legal-innocence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 24-7040 | Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Does Jones v Hendrix , 599 U.S. 465 (2023), a recent Supreme Court holding which only addresses "[] a prisoner asserting an intervening change in… |
| 24-5644 | Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence | 1. Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to someone who is legally or statutory innocent, in where an indiv… |
| 24-5410 | Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa constitutional-rights ex-post-facto habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation | Whether the decision in Jones v Hendrix, 143 S. Ct. 1857 (2023) can be applied retroactively "rescinding habeas Corpus review of Statutory Interpretat… |
| 23-6011 | Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | To the exception to the rule termed in 28 U.S.C. §2255(e), the "escape hatch" or "saving clause" - does it permit a federal prisoner to "file a habeas… |
| 23-5836 | Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel | 1.) To be issued a COA : Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right as enunciated in Sl… |
| 22-7827 | Scott Anderson v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-innocence reasonable-jurist sufficiency-of-evidence | Is a defendant legally and factually innocent, if the State fails to prove each and every element of the crime {facts}, and the facts do not establish… |
| 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. |
| 21-857 | Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at… |
| 20-7494 | Kirk A. Simmons v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-issue fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-innocence rule-60 rule-60-motion standing | 1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's Rule 60 motion, which asserted evidence falsification and Fraud on the … |
| 20-5132 | Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether Petitioner Is actually, Factually, Legally, and Lawfully Innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) recently decided by T… |
| 18-5559 | Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law | Whether the state of Oregon's imposition of a true life sentence under a three strikes sentencing recidivist enhancement statute is a miscarriage of j… |