| 25-5317 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who… |
| 20-1009 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry v. David Martinez Ramirez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Relisted (3) |
aedpa evidentiary-development federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
Whether AEDPA's bar on evidentiary development under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) applies to a federal court's merits review of a claim when a court excuses… |
| 20-6275 |
William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel |
Would jurist of reason disagree and find debatable the correctness of the Sixth and District Courts' finding of effective assistance of counsel |
| 19-979 |
Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality |
Whether a State's interest in a judgment's finality is forfeited when the state fails to elicit the truth or fails to correct evidence it should know … |
| 19-7013 |
Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel, false promises by detectives du… |
| 19-5291 |
Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of… |
| 18-9533 |
Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction |
Whether Martinez v. Ryan allows a case to be overturned if the plaintiff can show a high probability of a substantially different outcome at the trial… |
| 18-8655 |
Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in deferring to the Arkansas State Courts' finding that Mr. Holloway was not prejudiced by both his trial and ap… |
| 18-8527 |
Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Whether the courts applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability |
| 18-7631 |
Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler |
Whether the United States District Court decision that Mr. Haley cannot establish cause to excuse the procedural default of his substantial claims of … |
| 18-7540 |
David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court |
Should this Court revisit its precedent to consider whether death-sentenced inmates are entitled to the effective assistance of counsel on initial col… |
| 18-6454 |
Charles Nash v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler |
Whether a post-conviction attorney's failure to argue or present proof in support of raised substantial ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims… |
| 18-6033 |
Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence equitable-principles indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners ineffective-assistance post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-interference state-law-limits |
Where there are inherent state law limits placed upon post-conviction counsel and hence indigent petitioners' ability to present his/her substantial p… |
| 18-5959 |
John Ingebretsen v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a request for a certificate of appealability |