postconviction-claim

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-442 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (8) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dna-testing due-process postconviction-claim section-1983 state-court-litigation statute-of-limitations In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521, 524-25 (2011), this Court held that state prisoners may pursue postconviction claims for DNA testing of crime-sce…
19-5608 Christopher Joe Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-elements-clause certificate-of-appealability disagreement federal-prisoner judicial-disagreement post-conviction-claim postconviction-claim reasonable-judges statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that judges have, in fact, disagreed about the legal issues governing his postconviction claim, is he entitled t…