| 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… |
| 19-8814 |
Nicholas Alexander Davis v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process federal-habeas lockett-v-ohio mitigating-evidence payne-v-tennessee |
Under the auspices of Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), victim Marcus Smith's life mattered more to the State of Oklahoma in capital sentencing… |
| 19-6101 |
Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty factfinder harm lockett-v-ohio mitigating-circumstances prejudice |
1. Should the Court recalibrate the frameworks for judging the prejudice or harm of capital sentencing errors in jurisdictions where the factfinder ma… |
| 18-9676 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona |
In light of these decisions, the Fifth Circuit's denial of Randy Halprin's motion for a COA gives rise to the following questions:
1. Has the Fifth C… |
| 18-6713 |
Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability |
Whether Oklahoma's "moral culpability" jury instruction, which restricts consideration of mitigating evidence of a defendant's mental health and backg… |
| 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… |