| 21-5778 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review |
Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as its ow… |
| 19-6987 |
Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo |
Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis to deny Petit… |
| 19-5964 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner met his burden under 28 U.S.C. 2244(B)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2) to file a second or successive 2255 based on United States v. Davis |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8104 |
Robert William Frazier v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the circuit justice supplanted the COA screening procedure with a merits analysis |
| 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 |
| 18-6024 |
Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit |
Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contravene Buck v. Davis |