post-conviction-relief

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25A902 Raymond Ghaloustian, aka Valnyk Matthewsi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Application appellate-review certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 Question not identified.
25A867 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama 2026-02-02 Application alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
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.
25A828 Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida Florida 2026-01-21 Application due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct serial-killer Question not identified.
25-6621 Lamar Reese v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending IFP legal-procedure ohio-revised-code petition-denial post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation trial-court-error Did the State trial Court err in denying Petitioner's Post Conviction Petition that was filed under Ohio Revised Code 2953.23(A)(1)?
25-6497 Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals ' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific c…
25A750 Joseph Allen Maldonado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-29 Application brady-violation criminal-procedure invited-error post-conviction-relief recantation rule-33 Question not identified.
25A458 Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Application exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether a federal habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is timely when the petitioner has pursued multiple state post-conviction remedies and f…
25A449 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2025-10-17 Application appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly applied retroactive legal standards in denying a post-conviction relief petition by failing to adhere …
25-5719 In Re Flenoid Greer 2025-09-24 Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation exceptional-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-prisoner Where a State Prisoner is unconstitutionally detained and the State's post-conviction rules foreclose relief, and no other adequate relief is availabl…
25A305 Ernest Edward Gaines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief based on alleged due process violations during post-conviction DNA testing when the testing …
25-218 Brian Smith v. Florida Florida 2025-08-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take Precedence over Case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988? When a circuit court judge does n…
25-5422 Lamont Johnson v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied IFP federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-bar second-successive-application state-action Whether a second in time habeas application which raises a claim that the petitioner was prevented by state action from raising in a prior application…
25-5324 Kenneth Alfred Linville, Jr. v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief A. Did the state and federal courts decide that newly discovered evidence was not newly discovered evidence on the checks? B. Did the state and feder…
25A112 Brian Leslie Finkel v. Arizona Arizona 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete due-process extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief sentence-correction Whether a state supreme court can deny an extraordinary writ application seeking sentence correction when the petitioner claims the original sentencin…
25-5106 Milad Shaker v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-court jurisdictional-nullity post-conviction-relief 1. Whether a court may impose sentencing or supervised release after dismissing a criminal case under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) , whe…
25-5097 Michael Bell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP brady-violation due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief successive-petition Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Giglio in his initial § 2254 motion, should a second-in-time mot…
25-5023 Mychal Andra Reed v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-appointed-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se-representation procedural-rights racial-justice-act sixth-amendment 1) Can the Superior court rightfully force petitioner to except court appointed counsel for his P.C.. Section 745(a) RACIAL Justice Act proceedings th…
25-1 James Skinner v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-07-01 Pending Amici (7)Relisted (5) brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-precedent post-conviction-relief Did Louisiana courts err in refusing to apply Wearry to Mr. Skinner's Brady claims?
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 Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent misapprehension of Brady v. Maryland and its progeny deprives Mr. Wainwright of due process rights, and…
24-7234 In Re David Diehl 2025-05-16 Dismissed IFP district-court-jurisdiction federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-successive-claims statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
24-7181 Robert Carl Sharp v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the Cuyler v. Sullivan standard for conflict of interest apply uniformly across circuits when assessing Sixth Amendment violations in successive …
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does the narrow 'cause' requirement announced by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan preclude prisoners from establishing 'cause' for purposes of excusing …
24-7157 Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana Indiana 2025-05-07 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule post-conviction-relief state-court-procedure Whether the Indiana Supreme Court is violating due process by foreclosing both State and Federal review by failing to allow the development of an inef…
24-6989 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation post-conviction-relief strickland-standard williams-v-taylor Did the lower federal courts violate the rule of Williams v. Taylor by attributing fault for not developing factual support of a claim in state court …
24-6956 Jimmy Dale Stone v. David Louthan, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Due Process Clause by denying Jimmy Dale Stone's petition for a COA and findin…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-6850 Philip Jude Moran v. Florida Florida 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the state appellate court misapplied the Strickland prejudice standard when affirming the denial of Petitioner Moran's ineffective assistance …
24A274 Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-03-18 Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or…
24-6716 Deepak Deshpande v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by Federal Prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §…
24-6668 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP agency-relationship federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-exhaustion Whether attorney abandonment in state PCR proceedings excuses a petitioner's failure to develop factual basis of a claim under 28 U.S.C § 2254(e)(2)
24-6541 Bartholomew Granger v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-writ criminal-procedure federal-constitutional-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-law-ground Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained abuse-of-writ ruling constitutes an adequate and independent state-law ground for denying pos…
24-6533 Jon Anthony Schweder v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statute-of-limitations Whether a criminal defendant can challenge the jurisdiction of a trial court on constitutional grounds after failing to raise such arguments in prior …
24-6510 James D. Ford v. Florida Florida 2025-02-08 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether Florida's use of the 'conformity clause' in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi…
24-6472 Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama Alabama 2025-02-05 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief strickland-standard Under the extreme circumstances of this case, can a state court deny a Strickland claim on the merits without conducting an evidentiary hearing?
24-6480 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus jurisdictional-bar post-conviction-relief Does 28 U.S.C. Section 2244(b)(1) apply to claims brought in second or successive motions for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. Section 2255?
24-6450 Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida Florida 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery Whether a Florida court's denial of post-conviction relief for a sexual battery conviction violates the petitioner's constitutional rights under the E…
24-6308 LaDon Maurice Green v. Florida Florida 2025-01-15 Denied IFP constitutional-claim counsel-performance direct-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction-relief Whether the Florida Supreme Court has the authority to review a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel after a direct appeal when the claim was no…
24-6215 Liston Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-conviction plea-agreement post-conviction-relief Whether the right to effective assistance of counsel attaches during a 28 U.S.C. §2255 proceeding when counsel is communicating a plea agreement to th…
24-6152 Josh Pompey v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing equitable-tolling false-confession habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Whether a petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling on a first federal habeas petition based on new favorable DNA results and whether new DNA eviden…
24-594 Arthur Seale v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability criminal-judgment post-conviction-relief resentencing section-2255 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) bars courts of appeals from exercising jurisdiction over post-conviction appeals seeking full resentencing
24A495 Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas Texas 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure diplomatic-intervention foreign-national ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief texas-criminal-law Whether a foreign national's criminal conviction in Texas can be challenged on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel or procedural irregulariti…
24A457 Tony Lamons Gooch III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a state court to allow a criminal defendant to fully litigate ineffective assistance of counsel claims when the t…
24-5865 Reginald Donell Rice v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a criminal defendant's constitutio…
24-5823 Jose Bernazard v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a petitioner's due process rights …
24-5587 Clayton Cornelius Reynolds v. Texas Texas 2024-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a state court's denial of a criminal defendant's post-conviction re…
24-5570 In Re Joseph R. Dickey 2024-09-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
24-5493 Francisco Jose Lopez v. California California 2024-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-estoppel dna-testing due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief Did the doctrines of collateral and judicial estoppel bar the State from trying Petitioner for being the lone single shooter after convicting Andres R…
24-5470 Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether a state's post-conviction DNA testing statute unconstitutionally restricts a criminal defendant's ability to challenge a conviction through ne…
24-5474 Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP judicial-discretion mandate-recall post-conviction-relief section-2255 sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a motion to recall the mandate post-Ruan v. United States, given changes in statutory inter…
24-5445 Soren Richard Olsen, II v. Washington Washington 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-discretion Whether the lower court improperly applied prosecutorial discretion standards in denying post-conviction relief based on newly discovered evidence
24-5432 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-08-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief temporal-limitations Whether the temporal limitations imposed on a criminal defendant's post-conviction relief violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the…
24-5418 Donald G. Barnes, Sr. v. William Danforth, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance legal-remedy post-conviction-relief Whether a criminal defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by a post-conviction delay that impedes access to legal remedies a…
24-5346 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether a state's post-conviction DNA testing statute violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights when it imposes procedural barriers to acc…
24-5331 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-08-16 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine federal-claims habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-courts Whether principles of comity require federal courts to excuse exhaustion of state court remedies even if the state court decides not to adjudicate a p…
24-5260 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2024-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Whether Washington State's evidentiary rules regarding post-conviction relief violate due process when determining habeas corpus claims
24-5238 Robert Castle v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus houston-v-lack post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule statute-of-limitations Should Federal Courts apply the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) to state post conviction pleadings to commence t…
24A134 Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) to challenge a district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S…
24-5219 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's timely filed 2255(h) motion was erroneous and deprived petitioner of due process of law and an opp…
24-5154 Joel Jacobo Sanchez v. Brandon Kelly Ninth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-murder aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent-standard jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences post-conviction-relief Was petitioner's post-conviction counsel ineffective for not arguing that petitioner's trial counsel failed object to a 'natural and probable conseque…
24-5068 Frankie Wayne Pope v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court transcripts trial-fraud Question not identified.
24-26 Hugh H. Baldwin, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2024-07-10 Denied Response Waived bad-faith collateral-consequences due-process due-process,collateral-consequences,bad-faith,lega ineffective-assistance legal-counsel post-conviction-relief Did the State commit a Bad Faith Due Process Violation resulting in outstanding legal consequences to the petitioner, to wit: Significant Collateral C…
24-5022 Angela J. Wells v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights Should a domestic violence victim be eligible for relief under 735 ILCS 5/2-1401 even if she agrees to a plea bargain?
24-8 John Meyer v. John Pellegrin Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied attorney-liability breach-of-contract civil-procedure criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney exoneration legal-malpractice post-conviction-relief Whether a criminal defense lawyer should be held responsible for his actions and inactions even if his client is guilty of a lesser offense
24-5016 Michael Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant initially sentenced prior to the FSA's enactment; whose sentence was…
24-5010 Bryon Keith Creech v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-03 Denied IFP competency due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction withdrawal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation Question not identified
23A1165 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete circuit-court death-sentence federal-review first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in denying Mr. Phillips' …
23-7771 Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho Idaho 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court Is the Idaho state court in violation of the Brady-v-maryland rule by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing the th…
23A1127 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence
23-7726 Jason Robles v. Jeffery Artrip, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-law death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing Whether should prevail, The Constitution of the United States of America, coupled with the Constitution of Virginia or the Antiterrorism and Effective…
23-7681 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas Texas 2024-06-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief suppressed-evidence Question not identified
23-7647 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-review-proceeding post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel successive-petitions Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings?
23-7629 Robert Randall Ziegler v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel state-court-appeal whether-the-oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals-holding-that-the-oklahoma-current-post-conviction-procedure-act-has-precluded-the-conviction-relief
23-7609 Donald Washington, Sr. v. California California 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal Did the Defendant have the Right to Appeal his Conviction 48 years Ago as a Right?
23-7593 Kaleel Hinton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard petition-for-writ post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing time-limitations Whether the PCRA court erred in dismissing the PCRA petition as untimely, where the petitioner was abandoned by plea counsel who failed to file a moti…
23-7577 Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process good-cause ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief postconviction-counsel potentially-meritorious rhines-standard rhines-v-weber voir-dire Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel cannot establish 'good cause' under Rhines v. Weber? And…
23A1053 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-courts habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-conviction writ-petition Whether the federal courts improperly denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging a state court conviction and sentence
23-7550 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay about actions prohibited by state statute in secret …
23-7450 Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri Missouri 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law May the due process clause require the State Courts to provide a full and fair post-conviction proceeding, if authorized by state law and as such cons…
23-7412 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review Does Cronaias' testimony violate the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination?
23-7375 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-denial civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pleading-standards post-conviction-relief Whether the liberal Ninth Circuit's post-conviction pleading standards allow courts to arbitrarily deny prisoners post-conviction relief
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, to apply a 2023 decision (Howell v. State.) case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi's procedural…
23-7317 Michael A. Maggio v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute nunc-pro-tunc plea-bargaining plea-modification post-conviction-relief property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-limitation supreme-court-ruling Should Michael A. Maggio benefit from subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court that 18 U.S.C § 666(a)(1)(B) was limited to property right…
23-7292 Morris Fuller v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to an above-guideline sentence based on factors that were already accounted for in the g…
23-1145 Ojin Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co…
23-7262 Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit whether-the-tolling-statute-for-filing-a-timely-post-conviction-review-was-properly-applied
23-7237 William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-04-17 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with the constitutional framework?
23-7213 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-rights discovery discovery-request due-process government-misconduct judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Did the Defendant show good cause to obtain discovery after presenting evidence of government misconduct?
23-1092 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc-pro-tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's-choice
23-7152 Sean Burton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-05 Denied IFP brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial whether-the-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania-violated-the-brady-rule
23-7085 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default Where a state habeas court considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required post-conviction counsel was ineffe…
23-1055 Jeremy Alan Douglass v. Arizona Arizona 2024-03-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substance-abuse Whether evidence of a defense attorney's impairment due to substance abuse discovered after the first petition for post-conviction relief was decided …
23-7012 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure morris-defendant post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers standing treaty-rights Whether Oklahoma's Post-Conviction Procedure Act is adequate
23-6989 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion co-defendants compassionate-release criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing-factors Whether the lower court properly applied the evaluation of the sect. 3553 factors among differently situated co-defendant to denied Petitioner's compa…
23-6944 In Re Bob Eugene West 2024-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-relief habeas-corpus jury-unanimity oregon post-conviction-relief ramos-ruling ramos-v-louisiana state-inmate Can an Oregon State inmate file a federal habeas corpus petition to vacate a conviction under Ramos v. Louisiana?
23A821 William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-violation indigent-representation mootness-doctrine parole-revocation post-conviction-relief Whether South Carolina's appellate courts improperly applied the mootness doctrine in a case involving an unconstitutional parole revocation hearing t…
23-6893 Jacob A. Rubini v. Illinois Illinois 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor violated the defendant's due process rights by blocking testimony, knowingly using perjured testimony, and knowingly using fals…
23-6876 Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Is IP U.S.C. §1994 unconstitutionally vague or overbroad as applied in Bronson's Metaphysical attempt?
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Whether the petitioner's due process, fair trial, and 6th amendment rights were violated when the lower courts omitted, manipulated, and altered trial…
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Nevada Supreme Court violated petitioner's fundamental due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment by denying her pet…
23-942 Sherman Campbell, Warden v. Stephen J. Kares Sixth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied dna-testing federal-tolling habeas habeas-corpus judicial-reexamination judicial-review post-conviction-relief properly-filed state-postconviction-review statute-of-limitations Does Michigan's DNA testing statute toll the habeas limitations period?
23-6787 Jerry Means v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-law-rights Whether an indigent pro se defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising any claim of trial court error on direct app…
23-6807 Floyd William Damren v. Florida Florida 2024-02-22 Denied IFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-rule habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Does Florida's rule 3.851(d)(2)(A) violate petitioner's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
23-6642 David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Did La. Code Criminal Procedure, Article 142.3(B), Allow the Court's in Louisiana to deny destitute inmates the right to prove they are Factually Inno…
23-6644 Matthew Lane Durham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief trial-review Whether a federal prisoner can bring a free-standing claim of actual innocence to seek a new trial
23A674 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to consider newly discovered evidence of medical misdiagnosis that p…
23-6487 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marbury-v-madison martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez state-procedural-rules Do the Shinn v. Ramirez, 142 S. Ct. 1718, 596 U.S.___—(2022), and Martinez v. Ryan line of cases require the State to provide a post-conviction petiti…
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Whether the judge's bias against the petitioner justifies recusal and whether the court's denial of access to the courts based on the petitioner's ind…
23-6249 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2023-12-13 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition
23-6188 Otis Blaxton v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity Has the State of Florida waived immunity from suits under its own statute, Florida Statute § 768.28 and the Florida Constitution Art. X, § 13?
23A514 David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when challenging a state court's denial of post-conviction relief ba…
23-6115 Rakeem Barber v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-procedure state-courts Is Arizona's collateral review scheme adequate to vindicate the constitutional rights of non-capital defendants?
23A475 Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing or individualized review for juvenile offenders sentenced to mandatory life without the possibility…
23-6071 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the State violated Petitioner's substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-6073 William Shirley, IV v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief have-petitioner's-5th-and-14th-amendment-rights-been-violated
23A460 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel violates a defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel by forcing the defen…
23A461 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel can constitutionally deny an indigent defendant representation by forcing a choice between direct a…
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment whether-escobar-vs-texas-applies-retroactively
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § 2255…
23-5945 Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether inadequate assistance of counsel at initial-review collateral proceedings may establish cause for a prisoner's procedural default of a claim o…
23A335 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez Whether a state court conviction violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when photographic evidence of innocence was not presented…
23-5780 Denis Chavez v. Florida Florida 2023-10-12 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid
23A321 Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence due-process innocence-claim judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief recanted-expert-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to grant post-conviction relief based on recanted expert testimony t…
23-5664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2023-09-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the state court's denial of the petitioner's motion to vacate his conviction based on newly discovered evidence of perjury by a key witness vi…
23-5647 Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the State presents evidence at trial that is later discovered to be false or mi…
23A254 Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied access-to-files constitutional-violations death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief stay-of-execution Whether a death row inmate has a constitutional right to adequate access to his complete case files and effective assistance of counsel in the final s…
23-5593 Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida Florida 2023-09-15 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner When a state court of last resort denies a prisoner's attempt to obtain discovery and other hypotheses from evasive defendants, does the prisoner's in…
23-5538 Noel Brown v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2023-09-07 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-doctrine dismissal due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief reversal structural-error warden writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Weaver v. Massachusetts clarified the Constitutional Doctrine of Structural Error
23-5523 Cedrick L. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing state-constitution Whether a Florida court judge has the right to not comply with federal laws and the Florida constitution when it comes to a loyalty oath
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Whether as a matter of procedural law, Appellant's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to reopen a § 2241 case was timely
23-5528 Lahme Perkins v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-facts notice post-conviction-relief procedural-default third-circuit-court Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant the certificate of appealability
23-5508 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief standing state-court-review systemic-judicial-misconduct Can a family court open and remove children in protective custody based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, in secret and in ab…
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultaneous…
23-5388 Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application Whether McHam v. State, 404 S.C. 465, 746 S.E.2d 41 (2013), requires that the petitioner be allowed to file a subsequent PCR application
23-5398 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment amendment constitutional-rights district-court-review due-process federal-procedure federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-15 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Whether district courts violate fundamental principles of due process under the Fifth Amendment by denying a § 2255 movant's request to amend their pl…
23-5351 John P. Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability citizen-united-v-fec due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medicare-fraud post-conviction-relief section-2255 yee-v-escondido Whether the court below erred in procedurally denying to issue a COA for this purely legal claim, in direct conflict with this Court's opinion in Home…
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights
23-5222 Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-07-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition?
23-5082 William Richter v. Charles Truitt, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas judicial-access post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights pro-se-petition standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of habeas relief had post-judgment procedural defects that denied adequate access to the courts a…
23-5068 Lavount Peterson v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied IFP equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute new-jersey-directive non-final-order post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-rulings statute-of-limitations Whether the habeas statute of limitations remains tolled after a state postconviction relief petition is dismissed without prejudice
23-5010 Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone and the subsequent use of the information obtained …
23-5003 Monty J. Banister v. Kansas Kansas 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure duty-to-consult effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does this Court's decision in Roe v. Flores-Ortega establish a rebuttable presumption of Sixth Amendment duty to consult client post-conviction?
22-7889 Tyree Lawson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel rule-60b stone-v-powell Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and denied his clai…
22-7871 In Re Michael Bowe 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (6)IFP 28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court-procedure federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-or-successive-application statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
22-7801 Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the defendant was entitled to effective assistance of counsel during the plea bargaining stage in a mixed form of representation
22-7693 Jandin Munoz v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel standing Whether the petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel in his post-conviction proceedings
22-7669 Larenzo Gabourel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 collateral-relief factual-innocence federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 May the collateral relief mechanism for Federal prisoners pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be used to promote a claim of factual innocence?
22-7639 Hulon Verser v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility Whether the post-conviction court erred in denying the petitioner's post-conviction petition after an evidentiary hearing, where the newly discovered …
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts Whether a State may curtail a protected interest in DNA testing arbitrarily
22-7579 Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida Florida 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court has a duty to conduct a full review of the record under Anders v. California when appointed counsel files an Anders brief …
22-7549 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity Is retroactivity applicable for post-conviction relief?
22-7337 Toforest Onesha Johnson v. Alabama Alabama 2023-04-20 Denied Amici (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-murder death-penalty post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct reward-payment suppressed-evidence witness-testimony Did the State suppress evidence under Brady in the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case?
22-7265 Allen Franks v. Florida Florida 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3.850-motion civil-procedure due-process government-fraud ineffective-counsel mental-capacity mental-disability plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief standing Whether petitioner was denied due process when trial court failed to allow the petitioner an opportunity to file a reply to state's response on petiti…
22-981 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-of-access right-of-access-to-court Whether the court of appeals erred and violated petitioner's due process right
22-7238 Yousry Amin Rizk v. Edward Sandler, et al. Florida 2023-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation post-conviction-relief standing Whether the lower court erred in reversing the legal finding of fraud and misrepresentation by the petitioners
22-7236 Louis Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2023-04-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Gaskin's execution violates the US Constitution due to a malfunctioned process
22-7215 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-05 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction Did the trial court have jurisdiction to convict the petitioner?
22-7184 Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Oregon 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Is trial counsel ineffective for failing to advise client of death penalty factors prior to waiving jury?
22-7160 Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts
22-7005 Lino Alberto Chavez v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference anders-review anders-v-california federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-appeals post-conviction-relief smith-v-robbins state-court-procedure state-court-procedures Whether the district court must apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision that Anders review is not required in a Rule 32 proceeding
22-6923 In Re Jesse Brown 2023-03-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim defense-theory evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel legal-default post-conviction-relief standard-of-review trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner is entitled to a 'actual innocence' defense theory
22-6891 Joseph Dingler v. Texas Texas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech indigent-defendant post-conviction-relief standing takings trial-transcript voting Question not identified
22-6795 Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to file a notice of appeal when requested
22-6707 Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims damages due-process habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the federal district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims as unconstitutional acts done within the court's jurisdiction?
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno 2023-02-01 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Did the Aritena Distetet. Covuct have jurisdic hen HN Qq Habeas Ceoepys Cavse tr whieh the Pe te fener asa S . s 2 sj the housed in the Coleradg Dept …
22-6613 Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington Whether the state appellate court misapplied Harrington v. Richter
22-6556 Lawrence Anderson Fonseca, fka Lawrence Anderson Fonseca-Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure foreign-national guilty-plea innocence new-evidence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Fonseca should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in light of new evidence supporting his claim of innocence
22-6531 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights comprehension-disability constitutional-rights due-process garza-ruling post-conviction-relief ptsd retroactivity statute-of-limitations Whether the ruling in GARZA V. IDAHO 139 S. CT 739 (2019) applies to Plaintiff's Constitutional guarantee?
22-6494 Jesse Welch v. Florida Florida 2023-01-09 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-3.850 Should the petitioner be held responsible for counsel's error and prevented from presenting newly discovered evidence for review, that very well could…
22-6500 Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-09 Dismissed Amici (2)Relisted (21)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty ve…
22-613 Robert S. Schwartzberg v. Florida Florida 2023-01-04 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-privilege cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington work-product-doctrine Should a post-conviction court presume prejudice where the prosecutor obtains a defendant's attorney-client and workproduct privileged notes prior to …
22-6453 Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing Whether Petitioner can withdraw his plea after district attorney reneged on the plea bargain
22-6440 Damian Thomas v. Delaware Delaware 2023-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and …
22-569 In Re Christopher Dunn 2022-12-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) actual-innocence clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process freestanding-actual-innocence habeas-corpus lincoln-v-cassady missouri post-conviction-relief Does innocence matter?
22-6349 Daniel Nepomuceno v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights credibility-determination due-process federal-habeas guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-post-conviction-proceedings Could reasonable jurists debate whether a state court's dispositive credibility determination regarding federal constitutional rights, based on a writ…
22-6355 Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme
22-6206 Albert Holland, Jr. v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judgments judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing Whether a court is required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)
22-6186 Michael Andrew Jace v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-deadlines civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus look-through-presumption post-conviction-relief rule-60b time-limits Is Rule 60(b) available as a means of providing relief to an individual who missed the appellate deadlines in Rule 4(a)(1) and Rule 4(a)(5)?
22-6078 James Wesley Scott v. Jacqueline Banks Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process mississippi post-conviction-relief speedy-trial supreme-court-review Should the Barker v. Wingo four-factor test for determining speedy trial violations be overruled and replaced with a more precise method?
22-6055 Murray Hooper v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-15 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state has a duty to provide a defendant access to admitted exculpatory evidence
22-398 Marcos F. Santiago v. J. C. Streeval Seventh Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-status knowledge-requirement post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-relief Whether a felon who has spent less than a year in custody is entitled to a presumption that he lacked knowledge of his felon status and therefore, abs…
22-5930 Davon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Reed rule applies to a Rehaif v. United States claim
22-5899 Dave V. Merritt v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection griffin-v-illinois ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief ross-v-moffitt Whether Shinn v. Ramirez's holding petitioner 'at fault' for postconviction counsel's appellate errors gives indigent post-conviction appellants auton…
22-5890 Ronald William Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 Whether a boilerplate waiver of appellate and post-conviction rights bars a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 that the defendant stands convicted of a non-…
22-5837 Micah S. Matthews v. Iowa Iowa 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions post-conviction-relief state-appellate-court successive-petition summary-judgment unmitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's refusal to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for Post-Conviction Relief on an unmitigated, meritorious cla…
22-5802 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler Whether a petitioner is precluded from relying on Martinez/Ryan to overcome a procedurally defaulted IATC claim if he filed an 'initial' petition for …
22-5762 Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona Arizona 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Correct interpretation of ARS 28-1382(A) and how it should be applied
22-5565 Fedner Pierre-Louis v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability debatable-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the ruling of the court of appeals for the third circuit is contrary to clearly established federal law
22-5530 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-testify section-2255 strickland-standard witness-tampering Where the defendant made the undisputed claim that trial counsel failed to inform him of an affirmative defense before his right to testify was waived…
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a substantive ruling or a procedural ruling
22-176 James Burkhart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 adverse-effect conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit's formulation of the adverse effect standard under Cuyler v. Sullivan is too demanding, particularly in the guilty plea co…
22-5434 Zane D. Crowder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence child-protection forensic-interview gateway-standard habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence mcquiggin-v-perkins new-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations Whether the new evidence relied upon by the Petitioner meets the gateway actual innocence standard set forth in McQuiggin v. Perkins
22-5413 Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance revolving around federal treaties
22-5362 Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-16 Denied IFP 6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances Whether the petitioner was deprived of the right to a fair trial and present a complete defense
22-5339 Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law Whether the court erred in declaring the federal law 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(4) and the Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.430(b) invalid
22-5309 Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Did the lower courts err by suppressing evidence after a state court ruling?
22-5267 John Everette Murray, III v. Florida Florida 2022-08-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief remand rule-3.850 state-courts Will the United States Supreme Court allow the State courts to abuse their discretion by denying a rule 3.850 motion determined to be facially deficie…
22-5270 Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) savings clause for habeas corpus relief?
22-5256 In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan 2022-08-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue?
22-5264 Cody Gober v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated
22-5125 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-19 Denied IFP 26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair
22-5074 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief seizure settlements Whether petitioner's due process of law was violated by detectives' illegal seizure of petitioner's settlements while in public, violating petitioner'…
22-5039 Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state courts denied his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and actual i…
22-5030 Paul John Denham v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-07-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-protections due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-bias post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant's post-conviction habeas petition alleging the district attorney's office engaged in multiple intentional frauds to appea…
21-8265 Michael S. Gorbey v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Question not identified
21-8267 Dave Lawrence v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP equitable-tolling habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief retroactive-constitutional-right retroactivity time-limitation Whether the Padilla decision has retroactive effect
21-8131 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Does a Silonk Plea Foraclose a ddfondant From flint a Mlohion For Newly Discovered Evitelone@.
21-7976 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se right-to-counsel standing Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for cla…
21-7972 Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana Indiana 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief
21-7862 Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment Does the aggravated assault with deadly weapon conviction moot the petitioner's § 2254 motion seeking relief?
21-7716 Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review Whether Welhee Jackson is entitled to relief on an evidentiary hearing where the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United S…
21-7726 Michael Charles Sartin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi…
21-7682 Travon DeAngelo Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief res-judicata spoliation-of-evidence Whether newly discovered evidence is sufficient to establish a due process violation for procedural default or the bar of res judicata pursuant to the…
21-7651 Manuel Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel where defense counsel failed to adequately understand and present the significance of…
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Whether the criminal justice system lacks common sense in the treatment of pro se litigants
21-7525 Jerome Perkins v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Whether the traffic stop was legal
21-7516 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing Did the Georgia Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence?
21-7463 James Edward Sandford, III v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power When should a court consider a defendant's post-sentencing rehabilitation
21-7472 Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the SHtuce ESA QQ-S50y Coetection of Sentence avid AS fAe Samer SKe fobeasr your to be Consteuec ns Ye Same fo Coegecf aN ZV hegal Sedfev ce A…
21-7446 Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas Texas 2022-03-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Texas courts' interpretation of the statute requiring appointment of counsel to determine if biological evidence exists violates due proce…
21-7388 Amos Joseph Wells, III v. Texas Texas 2022-03-16 Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process fact-finding ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief racial-animus sixth-amendment When a state provides a mandatory procedure for fact-finding in post-conviction death penalty cases where a constitutional violation is pleaded, does …
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…
21-7373 Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis Whether Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system
21-7292 James E. Walker v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was prosecutorial misconduct during the State's opening argument with the use of a witness testimony about the apartment being vacant and abandoned, w…
21-7257 Jimmy Dale Stone v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied IFP Criminal-Jurisdiction Due-Process Fourteenth-Amendment Indian-Status native-american-rights post-conviction-relief Public-Law-83-280 Treaty-Provisions Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Stone's Fourteenth-Amendment-right-to-Due-Process
21-7239 Michael Arrington v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of trial counsel
21-7214 Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review Whether the petitioner had a claim of actual innocence that was not fairly considered by the lower courts
21-7194 Mainor Canales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-preparation witness-investigation Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
21-7177 Maurice O. Byrd, Jr. v. Raymond Byrd, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-of-appeal conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prejudice structural-error Structural-error-on-appeal
21-7164 Charles Pyne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination Whether a certificate of appealability should issue
21-7143 Johnny Brett Gregory v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 constitutional-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge petition-rights post-conviction-relief supervised-release writ-of-certiorari Does a person serving a term of supervised release have a constitutional right to avail themselves of a writ of coram nobis under 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) …
21-7144 Robert James Grass v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-17 Denied IFP cherokee-status criminal-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment indian-status post-conviction-relief state-courts treaty-provisions Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Grass' Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process?
21-7152 Jeremy Heath Barney v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process post-conviction-relief resentencing undisturbed-conviction Does a defendant have a United States Constitutional 14th Amendment right under due process to attack his undisturbed conviction after being resentenc…
21-7092 Epati Malauulu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-6989 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review Whether the petitioner's conviction was supported by sufficient evidence under the standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia
21-6917 Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated by state prison officials
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim …
21-6874 Joshua Britt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction
21-6850 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional
21-6795 Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe…
21-6807 Davis Salary v. California California 2022-01-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing Is there a possibility to have my prior 5 year prison sentence dismissed?
21-6776 Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision Has the State of Illinois altered a decision in conflict with the decision in United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, violating…
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
21-6650 Zachary Jeff Harvell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6651 Laqunn Gary v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights federal-issues federal-treaties ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-procedural-bar state-procedural-bars Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar the petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance that revolve around federal tre…
21-6536 In Re Michael Robert Everett 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to present to the court during suppression hearing evidence that the petitioner seeks to raise when invoki…
21-6353 Stephen Allwine v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts court-funding due-process equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief Did the Trial Court err in denying In Forma Pauperis funding based on financial status at start of prosecution rather than post-conviction action?
21-6331 Byron White v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-18 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6301 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-witnesses fourteenth-amendment indian-federal-law indigenous-rights indigent-legal-counsel post-conviction-relief tribal-jurisdiction Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Bentley's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process?
21-6236 L. B. Joseph v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt testimony Was the defendant given a fair trial?
21-6195 Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as…
21-6157 Christopher Coker, aka Christopher Forman v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pcra post-conviction-relief standing trial-procedure Did Trial Judge failed to rule on meritorious issues?
21-6024 Dudley Allen Hicks v. Florida Florida 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment What kind of evidence and circumstances must be revealed for a criminal attorney to create a bona fide doubt as to his client's competence to require …
21-6026 Barton R. Gaines v. Texas Texas 2021-10-20 Denied IFP brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether a defendant has a reasonable expectation that his trial counsel will comply with Strickland, or does that reasonable expectation evaporate upo…
21-6030 Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited procedural defenses
21-6018 Gary F. Compelleebee v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-5935 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation Whether the lower court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's procedural claims, including the denial of access to the courts, failure to …
21-5901 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C…
21-5862 Micah Lamb v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court government-corruption ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's claims of 'fraud on the court'…
21-5863 Jack Anthony Chatman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief texas texas-law Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioners effective assistance of trial counsel claims in cases like Texas, in light of the Supreme Cour…
21-5868 Ryan Russell Parks, aka Dinero v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial indictment ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief variance As the amended charge of 'SQ' (33) a constructive amendment?
21-5751 Charles Elmer Kovary v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witness constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief trial-counsel witness-testimony Was Appellate Counsel Ineffective for Failing to Raise Certain Claims?
21-5753 James Allyson Lee v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing childhood-trauma habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief ptsd ptsd-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether new mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's horrific childhood abuse and PTSD diagnosis can be considered cumulative and inconsequential …
21-5705 Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett First Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al…
21-5681 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-post-conviction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity seminoles-nation-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception whether-respondent-waived-forfeited-procedural-defenses
21-5683 Jerome McBride v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy criminal-procedure due-process federalism habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief separation-of-powers standing Did the State Division and the Federal-Nutsion unconstitutionally convict, deprive, or breach the Effective Executive (Maryland Statute/U.S. Constitut…
21-5614 In Re James Williams 2021-09-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a pro se petitioner who is unable to afford professional legal representation can be denied the right to self-representation and have unwanted…
21-332 William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived 18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation When, if ever, is relief available under 28-USC-2241 and 28-USC-2255(e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existent-off…
21-5526 Duane Kelly v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing inconsistent-verdict inconsistent-verdicts post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurist state-court-decision Was the district court's findings that the state court reasonably applied the inconsistent verdict law in this case correct?
21-5525 Thomas Richardson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-08-31 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati…
21-5476 In Re William Barret Slade, II 2021-08-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama state courts and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to apply the Supreme Court's rule in Martinez v. Ryan
21-5479 Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation Does the plain meaning of 'properly filed' in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j…
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified
21-5388 Wilbert Kelly, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-restriction burden-of-proof constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process legal-standing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence public-official sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's application for post-conviction relief despite the lack of evidence proving the …
21-203 John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the 'savings clause' of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)
21-5318 Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review Which harmless error standard applies to a habeas corpus challenge under 28 U.S.C. §2255?
21-5277 Samuel Eaddy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge disabilities due-process effective-counsel jurisdictional-time-limits mental-health mental-health-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-requirements Are the jurisdictional time limits imposed by Pennsylvania's Post-Conviction Relief Act unconstitutional as applied to individuals with severe brain a…
21-5253 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the imposition of an enhanced sentence under Florida's 10-20-life statute
21-5152 Lewis R. Fox v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-question criminal-defense criminal-procedure expert-witness expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief res-judicata Whether a trial counsel is to be considered incompetent when s/he fails to consult with their client (the criminal defendant) about their financial ad…
21-79 Jonathon Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided a motion for a certificate of appealability on the merits of a § 2255 petition rather than engaging in th…
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28-U.S.C.-§-2254-proceeding
21-5111 Joenell L. Rice v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in imposing a harsh sentence on the petitioner without proper grounds
21-5103 Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadline…
21-5052 Walter Drummond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing us-constitution writ-of-corpus How Can a legitimate Writ of Habeas Corpus be denied outside the guidelines of the Florida Constitution
21-5015 Reginald Franklin v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurists trial-counsel Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Franklin's request for a certificate of appealability
20-8388 Jonathan Aaron Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process federal-sentencing illegal-sentence plea-agreement post-conviction-relief Should an appeal waiver provision in a plea agreement bar appellate or post-conviction relief from an illegal federal sentence?
20-8342 John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability
20-8141 Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-05-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights Whether the state courts erred and abused their discretion by depriving and denying the defendant of his statutory rights to DNA testing
20-8111 Taariq Kaaleeq Jackson-Bey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing felon-in-possession guilty-plea henderson-v-united-states judicial-review liberty-review notice post-conviction-relief Whether the petitioner's guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) was not knowingly and intelligently made…
20-8102 Adam Rosen v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief precedent self-incrimination state-court-review Whether the Commonwealth's use of a defendant's statements to the Commonwealth, which were not elicited in violation of the defendant's Fifth Amendmen…
20-7999 David James Lola v. Miami Herald, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-rights civil-procedure constitutional-access court-procedure dismissal in-forma-pauperis judicial-review national-emergency post-conviction-relief procedural-default reconsideration Whether the clerk's entry of dismissal for failure to prosecute should be set aside and the appellant permitted to proceed to rule on the in forma pau…
20-7965 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief Whether the prohibition of a criminal appeal with denial after exercising the right to appeal a reserved appealable request when their rules and set w…
20-7928 Brandon Robinson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-proceedings brady-violation discovery-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-record Was counsel ineffective under Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present a Martinez claim in the petitioner's appellate proceedings?
20-7931 Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity Whether violation of the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution is harmless if the specific definition of the conduct was done by the court
20-7901 Chalin Merrihew v. Florida Florida 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation Was Petitioner denied a fair trial?
20-7894 Winston A. McKenzie v. Texas Texas 2021-04-29 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering material-exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-proceeding standing Whether Petitioners conviction is invalid when the evidence presented was legally insufficient to sustain a conviction
20-7858 Michael Armendariz v. Leon Martinez, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Does the state have an absolute preserve trial evidence which the state allegedly shows supports a conviction, even if the evidence is only partially …
20-7850 Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri Missouri 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington Whether the state courts denied due process, equal protection, and access to courts by misapplying Brady v. Maryland, Napue v. Illinois, and Stricklan…
20-7828 Kevin Norris Mitchell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 attorney-death attorney-performance civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling federal-tolling ineffective-assistance judicial-opinions legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the death of a petitioner's retained attorney during post-conviction relief proceedings establishes equitable tolling for not securing federal…
20-7769 James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida 2021-04-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses?
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 Can a federal habeas court ignore post-conviction mitigating evidence solely because it is thematically similar to trial evidence?
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim
20-7545 Tyrone Robinson v. Christopher Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing fact-reduction hearing-standard legal-standing plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-rule sentencing standard-of-review standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a defendant seeking to withdraw a plea after sentencing must prove a reasonable probability of acquittal or only a reasonable probability of a…
20-7498 Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the court properly denied COA
20-7419 Kamil Johnson v. W. E. Mackelburg, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance iowa-supreme-court juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief Whether the lower courts acted unconstitutionally in denying the habeas corpus petition
20-7429 William Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-examination mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether a reasonable COVID-19 debate
20-7352 In Re Henry Lee Rudolph 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion Did the Utah Supreme Court commit error by stating the Franses' rights were not violated and Rodolph requested, and by stating three flawed reasons fo…
20-7313 Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r…
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 Whether the defendant has a right to a jury instruction on a lesser-included offense when requested by defense counsel at the end of the defendant's t…
20-7195 Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence Whether the petitioner's convictions were obtained in violation of due process
20-7190 Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentencing court must enter a factual basis to support a consecutive sentence when a defendant has never pled guilty to such facts, depriv…
20-7178 Nolan C. Turner, III v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief retroactivity right-to-counsel second-degree-murder trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's concession of guilt to second-degree murder, over the defendant's express objection, violated the defendant's right to maintai…
20-7147 Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated in the proceedings leading to his conviction and sentence
20-7097 Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7050 Mustafa Muhammad v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42-U.S.C-§1983?
20-7060 Charles Lee Mosier, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP collateral-proceedings constitutional-review constitutional-standards due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state's initial-review post-conviction collateral proceedings meet constitutional standards when those proceedings fail to provide a prisoner t…
20-7025 Derrick Michael Allen, Jr. v. Orlando Hudson, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-04 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus immunity monetary-relief post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's order dismissing Petitioner's complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1915 without d…
20-6920 Sean Moffitt v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition
20-6848 Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing Was the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland correct in dismissing my habeas corpus petition?
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Did the trial court err in reviewing prisoner Williams' initial motion for post-conviction relief for violations of the 6th Amendment right to effecti…
20-6772 Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court's intervening decision in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. …
20-6752 Juan Tinoco-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-advisement non-citizen non-citizen-rights padilla-v-kentucky post-conviction-relief removal-proceedings Does an immigration judge's failure to advise an immigrant in removal proceedings of their apparent eligibility to seek post-conviction relief under P…
20-6718 Jason J. Johnson v. California California 2020-12-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure Under the 'newly discovered evidence rule' does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as evidence the movant could not have possibly discover…
20-6665 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy standing trial-record Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of certiorari
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6548 Tamral Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the district court deprived the defendant of her Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by denying her ineffective assistance of counsel claim …
20-6567 Kedrio Lekeis Summerville v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief Was the post-conviction counsel ineffective?
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler Does a denial of counsel on an initial state post-conviction habeas corpus application activate the exclusionary provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)(B…
20-6502 Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 182 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise unexh…
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the defendant of felony murder using the Pinkerton doctrine when there is no principal and th…
20-6322 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-13 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6288 Allen Snyder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation victim-identification Whether the lower courts erred in denying Snyder's application for post-conviction relief based on an apparent confusion about the identity of the vic…
20-6267 In Re Graham Schiff 2020-11-10 Denied IFP bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-intervention post-conviction-relief state-criminal-proceedings state-officials Whether federal intervention in a state criminal proceeding is appropriate given the petitioner's showing of 'bad faith and harassment by state offici…
20-6273 Jerome Sidney Barrett v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief pro-se-appeal standing state-appellate-procedure Whether a state prisoner has the right to file his own appeal Pro Se
20-628 Samuel Anstey v. Ralph Terry, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa arson-investigation due-process fire-science habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief summary-judgment Whether a petitioner whose conviction was based substantially on discredited arson investigation techniques can survive summary judgment under 28 U.S.…
20-6179 Hai Duong v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation doyle-v-ohio due-process equal-protection harmless-error miranda-rights post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Was Duong denied due process and equal protection
20-6024 Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability
20-6016 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-10-14 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-447 Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender was not a miscarriage of justice entit…
20-5856 Alimamy Barrie v. Matthew M. Robinson Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules strickland-v-washington Whether an Omission by habeas Counsel to include a Supporting fact that Appellate Counsel was Ineffective
20-5802 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied IFP due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi…
20-5788 Edward James Wilkins v. Washington Washington 2020-09-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Whether Mr. Wilkins' 6th Amendment constitutional right to a constitutionally sufficient trial was violated
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-24 Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-5725 Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation Was PeTL {tower's 42 U.S.C. 31493 COMPLATY ENTITLED To REVEFIT OF EQUITARE Tota
20-5680 Larry R. Steele v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violations due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing state-court-review Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims as barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether federal law renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in legal error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania committed legal error by failing…
20-5632 Rick Shawn v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County Nevada 2020-09-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a new trial when defense counsel fails to raise a meritorious defense
20-5607 In Re Billie J. Allen 2020-09-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence of negative DNA results that would …
20-5609 In Re Gary Wayne Barnes 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction Can the claim of Actual innocence be reviewed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and 2…
20-5611 Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial counsel'…
20-5562 Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be …
20-5496 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo Whether evidence of actual innocence provides a legal reason to reopen 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion proceedings to establish constitutional violations
20-5432 Michael James Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the post-conviction waiver in plea agreement bars relief in Johnson-related § 2255 petition
20-5387 Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-08-18 Denied IFP accessory-after-the-fact actual-innocence due-process guilty-verdict post-conviction-relief principal-crime Whether a defendant is barred from raising a claim of actual innocence
20-5372 Melvin Gamage v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mississippi-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying post-conviction relief despite the prisoner's claims that his trial counsel was ineffective, th…
20-5317 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diagnostic-uncertainty due-process gender-dysphoria medical-evidence mental-health plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief procedural-bar Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender-dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of a pr…
20-5194 In Re Kevin D. Moore 2020-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) based on the COVID-19 pandem…
20-5233 Michael R. Burns v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-31 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-fabrication due-process evidence fingerprint-fabrication habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether newly discovered evidence of DNA and fingerprint fabrication establishes a violation of due process and a basis for a new trial
20-5221 Arthur James Martin v. Florida Florida 2020-07-30 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-trial criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-test trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present evidence that significantly undermines the State's case is deficient performance that resul…
20-5210 Ashley L. Dunn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness substantial-showing timeliness Did petitioner make a substantial showing that her 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition was timely?
20-5187 Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for appropriate relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to file …
20-5118 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
20-30 Nigel Christopher Paul Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-deportation padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Is a defendant categorically prohibited from establishing an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), w…
20-5067 James A. Riggs v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-process civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-deficiency standing Whether the 4th Circuit Court displayed an abuse of its enumerated power, in contravention of the 10th Amendment
19-8915 Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether defendants' convictions under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) should be vacated
19-8904 William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana Indiana 2020-07-06 Denied IFP death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington traumatic-brain-injury wiggins-v-smith williams-v-taylor Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion contravened Williams v. Taylor and Wiggins v. Smith by failing to find deficient performance where counsel…
19-8820 Cesar Velazquez v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when …
19-8770 Carl St. Preux v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations Whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e) bars a defendant from seeking re-sentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 after successfully challenging a prior state conviction …
19-8776 Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing Whether the court can address the petitioner's habeas petition asking for his APPA rights back when a direct appeal is a fundamental constitutional du…
19-8745 Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when …
19-8735 Michael A. Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when …
19-8701 Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition Whether the State of South Carolina commits a final byte power against the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a second or successive habeas …
19-1365 Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual serving a wrongfully enhanced sentence is barred from obtaining relief solely because the wrongfulness of the sentence was estab…
19-8657 Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Can-the-District-Court-deny-a-28-U.S.C.-§-2255-motion-without-holding-an-evidentiary-hearing
19-8591 Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-motions exonerating-evidence habeas-corpus juvenile-jurisdiction new-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing Question not identified
19-8585 Van Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner has a right to present an argument based on a change in procedural law on his first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-8545 Duane Blake v. Florida Florida 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default Did the state of Florida violate due process by excluding an expert witness for the defense in an attempted murder trial
19-8476 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their original 3-3-2020, and subsequent 3-4-2020 request for rehearing, decision to refuse jur…
19-8430 Valery LaTouche v. New York New York 2020-05-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court's invocation of statute 440.10(3)(c) denied petitioner his interest, due process rights, and equal protection of the law
19-8433 Anthony Paul John v. Florida Florida 2020-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court
19-8361 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase Does the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) convictions support 'use of violence' physical force?
19-8363 Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the deprivation of adequate access to the courts and lack of properly trained lega…
19-8353 Curtis Stokes v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Does Indiana have an obligation to equally apply the federal constitution in the same factual scenario?
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursued ac…
19-8170 Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the defendant was arrested without a warrant and whether the defendant's attorneys' actions were part of the case strategy
19-8140 Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Strickland v. Washington prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel when Counsel assaults his client pre-trial, covered up said assault d…
19-8125 Wendell Ray Thomas v. California California 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Defense Counsel Craig Wormley's Mental Health Issues Had An Adverse Effect & Influence on the Outcome of the Trial
19-8130 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction Correcting-erroneous-denial-of-extraordinary-writ
19-1133 Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin…
19-7982 Alex Penland v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-fraud legal-remedy post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Does the trial court abuse its discretion when it failed to entertain Penland's claim that his conviction was tainted by fraud when the prosecutor kno…
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief Whether a state-created delay of uninformed notification that a second amended (corrected sentencing) judgment of conviction had become final and ripe…
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-7868 Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna Eighth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Missouri's rule conflicts with Lafler v. Cooper
19-7785 Jacob Daniel Wolf v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-petition post-conviction-relief statutory-tolling time-barred timeliness Did the district court properly grant Respondent's motion to dismiss Wolfs habeas petition as time-barred?
19-7687 Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the excluded evidence and jury prevented from seeing or considering this evidence should be considered newly discovered evidence for purposes …
19-953 Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes…
19-7365 Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Has the lower tribunal court denied Roberts due process and departed from the essential requirements of the law in denying him relief following his di…
19-7355 Herman L. Gaines v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-collusion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Was the petitioner denied due process and effective assistance of counsel?
19-7329 Jamaar Jerome Williams v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction-litigation post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-analysis Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it concluded Williams had failed to establish prejudice under Martinez v. Ryan because the record clearly shows W…
19-7278 Terrance Cobb v. Florida Florida 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence
19-7325 Hope K. Kantete v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy Whether the lower courts erred by failing to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her 'risk factors' in proceeding to…
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2020-01-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings Whether new evidence establishes the petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust
19-7253 Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg Was the district court and appeals court wrong to deny the Rule 60(b)(6) motion and certificate of appealability, respectively, when this court has sp…
19-7187 Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to raise certain evidentiary clai…
19-7176 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bias due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief recusal trial-procedure Should recusal of a judge be allowed during the post conviction relief phase if the prejudice and bias of the trial judge is apparent on the face of t…
19-7180 Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federal R…
19-7144 James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing Can a federal prisoner challenge their sentence or conviction under 28 U.S.C. Sect. 2241 motion when their post Section 2255 motion is inadequate or i…
19-7122 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-12-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed his petition for writ of habeas corpus
19-836 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions Whether a subsequent amendment to a prisoner's first 28 U.S.C. 2255 proceeding may be considered a second or successive application under 28 U.S.C. 22…
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-7043 John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief Whether police custodial interrogation on less than probable cause for arrest held violative of 18 U.S.C. §§ 241-242 and Petitioner's 4th Amendment ri…
19-7048 Bernardo Costa v. Missouri Missouri 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-criminal-procedure Whether a defendant has a federal constitutional right to effective assistance of first post-conviction counsel
19-6984 Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does Martinez v. Ryan excuse a procedural default in Federal Habeas Corpus proceedings?
19-780 Willie Newton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing Under what circumstances is successful post-conviction litigation a 'successful attack' on a prior state sentence?
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Whether the essential principles of res judicata were departed from by the lower courts in allowing the prosecution to relitigate issues that were pre…
19-6886 Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law?
19-6830 Don Emmery Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subject to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?
19-6833 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief state-court-interpretation state-federal-conflict Whether a U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals are bound by a State Supreme Court's interpretation of its own post-conviction DNA testing statute …
19-6765 Anthony Lee McNair v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-11-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court's dismissal of his motion under the All Writs Act
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS…
19-633 Edwin Arthur Avery v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Relisted (3) 28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 federal-custody federal-prisoners habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limitation post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief second-or-successive-motion state-custody statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-6605 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction Are the following Pennsylvania statutes constitutionally infirm?
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Whether the Pennsylvania statutes 42 Pa.C.S. §9542, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(a)(1)(ii), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(a), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(b)(1), and 18 Pa.C.S. §2709(a)(4…
19-6516 Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with heightened pleading standards
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Vincent Williams' habeas corpus/post-conviction petition based on the Supreme Court's ruli…
19-6506 Joshua Jake White v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-contest criminal-procedure expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prevailing-professional-norm professional-norm sixth-amendment Whether a court evaluating the reasonableness of trial counsel's failure to make a meritorious challenge under the Sixth Amendment may disregard evide…
19-6454 Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when contemplating plea offers
19-6384 Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction Why thousands of men and women like myself in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a fake…
19-6345 William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion Whether the Mobile County Circuit Court abused its discretion in granting an eviction order while the petitioner was in bankruptcy
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony Whether a decision affirming exclusion of evidence can be correct without addressing the unrefuted assertion that it was excluded on plainly erroneous…
19-6283 Daryl Scott v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fair-trial government-misconduct judicial-integrity mesarosh-v-united-states military-justice post-conviction-relief post-trial-discovery witness-credibility Is the widespread fabrication and destruction of false DNA evidence by a government chemist for use at trial against U.S. servicemembers, and the fail…
19-6270 Darren Paul Odell v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interests-of-justice mental-illness newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief professional-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct standing time-bar-exception Whether the Minnesota courts erred in denying Mr. Odell's post-conviction relief petition based on damaging letters from the state's expert witness, v…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner received adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medical Center, including whether treatment, monitoring, and diag…
19-6138 William A. White v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power May a District Court strike all evidence in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding and deny relief for failure to present evidence?
19-407 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post-conviction relief
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-5931 Darryl Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights collateral-relief collateral-review constitutional-rights counsel-consultation due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal roe-v-flores-ortega waiver Did the Pennsylvania courts err in denying collateral relief where prior counsel was ineffective for failing to consult fully with the petitioner, Dar…
19-5912 Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing Whether the state courts' refusal to grant Leon's request for DNA testing because it violates his right to due process and equal protection of the law…
19-5800 Darren Denson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-04 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was denied access to legal materials and s…
19-5746 Howard Griffith v. New York New York 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division/Fourth Department, erred in allowing Defendant/Petitioner to take a direct appe…
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing Whether the United States District Court for the District of Idaho erred in denying the petitioner's motion for counsel on post-conviction appeal
19-5655 Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the trial court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by failing to properly administer the jury selection process under Illinois Sup…
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether § 2244(b)(3)(D)'s 30-day deadline for deciding motions for authorization is binding or merely advisory
19-5535 Julius Omar Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias during d…
19-5483 Grant Thomas McAdams v. Washington Washington 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-review constitutional-protection due-process federal-constitution insufficient-evidence intent-to-commit-theft post-conviction-relief pro-se pro-se-petition standing state-court-procedure washington-state Does the Due Process protection of the federal Constitution apply to Washington State's collateral review procedures?
19-5494 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing Whether Mr. Iskander's constitutional rights were violated when he was denied the opportunity to testify with new information and knowledge about his …
19-5441 Louis Mercado v. Jacob Sorey, Warden, et al. Florida 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process property-rights standing state-statute takings Whether the petitioner's right to the writ of certiorari was unconstitutionally denied by the Florida appellate court
19-5369 Willie Chambers v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia 2019-07-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure multiplicitous-indictment post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt right-to-fair-trial right-to-life-and-liberty state-court-review vindictive-prosecution Whether the petitioner has a valid claim of a constitutional right to be free from a vindictive and multiplicitous indictment that he now stands convi…
19-5340 Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was sufficient to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-5275 Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Mathisen's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel
19-5222 James Arthur Meeks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure-bar-rule civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-bar standing trial-counsel Whether the procedural bar statute was properly applied
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings
19-5226 Patrick Demon Caldwell, II v. Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arizona-court-system civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief rule-of-law standing Whether the court erred in not recognizing the presented evidence
19-5189 Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Sentencing Court Erred in Calculating the Defendant's Sentencing Guidelines Range
19-5191 Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia Does the legal 'right' recognized in Miller v. Alabama include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including the well-established ra…
19-5154 James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
19-52 Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to challenge an unlawful conviction or sentence foreclosed by binding …
19-35 Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis
19-5034 Leland Dudley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-02 Denied IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction Was the petition (by) the state's attorney's office denied by the lower court, and did the lower court err in denying the petition to vacate the convi…
19-5031 Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a notice of post-conviction relief asserti…
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma's Appellate Court deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection
18-9844 Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel Whether the trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 14-30 days after…
18-9711 David Meyers v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fail-to-strike-testimony fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intrinsic-fraud perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Did attorney Paul Roskins violate due-process, fail-to-strike-testimony, false-testimony, compulsory-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-9724 Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's request for additional time to file a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion
18A1332 Norge Manduley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial lesser-included-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines Whether the trial court's failure to offer a lesser included offense and departure from sentencing guidelines violated the defendant's constitutional …
18-9580 Bobby Ray Devers v. Iowa Iowa 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-procedure post-conviction-relief pro-se-claims procedural-due-process state-public-defender-system statutory-rights summary-judgment uniform-procedure Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process are violated by the denial of participation in the statutory right to a uniform post …
18-9590 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-33-b-1 criminal-procedure-33-b-2 federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure giglio giglio-violations napue napue-violations new-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether evidence of Giglio/Napue violations can be utilized as new evidence under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 33(b)(1) or if it is limited to …
18-9562 Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C…
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…
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-9495 Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
18-9497 Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Why would the petitioner accept a plea agreement to the worst case scenario without being of sound mind?
18-9503 Donald M. Boswell v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-created-impediments statute-of-limitations Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when they …
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-9403 In Re Christopher Johnson 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner may file a habeas-corpus petition under 28-usc-2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding-but-erroneous circuit-preceden…
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause requires a new trial for a mentally retarded criminal defendant whose original trial counsel was…
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction Should Petitioner's state collateral review requests be considered as pending to toll the AEDPA 1-year limitations period?
18-9137 Michael D. Hickingbottom v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-procedure-filing-deadlines due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) excuse the late filing of the notice of appeals which were filed in the…
18-9053 Paul William Hilton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing title-28-usc-2255 Whether the Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-9028 Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Constitutional Violations
18-9027 Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations meets the statutory requirement for the issuance of a certificate of …
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2519, where no reasonable jurist…
18-9008 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias due-process evidentiary-facts in-re-murchison judicial-bias post-conviction-relief recusal rippo-v-baker williams-v-pennsylvania Whether there is an impermissible risk of actual bias, likelihood of bias, appearance of bias, or unconstitutional potential for bias on the issue of …
18-8997 Troy Williams v. Florida Florida 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief Whether the Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon …
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in a decision that conflicts with decisions of other Courts of Appeals on the same important matte…
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals
18-8925 Charles Reginald Cooks v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing Whether the complaint named the defendant in their true names, with statements that are true
18-8676 Ronald Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis…
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela…
18-8636 Brian Hoskins v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions Whether a defendant who succeeds in vacating a state conviction that enhanced a federal sentence may apply for resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8591 Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony Whether the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard was reasonably and rationally applied when the alleged victim of child sexual assault testified they …
18-8546 Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the state court denied due process by failing to appoint conflict counsel when post-conviction counsel undermined petitioner's claims, and whe…
18-8567 Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review Did the panel so clearly misapprehend section 2253's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
18-8578 DeMarius L. Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence Whether petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance beyond a …
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
18-8492 Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule
18-8337 David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable…
18-8240 Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgment where he personally opposed post-conv…
18-8234 Jeremy Snider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8253 Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-8260 Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel by counsel's failure to adequately investigate the facts of the case, interview eyew…
18-8227 Bodey Cook v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Whether the Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for discretionary review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (…
18-8194 Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default Whether appointed counsel violated federal statutory law or constituted an equal protection clause violation
18-8168 Billy Long v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hearing-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-error withdrawal-of-plea Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's amended PCRA petition without a hearing
18-8100 Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether Senica Franklin's conviction and sentence should be reversed and set aside based upon newly discovered evidence
18-8102 Vivian Monroe Holman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief Whether the procedural protections required to challenge a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 were violated, including the right to an impartial trial …
18-8056 Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period meets the statutory requirement for the issuance of a certific…
18-7989 Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
18-7916 Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request to file a successive petition for post-conviction relief based on a ne…
18-7901 Darrius DaJuan Cohee v. James Yates, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal Was Petitioner's Counsel Ineffective For Failing To File Petitioner's Motion To Withdraw Guilty Plea
18-7812 Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B should be retroactively applied to the petitioner's case
18-7813 Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become ineffective as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. 2254(b)(1)(B)
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court?
18-7683 Deandre Anderson v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-rights new-evidence post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief probable-cause standing statute-of-limitations trial-errors wrongful-conviction Does the cases stated apply to this case?
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
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Was trial counsel ineffective for not raising issue of actual innocence?
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Are the sentencing proceedings that were found to be unconstitutional made to be invalid?
18-7336 Jonathan Henry Hill v. Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP affidavit affidavit-standard civil-procedure conviction due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence one-year-limitation post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations Can a Habeas Petitioner rely on an affidavit as newly discovered evidence when the affidavit is submitted more than one year after a conviction?
18-7284 Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C…
18-7198 Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-727 Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona Arizona 2018-12-07 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserti…
18-6812 Jack Ferranti v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing Whether the district court imposed a defacto life sentence not authorized by the statute of conviction
18-6769 Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center Missouri 2018-11-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourteen…
18-6783 Gino Velez Scott v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-giglio brady-violation due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-misconduct habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion Where a numerically-second § 2255 motion raises an actionable Brady-Giglio violation that the government suppressed until after the conclusion of the …
18-6719 Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice Did the Third Circuit err in rendering petitioner's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and 'THE END OF THE MATTER,' without the Pennsylvania…
18-6725 Charles Wayne Bussell v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-relief postconviction-hearing sixth-amendment tainted-testimony trial-strategy witness-testimony Was defense counsel ineffective in the re-trial when he failed to object to the introduction of the tainted testimony from the first trial and when he…
18-6682 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Texas Texas 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP collateral-review due-process due-process-rights habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-procedures trial-ineffectiveness trial-rights When a State chooses to create a mechanism for post-conviction relief, what due process is required to afford a habeas applicant an adequate and effec…
18-6610 Mark Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition Whether the petitioner should be allowed to present newly discovered evidence of actual innocence in a successive post-conviction petition, despite th…
18-6594 Willie Safford, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-07 Denied IFP aggravated-battery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process perjury polygraph polygraph-test post-conviction-relief witness-testimony Whether the defendant should be allowed to return to the lower tribunal to challenge the testimony of Rodney Hartmyer, Jerry Gay, and Robert Schran
18-6586 Bruce Wood v. Delaware Delaware 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-rules judicial-review new-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief privileges-and-immunities Does Delaware's Amended' Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 and/or Delaware State Courts' decisions violate Due Process Rights (14th Amendment)
18-6525 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP edwards-v-carpenter federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockett-v-ohio martinez-rule martinez-v-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether a federal habeas corpus petitioner can invoke the rule of Martinez v. Ryan to show that the ineffectiveness of post-conviction counsel provide…
18-6494 Terrance Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion without discovery or an evidentiary hearing?
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…
18-543 State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits …
18-6230 Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte Can a post-conviction court find plain error in the movant's guilty plea or sentence record and 'sua sponte' order relief when the movant never raised…
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M…
18-6113 Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that re…
18-6090 Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Common Pleas Court abuse their discretion by denying Williams an evidentiary hearing to review the merits of h…
18-6087 Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion?
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…
18-5950 Artis Ryan Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence of …
18-292 Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding but erroneous circuit precede…
18-5914 Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-5909 Barry Soldridge v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief waiver Whether a defendant's waiver of post-conviction relief rights was entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily
18-5895 Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition?
18-5846 Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the petitioner should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5806 Edwin David Corbett v. Washington Washington 2018-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence time-limitation Whether the one-year limitations period under Washington's Revised Code §10.73.100(4) bars a petitioner from relitigating a sufficiency of evidence cl…
18-5823 Alonzo D. Marshall v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim post-conviction-relief section-23-110 trial-court-discretion witness-credibility Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's decision to deny the defendant's Section 23-110 motion following an evidentiary hear…
18-5785 In Re Clifford Winkles 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing Whether Petitioner Clifford Winkles was improperly denied relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 due to procedural barriers, despite demonstrating actual innoc…
18-5683 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus judicial-review mortgage-fraud newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief section-2255 successive-motion successive-motions Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner's application seeking an order authorizing the district court to consider a second or su…
18-5598 John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is presumed correct or should have been presumed correct, and whether Petitioner sustained h…
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties whether-the-state-writ-of-habeas-corpus-is-valid
18-5505 Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment When Martinez v. Ryan applies to a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, should the petitioner be entitled to application of Martinez…
18-5512 George Clinton Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing state-court-proceedings Whether the Wisconsin state court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5450 Amilcar Rivas-Rivera v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule standing state-law timeliness Whether the Pennsylvania lower court and appellate court's decision dismissing petitioner's second pro se PCRA petition as untimely is contrary to Pen…
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…
18-5462 Alfonso V. Senior, Jr. v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP discretionary-review exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition right-to-counsel state-court-remedies Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who was unrepresented in his state post-conviction proceedings, in a state which refuses to appoint counsel for suc…
18-5420 Tyler T. Heagy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process filing-restrictions habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process right-to-appeal right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-as-applied Was 42 Pa.C.S.A. §9543 (a)(1)(i) unconstitutional as applied to Petitioners case?
18-5348 Gary Clack v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance …
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea…
18-5140 M. P. F. v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to obtain trial transcripts to perfect an appeal
18-5068 Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Does defense counsel's failure to investigate and present available affirmative evidence of mental disease or defect constitute ineffective assistance…
18-5057 James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagby's claims…
23A1160 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete article-iii-standing death-penalty dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Whether a death-row prisoner has Article III standing to challenge state procedures that improperly limit access to post-conviction DNA testing under …