presumption-of-correctness

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24-6032 Robert Gene Rega v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-findings witness-cooperation Does the decision below, which misstates and fails to afford any presumption of correctness to a state court's factual findings in a habeas case, warr…
24-40 Leonard L. Grigsby, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-agency-finding burden-of-proof funding-exclusion independent-review judicial-review presumption-of-correctness research-activities research-and-development-tax-credit summary-judgment tax-credit 1. Whether, under a proper application of law, an administrative agency finding should be given the presumption of correctness when it is uncontrovert…
23-6684 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court 1. Did the U.S. district Court contravene the requirement of Act 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) and jdt? 2. When a State Prisoner failed to use available State …
23-5250 Jaleel Bertrand Franklin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-statements due-process jurist-standard legal-deference logical-fallacy presumption-of-correctness racial-composition racial-makeup-of-venire state-created-barrier venire-panel 1 (a) Whether counsel's statements are entitled to "double deference" or a presumption of correctness when such are premised entirely upon a logical…
22-7301 Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain 1. On findings of fact, does a federal court (applying the pre-AEDPA statute) presume a finding's correctness whenever the state-court record supports…
22-6226 James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion petitioner habeas corpus petition on "Presumption Of Correctness" an mandate…
20-8368 Bruce L. Farmer v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP criminal-statutes due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-officer presumption-of-correctness state-court I. WHETHER A CLEARLY ERRONEOUS LEGAL CONCLUSION BY A STATE COURT MY BE AFFORDED A PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS AND RELIED UPON TO DEMY HABEAS CORPUS 'RE…
20-5247 Avern Lee Burnside v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence perjured-testimony presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN…
20-5089 William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat…
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination (1) In order to obtain relief under § 2254(d)(2), is a federal court required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is "unre…
19-5524 Tong Lor v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa evidence-presented-in-state-court federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-procedure presumption-of-correctness state-court-finding-of-fact state-court-findings unreasonable-determination-of-facts DOES THE ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1996 (AEDPA) REQUIRE THE PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS TO BE APPLIED TO THE STATE COURT'S FINDI…
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the standard for determining a Certificate of Appealability
18-7077 JC Christopher Pulham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly…
18-674 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor cre…
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…