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25-6947 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-03-03 Pending Amici (1)IFP capital-sentencing cumulative-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase 1. Must federal habeas courts reweigh the "totality of available mitigating evidence," Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510, 534 (2003), when deciding penal…
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.
25-6367 Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a…
25-5745 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-09-27 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rules due-process mitigating-evidence postconviction-litigation supremacy-clause 1. Has Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of postconviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of retroa…
25-5096 Christopher John Spreitz v. Arizona Arizona 2025-07-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit 1. Whether in conducting independent sentencing review to cure a constitutional error in a capital case, a court must consider all of the evidence in …
25-5061 Ronald Johnson v. Kansas Kansas 2025-07-09 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence prisoner-rights sentencing Question not identified.
24-7365 Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. Florida Florida 2025-06-05 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent and fundamental misapprehension of this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), an…
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…
24-6933 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 …
24-5725 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.
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.
23-7091 Brandon De McCall v. Texas Texas 2024-03-28 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness Where jurors were instructed that they may only consider mitigating evidence to be evidence that "reduces the defendant's moral blameworthiness," and …
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…
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 …
23-5277 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…
22-7135 Victoria Michelle Drain v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment capital-sentencing defense-counsel eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence ohio-supreme-court sentencing-review strategic-choice Counsel and capital defendant s frequently clash over whether and what mitigating evidence to present in support of a sentence less than deat h. In Oh…
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.
22-6488 John F. Mosley v. Florida Florida 2023-01-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona IL The first question presented is whether excluding evidence of a history of sexual abuse in Mr. Mosley's family of origin was contrary to this Court…
22-6396 John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact John Edward Sansing pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies with no agreements offered by the state. During the sentencing proceeding…
22-6149 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2022-11-23 Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment WEATHER A Re - SeuJTEAICIAI^ HEARING^ .UNDER THE MEVJ . .. LaVJ SeMaTE 2mL\_ - 13^3, JbMT.TLES ft DEFENDANT __ The Hi^hT. _io _effective S-ixth — AMD-…
22-5998 Jeffrey Wingate v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors 1) Whether due process is violated when, in the event a defendant submits mitigating evidence in a rule 35 (b) resentencing that has a connection to…
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…
22-5536 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t…
22-5513 Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-09-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori…
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…
21-7249 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.
21-7234 Dylann Storm Roof v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-defendant constitutional-rights counsel counsel-authority defense-strategy due-process mental-health-mitigation mental-illness mitigating-evidence trial-procedure 1. When a competent capital defendant and his counsel disagree on whether to present mitigating evidence depicting him as mentally ill, who gets the f…
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…
21-6954 Robert Jurado v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment confession-evidence constitutional-amendments double-jeopardy mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review penalty-phase plea-bargaining skipper-standard 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the California Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply federal law or unreasonably determine facts in…
21-5724 Devin Lee Rintye v. California California 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation Does a State Court Violate a defendant's due process rights, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court …
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…
20-7589 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-state-court strickland-analysis 1. Can a federal habeas court conducting a penalty phase Strickland analysis ignore post-conviction mitigating evidence that is materially different i…
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.
20-7065 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…
20-6684 Daniel Todd Silveria v. California California 2020-12-22 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-case due-process joint-trial mitigating-evidence severance 1. May a court exclude significant mitigating evidence in a capital case by joining two codefendants in a single trial before a single jury? 2. When …
20-6294 Richard L. Sealey v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP capital-trial continuance continuance-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice trial-court-discretion At the penalty phase of Mr. Sealey's capital trial, the State ended its case in aggravation earlier than expected. The defense made a motion for a bri…
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…
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…
19-1400 Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, LLC v. State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration Florida 2020-06-23 Denied administrative-law causation due-process license-revocation licensure-revocation mitigating-evidence notice opportunity-to-be-heard strict-liability substantial-causes As a Licensee facing revocation, the most severe punishment possible, the Licensee has a fundamental due process right to meaningful notice and opport…
19-8605 Courtland Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat…
19-8581 Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an …
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…
19-8105 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…
19-7647 William P. Castillo v. Nevada Nevada 2020-02-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review apprendi apprendi-line capital-punishment capital-sentencing clemons-v-mississippi death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence mitigation-evidence reweighing Nevada courts instruct juries that they may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a r…
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…
19-7498 James Earvin Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process psychiatric-mitigating-evidence time-bar-exception united-states-v-fessel Where counsel lies about the existence of psychiatric mitigating evidence and deries the accused the use of 18 U.S.C. § 3ooloAle) in United States v. …
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-21 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement (1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration…
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…
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…
18-9614 Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded …
18-9257 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
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…
18-8666 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 …
18-8583 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…
18-8389 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…
18-1109 James Erin McKinney v. Arizona Arizona 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) aggravating-evidence arizona-supreme-court criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma mitigating-evidence resentencing sentencing sentencing-review 1. Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death …
18-7670 Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process 1. Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contr…
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…
18-6869 Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force …
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…
18-5640 Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. …
18-5231 Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-07-17 Denied IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke Question not identified.
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…
24A956 Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina Denied capital-punishment childhood-trauma ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.