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25-429 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau Second Circuit 2025-10-08 Granted immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu…
24-5060 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir…
23-7814 James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing Whether sentences of life without parole, as applied to juvenile offenders, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment…
23-7505 Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supervised Release Statute/probation for life violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment for misdemeanor …
23-7088 Brian T. Hill v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel due-process equal-protection jury-trial ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing quorum Does a two-judge panel constitute a quorum?
23-6824 Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the application of a 'grade A' violation for a local crime, which resulted in the peti…
23-6779 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest mathews-test mathews-v-eldridge parole parole-board-discretion parole-procedures Do Nebraska's current parole procedures still meet the requirements of the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause under the test set out in Mathews v. El…
23-6688 Christian Alejandro Estrella v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement parole parole-search police-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicionless-search suspicionless-seizure Does probable cause to believe that a person is on parole suffice for a suspicionless seizure and search or is knowledge of parole status required?
23-759 Gary Eugene Maddox, Jr. v. Maryland Parole Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) affidavit civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment parole perjury privacy privacy-violation tracking-without-permission Did chairman David R Blumberg unlawfully and knowingly commit perjury?
23-6323 Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Florida 2023-12-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence mandatory-minimum parole photo-array plea-bargaining sentencing witness-testimony Does a criminal court deprive a defendant of due process by accepting a guilty plea without informing them about a mandatory term of parole as a requi…
23-6322 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape Whether petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair parole hearing
23-6300 Richard Paiva v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2023-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-protection due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration parole parole-eligibility sentence sentencing-procedure statutory-rights Are the protections of the 14th-Amendment-Due-Process-Clause triggered, when an incarcerated-person has a statutory-right-to-be-parole-eligible during…
23-6076 Timothy Ricardo Pedraza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility statutory-interpretation texas Whether a State or US Court of Appeals abused its discretion and/or committed plain error for a misapplication of state law (statute)
23-6026 Phillip Rehwald v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus parole revocation standing Whether Phillip Swann was deprived of his U.S. Constitutional due process rights by the revocation within his state parole (Vio. P. Gej2) of March 5, …
23-5929 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the construction of the Aggregate Series & the Pot of Aid Parole Release is constitutional
23-5531 Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Oregon 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing Is the Ex Post Facto Clause violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date and exchange it with an indeterminate release date bas…
23-5097 Allen Auten v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing Whether the California Supreme Court prejudicially abused its discretion and acted in excess of jurisdiction when it refused to issue a decision on th…
23-5017 Jerry A. Smith v. Indiana Parole Board, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process government-misconduct parole public-importance sentencing Polatic Inporteace ; Queshons
22-7723 Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-1022 Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. Nevada 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation Whether two separate acts passed by a state legislature concerning the same topic should be interpreted harmoniously
22-7280 Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-13 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when he was misinformed about the length of his life sentence and parole eligibility require…
22-7229 Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2023-04-06 GVR IFP capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina Whether Petitioner's guilty pleas were involuntary due to the trial judge's misrepresentation that life with the possibility of parole was a sentencin…
22-7066 Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant can be found guilty for a parole violation and a criminal violation for illegal possession of a firearm if it is illegal to tran…
22-6992 Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time Whether it is legal to start a prison sentence, then stop it and then restart it by adding more time, is it legal to revoke street time on parole when…
22-6917 Stevie Andre Roberson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection false-information liberty-interest parole parole-board procedural-rights texas-parole-statute Whether prisoners have a constitutionally protected liberty interest in parole release under the 14th Amendment
22-6737 John Edward Butler v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-02-09 Denied IFP criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and Eighth Amendment were violated by North Caro…
22-6599 Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2023-01-23 Denied IFP criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness Question not identified
22-5922 Andrew S. Andersen v. Jennifer Shaffer, Executive Director, California Board of Parole Hearings Ninth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied IFP beliefs-thoughts civil-rights due-process due-process-clause first-amendment free-speech government-benefit parole parole-regulations speech-suppression turner-test When a plaintiff alleges denial of a governmental benefit based on beliefs/thoughts and the benefit is conditioned on adopting government-approved bel…
22-5747 Demmerick Eric Brown v. Karen D. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ex-post-facto good-time-credit good-time-credits mandatory-parole parole parole-board-policy retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sentencing-modification Whether retroactive application of a parole board policy to revoke the good time credits of a parolee violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
22-5686 Curtis Lee Henderson, Sr. v. California California 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parole parole-denial youth-offender Was it cruel and unusual punishment to change Henderson's sentence from 45-to-life plus years to life, without parole, without a court hearing after s…
22-5045 Shaheed Scott, Sr., aka Rodney L. Scott v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights confinement-challenge due-process early-release habeas-corpus parole parole-hearing procedural-defect Did the Ninth Circuit Court properly deny habeas petition
21-8150 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole
21-8143 Marcus Branch v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers Was the double-jeopardy clause violated?
21-8074 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-8029 Hunter Adam Melnick v. Colorado State Board of Parole Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit caprice-and-arbitrariness constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review parole parole-hearing statutory-guidelines Did the Petitioner present enough evidence to show the denying of a constitutional right
21-8019 Levelt Dewarren Musgraves v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law-application juvenile-lifers parole sentencing sentencing-modification state-court-review Whether the Wisconsin state courts failed to conduct a complete review of the Public Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue, and whether …
21-7897 Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings whether-the-court-has-misinterpreted-an-ex-post-facto-violation-within-the-context-of-parole
21-7570 Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing Should this Court review the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to deny the Petitioner the right to have his unwarranted guilty plea looked in…
21-7389 John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Whether a financially solvent prisoner has a constitutional right to receive in forma pauperis status to file a meritorious petition for writ of certi…
21-7325 Michael T. Braxton v. Tonya James, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review parole statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Can a state deny due process by making a parole agreement on AFTER and in contrast to a vast majority of appeals courts' rulings
21-7185 Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Maryland 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment extends to governmental release systems for juvenile offenders
21-7052 Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm Whether a 129-year sentence for a non-homicide offense committed as a juvenile violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punish…
21-7041 Anthony Andrews v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process parole revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred in revoking the petitioner's supervised release under 18 U.S.C. 3583(e)(3)
21-6949 Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying all claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255 related to th…
21-6918 Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
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…
21-844 Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Dismissed civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no…
21-6479 Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process Whether the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole violated petitioner's substantive due process rights
21-6404 Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-5810 Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing Whether the administrator of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut…
21-5787 In Re Randall Thomas McArty 2021-09-24 Dismissed IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. §2254 would function as a recognition of habeas corpus jurisdiction, declaring judgment and injunctive relief to enjoin respondents'…
21-5639 Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas erred in holding that the petitioner wa…
21-5160 Rodney Ledell Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-1728 Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin…
20-8287 Kenneth Wayne Walker, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-7941 Kiandrick Onick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-7846 Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. New York 2021-04-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will not …
20-7744 Millard Price v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court Question not identified
20-7525 Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process?
20-7278 Charles Dennis Friedman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision departs so vastly from the accepted course of judicial proceedings—by forcing a litigant to challenge a decision …
20-7149 Michael John Gaddy v. C. E. Ducart, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest minimal-protections parole prison-officials Whether petitioner was afforded minimal due process protections as set forth in Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, 442 …
20-7026 Jerome Berry v. Teri Lawson, Superintendent, Farmington Correctional Center Missouri 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-application board-of-probation discriminatory-treatment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus missouri-sexual-offenders-program parole sexual-offenders state-courts Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner was entitled to immediate release due to the Missouri Board of Probation and Paroles ar…
20-7041 Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus as unauthorized and successive
20-6825 Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke Did this Court's ruling in Swarthout v. Cooke and Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges against statements of reasons…
20-6623 Raymond Ka-Lun Pin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-grievance civil-rights constitutional-rights discretionary-parole due-process equal-protection imprisonment parole sentencing takings Whether the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's due process rights by the arbitrary enforcement of a void dis…
20-6398 Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against…
20-6244 Thomas M. Ha v. Christine Popoff, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation cross-examination due-process morrissey-precedent morrissey-v-brewer parole parolee-rights revocation-hearing witness-confrontation Whether the holding in Morrissey v. Brewer extends to revocation hearings
20-6116 Terry Joseph Wernicke, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder juvenile-offender life-sentence parole Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of paro…
20-6102 Dontayous Tonard Cameron v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment parole revocation-sentence sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment statutory-maximum supervised-release Is 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) unconstitutional as applied?
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does USPS Form 3811 meet 28 USC 2244 evidentiary standard for equitable tolling?
20-5979 Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing Whether the court can recall and/or resentence the defendant upon recommendation of the district attorney due to change in circumstances since the inm…
20-5835 Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California California 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement Can a state parole board commit a fatal error by the refusal to entertain favorable evidence of the state prisoner for his suitability to be released …
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word 'shall' binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision
20-5461 Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board New Jersey 2020-08-28 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing Whether the petitioner's case is similar to Trantino v. State of N.J. Parole Board, where the petitioner was issued a retaliatory extended term senten…
20-5484 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. J. C. Smith, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fifth-amendment parole parole-revocation retaliation supervisory-liability Whether Petitioner's claims that his parole was revoked due to invoking his Fifth Amendment Right to refuse to incriminate himself could establish Sup…
20-5454 Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings Whether a specified § 333.7 C1 stage-1, Cig bl Le Review' initial hearing' can be considered a actual product for a mandated judicial individualized P…
20-5019 Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of…
19-8849 Linda Pedroza v. Florida Florida 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position …
19-8775 Kirby Gardner v. Texas Texas 2020-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum Whether Pete Tia was deprived of due process of law
19-8713 Michael K. Bailey v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus liberty-interest parole parole-board prosecutorial-misconduct Can a state prisoner be incarcerated forever based on falsehoods to prejudice parole decisions?
19-1358 Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders Michigan 2020-06-11 Denied Response Waived alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a state to impanel a jury to determine the offense-related facts which establish a criminal defendant's earliest …
19-8551 Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing Does a life sentence without parole for a 19-year-old violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment?
19-8355 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-24 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection federal-grants federal-statute parole parole-eligibility prisoners-rights private-prisons sentencing-rules state-corrections truth-in-sentencing Whether 34 U.S.C.A. § 12104's (Formerly cited as 42 U.S.C.A. § 13704) 85% requirement disturb States' settled parole statutes regarding eligibility fo…
19-8303 Wadress Metoyer, Jr. v. Delynn Fudge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range truth-in-sentencing Did the Oklahoma legislature mandate a truth-in-sentencing act to provide a meaningful opportunity for parole release
19-8258 Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional
19-8057 Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana Indiana 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles?
19-7838 Anthony Shockey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test, should the failure be treated as a crime or a manifestation of a disease?
19-7799 Desmond Baker v. Florida Florida 2020-02-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit mandatory sentencing laws which require sentencing every j…
19-7676 Robert Jackson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-alabama national-consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life imp…
19-7560 Michael Swain v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-action circuit-court-conflict constitutional-protections due-process federal-law government-agency habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief parole parole-board Did the judges of the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when they affirmed the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to pet…
19-7528 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing Whether TS Appellant is entitled to release on his own recognizance after demonstrating all conditions for release
19-7459 Christopher Peyton v. Ravonne Sims, Warden, et al. Kentucky 2020-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process familial-visitation family-bonds grievance-procedure incarceration-rights parole rehabilitation visitation Does incarceration sever a person's right to maintain familiar bonds through some form of visitation?
19-7418 Jody Gifford v. Florida Florida 2020-01-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing 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…
19-7438 Javion Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee is a special-needs probationary search or a law-enforcement search
19-7309 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (5)IFP capital-punishment chambers-exception chambers-v-mississippi codefendant-confession due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence innocence parole third-party-confession Was the Florida Supreme Court's analysis of Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), employing a factor-based approach that has been embraced by …
19-7249 Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court has the authority to impose a new sentence of imprisonment after the original term of supervised release has expired
19-6881 April Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres?
19-720 United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-06 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether Miller v. Alabama entitles respondent to invalidation of a discretionary life-without-parole sentence
19-6867 Jose Luis Maya v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asylum civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process immigration jurisdiction parole standing statutory-provisions Whether the Department of Homeland Security's policy of denying parole to asylum seekers violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Proc…
19-6710 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere…
19-6692 Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release Whether the revocation of supervised release and imposition of additional imprisonment for a violation of the conditions of supervised release violate…
19-6649 Alfred L. Brooks v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment dismissed-allegations double-jeopardy due-process extrajudicial-proceeding extrajudicial-proceedings parole parole-hearing plea-agreement Can state District Attorney's Office and/or California Board of Parole Hearings utilize Parole Consideration Hearings as extrajudicial proceedings to …
19-6594 David Ingraham v. Florida Florida 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP violate the principals of due-process constitutional-fairness due-process eight-amendment eighth-amendment judicial-integrity juvenile-offenders parole stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous decision violate due-process,judicial-integrity
19-6518 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme Whether the petitioner's sentence violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
19-6440 Mitchell Lavern Ludy v. James W. Mills, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process liberty-interest parole state-regulations state-requirements Whether Georgia prisoners would have a liberty interest in parole if the Georgia parole board would as mandated by state requirements for parole in it…
19-6314 Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
19-6327 Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the modification of a sentence and re-sentencing under the position 51 of the California Penal Code Section 1170(d) is valid due to the circum…
19-6292 Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's findings
19-6254 Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho Idaho 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility Does a juvenile life sentence with parole eligibility after a lengthy term violate the Eighth Amendment?
19-6147 James Sardakowski v. Mike Romero, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection housing-assistance mental-health mental-health-disability non-discrimination parole parole-hearing reoffending-risk Does Mr. Sardakowski have a constitutional right to non-discrimination at a parole hearing with regards to a mental health disabilities?
19-6097 Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied IFP administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional?
19-399 Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama applies only to mandatory sentences
19-6057 Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of life sentences on juvenile offenders convicted …
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does U.S. v. Knights and Griffin v. Wisconsin still precedent to be relied on?
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations Whether the ex post facto clause is violated when a newly modified state parole regulation is applied
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the judge abuse discretion by categorically denying career offenders benefits under the First Step Act?
19-5859 Edward Wesby v. Florida Florida 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-standard miller-v-alabama parole parole-eligibility Whether Florida's current parole system provides a meaningful opportunity for release to juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with eligib…
19-5762 Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida Florida 2019-08-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one 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…
19-5751 Charles Massengill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of…
19-5665 Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing Whether the petitioner's conviction for a misdemeanor violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) should be vacated due to the unconstitutionality of the statute …
19-5673 Dennis Calo v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fairness-doctrine judicial-discretion judicial-review ohio-constitution parole parole-board standing state-constitution state-courts Are Ohio's courts performing a 'front operation to shield Ohio's parole board and department of rehabilitation and correction from exposure for corrup…
19-5633 James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing Whether the court below waived its policy of not reviewing or overturning decisions from the D.C. Appeals Court
19-5355 Benny Ray Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment hearing-neutrality judicial-procedure neutral-hearing-body parole plea-bargaining probation probation-revocation revocation-hearing waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant waives his right, under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, to a neutral and detached hearing body at his probation-rev…
19-5230 Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Tennessee 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole is legal?
19-5127 William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)-2 old law parole statute apply to petitioner's 1980 95 year aggregate federal sentence
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-9626 In Re Rexford Tweed 2019-06-11 Dismissed IFP capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute Whether petitioner's Florida capital life prison sentence with a 25-year minimum mandatory followed by eligibility for parole under Florida Statute §7…
18-9377 John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing Whether the Conditional release of an individual violates due process
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Dismissed IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the …
18-9119 Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the Full Faith & Credit Clause, Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the State of Texas from re-prosecuting & re-imprisoning petitioner for an exp…
18-9113 Glen Moore v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts double-jeopardy due-process liberty-interests parole parole-revocation retroactive-law retroactive-punishment standing Do Texas Board of Parole have the constitutional authority to change laws or to take away a prisoner's liberty interests without due process of law?
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-8922 In Re Efrain Campos 2019-04-19 Denied IFP due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution
18-8866 Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders Whether compelled self-incrimination through the use of polygraph examinations as a requirement of parole violates parolees' Fifth and Fourteenth Amen…
18-8711 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-record due-process family-law parole probation sentencing Can a court deny a defendant permission to cohabitate with his or her child and the child's other parent while on probation or parole solely because t…
18-8701 Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida Florida 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w…
18-8704 Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas Texas 2019-04-04 Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment, prohibition against crue…
18-8562 Joseph Charles Tice v. Rupert Markley Dennis, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights conditional-freedom criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole standing Did Ruger' Mockdey Dennis Se Aepgerd Leow Woe accepted ana) Usual Course of Pre. \\udicral groceedinags ?
18-8397 Michael Victory v. California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP balisok civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-decision-maker larkin mcclure murchison murchison-v-michigan parole parole-hearing peremptory-challenge quasi-judicial quasi-judicial-immunity Did defendants engage in a policy denying parole to a class of plaintiffs?
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 (1964) as to erron…
18-8197 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)?
18-8200 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Texas legislature's strategic dismantling of the SAFE-Keeping proviso of the 1987-Amended Law violates substantive due process
18-7955 Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses Whether individuals who receive a determinate sentence do not need a parole consideration hearing to be released from prison at the end of their sente…
18-7864 Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden Ohio 2019-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling Is it Lawful, For The State Of Ohio to Hold The Herein Petitioner In Illegal Confinement, 'Under' Statutes That: The ' United States Supreme Court Has…
18-7803 Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied IFP eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing Is it time to extend the Eighth Amendment protections enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to late adolescent homicide offenders?
18-7827 Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder…
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
18-7359 Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole Tennessee 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off…
18-7295 Earnest Barnes v. Florida Florida 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life…
18-7159 Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson Whether reasonable tourists would find the district court's resolution of petitioner's due process claim debatable or wrong with respect to extending …
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 Whether the decision below is irreconcilable with Lafler v. Cooper and the reasonable probability standard for analyzing prejudice in ineffective assi…
18-7034 Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s…
18-7019 Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden Nevada 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing Does the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825, create a categorical bar against the applic…
18-6588 Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe…
18-6469 Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-30 Denied IFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6475 Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias
18-6407 Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue failed to state a claim' is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson
18-6355 Christian Dominique Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination
18-6231 Dawud Rahim v. South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services Fourth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-circuit notice notice-requirement parole parole-revocation procedural-rights standing state-deference Was the petitioner denied procedural due process when the respondent failed to notify him prior to the reconvening of the Parole Board to reconsider a…
18-6149 Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6088 Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6019 John Randall Quintero v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice parole separation-of-powers standing Whether the legislative mandate of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-1,135 violates the separation of powers doctrine by requiring the judicial branch to conduct a…
18-5986 Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center Missouri 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether Missouri's parole laws and procedures violate the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide juvenile offenders a meaningful and realistic opportu…
18-6000 Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida should also benefit from the Florida Supreme Court's ruling in Atwell v. St…
18-5873 Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Dismissed IFP behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing Whether prisoners can earn behavioral credits and why courts deny prisoners the ability to challenge loss of such credits
18-5854 Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces…
18-5737 Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying a 'Fifth Circuit Principle' that discretionary parole rules do not violate ex post facto clause
18-5764 Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in…
18-5715 Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse Did this Court's decision in Samson v. California overturn the 'stalking horse' doctrine?
18-5722 Keith Robert Lugo v. California California 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedures-act board-of-prison-terms constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-offender juvenile-parole parole senate-bill-261 some-evidence standard-of-proof Whether the Board of Prison Terms Violated Senate Bill 261 for Failing to Apply the Legally Correct Standard of Analysis
18-5671 In Re Kenneth Simpson 2018-08-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release Whether a court can refuse to address a claim that an individual is being incarcerated under an unconstitutional statute, even when the individual has…
18-5601 Jose Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a…
18-5583 Stephen Brian Turner v. Melody Smith, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity judicial-review parole parole-conditions quasi-judicial-role right-to-marry standing Whether parole conditions can prohibit the fundamental right to marry
18-5485 William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding by the U…
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Whether extraordinary circumstances exist that should afford Mr. Templeton equitable tolling of any time limit within which he had to file the underly…
18-5290 Ronald Long v. George Robinson, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure corrections due-process parole presentence-report standing state-law Did the N.J. State Parole deny Petitioner Due Process by conducting a parole hearing without having a mandatory presentence report?
18-5257 Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-07-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Commission on Offender Review (formerly the Florida Parole Commission) unconstitutionally operates under Florida Senate and House …