v. Anthony D. Lee, Sr. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 affidavit-evidence evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-court-determination state-postconviction-review Respondent claimed on state postconviction review that his counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate and call five witnesses at his state-cou…
18-8424 Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill …
18-8389 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 brain-damage capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. The Eleventh Circuit did not focus on the state habeas court's actual reasons for rejecting Petitioner's claim that trial counsel's inadequate inve…
18-8386 Michael Apelt v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairment prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When determining if a capital defendant was prejudiced by counsel's deficient performance during state sentencing, whether the federal court may bypas…
18-8378 Garron T. Briggs v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong reasonable-probability right-to-trial strickland-v-washington Whether the district court's ruling, which implies that when a petitioner successfully proves that his counsel was ineffective, that petitioner must t…
18-8374 Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless error analysis and made objectively unreasonable findings o…
18-8340 Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d…
18-8316 Ricardo Guerrero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materials criminal-justice-act evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rights rule-5(b) section-3500(b) trial-counsel THE PROVISIONS OF THE HABEAS CORPUS STATUTE AT RULE 5(b), MANDATES ANSWER TO ALLEGATIONS PRESENTED THE GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE ALLOW…
18-8325 Amaury Villa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel? 2. Whether appellant's sentence was properly calculated?
18-8337 David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable…
18-8273 Cecilio Cuero Payan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-free-attorney conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether, under the sixth amendment, a criminal defendant may waive his right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as part of a plea-a…
18-8233 Calvin J. Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT O…
18-8263 LaVaughn Weatherly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2253(c)(2) conflict-of-circuit-decisions constitutional-rights district-court-denial due-process evidentiary-hearing failure-to-investigate habeas-corpus hohn-v-us ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review misadvise On a matter of great importance was the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in "Weatherly V. Jones, 315 -conviction-365-LC/CAS an…
18-8260 Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings This Court's holding and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) require a § 2255 court to conduct an evidentiary hearing unless the record and filings conclusively prove…
18-8252 Freddie Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mistrial structural-error Whether The United States District Court And The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Denied The Petitioner Relief Pursuant To The Issues Raised In A Petiti…
18-8251 Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence. Whether the Eigh…
18-8247 Patrick Joseph Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-waiver due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waivers Are all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers per se invalid because they violate the Sixth Amendment's right to conflict-free representation? Di…
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Did The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in Denying Certificate of Appealability of the denial of the Amendment of th…
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler 1. Must a court categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez ? 2. If the Court declines to…
18-8226 James Craig Bird v. Colorado Colorado 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole plea-bargaining prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) as to erron…
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion 1. DID TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY CONSIDERING A NOLLE PROSSED CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN SENTENCING PETITIONER TO THE 20-YEAR PLEA CAP,…
18-8219 Jose J. Hernandez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence felony-murder ineffective-assistance newly-presented standing 2. Is there sufficient evidence to support the conviction for the substantive offense of first degree felony murder, and does the adopted felony murde…
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena (1) This Court should recognize that no meaningful county decision has shielded the evidence made considered newly disclosed by virtue of appellate re…
18-8231 Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment WIETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL C LAIM. WHETHER THE DIS…
18-8201 Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether Supreme Court's decisions in Buck v. Davis 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), Trevino v. Thaler, and Martinez v. Ryan apply retroactively to Robert Butl…
18-8199 Michael DeVaughn Johnson v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-28 Denied IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure critical-stage critical-stages due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was The ARIZONA STATE COURTS ceCISION that the abSeNCe Of the retitioner's trial counsel during two complet critical Stages" of the trial did not requ…
18-8198 Brandon Lisi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari…
18-8194 Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default Whether, or to what extent, appointed counsel pursuant to Harbison v. Bell, 556 U.S at 194 (2009) .. REBUFFED his demands to Brief and Raise the ineff…
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 Ground One: Whether (a) The Indiana Southern District Court erred in ruling Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was time barred and (b) Seventh Circuit…
18-8176 Anthony James Brightwell, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment Petitioner's Constitutional Rights were violated when he guilty plea was not knowingly and intelligently made when the details of the guilty plea were…
18-8172 Corinthian Bostic v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest due-process fifth-amendment indigent indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance motion-to-withdraw pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-motion right-to-appeal Did the pre-trial judge abuse its discretion by denying Bostic's appointed attorney's motion to withdraw where Bostic and his trial counsel had a conf…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis 1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho…
18-8160 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum This case presents an issue on which the Ninth Circuit's has both (1) entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of two other United States Cou…
18-8154 Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility Whether Petitioner's Foujteenth Amendment. right to a. fair and impartial trial was violated 'then the proseatftr elicited false testimony from the vi…
18-8143 Stephen Talbert v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process fraud fraudulent-misrepresentation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial voluntariness Can a defendant voluntarily and intelligently enter a plea where counsel fraudulently misrepresents a key fact discoverable during pretrial investigat…
18-8141 Brian Taylor v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion alibi-witness civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct trial trial-counsel 1 - HAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT CALLING ALIPI WITNESS? P. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR VIOLATING PETITIONERS OLIE PROSSEE OF LAW PUY N…
18-8131 Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel I. WHETHER PETITIONER RECEIVED THE EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF TRIAL COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATE THE CASE AND THE SIXTH CIRCUI…
18-8121 Edward Harrison v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-allocution plea-consolidation statutory-time-limit statutory-violation time-enhancement Can CPL 180.30 exceed the 122hrs., or the 144hrs. (144hrs. pertains to weekends, and holidays) without extenuating, or an extension? When CPL 160.00 …
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis…
18-1103 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel civil-rights due-process effective-assistance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing 1. Ina proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, whether the right to choice of counsel or effective assistance is violated when counsel is appointed to repr…
18-8053 Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines WHETHER at the time of evidentiary hearing was granted to challenge the ineffective counsel's failure to file a Notice of Appeal per Petitioner's requ…
18-8113 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Arnaud was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel. Whether Arnaud's trial counsel violated client autonomy. …
18-8115 Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurate calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel, as provided under the Si…
18-8070 Billie Wayne Coble v. Texas Texas 2019-02-21 Denied IFP counsel-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent objection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy In the wake of this Court's decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), two questions have emerged in the courts called on to apply that c…
18-8057 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-21 Denied IFP capital-defense capital-punishment death-penalty death-row effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-evidence plea-bargaining sixth-amendment 1. Is a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel violated where, but for counsel's intervention and unfounded …
18-8056 Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-8030 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication Where is the boundary between "new claims," whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and "new facts," which federal habeas courts may not consi…
18-8037 Jerry Anthony Brandon, aka Jerry L. Brandon v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance involuntary-absence medical-emergency new-trial sixth-amendment trial-absence voluntary-absence Was the Petitioner's 5th 6th & 14th amendment rights, to the Constitution of the United States violated when? ONE. Petitioner's defense counsel faile…
18-8032 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment PETITIONER'S COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO CONDUCT A REASONABLE PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION. THIS VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL, AS GUARA…
18-8022 Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation of the case, including discovery of the case, to discover that Commonwealth Attorney and …
18-8012 Tasha Michelle Blackburn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-advise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-acceptance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations professional-responsibility sixth-amendment What donstitutes communicating a plea, and does counsel have an obligation to recommend accepting a plea, or rejecting a plea and proceeding to trial?
18-1079 Javier Flores Gaytan v. Michael Hardee Fourth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-standard criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial summary-witness wire-recording May a State, consistent with due process, obtain a criminal conviction and 37-year prison sentence against a criminal defendant where the primary evid…
18-7979 Eric K. Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3) (B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal c…
18-7975 William Krisstofer Wolf v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury perjury-subornation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision now conflicts with this courts long standing rulings on the known and willing. use of PERJURY of material fact, t…
18-7958 John Lohmeier v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was Petitioner's plea of guilty knowingly and voluntarily entered where counsel's failure to inform petitioner that all offenses charged in the indict…
18-7951 Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial 1. Should a judge recuse ones self from reviewing a motion that is challeging their rulings made during a bench trial? 2. Is it ineffective assistanc…
18-7927 Tyrone Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke Petitioner presents the question whether his 'trial counsel provided ineffective .assistance of: counsel as required by 'the Sixth Amendment to' the C…
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error by continuously granting the Attorn…
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, DUE TO INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE COUNSEL'S ABANDONEMENT ON A MANSLAUGHTER OF …
18-7934 Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony Under Jackson v. Virginia 443 U.S. 307 (U.S.Va.1979) Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent the prosecuting attorney of Newport News, Va…
18-7901 Darrius DaJuan Cohee v. James Yates, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal Was Petitioner's Counsel Ineffective For Failing To File Petitioner's Motion To Withdraw Guilty Plea After Petitioner Specifically Requested For Couns…
18-7900 Jorge Ernesto Blanco-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-citizen-defendant padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining plea-colloquy supervisory-power In the Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), this Honorable Court held that a criminal defense lawyer is ineffective when the lawyer fails to advi…
18-7888 Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONDUCT ANY PRETRIAL INVESTIGATIONS TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW POTENTIAL WITNESSES THAT COULD HAVE SUPPORTED P…
18-7885 Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions QUESTION (1) Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffecti…
18-7880 Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Are the elements of 18 U.S.C.§ 924 C satisfied if a unloaded Firearm and drugs and the unloaded Firearm of the crime? O does this constitute Title 18 …
18-7877 Lester Roger Decker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was defendant's attorney's role to fulfill his advisory position to his client ineffective, thus violating client's right to Due Process?
18-7867 Meria James Bradley v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-rights due-process evidence-withholding federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-findings state-court-proceedings state-court-review (1) Whether defense counsel withheld evidence for the jury that shown that the petitioner was actually innocent, but for a reasonable probability that…
18-7814 William E. Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings I. (i) WHETHER COUNSEL. RENDERED INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE DRUG QUANTITY CALCULATION IN THE PSR, USED THREATS TO CORCE PETITIONER T…
18-7810 James Traxler v. Sherry Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis merits-review sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether The Sixth Circuit s Inquiry In Denying Petitioner's Motion For Certificate Of Appealability Was Coextensive With A Merits Analysis, When Concl…
18-7811 Ronald Bishop Thompson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-testimony cell-site-location cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrant-requirement Did trial counsel perform ineffectively at Petitioner's second trial, when Petitioner's first trial, in which there was no mention of cell phone testi…
18-7813 Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure (1.) At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become so inadequate as to render that process "ineffective" as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. § 2…
18-7826 Curtis R. Leachman v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions michigan-self-defense-act psychological-expert self-defense self-defense-statute WAS PETITIONER DENIED THE RIGHT TO COMPULSORY PROCESS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO GRANT FUNDS FOR A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERT TO AIDE THE JURY IN DETERM…
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having…
18-7766 Rishawn Lamar Reeder v. Cecelia Reynolds, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-presentation eyewitness-testimony gunshot-residue impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense surveillance-video trial-counsel witness witness-testimony Did the court erred in finding trial counsel ineffective for failing to present the Spartanburg Regional Hospital security surveillance camera video …
18-7757 William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification I. Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples. II. Whether trial courts abuse of discretion violated Applicant…
18-7740 Esequiel Joel Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility certificate-of-appealability due-process government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Whether It Was Error to deny Rcdriguez A Certificate of Appealability, to Pursue His Sixth Amendment Claim on Appeal, Where He Demonstrated Ineffec…
18-7736 Robert Davis v. New York New York 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance legal-review procedural-due-process questions-of-fact questions-of-law standing state-court state-court-review Did the State's highest court fail to lawfully review the questions of law in Petitioner's application prior to denying him permission to appeal his c…
18-7702 George Reese v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the state court or United States court of appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b…
18-7727 Gregory Hatt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple…
18-7719 Cesar Gomez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code Whether Texas Penal Code ' 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution? Whether a Sta…
18-7713 Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order Mr. Grimsley alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to have a face to face visit prior to his second trial, after receiving crucia…
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination 1) DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO…
18-7698 Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver DOES TRIAL COUNSEL WAIVE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO APPELLATE REVIEW OF AN ERRONEOUS RULING ON EVIDENCE IF COUNSEL CHOOSES NOT TO OBJECT TO THE RULING WHE…
18-7682 Stacie Demers v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
18-7678 Alfonso Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act? Whether t…
18-7656 Armando Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability coa coa-standard due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b I. Whether a District court deprives a habeas corpus petitioner of his Constitutional rights to Due Process when the Court: Overlooks and fails to add…
18-7650 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc…
18-994 Dirk Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel physical-helplessness physically-helpless toxicologist toxicology toxicology-testimony Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
18-7653 Lonzo Bonner v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-29 Denied IFP brady-material due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL AND DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE PROSECUTION DELIBERATELY W…
18-7634 Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony I) Reasonable jurists could debate whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim in violation of Evid.R. 803(4) denied A…
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler 1. Mr. Haley, acting prose, filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, therefore, appealing the order United States …
18-7624 Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal sentence under federal law and represent a manifest injustice calling in question the integrity of …
18-7610 Michael Colbaugh v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP equitable-exception federal-habeas-corpus federal-writ habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-writ texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rulin g, denying Petitioner a second Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to the Texas Code of Criminal Procedur…
18-7603 Raymond Zayas v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights crawford-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment When Petitioner's Crawford v. Washington claim was procedurally defaulted by trial counsel and initial post conviction counsel failed to raise an inef…
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict The 10th Circuit's application of a reasonable Jurist Standard as a full denial of Jadby's §2255 under the Strickland standard is in conflict with the…
18-7567 Ron Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of …
18-7563 Lynce P. Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-constitution WHETHER COUNSEL WERE INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT REPRESENTING PETITIONER ACCORDING TO A COUNSEL GUARANTEED TO THE PETITIONER BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNI…
18-7558 Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE, NEW TRIAL, AND/OR RESENTENCING BASED ON THE TRIAL COURT FAILING TO CONDUCT A COMPETENCY HEARING AFTER IT …
18-7545 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7544 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court David Riley filed a pro se state post-conviction petition because, unlike every other state, Alabama does not provide counsel to death-sentenced inmat…
18-7533 Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing 1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL 2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN…
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of trial…
18-7527 David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-23 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states 1. Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether …
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether it can be presumed given the fact that (1) the USSC in Blackledge clearly stated that guilty plea cases were cognizable for federal review?; W…
18-7480 Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Question not identified.
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT RAISING ISSUE OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE? DID COUNSEL LABOR UNDER A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
18-7468 Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel advised him to stipulate to a sentence of life without the possibility…
18-7466 Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment This petition presents the questions of whether reasonable jurists can debate the following issues: 1. Whether the erroneous jury instruction given i…
18-7460 Clint Horvatt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appeal change-of-venue civil-procedure competency-hearing criminal-acts criminal-procedure disciplinary-history due-process independent-act-doctrine ineffective-assistance involuntary-intoxication record standing trial-counsel trial-court In claim one and two, did the trial court fail to attach portions of the record. In claim 3(A), did trial counsel fail to investigate criminal acts a…
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the state court f…
18-7439 Gregory M. Ward v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal-preservation appeal-rights due-process evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel Petitioner contends that his trial counsel, Eddie Jordan, was ineftective because he: erroneously advised Petitioner that, by pleading guilty without …
18-7418 Derrick T. Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement? Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu…
18-7436 Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error Petitioner's private practice defense counsel', whose practice was struggling financially, created a personal conflict of interest before the start of…
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of couns…
18-7431 Teddrick Batiste v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance organic-brain-damage procedural-bar state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers The post-conviction state court process in Batiste's case was inadequate for ascertaining the truth and lacked critical components of an adjudication …
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness I. Beason's trial judge made an election campaign promise to put more child molesters in jail before presiding over Beason's trial on child molestatio…
18-7406 Benjamin James Boatman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error drug-induced-psychosis due-process heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Mr. Boatman alleged that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct, develop, and present readily available evidence of a drug-induced psych…
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth? Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th…
18-7374 David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding, that in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under AEDPA, a court may indulge "post hoc rationalization"…
18-7370 Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations 1 Sal He COU. 7 hear His wht of Chir ar j Lama Wy 2 ror a Le lificate f peceh ply CO Ala to he hes 4 s |Lonnlersts under Lederal Kules ot Lvil froce…
18-7367 Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment In light of this court's decision in Lee v. United States, 198 L. Ed. 2d 476 (2017) was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing whe…
18-7358 Aaron Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U…
18-7337 Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue GROUND ONE: Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia "abuse its discretion" and commit 'clear err…
18-7312 Danny D. Tran v. Kansas Kansas 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process in-re-gault ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-confession juvenile-rights postcard-denial strickland-standard williams-v-taylor MAY THIS COURT'S DECISION IN STRICKLAND V. WASHINGTON AS TO WHAT CONSTITUTES THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? MAY THIS COURT'S DECISION IN IN R…
18-7310 Kadeem Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea…
18-7278 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain record-on-appeal statute-of-limitations appellate-counsel appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations strickland-standard When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7259 Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Pennsylvania 2019-01-07 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment DID THE PETITIONER GIVE THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE SUCH CLAIMS 1ISSUES,CONTENTIONS IN A STATE HABEAS CORPUS?. DID TH…
18-7270 Antonio Bryant v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence I). Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant. 2o18 IL App (50) I43578-U. is contradictory tothis Court's decision sufficien…
18-7254 Alvin E. Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error In Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 1911-12 (2017), this Court left open the question of whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel…
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment 1. Where a state trial judge summarily rejected, without a hearing, Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective because he induced Petitioner to w…
18-7198 Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress Question not identified.
18-7186 Corey Ian Weidner v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-rule post-conviction-review state-law state-post-conviction-proceedings strickland-standard WHETHER, WHEN A STATE POST-CONVICTION COURT DECIDES THAT COUNSEL DID NOT NEED TO TAKE SOME ACTION UNDER STATE LAW TO BE EFFECTIVE, THE STATE COURT DEC…
18-798 Joanna Joy Blauch v. Colorado Colorado 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error evidentiary-standards exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington waiver-of-rights There is a growing sinkhole-sized need for some things to be simply clearer. Does ruliltg the substantive nature of materially relevant documentary e…
18-791 Kyle James Moesch v. Texas Texas 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-rights douglas-v-california due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 357 (1963), this Court held that prisoners are entitled to counsel on their as-of-right direct appeal because …
18-7137 Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio Ohio 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation May withholdin exculpatory and impeaching evidence [in violation of Brady (373 U.S. 83, 63) /Due Process as Guaranteed under the 5th and 14th Amendmen…
18-7100 Brian Simmons v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether, petitioner's justification defense was lost amoungest the volume of prosecutors use of false or perjured testimonies that went uncorrected. …
18-7098 Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas…
18-7130 Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages When the government brings criminal charges based on an allegation that the defendant sent a series of text messages, does it violate the defendant's …
18-7091 Steven Anthony Butler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing competence competency-evaluation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation judicial-process judicial-review mental-competence mental-health mitigating-evidence procedural-fairness 1. When, in reviewing the two-part claim that trial counsel was ineffective both for failing to provide known, relevant information to mental health e…
18-7075 Patrick Martinez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Texas courts found no ineffective assistance of counsel in this criminal case where the Petitioner, Sergeant Patrick Martinez, rejected a pretrial ple…
18-7021 Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the "Equitable Tolling" in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public …
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr…
18-742 Brandon Washington v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea…
18-6996 Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS, DUE PROCESS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION, WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F…
18-6968 Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine…
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Question 1. Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional …
18-6964 Henry L. Wallace v. United States District of Columbia 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1.) Whether a jurisdiction defective indictment can he procedurally or time bar adjudication after twenty years if it violate these Supreme Court Full…
18-6938 Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the lower courts denial is contrary to this Honorable Supreme Court's holding in Boykin v. Alabama in the Plea matter. Whether the lower cour…
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Question not identified.
18-6944 Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel 1. Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of in…
18-6926 James Valentine v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,…
18-6896 Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers…
18-6880 Jason A. Lenz v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accidental-death character-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-deadlock standing statutory-interpretation Should a certificate of appealability issue in a Section 2254 proceeding where counsel learned directly from a juror that the jury had deadlocked 10-2…
18-6855 Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS GROSSLY INEFFECTIVE, BY ARGUING A MATERIAL VARIANCE IN THE INDICTMENT, INSTEAD OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF T…
18-6838 Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 - …
18-6816 Vicente Garcia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment [1] WHETHER THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN ITS HOLDING THAT GARCIA HAD FAILED TO SHOW A DENIAL OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL SIXTH AMENDMENT RI…
18-671 Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision 1. Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or an…
18-6805 Jose Rodriguez v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions penal-code-187a principal reasonable-doubt Allege "INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE" is FEDERAL QUESTION, Petitioner Mr. JOSE RODRIGUEZ, is not the PRINCIPAL Jury Instructions for count one and two, P.C. …
18-6810 Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti…
18-6815 Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing QUESTION 1: IS A COA MANDATED IF A PETITIONER DEMONSTRATES THE STATE ARRIVED AT A DECISION CONTRARY TO AND A UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND AN…
18-6820 Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-authorization particularity particularity-requirement search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment 1. Does the Fourth Amendment require that a search warrant particularly describe the things to be seized? 2. Does the Fourth Amendment require that a…
18-6764 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does the "presumption of prejudice" recognized in Roe v. FloresOrtega , 528 U.S. 470 (2000), apply where a criminal defendant instructs his trial coun…
18-6744 Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea? Whether the Unite…
18-6742 Albert Uriah Mathis v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Can a judge order a mistrial in a case simply, so he may attend a Dr. appointment? Can a fair trial be had when a deadline of 5pm the same day is pla…
18-6733 Laura Shauger v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit This case raises a pressing issue of national importance: In applying for a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal from the denial of a motion u…
18-6727 John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias I. Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital de…
18-6724 Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF- FICIENT TO SUSTAIN MR. OZIER'S CONVICTION FOR ARMED ROBBERY AND BANK ROBBERY. PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RI…
18-6721 Gavin Cullens v. Cindi Curtin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense trial-counsel DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR WHEN IT GAVE OUT SELF DEFENSE INSTRUCTION FOR COMPLAINANTS WHO WERE NOT ACCUSED OF ANY CRIMES TO WARRANT A DEFENSE? ALTERNATIV…
18-6696 Octavio Torres Ortega v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-to-suppress public-defender speedy-trial trial-counsel witness-credibility QUESTION ONE DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR IN DENYING A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL QUESTION TWO WAS APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN THE APPEAL PROCESS QUE…
18-6725 Charles Wayne Bussell v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-relief postconviction-hearing sixth-amendment tainted-testimony trial-strategy witness-testimony After Petitioner was convicted of robbery and murder, the state court decided that Defense counsel's cross-examination of two critical witnesses was i…
18-6689 Israel Sanchez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pleading-standard supreme-court-precedent Is California's stringent pleading standard to allege a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations contrary to the governing …
18-6704 Aaron Jonathon Zemke v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bias criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargain plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment when counsel misrepresented Mr. Zemke's case to induce a plea bargain, prejudiced …
18-6703 David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence Reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond…
18-6701 Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-11-14 Denied IFP client-autonomy closing-argument concession-of-guilt criminal-procedure defense-strategy ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the right to control the objective of the defense, violated, under the Court's recent decision …
18-6699 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment I. DOES PETITIONER DRANE HAVE A DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO PLEA WITHDRAWAL OR AT MINIMUM A GINTHER HEARING WHERE HIS PLEA WAS UNKNOWING AND INVOLUNTARY, RES…
18-6691 Delilah McCurtis v. Maggie Burke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-consistent-statements prior-inconsistent-statements witness-testimony WHERE PETITIONER WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL WHERE THE STATE INTRODUCED EACH OF THREE KEY STATE WITNESSES PRIOR INCONSISTENT STATEMENTS WHICH WERE UNNECES…
18-6654 In Re Gary Ray Debolt 2018-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Is it in violation of the fifth Amendment and Brady v. Maryland to convict a person with the use of false and manipulated evidence? Is it in violatio…
18-6623 Carlos Cosme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the District Court Commit Error in Applying the Standard of review for Motions to Withdraw a Plea Agreement as to an Issue of a Question of the Ef…
18-6646 John Edward Davis v. Florida Florida 2018-11-08 Denied IFP autopsy-photographs coercion constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession involuntary-statements juvenile-offender juvenile-offender-rights juvenile-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-testify self-incrimination Question #1: Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent when it upheld the denial of a post-conviction claim all…
18-6633 Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the 22nd Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange for a guilty plea? Whether Counsel for the Petitioner was in…
18-6626 William Foley Miller v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review bid Al-I - Us A y PJr-/ ss 8r r/ Cos X 4 b ,"± A c'i I A d L J A/o* Pocerie , T-<<; For R v / YA roc A U r xhus+-ed i4r PricurJ/Y bFu/i'ei) /6JM Tr A …
18-6601 Stefone Dwayne Palomo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review appeal appeal-rights appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit-rules frivolous frivolous-issues ineffective-assistance local-rules merits right-to-appeal sua-sponte-dismissal I. Does Petitioner's right to an appeal require either a decision on the merits or an Anders review with a finding that all issues are frivolous? II.…
18-6593 Sigifredo Molina-Varela v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-severance prejudice prejudicial-error right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment DID THE DEFENSE COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO FILE A MOTION FOR SEVERANCE CREATE A SIGNIFICANT PREJUDICE AGAINST THE PETITIONER THEREBY CONSTITUTING INEFFECTIV…
18-6582 Kareem Glass v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Third Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-rights WHERE CAPITAL COUNSEL INDUCED PETITIONER INTO A WAIVER OF HIS ENTIRE PENALTY PHASE AND A WAIVER OF HIS APPELLATE RIGHTS IN RETURN FOR A GUARANTEED LIF…
18-6580 Wiliiam Scott Fitts v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Georgia 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel normative-legal-issues plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. The constitution requires special consideration in assessing the accuseds conduct in guilty pleas especially when parole consequences is adetermina…
18-6570 Timothy J. Kaprelian v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest plea-agreement plea-bargaining Is a Criminal Defendant who pleads no contest entitled to exculpatory evidence that the state concealed and suppressed. Can a defendant's waiver be d…
18-6571 Mark Jervis v. Richard Brown, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process e-filing-system habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standing The District Court mandates that all prisoner communications to and from the court be transmitted via the E-Filing system. Per policy, prisoners canno…
18-6560 Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states Does Wheat v. United States, 486 U.S. 153 (1988) clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a crim…
18-6553 Michael Founier Dixon, aka Michael Fournier Dixon v. Texas Texas 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing PlEA AgReemeNts At "ANy" stagE duRinNg the CRimiNs pRocess CAUSE the defendant Harm; considering that they All contrined a factually iNsufficint deadl…
18-6525 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP edwards-v-carpenter federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockett-v-ohio martinez-rule martinez-v-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Under Edwards v. Carpenter, 529 U.S. 446 (2000), may a federal habeas corpus petitioner invoke the rule of Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012) to show…
18-6519 Mariano Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (cOA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence? …
18-6486 In Re Steve G. Hernandez 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment (A) WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN: Trial counsel Quintino did not Investigate and Properly examine the FR…
18-6467 Tyrone Pulley v. California California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does the rule established in Martinez V. Ryan, 132 S.CT. 1309 (2012) and Trevino V. Thaler 133 S. CT 1911, 1921 (2013) that ineffective state appellat…
18-6463 Jose Gilberto Portillo v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-obligations counsel-obligations-guilty-plea critical-stage due-process guilty-pleas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper language-barrier missouri-v-frye non-english-speaker plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sixth-amendment young-defendant Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with and seriously undermines controlling authority of the Supreme Court on counsel's fun…
18-6447 Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did Counsel ' Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und…
18-6430 Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those …
18-6423 Marlan McRae v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-conflict fiduciary-conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics manifest-necessity sixth-amendment vague-precedent Can the unconscionable and illegal actions of an attorney, in addition to a fiduciary conflict of interest between an attorney and his client, amount …
18-6406 Daniel Tappen v. Florida Florida 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defense attorney renders ineffective assistance of counsel – in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution – by failing to inform …
18-6400 Tarvares James Watson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law state-law-procedural-principles state-procedural-law WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN OVERLOOKING THE RELEVANT STATE LAW PROCEDURAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL …
18-6397 Angel Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated and proceedings unfair considering that the Second Circuit granted both summary affirmance t…
18-6344 Brandon Eugene Lacy v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health neuropsychological-evaluation neuropsychological-testing Sixth-Amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court misapplied this Court's ruling in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 688 (1984) by finding it reasonable for tri…
18-6334 Ahkeem Wiggins v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement-penalty guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing The 1st Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana was without jurisdiction to accept guilty plea to enhancement penalty under Louis…
18-6325 Adrian Contreras-Rebollar v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability co-counsel criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-right-to-counsel- criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-self-defense-inef defense-of-another due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instruction right-to-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment where petitioner's defense in the trial court was based on Self-Defense, petitioner did not fully trust his Dept. of Assigned counsel lawyer, and thus…
18-6307 Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record QUESTION 1: .When UNACCEPTABLE INCUFFICIENT evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does "ha…
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness -Is the issue 'j accordingly of great import to potentially thousand's of prisoners similarly situated and does if have significant impact on the publ…
18-6275 Ricardo Lupian-Barajas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard I. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DEPART FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS WHEN IT FAILED…
18-6298 Robert Alan Fratta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-amendment due-process fatal-variance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-review miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standing sufficiency-of-evidence *** CAPITAL CASE IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR A U.S. COURT OF APPEALS TO ACCEPT, SANCTION OR MAKE DECISIONS THAT: ALLOW STATE COURTS 110 REFUSE TO. ACCE…
18-6285 Mady Chan, aka Maddy, aka Mandy, aka Manny v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Should the holding in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010) that an attorney's failure to advise a criminal client of succinct, clear, and explicit…
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…
18-6183 Reginald Lynch v. Hilton Hall, Jr., Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington dying-declaration hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington DOES PETITIONER RECEIVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO OBJECT TO TESTIMONY FROM A WITNESS REPEATING THE STATEMENTS OF A…
18-6174 Edward Lang v. David Bobby, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied IFP deficient-performance due-process false-evidence false-theory ineffective-assistance juror-tampering presumption-of-prejudice reasonable-strategy reasonable-trial-strategy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy A. Can the presentation of false evidence, in support of a false theory, that trial counsel knew or should have known was false, ever constitute a rea…
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Should certiorari be granted to decide how much detail the order denying a COA should contain in order to ensure that the Circuit Court has complied w…
18-6132 Marlon Oliver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2011 plea offer not requiring cooperation and def criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THERE IS A REASONABLE PROBABILITY THAT THE COURT BELOW WOULD VACATE PETITIONER'S CONVICTION, GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER THIS COURT'…
18-6124 Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OTHER BAD ACTS TESTIMONY; THE EVIDENCE WAS NOT ADMISSIBLE UNDER EITHER MRE 4…
18-6141 Damian O'Neil Towne v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure government-objection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-of-appeal sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-miscalculation untimely-notice-of-appeal THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A GROSS MISCALCULATION OF THE SENTENCING GUIDELINE RANGE SHOULD BE CORRECTED WHE…
18-6081 Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report I. Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho was competent to enter a guilty plea in light of a psychiatric report…
18-6064 Robert L. Rose v. Leroy Kirkegard, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-negotiations remedies remedy sixth-amendment united-states-v-morrison Whether this Court should grant certiorari to clarify the appropriate remedy for ineffective assistance during plea negotiations. Whether the remand …
18-6084 Sharon Lee v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice mental-capacity plea-bargaining I. WAS THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED WHEN THE PETITIONER UNKOWINGLY AND UNINTELLIGENTLY ACCEPTED A PLEA TO A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CH…
18-6070 Carlos Cornwell v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bracy-v-gramley expert-testimony forensic-evidence hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error This Court has recognized there are cases that turn on scientific or technical evidence where "the only reasonable and available defense strategy requ…
18-6047 Leo Llowlyn Seed v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied IFP alibi appeal charging-information civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions trial-counsel verdict-form witness-investigation Whether Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to object to incomplete Jury instructions Whether Trial Counsel failing to object to the Alibi And …
18-6045 Corey Levon Beckham v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied IFP drug-abuse equal-protection fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington unprofessional-conduct Did the Fourth Circuit erred in holding District Court decision for failing to accept the showing of the two (2) prong test in' Strickland v. Washingt…
18-6033 Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-principles indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners ineffective-assistance post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-interference state-law-limits Through legislation. Tennessee Law makes it literally impossible for indigent non-capital petitioners to receive the effective assistance of post-conv…
18-357 Dragomir Taskov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and all the violations of his constitutional rights are barred simply as untimely and because of t…
18-5982 Todd F. Britton-Harr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-person sixth-amendment Does the Court's decision in Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017) allow lower courts to require a showing that a "reasonable person" would have…
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 …
18-6015 Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel Were Acker dents Sixth Ameadment rights tt preloted when DD frial counsel Farled to utilize an expert ness trial counsel farted te present delense He…
18-6028 Maurice Baum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Was Trial Counsel's failure to object to the District Court's determination and findings of the drug amount attributable to the Petitioner objectively…
18-6029 Debra Ann Aquilina v. Sarah Davis, Administrator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-opinion expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner right-to-counsel right-to-effective-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors trial-proceedings QUESTION ONE: Did the petitioner's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance, violated petitioner 's right to effective assistance…
18-5985 Jeffery Dana Sparks v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2018-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination death-penalty evidence-presentation expert-testimony expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecution-experts prosecution-theory trial-strategy Whether defense counsel in a death penalty trial provided effective assistance where that counsel failed thoroughly to prepare to cross-examine forese…
18-5964 Nicholas Hacheney v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-reasoning state-court-review wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers , __ U.S. __, 138 S. Ct. 1188, 1192 (2018), this Court held that when a state court issues a reasoned decision " a federal habeas…
18-5953 Antowan Thorne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-error due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial search-suppression sixth-amendment witness-testimony SHOULD WRIT OD CERTIORARI BE GRANTED TO REVIEW IF THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING THE MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL OR EVIDENTIARY HEARING WHEN COUNSEL FAI…
18-5928 Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CLARIFY AN IMPORTANT AREA OF LAW RELATING TO WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE UNDER T…
18-313 Albon C. Diamond, III v. Florida Florida 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony sixth-amendment strategic-decisions strickland strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective attorney representation in a criminal felony prosecution (applicable against the State of Florida…
18-5918 Jose Guerrero Lozano, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process florida-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-delay prejudice speedy-trial Whether the State of Florida Court or the Petitioner is more to blame for the delay. Whether, in due course, and petitioner asserted a claim of ineffe…
18-5910 Curtis Dee Packard v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation public-defender right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court withdrawal-of-counsel Whether both the trial court and the State's Public Defender's Office invited error and erroneously denied the Petitioner his 6th Amendment rights to …
18-5909 Barry Soldridge v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief waiver Whether the district court erred in failing to find that the state court entered a decision that was unreasonable in light of the full record, and whe…
18-287 Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison v. Frederick Michael Baer Seventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Relisted (3) antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act deferential-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Seventh Circuit violate the deferential review requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by disregarding the reasoned …
18-5896 Beverly Allen Baker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ® By the end th trial, the government concluded that …
18-5880 Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co…
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard When a reviewing court on collateral appeal #1 dismisses as "non-cognizable under law" a Cumulative Effect/Aggregate Prejudice claim, asserting multip…
18-265 Micah Patterson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial confrontation constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation sixth-amendment virginia-supreme-court A. Did the Virginia Supreme Court err by effectively affirming a lower court holding that denied relief for Patterson's ineffective assistance of coun…
18-5849 Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction Q. (1): Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to present evidence that the alleged cr…
18-5846 Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the Petitioner should have been allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffe…
18-5815 Jose Francisco Puentes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment arizona-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether Arizona Penal statute 13-1410 was applied in violation of Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right to the Federal Constitution? Ground TWO: Wa…
18-5814 Bobby Cruz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix section-2255 DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING BOBBY CURZ A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENYING CRUZ'S AMEND…
18-5787 Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-28 Denied IFP competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH…
18-5786 Donell A. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object …
18-5772 Aurelio Fidencio Saldivar v. G. D. Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard tactical-rationales trial-counsel 1. Is a habeas corpus petitioner alleging a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel required to address and rebut hypothetica…
18-253 Michael Felix v. New York New York 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis I. Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment? Whether a cou…
18-5780 Peter Vincent Capra v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of…
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
18-5736 Joshua Moses v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiplicitous-indictment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Prosecutor's conduct in charging petitioner with a multiplicitous indictment to gain a tactical advantage so infected the trial with unfai…
18-5739 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the…
18-5745 Miguel Anthony Molina v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841(a)(1) 922(g)(1) 924(e) criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment SSUE (1) Did the Honorable Judge James S. Moody Jr. violate Mr. Molina's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in conjunction vith the due process cla…
18-5756 Shondolyn Rochelle Blevins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-instructions I) Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's 2 USC. 2255 Motion without an Evidentiary hearing? Has the denial of a…
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…
18-5705 George Easterly v. Florida Florida 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea Question #1: Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Courts precedent when it upheld summary denial of a postconviction claim a…
18-5676 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-records cell-phone-tower-records constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duress-defense fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing suppression trial-counsel unqualified-counsel I. Did counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel where Direct appeal counsel abandoned the suppression of cell phone tower records after the…
18-5709 Paul Allen Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 WHETHER AN APPEAL WAIVER CAN BE ENFORCED IN A TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 2255 PROCEEDING WHEN PETITIONER HAS BASED HIS CLAIMS ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUN…
18-5700 Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment Mr. Docaj seeks leave to appeal the following issues: 1) Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law, unconsti…
18-5662 Myrna Diaz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment unauthorized-practice-of-law DID THE STAFF OF THE "PROJECT FREEDOM FUND" WHO PROVIDED FAULTY LEGAL ADVICE TO PETITIONER, AND THUS INDUCED HER TO WITHDRAW A GUILTY PLEA FOR WHICH S…
18-5657 Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend…
18-5656 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-misadvice counsel-role due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing trial-court-denial waiver waiver-of-rights I. WERE THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT DENTED HER MOTION FOR ILLEGAL SENTENCE BASED UPON THE PETITIONER'S REFERE…
18-5649 Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto? Did the Fi…
18-5647 Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed …
18-5639 Daniel Castleman, aka Chingachgook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-evidence-rule brady-violation confrontation-clause documentary-evidence due-process evidence evidence-certification federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE GOVERNMENT COMMIT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT AND WAS COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO OBJECT OR MOVE TO EXCLUDE GX-DC-2, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT P…
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Question No. 1: Dud the fifth Circuit Court of appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealibility ? Question No.…
18-5635 Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court-proceedings strickland-standard [1] DID THE DISTRICT COURT SIDE STEP THE COA DETERMINATION UNDER §2253(c) WHEN IT DENIED JACKSONS APPEAL AND HIS COA AND JUSTIFIED IT'S DENIAL OF HIS …
18-5622 Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C. 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253?…
18-5615 Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review Reasonable Jurist would find it debatable Whether the District Court Erred When it Ignored Undisputed Facts Establishing that The Prosecution Violated…
18-5598 John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is or should have been presumed correct. And whether Petitioner sustained his burden of over…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Question 1: Whether The Court Erred Finding Claim One - Three where not Exhausted To The State's Highest Court In Violation Of The Fourteenth Questio…
18-5524 Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for filing to file a motion for continuance to …
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority 1.) WIETHER THE UNDISPUTED AND CLEAR VIOLATION OF AN APPELLANTS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL .ON DIRECT APPEAL IS AN EXCEPTIONAL…
18-5558 Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS GUARANTEED RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WHEN IT PERMITTED THE PROSECUTION TO INTRODUCE TO THE TRIAL JURY A BUNCH…
18-5563 Peter Cain Bruton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP closing-argument extraneous-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial motion-in-limine prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel violation violation-of-court-order Before the trial, Petitioner's trial counsel filed a motion in limine, which was granted by the trial court. By adoption, the court ordered that, if t…
18-5569 Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar 1) Does the Classification made by this Court in Coley d. Sattald Jan 8.64. 3134 constitute the Circuit Court as being contrary to Clearly established…
18-5539 Derek W. Pelto v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof change-of-law insanity-defense right-to-testify burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance insanity-defense right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
18-188 Ivy T. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma…
18-5515 Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mr. Salemi a certificate of appealability with a summary order using boiler plate language. Did the Eleve…
18-5531 Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard The questions presented are whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised Culver's Sixth Amendment rig…
18-5517 Mike Peter Gallardo v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-08 Denied IFP capital-jury capital-punishment citizen-jurors due-process eighth-amendment fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-composition sixth-amendment Almost a decade ago, this Court unanimously held that, "If a defendant is tried before a qualified jury composed of individuals not challengeable for …
18-5505 Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. When Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012) was decided during the pendency of a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, is the petiti…
18-5479 Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty 1) When a State Trial Court neglects it's duty to make findings after controverted and unresloved issues have been shown, is it resonable when conside…
18-5453 Mark Elliott v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process due-process-brady-v-maryland favorable-to-accused hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct remand-for-coa right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment QUESTION I: In Brady v. Maryland, this Court announced that it violates due process when the prosecution fails to dis close material information fav…
18-5446 Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the State violated Story's Fourth, and Fourteenth, Amendment Constitutional rights, When the Waco Police lied on a Affidavit for Arrest Warran…
18-154 Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO PERMIT…
18-5459 Zachary David Warnell v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel CAN A STATE, SUCH AS THE STATE OF TEXAS, WHICH HAS AN ESTABLISHED SYSTEM OF APPEAL WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE OF APPELLATE COUNSEL WITH AN ADEQ…
18-5462 Alfonso V. Senior, Jr. v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP discretionary-review exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition right-to-counsel state-court-remedies Has a habeas corpus petitioner who was unrepresented in his state post conviction proceedings, in a state which refuses to appoint counsel for such pr…
18-5396 Calvin McMillan v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-30 Denied IFP appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction An Alabama jury voted to sentence Petitioner Calvin McMillan to life in prison for capital murder. Circuit Judge John Bush overrode the jury's decisio…
18-5379 Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel Whether reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived appellant of due process and a fair trial? Whether trial or appellate counsel rende…
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant If a defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense of a higher level charge, does the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit retrying…
18-5366 Ronald David Martin v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-introduce-evidence rape-shield-statute right-to-present-defense trial-court-discretion WHETHER PETTTIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES, HIS RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE, AND HIS RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNS…
18-5364 Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DENIAL OF AUSTIN'S PETITION UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2254 FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPU…
18-5351 Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Under the modest standard for a certificate of appealability, is it at least debatable that the state court unreasonably ignored both Borhan's jus…
18-5348 Gary Clack v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance …
18-5338 DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate Of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t…
18-5333 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability when Evidence Exsists Clearly Ineffective For Failure To Exculpatory Evidence and /oDisclose Appellant Evid…
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework 1. Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an where (1) the state has removed ce…
18-5216 Johnny Allen Martin v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-violation counsel-right criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance statutory-provisions threshold-determination DOES THE PETITIONER HAVE A NONWAIVABLE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW? DIRECT APPEAL FROM HIS OR HER CONVICTION, AND ON THE MERIT OF H…
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent This Court has jurisdiction to determine federal constitutional issues that have been incorrectly decided by State courts of last resort. Mr. Ross rai…
18-5201 Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Reasonable jurists would determine that defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to: A) object to the introduction of…
18-5177 Herman Majors v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li…
18-5094 Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser…
18-5162 Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o…
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987)(holding that on direct review a new constitut…
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering THE HALL COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CONTACTED THE GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (HEREIN AFTER G.B.I.) AND TOLD THEM NOT TO RELEASE MITIGATION…
18-5141 Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas Texas 2018-07-05 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules Should Mr. Frederiksen continue to suffer and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction, when the lower state courts fail to compl…
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court IS THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN CONFLICT WITH OR …
18-5103 Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-03 Denied IFP appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a lesser included alternative defense and faili…
18-5068 Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Does defense counsel in a second degree depraved indifference murder case violate the requirements of Strickland v. Washington by failing to investiga…
18-5044 Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred when it denied Petitioner's petition for issuance of a certificate of appealability to …
18-5057 James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagbys' claims…
18-5048 John W. Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery attempted-murder criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington WHETHER TAYLOR WAS DENIEO HIS RIGUT TO EFFECTIVE ASSITANCE EP TRIAL COUNSEL GURANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENOMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITNTZON? WHETHE…
18-5006 Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable…
18-5023 Glenn Edwards v. United States Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENY PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR SUPRESS EVIDENCE USED TO OBTAIN SEARCH WARRANT VIOLATED THE PETITIO…
25A216 Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-counsel death-penalty evolving-standards ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A240 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete due-process faretta-hearing ineffective-assistance pro-se self-representation sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A568 Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Application ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment transcript-access trial-counsel Question not identified.
25A378 Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied capital-punishment defense-strategy ineffective-assistance retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A391 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default Question not identified.
24A308 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas Question not identified.
24A723 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina Denied death-penalty ineffective-assistance racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Question not identified.