postconviction-counsel

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6061 Bryan Fredrick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-07 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-access postconviction-counsel state-representation Mr. Jennings was deprived of counsel for three years before his death warrant was signed. On the day his death warrant was signed, the State requested…
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…
21-8184 Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality whether-effective-assistance-of-counsel-was-denied
20-7406 Lionel Robinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition gross-negligence habeas-corpus postconviction-counsel Does gross negligence of postconviction counsel warrant equitable tolling for federal habeas filing?
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel Whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses …
20-164 Roosevelt Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-14 Denied access-to-court claim-forfeiture due-process manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice postconviction-counsel pro-se-action procedural-default Whether a defendant is denied due process and access to the court
19-5675 Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler Whether a court must categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez v. Ryan
18-7822 Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact
18-5486 Celestino Quintana v. Matthew Hansen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP coleman-v-thompson due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default state-created-right state-created-rights trevino-v-thaler Whether violation of Colorado's limited State-created right to postconviction counsel can constitute 'cause' excusing procedural default in a 28 U.S.C…
25A532 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing a death-sentenced prisoner after systemic failures in postconviction coun…